Chase, go back to Ocean City where your art is appreciated.
Posted on 09/19/2011 6:50:28 PM PDT by Immerito
Chase had planned to spend the weekend in Ocean City painting but returned home early because of rain.
He decided instead to set up at the Inner Harbor in front of the Harborplace shopping complex. Chase had laid out outdoor carpet, lined up cans of spray paint and set up his tip buckets when the video shows the two officers approached him and said he couldn't operate without a permit.
The video shows Chase explaining that he had won a court injunction in U.S. District Court and had a right to paint where he was. Officers argued the laws were different in Baltimore.
"It is my constitutional right to be here without prior approval," Chase said to the officer at one point.
"Your constitutional rights have nothing to do with the law," the officer said.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
That’s our country: you need permission from the government to do practically anything now.
Police still violating people’s right to tape them in public.
“Your constitutional rights have nothing to do with the law,” the officer said.
and yet the officer had no idea why his statement was insane....
“Your constitutional rights have nothing to do with the law,” the officer said.
Is the officer really that stupid?
And if true, then kindly officer O'brian no longer exists and the Gestapo has been put in place.
I see no difference between "Your Constitutional rights have nothing to do with the law" and "Orderss iss orderss"
Most painfully is the turmoil of a man faced with making an instant decision regarding that perspective and ideology interfering with and threatening a man's freedom.
So what gives him the right to cordon off a section of the beach? How about if I cordon off a section of a beach during the height of summer and have a garage sell. It's my right isn't it? And while I'm at it I think I'll play some death metal!
The only thing artistic about your garage sell is that most people call it a sale ... but then ... you're a cynic from Looziana
—sign over the ant hill entrance.
From the Article the guy told the cop he had a court injunction in U.S. District Court and had a right to paint where he was. Do you have any idea how much B.S. cops hear on a daily basis? Maybe you live under a rock. How about I set up a studio in your driveway. I'll tell you it's my right to do so and I have a court injunction saying so. Would you believe me. Well this area of the inner harbor is these cops "driveway" so to speak.
And don't knock Louisiana. Seems we have a lot more sense then you Pencilvania necks when it come to politics these days.
So there was no cordon.
I pronounced correctly Looziana (don't knock me, it's how you talk), and the subject of the sentence I wrote is 'cynic', not the resident of a state.
But I'm just a Pencilneckvanian
I understand your anger, being a LEO n'all.
The guy is running a business in a public space and getting around the law by accepting donations for his work rather than selling it for a set price.
I guess we should just be grateful he's not a panhandler.
Actually I’m not an LEO. In fact I am far from one. I work with a guy who is a full time fireman (part time at my job) and he thinks I’m anti LEO. I do know enough LEO’s to know that they hear a lot Of BS everyday. At least down here in Looziana! BTW, I have lived in Pencilvania. I lived there about 26 years ago, just south of Pittsburgh. Yuins ok up there?
More likely, he hopes the average citizen is.
Yeah, we’re OK n’at ... I’m a little west of Washington, Pa
You have a great point, My own post was in reference to police telling an individual that he could not videotape police in the performance of their duty.
I agree he has no right to cordon off anything.
Sadly a whole bunch of cops see things this way.
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