Report that a bill has been passed to prohibit any protest of the President

Fox News | 3/13/2012

[Ab Alius Domitor]

I admit I am on drugs for a messed up back but I was watching Fox and Friends News this morning and heard that congress had passed a bill making it a felony to protest the President or any one with Secret Service protection. Was I dreaming this or did anyone else hear this? I went to their web site after I heard it but I can't find anything. Please help me Freeper's before I lose my mind and move to some 3rd world country!!!

[randita]

Don’t you worry, the ACLU will be all over this. /s

Oh, they'll be all over it all right. But not until a Republican is elected President.

[deks]

To those who have commented so far, here’s a good source of info...

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-347

H.R. 347: Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011

112th Congress: 2011-2012

To correct and simplify the drafting of section 1752 (relating to restricted buildings or grounds) of title 18, United States Code.

Sponsor: Rep. Thomas Rooney [R-FL16]

Status: This bill has become law.

Explanation: It was signed by Barack Obama.

[Last Updated: Mar 10, 2012 6:10AM]

[wtc911]

HR 347 ----- signed Thursday....

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr347enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr347enr.pdf

[ETL]

Can you cite an actual bill number? Because I highly doubt this...

WHOFACTCHECK: New Bill a Protest Clampdown?
By Russ Baker on Mar 8, 2012

Is the president being asked to pound yet another nail into the coffin of democratic expression? So say alarmist scenarios concerning HR 347 (the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011) , now on the president’s desk. [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/thomas (enter "HR347" in search box)

The answer, in short, is…maybe. We certainly do have a reason to be concerned. But not necessarily for the reasons we are being given.

http://whowhatwhy.com/2012/03/08/whofactcheck-new-bill-a-protest-clampdown-2/
________________________________________________

H.R.347 Latest Title: Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011
Sponsor: Rep Rooney, Thomas J. [FL-16] (introduced 1/19/2011)
Cosponsors (1)
Related Bills: S.1794
Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 112-98 [GPO: Text, PDF]
(enter "HR347" in search box)
House Reports: 112-9

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/thomas

[1rudeboy]

Here's the text of H.R. 347 . . . I don't see anything out of the ordinary.

One Hundred Twelfth Congress

of the

United States of America

AT THE SECOND SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,

the third day of January, two thousand and twelve

An Act

To correct and simplify the drafting of section 1752 (relating to restricted buildings or grounds) of title 18, United States Code.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011'.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTED BUILDING OR GROUNDS.

Section 1752 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

-`Sec. 1752. Restricted building or grounds

`(a) Whoever--

`(1) knowingly enters or remains in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do so;

`(2) knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, or so that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions;

`(3) knowingly, and with the intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, obstructs or impedes ingress or egress to or from any restricted building or grounds; or

`(4) knowingly engages in any act of physical violence against any person or property in any restricted building or grounds;

or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).

`(b) The punishment for a violation of subsection (a) is--

`(1) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both, if--

`(A) the person, during and in relation to the offense, uses or carries a deadly or dangerous weapon or firearm; or

`(B) the offense results in significant bodily injury as defined by section 2118(e)(3); and

`(2) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in any other case.

`(c) In this section--

`(1) the term `restricted buildings or grounds' means any posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area--

`(A) of the White House or its grounds, or the Vice President's official residence or its grounds;

`(B) of a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting; or

`(C) of a building or grounds so restricted in conjunction with an event designated as a special event of national significance; and

`(2) the term `other person protected by the Secret Service' means any person whom the United States Secret Service is authorized to protect under section 3056 of this title or by Presidential memorandum, when such person has not declined such protection.'.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.

[nuconvert]

The Bill allows a new power to the Pres. to determine who should get Secret Service protection. He can apparently now give it to anyone he wants at any time.

[ETL]

Please help me Freeper's before I lose my mind and move to some 3rd world country!!!

A 3rd world country is precisely what the Obamunists are trying to turn America into.

[Fresh Wind]

Can find no record of HR 347

OK, keep your head in the sand if that makes you feel better.

[ETL]

Why go to the expense of moving? Stick around and witness the transformation with your own eyes!

"This president can be a transformative leader (he has that potential in my view), but only if he embraces and fights for a transformative agenda."--Sam Webb, Chairman Communist Party USA

Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
________________________________________________________________________________

"We are 5 days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America"
--B.H.Obama, 2008

Yahoo search results for "Fundamentally Transforming The United States Of America":
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35&p=%22Fundamentally+Transforming+The+United+States+Of+America%22&SpellState=n-2204099546_q-bsN.LA3I3%2F%2FdGaQgkeauogAAAA%40%40&fr2=sp-top

[ETL]

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"-- BARACK OBAMA
_____________________________________________________

From the website of the Communist Party, USA...
(prior to the election)

"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.

