Obama Makes Free Speech a Felony, Signs Anti-Protest Bill!

Yep. It was just an earlier step in the ongoing process. By spreading it out over successive presidencies and between the two different parties, the sheep are inclined to bleat at each other over who did what, versus what is being done to them.

 

I was pissed then and I am pissed now.

 

If you think it violates that US constitution, then you should file suit in the SCOTUS.

 

"Take it to the sheepdog. He decides what is good for us", said the ewe to the sheep regarding the shepherd's new castration program.

It violates the lawful and natural to freedom of assembly. It also separates our political masters from the mundanes who have no such protections from having to look upon unhappy citizens who have gathered to protest.

 

The SCOTUS would only have appellate jurisdiction in this case. Only in rare circumstances, like involving an ambassador, does the SCOTUS have original jurisdiction. If anyone who thought a law was unconstitutional could bring the case straight to the SCOTUS, then these judges would be literally buried in paperwork and wouldn't have the time.

Filing suit would be hard, unless you point out specific damages (not just you think the law is wrong but you somehow incurred a loss from it). Thus, you'd have to first go to regular court. You might just have go to one of these zones, preferably the white house, where the secret service are, then just make a big scene and chant protest slogans until you get arrested and then dispute the constitionality of the law itself in that trial, and hope the refer it to SCOTUS but they won't necessarily. Risky as hell unfortunatily.

 

I think if the law signed was a violation of the constitution as the OP maintains, you can bet your sweet butt that the ACLU would be out there howling in protest and find the fastest, legal way to get the case to be heard in front of SCOTUS. Whether you love or hate them, they do find ways of getting the cases heard in a timely fashion.

 

LOL....

I would like to jog you're memory....









You're welcome.....

 

The levels of extremism in this country have increased significantly since Dubya left office and the buhlack man was elected. Racists such as those posting here are really pissed.

What are y'all going to do when he's reelected?

 

I'm not right wing. It's not paranoia. It's taking the teeth and claws off a lion.

Naomi Wolf, one of my favorite feminists, is quite poetic on the purpose of protests. They were to stop commerce, stop the government and make it actually pay attention and listen. When you relegate a protest to something that requires a permit and a specific location that does NOT block streets, stop commerce and/or government then that protest is no longer a protest but just a folksy gathering of like-minded people.

The old phrase about citizens not fearing the government, but that the government must fear its citizens in order to protect liberty is true. This is a very, very big deal.

I don't want to hear it from Republicans, however, because Bush started it. I have pictures from the largest anti-war protest since the 1960s where the administration made it impossible to protest anywhere near the White House.

Bush started it, Obama is continuing it...in my opinion both of them are traitors to liberty.

 

This is a questionable decision that I would need to know more background on to effectively judge. Presidents throughout history---and for those who want to label one side evil, that goes for both---have restricted certain freedoms in certain situations. Some of those have been the right decision at the time, some have been an abuse of power. Before anyone decides this is a uniquely Obama thing to do, they should remember plenty of questionable decisions along these lines were made by Bush only one administration ago. Analyze the present, but don't gloss over the past simply because your people brought it about.

 

So Obama signed this into law... its not surprising. He is protecting his benefactors and his ability to serve them. If any simpleton here thinks this is a democrat scheme, know that it was a Republican creation
(TOM ROONEY-R- congressman from Florida). It had full support from both corrupt corporate lacky political parties.

To any of you who are under the delusion that you actually "belong" to a political party as an equal and have a share in power, let this be yet another fact that you are nothing to these people. If you arent an office holder or a bankroller you have no say in government. It is now official. You cannot run for any federal political office without millions of dollars. You cannot protest without millions of dollars(Lobbyists do this).

Both Republicans and Democrats fully support this action

 

holy crap, a lame assed, two wrongs make a right defense.

 

but you didn't enter the thread expressing your "pissed off"-ness. ..... Thanks for helping play the divide and conquer game.

 

When is restricting my freedom a good thing or "right decision"? How can you or anyone else decide that for me? I'm willing to live a life filled with risks. I'll drink raw milk, I'll rock climb without a harness, I'll head into the Sudan...it's my life, my decision how "safe" I am or not. Until you can promise me ten or more lives after this one...not you or anyone else has a right to restrict my freedom. Heck, probably not even then.