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I have no questions beyond the one I previously asked you:
What exactly are the "well established parameters" by which The US Supreme Court has made a legitimate claim against the right to peaceful protest in a public place?
I mentioned them earlier. I think you're just trying to get me to waste my time providing you a link to my earlier message. Not interested in playing your games. If you don't want to scroll up to read my earlier message, then research it yourself.
Gotta love how the left uses "peaceful" "gentle giant" yet after words, they eat those words...
Then why/how did the cops give them citation? Prove there are NO laws again protesting....
Maybe they were not peaceful....
Who states what "peaceful" is?
Did the cops just say, "you cannot do this"? There was something, again.....because a court said it's unconstitutional, does not mean it was not a law...
Just peaceful individuals at the Capitol. No planned event.
Quote:
Right to assemble and petition. SECTION 4. The right of
the people peaceably to assemble, to consult for the common
good, and to petition the government, or any department thereof,
shall never be abridged.
Early this year the Capitol Police began issuing citations to the protesters. None of the citations have been upheld in court, and the Department of Justice has chosen to drop many of the cases because the attorney general’s office has decided it could not obtain a conviction. {Wisconsin Public Radio, 12 April 2013}
In a broader sense, this isn't an issue which involves party politics or the left/right paradigm of political ideology. There is a creeping authoritarianism in this society which is adversely affecting the rights of us all. We see it in the militarization of local police forces, we see it in the strictures imposed on college campuses, and we see it the increasing numbers of attacks on free assembly.
In this particular case, it is people on the political left whose voices are being suppressed. Ironically, it is perhaps the anti-abortion protesters from the other side of the political spectrum, who have faced the worst of this repression: for example, the Massachusetts "buffer zone" laws.
I don't think we can afford the distractions of party politics with something that has the potential to curtail the rights of every American.
I mentioned them earlier. I think you're just trying to get me to waste my time providing you a link to my earlier message. Not interested in playing your games. If you don't want to scroll up to read my earlier message, then research it yourself.
You have no posts in this thread which in any way address my question. I'll take your unwillingness/inability to answer the question, as your answer.
Great, that is what courts are for....when someone does something wrong (whether it's a law or not, or someone perception of the law) that is what courts are for.....
I'm not sure why you are mad?
Just remember, a current court just said obamas EO is also unconstitutional....
In a broader sense, this isn't an issue which involves party politics or the left/right paradigm of political ideology. There is a creeping authoritarianism in this society which is adversely affecting the rights of us all. We see it in the militarization of local police forces, we see it in the strictures imposed on college campuses, and we see it the increasing numbers of attacks on free assembly.
In this particular case, it is people on the political left whose voices are being suppressed. Ironically, it is perhaps the anti-abortion protesters from the other side of the political spectrum, who have faced the worst of this repression: for example, the Massachusetts "buffer zone" laws.
I don't think we can afford the distractions of party politics with something that has the potential to curtail the rights of every American.
Great, that is what courts are for....when someone does something wrong (whether it's a law or not, or someone perception of the law) that is what courts are for.....
I'm not sure why you are mad?
Just remember, a current court just said obamas EO is also unconstitutional....
Because a peaceful assembly of people practicing their first amendment rights was disrupted and these people were harassed by government officials. This should be of concern to all citizens!
Because a peaceful assembly of people practicing their first amendment rights was disrupted and these people were harassed by government officials. This should be of concern to all citizens!
In your opinion....what did each of the people do?
You see, I agree with you....until it comes down to say that 29 people at this "peaceful" protest were given citations, while being "peaceful"?
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