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Title: Trump Administration Decides Free Speech Isn't Free: Publishes Plans to Tax Protests and Close White House Sidewalk to Protests
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Global Research
URL Source: https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump ... e-sidewalk-to-protests/5653961
Published: Sep 13, 2018
Author: Global Research
Post Date: 2018-09-14 19:42:00 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 10285
Comments: 95
(Global Research) In a major reversal of long-standing federal policy, the Trump Administration has issued a new plan to charge demonstrators for the right to use our public parks, sidewalk, and streets that are on federal land in the nation’s capital for First Amendment activity. Among other areas, this includes the National Mall, Lafayette Park, the Lincoln Memorial and the sidewalk in front of the Trump Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue. The federal Pay-to-Protest in DC plan includes charging demonstrators for the cost of barricades and fencing erected at the discretion of police; salaries of personnel deployed to monitor the protest; trash removal and sanitation charges; permit application fees and costs that the government will assess on “harm to the turf.” In addition, the Department of Interior under Ryan Zinke has quietly moved to close the iconic White House sidewalk to protest. The National Park Service’s recent regulatory filing shows plans to close the sidewalk to demonstrations leaving only a narrow pedestrian passageway. The Nixon administration notoriously ordered buses to surround the White House during Vietnam War protests, blocking access to the sidewalk. Now the Trump administration wants to issue a regulatory change to essentially block all protests from the sidewalk permanently. These plans were contained in a 94-page regulatory proposal that was published in the federal register by the National Park Service, under the Department of the Interior. The public has until October 15, 2018, to register their opposition. “Never before in history have protestors been required to pay to demonstrate on federal land in the nation’s capital. This is a protest tax on the exercise of First Amendment rights intended to burden and suppress dissent,” stated Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, constitutional rights lawyer and executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund. “Free speech is not free if you have to pay for it. The exercise of free speech is a fundamental right and this measure is anti-democratic at its core,” stated Carl Messineo, constitutional rights lawyer and legal director of the PCJF. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has launched a legal challenge and grassroots organizing campaign to stop this plan, including a petition in opposition to the plan here. Click here to read an OpEd by the PCJF’s Mara Verheyden-Hilliard and Carl Messineo in the Washington Post. The original source of this article is Global Research
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
"Never before in history!!!" (Lotta that going around -- not that YOU care about it.) Chyeah, the nerve. I guess that means your SJW/BLM/Antifa allies and thugs won't be able to hijack the events of those WITH permits...OR punch out and bait Trump Supporters and Pro-Lifers? I'm all broken up about this proposal. Will you now contribute to the ACLU/SPLC "GO FUND ME projects?? *sob, sniffle*
Always a pleasure to read your jingoistic posts. It's a shame though that you are unable to grasp the First Amendment infringements this poses. Funny thing - you'd be howling like a banshee if Obama had done something like this.
The Trumpkins loved it when the protests were against Obama, but now that they're against Trump, you're an ANTIFA commie! Closing the streets in front of the WH & other gov facilities is a clear violation of the 1st amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances. I recall the LBJ war protests at the WH in '67-'68. Trump has proven that he's a bigger ahole than LBJ! Contrary to popular sheeple opinion, you don't need no stinking permits to protest.
Then you should remember that LBJ used to expose himself to people and rubbed his junk on them, right??
That's these crusaders' problem: AMNESIA. (Or utter ignorance.) LBJ and his reptilian ego contributed to HOW MANY deaths in Nam?? (not to mention murders of political opponents??)
All of them?
All of them? Need it be all? Who made the Big Decision NOT to execute the war to win? Who made the Big Decision to tell the VC American positions? When they might attack? Who made the Big Decision to escalate the VN war??
#78. To: Liberator (#50)
Who made the Big Decision to tell the VC American positions? When they might attack? Who made the Big Decision to escalate the VN war?? The international bankers who always profit from wars,of course. Still,THEY don't issue orders to troops or create war plans. Those are things the President and his appointees do,along with the senior military staff,who can ONLY offer suggestions,not create plans. I will always believe that this is the big reason they drove Nixon out of office. He genuinely wanted to win the war and keep the south free. The bankers wanted to keep the conflict going forever so they could profit from interest on loans and outright ownership of defense industries. The ruling political class wanted to keep the war going to keep the checks from the international bankers flowing to their foreign bank accounts.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest“Never before in history have protestors been required to pay to demonstrate on federal land in the nation’s capital. This is a protest tax on the exercise of First Amendment rights intended to burden and suppress dissent,” stated Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, constitutional rights lawyer and executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.
#2. To: Liberator (#1)
#6. To: Deckard, Liberator (#2)
#7. To: hondo68 (#6)
I recall the LBJ war protests at the WH in '67-'68. Trump has proven that he's a bigger ahole than LBJ!
#16. To: CZ82, hondo68, sneakypete (#7)
Then you should remember that LBJ used to expose himself to people and rubbed his junk on them, right??
#44. To: Liberator (#16)
LBJ and his reptilian ego contributed to HOW MANY deaths in Nam?? (not to mention murders of political opponents??)
#50. To: sneakypete (#44)
LBJ and his reptilian ego contributed to HOW MANY deaths in Nam?? (not to mention murders of political opponents??)
Replies to Comment # 50. Who made the Big Decision NOT to execute the war to win?
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