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hatch38:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn7xELvMQMo&list=PLAA7E914277ABF6FE&index=17&feature=plpp_video

HR 347 'Trespass Bill' Criminalizes Protest

Jeanine Molloff
Posted: 03/12/2012

As I write this op-ed, I primp for the mirror -- looking for the most flattering pose -- for my mug shot. Now, don't get the wrong impression; I haven't been arrested and charged with a federal felony -- yet. Nor is the preparation done in anticipation of a guest stint on "America's Next Top Model" -- but as a common sense reaction to Obama's predictable signing of the latest assault on the Bill of Rights -- namely -- H.R. 347 (and it's companion senate bill S. 1794); aka the "Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011." Sounding more like an appropriations bill authorizing monies for federal grounds landscaping -- this bill, better known to those in the DC beltway as the 'Trespass Bill' -- potentially makes peaceable protest anywhere in the U.S. a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

The legislators responsible for bringing this legislative excrement to life are Representative Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) in the House of Representatives and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT.) leading the Senate version.

H. R. 347 makes protest of any type potentially a federal offense with anywhere from a year to 10 years in federal prison, providing it occurs in the presence of elites brandishing Secret Service protection, or during an officially defined 'National Special Security Event' (NSSE). NSSEs , ( an invention of Bill Clinton) are events which have been deemed worthy of Secret Service protection, which previously received no such treatment. Justified through part of 'Presidential Decision Directive 62 in 1998; Bill Clinton created an additional class of special events explicitly under the authority of the U.S. Secret Service.

The rest here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeanine-molloff/trespass-bill_b_1328205.html

Medium Rare:
Bill Of Rights? What Bill Of Rights?

doglady:
legislative excrement

I'll have to remember that one.

Wilson:
UK did a similar thing to protect the vivisection industry.

Badattituud:
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.


I find it interesting that those who are quick to protect their right to free speech are just as quick to deny others the right to protest.  It's like they didn't get past the first half of the first amendment.

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