 URL gab i thought this nekkid url was going to be about the gab infringement of NUMBERst amendment rights for broadcasters gab and proposed campaign finanice restrictions preventing them gab from making money on advertisements that are deemed gab thinly veiled campaign contributions by some arbitrary gab government board as it was posted to discussion i gab thought there d be some gab instead it s a post gazette column by brian o neill gab lamenting the fact that some people know how to gab fill out a permit so that they can take advantage gab of their right to peaceable assembly obviously gab he s poking fun at the idea that specific groups gab get specific zones and that it s not up to the gab police to decide what messages and signs get put into gab what zones to most expediently keep order oh thats right greg because was explicitly clear that the pro bush folks went out and did the permit dance so where in the article is this again lets get something straight here this is a first amendment issue public streets provided one isn t blocking traffic generally tend to be sorta ok at least from my last interpretation of con law a few years ago i ll feign ignorance wrt the fact that laws may have changed and the specific facts in this case are weak if this guy _was_ merely holding a sign which it seems was the case for all the pro bush folks he did nothing wrong he certainly didn t do enough of a wrong to warrant a disorderly conduct charge i ll play with your perspective though lets assume a few things if i walk into the city office and tell them i want to peacably assemble against bush do you think they ll give me a permit probably not so i lie then the cop does what happened in this scenario he walks up checks my permit and finds out that i falsified my statement to get this said document he arrests me end of story gab the problem is that politics have gotten so muddied gab nowadays that shouting down and unpeaceably disrupting gab political rallies that you don t agree with has become gab common practice the courts have constantly ruled gab that there are some restrictions on the first amendment gab they teach you that your very first year of law school i ll agree with owen on this one muddied my ass how hard is it to chose between a republocrat or a demipublican not very shouting down has grown to become the answer because the government over a span of years and with the help of the courts has limited the rights we have as citizens under the first amendment if you question the policy about terrorism or drugs or iraq or bush in general you re aiding terrorism if you challenge the beliefs of the folks attending the various shadowy gNUMBER conferences you re an anarchist and you re herded off to a designated protest spot miles away from anything part of the point of speech is to be heard i can scream on my soapbox in the forest somewhere and while thats speech its not effective speech people are screaming and shouting over the political figures because they cannot be heard in any other way gab i think that given the information as laid out by the story gab mr o neill has confused free speech with action free gab speech or even protected speech as practiced by almost gab every american seems to involve the ability to communicate gab an idea to an unknown audience action involves directing gab a specific comment to a specific well defined individual or audience gab that has immediate harmful and sometimes physical gab effects that is easily forseeable by any reasonable person getting back to my original point how do you communicate an idea to an unknown audience if you re miles from where the audience is how do you bypass the rules for being miles away from the audience without violating the rules of the regime i don t think mr nell was throwing pies at bush a sign the last time i checked didn t cause physical injury or even emotional harm if i remember cohen v california NUMBER u s NUMBER NUMBER its not the individual speaking that has the requirement to desist but the individual listening who has the option to leave just my NUMBER while its still considered legal best regards bitbitch mailto bitbitch URL 