Theme By: Destroyer & Sleepless
stfuconservatives: jpegartifacts: Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illegal: Just when you thought the government couldn’t ruin the First Amendment any further: The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it. The US House of Representatives voted 388-to-3 in favor of H.R. 347 late Monday, a bill which is being dubbed the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. In the bill, Congress officially makes it illegal to trespass on the grounds of the White House, which, on the surface, seems not just harmless and necessary, but somewhat shocking that such a rule isn’t already on the books. The wording in the bill, however, extends to allow the government to go after much more than tourists that transverse the wrought iron White House fence. Under the act, the government is also given the power to bring charges against Americans engaged in political protest anywhere in the country. Read more This bill makes it a federal offense to protest anywhere someone protected by the Secret Service (including Rick Santorum) is or might be in the near future. In other words: glitter bombing? Federal offense. Protesting in front of city hall? Potential federal offense. THIS is an affront to the First Amendment, not requiring insurers to cover birth control. Sigh. -Jess

stfuconservatives:

jpegartifacts:

Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illegal:

Just when you thought the government couldn’t ruin the First Amendment any further: The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it.

The US House of Representatives voted 388-to-3 in favor of H.R. 347 late Monday, a bill which is being dubbed the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. In the bill, Congress officially makes it illegal to trespass on the grounds of the White House, which, on the surface, seems not just harmless and necessary, but somewhat shocking that such a rule isn’t already on the books. The wording in the bill, however, extends to allow the government to go after much more than tourists that transverse the wrought iron White House fence.

Under the act, the government is also given the power to bring charges against Americans engaged in political protest anywhere in the country.

Read more

This bill makes it a federal offense to protest anywhere someone protected by the Secret Service (including Rick Santorum) is or might be in the near future. In other words: glitter bombing? Federal offense. Protesting in front of city hall? Potential federal offense.

THIS is an affront to the First Amendment, not requiring insurers to cover birth control. Sigh.

-Jess

(via fezpeanut)

Posted: Wed February 29th, 2012 at 5:35pm
Originally posted by thedismembermentflan.
Notes: 1800
  1. soiledpointsofview reblogged this from soiledphotos
  2. imperiumsilvercrystal reblogged this from handsbeholy and added:
    This shit pisses me off. Harper will 100000% for sure copy this. Canada fucking copies everything the States does. SOPA?...
  3. handsbeholy reblogged this from driftwhistler
  4. driftwhistler reblogged this from sabots-are-for-sabotage
  5. laurenmikaela reblogged this from peaceloveandbadwords
  6. onesky-one-d-e-s-t-i-n-y reblogged this from peaceloveandbadwords
  7. peaceloveandbadwords reblogged this from rantingnraging
  8. rantingnraging reblogged this from stfuconservatives
  9. monsters-dream-too reblogged this from thedismembermentflan
  10. pumpkincreame reblogged this from wolf-rain
  11. wolf-rain reblogged this from brainguts
  12. theftrain reblogged this from weweremerelyfreshmen and added:
    The threat of this is very frightening, but it adds to the laundry list of threatened Constitutional rights that have...
  13. pieceofsleep reblogged this from inthesweetunknown
  14. inthesweetunknown reblogged this from liberationorstarvation
  15. driftingdeeper reblogged this from whitedenial-ontrial
  16. heffernans reblogged this from detrea
  17. thepajmahal reblogged this from fuckyeahsexeducation
  18. spiralsatellite reblogged this from ecclesio
  19. brightfell reblogged this from zionangel
  20. samsfleshandblood reblogged this from gendrybaratheonn
  21. ktcomplicated reblogged this from littleichabod
  22. wassup-holmes reblogged this from thedismembermentflan
  23. littleichabod reblogged this from gendrybaratheonn
  24. thedarkamethyst reblogged this from brasspistol
  25. midnightentity reblogged this from sixgunsound and added:
    WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK WHAT THE FUCK FUCK
  26. sixgunsound reblogged this from eternitywaits
  27. eternitywaits reblogged this from gendrybaratheonn and added:
    WTF is this shit?
  28. migomi reblogged this from brasspistol
  29. brasspistol reblogged this from gendrybaratheonn
  30. gendrybaratheonn reblogged this from eat-therude
  31. eat-therude reblogged this from mrsalt
  32. mrsalt reblogged this from cakemeister
  33. awfulwafflewalker reblogged this from beyondemily
  34. beyondemily reblogged this from memes-and-deviance
  35. memes-and-deviance reblogged this from stfuconservatives
  36. cmondepaulletsbegay reblogged this from captaincapsiclerogers
  37. captaincapsiclerogers reblogged this from clockworkjerk
  38. zionangel reblogged this from stfuconservatives
  39. drue-reblogs reblogged this from thedismembermentflan
  40. derpdreamer reblogged this from mquester
  41. guttercrow reblogged this from clockworkjerk and added:
    :| I couldnt help thinking about how at least this will end up getting the Westboro fucks too. But then I realized that...