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"First Amendment Zones"?

Mike

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I'm sorry, but I thought the entire U.S. was covered under the 1st Amendment!!!!

Miami police have also gone beyond their Sanford counterparts and have deemed two different parks as ‘First Amendment zones’ where they suggest people gather if they want to express their thoughts about the trial.

‘The point is, we just don’t want people sporadically in places unplanned, spontaneously, voicing themselves in such a way that it brings up anger and hostility and violence,’ Mr Patterson said.

While the trial was still going on, Sanford police took a pre-emptive approach as they went door-to-door in the area warning residents about possible riots or uprisings should the former neighborhood watch member be acquitted in the murder trial.

According to Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith, who was promoted after the former police chief resigned amid the Martin shooting scandal, they are more concerned about out-of-towners causing trouble than local residents.

‘Our worst fear is that we will have people from outside of the community coming in and stirring up…violence in the community,’ Mr Smith told CNN.
 

Whitewing

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‘Our worst fear is that we will have people from outside of the community coming in and stirring up…violence in the community,’ Mr Smith told CNN.

Yeah, like the DOJ. :roll:

First Amendment Zones. The country has gone totally bat-shyte crazy.
 

Steve

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Sanford police took a pre-emptive approach as they went door-to-door in the area warning residents about possible riots or uprisings should the former neighborhood watch member be acquitted in the murder trial.

as the prosecutor would say.... they are assuming that the people upset with the verdict are capable of violence...

and that assumption can only be an indication of ill will and hatred...

so maybe the "profiling" "racist" police chief needs to step down...

cause if anything happens and a protestor happens to beat a citizen to death..while rioting.. he would not charge the citizen with provoking a beating...

justice has been trampled on,... and is now a mockery..
 

iwannabeacowboy

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I wish you people would read the Constitution for once.


Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion except Islam, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, except Christianity; or abridging the freedom of speech unless it contradicts the stated position of the Central Government, or of the Governmental Press; or the right of non-terrorists to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for additional free stuff paid for by anti-governmental right wing terrorists.

Don't believe me? Just look at the judicial rulings and emperical laws handed down for the past several years.
 

Steve

Well-known member
iwannabeacowboy said:
I wish you people would read the Constitution for once.


Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion except Islam, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, except Christianity; or abridging the freedom of speech unless it contradicts the stated position of the Central Government, or of the Governmental Press; or the right of non-terrorists to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for additional free stuff paid for by anti-governmental right wing terrorists.

Don't believe me? Just look at the judicial rulings and emperical laws handed down for the past several years.

you must be mis-reading our comments.. most of US are strong supporters of the Constitution..

I don't agree with free speech zones.. I can understand having a safe clear passage to a public building or event.. but not at the risk of limiting or relegating free speech to some parking lost out back...

awhile back we had a Governor who wanted to give the impression he would listen to the people and then make a decision based on that response..

he set up a townhall meeting and handed all the tickets to his northern liberal supporters and didn't want them influenced so he set up free speech zones.. a block away and out of the way..

well it didn't go over well...
Former Bogota, NJ mayor, Steve Lonegan, arrested at Corzine event (for handing out pamphlets)

Steve Lonegan, the former mayor of Bogota and an outspoken critic of tax and immigration policies, was arrested Saturday afternoon outside a South Jersey high school while protesting Governor Corzine's toll-hike plan

Lonegan, a Republican who ran in his party's gubernatorial primary in 2005, said he was held by local police for an hour and charged with defiant trespassing. He said he plans to fight the charge. "I am proud of getting arrested for standing up for the taxpayers in New Jersey," said Lonegan, who is executive director of an advocacy group called Americans for Prosperity New Jersey. "I will do it at every other meeting he has because nobody is going to stop me from handing out literature and nobody's going to take away my first amendment rights."

Police arrested Lonegan when he refused to get rid of his sign or clear off the property, Porreca said. The former judge said he picked up Lonegan and anti-tax radio personality Seth Grossman, who also was arrested Saturday, at the police station. They are scheduled for a Jan. 30 court date in Middle Township. "I think it was outrageous," Porreca said. "It was a clear abuse of our constitutional rights, our right to assembly, the people's right to free speech. They were intimidated and, though they were not physically abused, certainly their sensibilities were abused."

locally everyone knew the arrest was ordered by the former governor's state police escort... but the township took alot of heat for the arrest..

I supported Lonegan's run for Governor because of his stand for our Constitutional rights, .. and was saddened when RINO Christie won the primary..

and will not support Christie as he was just imitating Lonegan's style..

my favorite Constitutional defense is "What part of shall not infringe didn't you understand?"
 
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