{"id":28898,"date":"2012-02-27T18:34:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T22:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28898"},"modified":"2012-09-11T02:15:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T06:15:38","slug":"judge-occupy-tents-are-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28898","title":{"rendered":"Judge: Occupy tents are Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason sends us a link from the Boise Guardian<\/a> which reports a US District Court judge declared that tents are free speech, and if there are no tents, the Occupy movement is rendered pointless;<\/p>\n

Winmill found the new state law \u201conly prohibits \u2018sleeping\u2019 and \u2018camping\u2019 on state grounds and does not purport to ban the maintenance of a symbolic tent city which could be staffed 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Yet Gov. Otter\u2019s letter announcing his signing of the legislation appears to require the removal of all tents, and that appears to be how the State Police are interpreting the law. Such action is simply not authorized by the statute.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The judge also said, \u201cBecause the reach of the State\u2019s enforcement may exceed the grasp of the statute, this creates the appearance that the state is stretching to suppress the core political message of Occupy Boise \u2013 its tents \u2013 as presented in a public forum. These circumstances render the State\u2019s enforcement policy of removing Occupy Boise\u2019s tents presumptively invalid under the 1st Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n

In describing Otter\u2019s eviction order for Occupy Boise, Winmill wrote, \u201cGovernor Otter\u2019s edict, and the stated intention of the State Police, is to remove Occupy Boise entirely \u2013 tents and all. \u2026 This creates the appearance that the State is stretching to shut down a political message \u2013 a tent city \u2013 presented in a public forum.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess no one has thought for a moment that the Occupy movement is pointless with or without their symbolic tents. And since everything seems to be free speech these days, the first hippie to get his lights punched out as an expression of free speech had better be prepared to except the judge’s ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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