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It's your constitutional right to assemble. If you get a million people, for example, assembling, you cannot keep the same rules of traffic as usual. (It would
by david927 14y ago
It's your constitutional right to assemble. If you get a million people, for example, assembling, you cannot keep the same rules of traffic as usual. (It would be impossible (and the attempt dangerous) to try to keep a million people on the sidewalk.) [Edit: In other words, your constitutional right to turn out and assemble is independent of whether there will be enough space for you on the sidewalk.]
As for the Wall Street bankers, who do you want to prosecute for what?
Those that committed it, for fraud. It's an open-and-shut case if the power existed to prosecute it.
- tptacek 14y agoCox v. New Hampshire, "reasonable time, place, and manner".
- david927 14y agoGreat response! Thanks for that.
- sp332 14y agoAs a counter-point, New Hampshire has a Right to Revolution granted in its constitution. It has been used to successfully defend a protestor who cut down a power line at a nuclear plant, and was recently brought up in an OWS case. https://inzanetimes.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/lawyer-for-occupy-nh-activists-asserts-right-to-revolution/ https://inzanetimes.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/lawyer-for-occu...
- andylei 14y ago> It's an open-and-shut case if the power existed to prosecute it. if that were true, why are their customers not suing them for fraud? seems like they'd win a lot of money pretty easily if it were an open and shut case.