Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Rules of Occupation

For starters, the First Amendment is perfectly clear that you have a right to speak freely, and to "peaceably assemble." But those rights are hardly absolute, and courts have long allowed for neutral ?time, place, and manner? regulations, which means that the government can generally prohibit you from, say, sleeping in public spaces, or blocking public sidewalks, or lighting massive fires, even if you are doing so as an exercise of your right to speak and protest. It is a uniquely misguided American notion that the First Amendment gives you the right to say anything you want, anytime and anywhere. Even members of the icky Phelps family follow the time, place, and manner restrictions when they spout their bile at funerals, and because of that?not because of their message alone?the Supreme Court protected their free speech rights last year.

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=751d85ad7ee628ac0c3382af81838a2a

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