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What are the specific laws relating to non-violent protest at this kind of event?
by kongqiu 16y ago
What are the specific laws relating to non-violent protest at this kind of event?
- mkross 16y agoAssuming the article is correct (and the video seems to back that up), I wouldn't even consider this protesting. Yelling over Clinton's speech, holding up signs, harassing people going to the speech, throwing shoes -- these are all protests. Quietly standing with your back to the speaker? Not a chance.
- jeromec 16y agoI would call it a protest, a silent one, and with some degree of effect as well especially if cameras ever showed the audience. However, such prompt removal for such a passive/peaceful gesture is troubling.
- blueben 16y agoYou are willing to begin regulating what is and is not protest speech?
- jj7711 16y agoI suppose when Rosa Parks quietly sat at the front of the bus she wasn't protesting either.
- nika 16y agoThere's only one law, and it is pretty specific: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." They could have asked him to leave. Then demanded he leave. Then arrested him if he refused to leave. That would have been legal.
- mrj 16y agoUnfortunately, the amendment didn't specify where you can assemble and petition. Government in recent years has been making sure that's a "free speech zone" that's quite a distance away. They removed him because they don't allow you to petition the government, you know, within earshot.