City of Houston: First Amendment Advisory

Stop the Magnet ^ | July 14,2014 | Liz Theis

[magna carta]

Ever had problems deciding EXACTLY where in a city park to protest or demonstrate something? Don't worry the Houston Parks Department has your back. For example at Bell Park it's at Latitude 29 degrees 43'46.20" N. Longitude 95 degrees 23'28.47" W

[Still Thinking]

If the park is wholly within the United States, I’m pretty sure the Constitution applies to the whole place.

[magna carta]

Agreed...The Parks dept. still can’t locate the ordinance they are referring it to legal dept.
The end game here is that they can use this as a means to shut down a protest at any time under the shadow of law then if you argue or disobey then u get arrested....then u have to hire the attorney....then you have to pay abt 2500.00 to clear up your arrest record. It’s a set up that does cost on the ground.

[Sequoyah101]

You can’t protest peacefully AND spontaneously. You gots to have a permit and pays a fee.

That is unless you are protesting something the communist overlords agree with.

Tell me something people... if we are the majority why are they in power dictating to us?

[VerySadAmerican]

You can protest for free in Houston if Quannell X (ten) is involved.

[John Robinson]

Reading up on this I'm reminded of the following:

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

[ansel12]

I can’t remember which Houston park it was but there had been a demonstration there, and two weeks later when I and two friends were in the open-bay office of the detectives with secretaries and everyone around, they asked if my two buddies had been there, which they had and said so, that beating lasted several minutes and even a detective with folders in his hands threw in a kick as he passed the beating on the way to the file cabinet.

[fini]

I kind of understand what you are saying, but could you please re-write what you said? Are you saying that several detectives beat up some people weeks after a demonstration and there were no negative repercussions against the detectives?

[super7man]

Sorry, not in UTM. Can’t figure out where it is.

So I’m figuring anywhere is good enough.

[ansel12]

Yes, it was in the police offices with everyone doing their work at their desks and was completely relaxed and open, they weren’t beating me, so I could just stand there and watch it, the detective that walked by just casually threw in his kick and kept on walking.

In Houston beatings used to be very normal, even in the jail someone would go to questioning, and later be dragged back to the holding tank, badly beaten or even unconscious.

[Professional Engineer]

Mambo dogface to the banana patch?

[ansel12]

Can you translate?

[a fool in paradise]

Funny how the gay supremacist march last month occurred outside of a 10’x10’ square mandated by the Lesbian mayor.

[GeronL]

Only applies to protests they don’t like

[a fool in paradise]

How many people can even fit in a 10x10 patch of land? Clearly even the protest banner cannot fit that space.

[GeronL]

Tell me about it, what a stupid idea

[a fool in paradise]

I suspect that since it allegedly has been logged for each of Houston’s city parks, that the program has so far cost us over $100,000 just for the surveying, document production, and associated planning meetings.

[a fool in paradise]

Shades of Barack’s “Barrycades”.

[GeronL]

I wouldn’t doubt that either.