The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."

http://cpusa.org/cpusa-2008-electoral-policy/
_____________________________________________________

After the election....

A Landslide Mandate For Change

A breakthrough election
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!

We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-people’s movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all people’s movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.

The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and people’s unity.

There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.

The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.

http://cpusa.org/a-landslide-mandate-for-change-report-to-the-national-committee-meeting-11-15-08/
_____________________________________________________

July 1, 2009...

Change is Here, Change is Coming

Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist Party, USA:

Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama presidency, I would say without hesitation that the landscape, atmosphere, conversation, and agenda have strikingly changed compared to the previous eight years.

In this legislative session, we can envision winning a Medicare-like public option and then going further in the years ahead.

We can visualize passing tough regulatory reforms on the financial industry, which brought the economy to ruin.

We can imagine the troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan while U.S. representatives participate in a regional process that brings peace and stability to the entire region.

In the current political climate, the expansion of union rights becomes a real possibility.

Much the same can be said about winning a second stimulus bill, and we sure need one, given the still-rising rate, and likely long term persistence, of unemployment.

Isn’t it possible in the Obama era to create millions of green jobs in manufacturing and other sectors of the economy in tandem with an attack on global warming?

Can’t we envision taking new strides in the long journey for racial and gender equality in this new era, marked at its beginning by the election of the first African American to the presidency?

And isn’t the overhaul of the criminal justice and prison system – a system steeped in racism – no longer pie-in-the sky, but something that can be done in the foreseeable future?

All these things are within reach now!

http://cpusa.org/change-is-here-change-is-coming/
_____________________________________________________

"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html

[ETL]

Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling

[Fresh Wind]

So, what this is saying that someone who “disrupts” the “orderly conduct of Government business”, even if no weapon is used or carried, and no personal injury occurs, is subject to a fine or imprisonment of up to one year, or both.

Who decides what is disruption? Obama’s DOJ?

According to this, Joe Wilson’s “You Lie” outburst during the SOTU Obamafest could have landed him in jail for a year.

Yep. Nothing out of the ordinary.

[GraniteStateConservative]

These are preparations for the “sh!t hitting the fan” that is coming soon to the U.S. It’s bipartisan because people in power in DC of both parties know that things are going to get crazy and they want to be protected from us when it does. They all know that a catastrophe is on the horizon and they are starting to cover their a$$es and make sure they won’t get tar and feathered.

[nuconvert]

http://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/how-big-deal-hr-347-criminalizing-protest-bill

[ETL]

According to this, Joe Wilson’s “You Lie” outburst during the SOTU Obamafest could have landed him in jail for a year.

If the obamunists could have their way unchecked, he would have been whisked away and never seen or heard from again.

[1rudeboy]

You are correct, but only in the sense that a sentence of up to one year (or the fine) is probably greater than what you would get for disrupting the orderly conduct of business of your local grocery store. /s

[Ab Alius Domitor]

I can’t find it either but I know they reported it one time early on Fox and Friends. I’m not burrowing my head in the sand and neither is anyone else. I’m just trying to find the truth. It was so unbelievable I thought I was dreaming. All of you please keep researching this. This site has always been a source of truth for me and I need your help. Bless you all.

[deks]

This article addresses it...

http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/2483-House-and-Senate-Passed-Bill-Could-Help-Feds-Crack-Down-on-Protesters-

“It amends a long-standing law againt “willfully and knowingly” trespassing on restricted grounds without lawful authority so that criminal penalties can be applied in a case where a person “knowingly” trespasses. “Willfully” has been dropped from the law by the bill.”
...

“But readings of the legislative text, federal statute, and legal precedent suggest that the bill’s supporters are simply unaware of the significance of the bill’s subtle changes in wording. As always with bills in Congress, it’s important to look at the potential for how it could be used and abused, not simply the intention of the members of Congress who sponsored it.”

[ETL]

>You may not have a good mind to begin with so no fear for you to lose it.
>It is a bit early in the day for the stupid conspiracy theories.

From the ACLU website:

How Big a Deal is H.R. 347, That “Criminalizing Protest” Bill?

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/how-big-deal-hr-347-criminalizing-protest-bill