since9
Campaign Veteran
THIS is America. when you express our first amendment in a public place you WILL...
...be arrested.
I experienced this first-hand, twice, in both Lincoln's memorial as well as in a much more mundane location, an armory, which no one had visited in over a week. Our choir group made a visit, as it was to an historic fort, and had absolutely wonderful acoustics for a choir group, so, with NO ONE ELSE AROUND, we began aria-ing our heart out.
Wonderful music came force, voice-only-from that centuries old power room.
All of a sudden, some 5'0'' snot-nosed park "sheriff" told us to "knock it off" as "singing to God is against the law."
Oh. Gee. Really. This was circa 1979.
Against the law, eh? This x knew neither her Constitution nor whatever oath of law she took. She violated EVERY right in our book, as did the park-police-trained Constitutionally-deprived morons from the video who can, and should go to jail for violating the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens.
The First protects the Second. The Second protects the First. Both protect The Rest.
It's not a force issue. It's a legal issue. I sincerely hope and pray the powers that be grasp the reality of this situation, as these are rights endowed to us by more than just law, but by right. Should these rights ever be under attack by other than a rightful measure of law, they must, by their rightful establishment by the measure of force under which such law was established, be defended under the same measure.
I ask for lesser measure. I also ask for reasonable measure, with the advanced notice that any such lessoning be met with full response. If no such reasonable measure can be met with respect to the parties involved, the case should be reverted to it's original status involving full grief among all parties.
...be arrested.
I experienced this first-hand, twice, in both Lincoln's memorial as well as in a much more mundane location, an armory, which no one had visited in over a week. Our choir group made a visit, as it was to an historic fort, and had absolutely wonderful acoustics for a choir group, so, with NO ONE ELSE AROUND, we began aria-ing our heart out.
Wonderful music came force, voice-only-from that centuries old power room.
All of a sudden, some 5'0'' snot-nosed park "sheriff" told us to "knock it off" as "singing to God is against the law."
Oh. Gee. Really. This was circa 1979.
Against the law, eh? This x knew neither her Constitution nor whatever oath of law she took. She violated EVERY right in our book, as did the park-police-trained Constitutionally-deprived morons from the video who can, and should go to jail for violating the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens.
The First protects the Second. The Second protects the First. Both protect The Rest.
It's not a force issue. It's a legal issue. I sincerely hope and pray the powers that be grasp the reality of this situation, as these are rights endowed to us by more than just law, but by right. Should these rights ever be under attack by other than a rightful measure of law, they must, by their rightful establishment by the measure of force under which such law was established, be defended under the same measure.
I ask for lesser measure. I also ask for reasonable measure, with the advanced notice that any such lessoning be met with full response. If no such reasonable measure can be met with respect to the parties involved, the case should be reverted to it's original status involving full grief among all parties.
