Petition to Arrest Mayor Newsom

Petition to Gov. Schwarzenegger to Arrest Mayor Newsom of San Francisco ^ | 2/19/2004 | Nick Bradley

[Remember_Salamis]

To: Califonia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco has violated California law by Marrying Same-sex couples in San Francisco. It is patently unlawful to issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples. Section 308.5 of the California Family Code plainly defines a valid marriage as being limited to one man and one woman. Furthermore, California Penal Code section 115 prohibits the knowing procurement of any false or forged instrument to be filed or recorded in any public office, making such an act a felony punishable by up to three (3) years in prison.

The Mayor of San Francisco is giving the middle finger to the State of California and the United States as a Whole. To make it worse, Mayor Newsom and the City of San Francisco has stated that it is suing the state of California, challenging its ban on same-sex marriages on constitutional grounds. By doing so, Mayor Newsom is proposing that every law that was not a constitutional amendment is un-enforceable. If he is not arrested, there is no basis for drug laws, the carrying of concealed weapons, prostitution, and every other law that is not written into the constitution of the state of California.

Please arrest this man.

[Remember_Salamis]

The rule of law is dead. please help. You might think that California might as well sink into the ocean, but your state is next.

[Remember_Salamis]

Sorry, click on this link: http://www.petitiononline.com/newsom/petition.html

[Triple Word Score]

I heard on the radio tonight that Chicago's mayor has declared he's going to do this too.

[Tanniker Smith]

Can't a bunch of Calif-based Freepers pose as "couples" and then make a citizens arrest when they make it to the folks giving out the licenses? Just wondering.

TS
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[nickcarraway]

BUMP

[TheDon]

The marriage "certificates" aren't valid. It's just a publicity stunt.

[farmfriend]

Short list, and Sacramento Area list.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

We don't want to make a martyr of Newsom, which would make him the hero to millions. We have to be very careful what course of action we take.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Gladly! Our leaders have to understand that they are NOT above the law.

[going hot]

so, the roos roberti AWB is really not enforceable, and can be ignored, because we KNOW it is an unjust and unconstitutional, and not even mentioned in the CA constitution. Hot damn!! I knew there was a reason for not turning in those awful assault weapons.

< (Note to ATF, just kidding)

[freekitty]

Then, they are going to have a lot of mayors in jail.

[Auntie Dem]

Why not go down with a chicken or your cat and apply for a marriage license? Why not--what's the difference--demand equality under the law. How do they know your chicken or your cat are not consenting to the marriage--those bureaucrats don't know your loving pets as well as you do.

Even better how about 1 man going down with two women and applying for a marriage license ala "menage a troi". Well, that may be pushing things a bit too far. Same sex humans or humans and animals that would be OK to the lunatic left, but polygamy? Never!! How horrid--old geezer patriarchs like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David and Solomon practiced polygamy, we can't have that kind of immoral behavior going on in today's enlightened society. /sarcasm

[hedgetrimmer]

Thanks.

[hedgetrimmer]

Then, they are going to have a lot of mayors in jail.

So what? If we don't expect our elected officials to follow the law, they will come back with worse. Then we will get the Organization of American States Corruption office to make mockery of us in the eyes of the world. Even if you don't care what they think, the idea that a once great nation based on the rule of law has been so debased and so infiltrated by communists and anarchists in our government, you should feel shame. The rest of the nation does.

[GodGunsandGuts]

Wait I just thought of something. I am in love with a beauty of an AK-47 in Virginia, maybe this marriage can finally see us in wedded bliss living in the People's Republic of Kalifornia.

[NorseWood]

Herb Cain was a columnist for the SF Chronicle and he used to call San Francisco Baghdad By The Bay. Maybe its time to send in the 82nd Airborne!

[Walkingfeather]

as a citizen of california you can walk up to the mayor. restrain him and declare that he is under citizens arrest. The great thing is the police MUST arrest him, it is a felony for them to refuse a citizens arrest. Now they can release him once at the station but they must accept a citizens arrenst.

[Sandmansleeper]

Bump! Petition signed...stop this insanity, Governor!

[merry10]

Gavin Newsom's wife is a prosecutor. Have her prosecute this. She did the dog mauling trial.

[freebacon]

It's a politician with no respect for his office pandering to the gay community. It's a sad human being that felt unimportant, and unnoticed when The Terminator was being elected, and wants some of the spotlight. It's the systematic destruction of American culture, and human tradition. By a radical Left, Which has been their agenda since Vietnam to Affirmative Action. To divide the citizenry of the nation and create a new proletariat for them to preach to.

[freebacon]

^

[abraxas_sandiego]

While you may disagree with Newsom's actions, the legal theory behind your argument is simplistic and ineffective. Newsom has rather strong arguments as to the constitutionality of the denial of marriages based on sex and consequently sexual orientation. In the end, it will take a constitutional amendment to ensure that gays cant get married...that's not the case as of now.

[Travis McGee]

I'd like to see a mayor and police chief in some rural Kali town declare that they've read the 2nd amd, understand it, and will hand out Kali concealed pistol permits to any non-felon US Citizen for the asking.

That mayor would be on much stronger Constitutional ground, but you can bet the ATF would come in with MP-5's blazing in the first hour.

Some constituencies are more equal than others.....

[Travis McGee]

What arguements would then be? And how would the same arguements NOT hold for polygamous marriages, or father/daughter or father/son or brother/brother marriages? Please explain how 3% of the population can demand that 5,000 years of civilization may be overturned to fit THEIR preferred perversion, but not the other?

Please give a detaile, logical answer FOR homo "marriage," but AGAINST the other cases?

What homohubris to declare "MY perversion is normal and worthy of marriage, but YOUR perversion is NOT!"

[abraxas_sandiego]

the argument is that it's unconstitutional to deny someone a LEGAL right based on their race, sex, etc...if 2 hetero people can get married, then in all probability, it's unconstitutional to say that two gays can't. your argument about father/son marriages has zero bearing or applicability...it's not a LEGAL option for ANYONE.

[bootless]

I wasn't at all surprised to hear that Da Mayor would to that. Hey, it completes his trifecta: orchestrating Chad-gate (with the famous Chicago Fraud Rod), illegally destroying Chicago's downtown airport, Meigs Field, in the middle of the night, and now this.

So, does that mean that we can turn San Francisco into a concealed carry city and county, even if it doesn't comply with their laws? I mean, I don't agree with that, so it's OK, right?

(sound of crickets chirping.)

[EUPHORIC]

"It's a politician with no respect for his office pandering to the gay community. It's a sad human being that felt unimportant, and unnoticed when The Terminator was being elected, and wants some of the spotlight. It's the systematic destruction of American culture, and human tradition. By a radical Left, Which has been their agenda since Vietnam to Affirmative Action. To divide the citizenry of the nation and create a new proletariat for them to preach to."

AMEN. 100% AMEN.

[EUPHORIC]

"Wait I just thought of something. I am in love with a beauty of an AK-47 in Virginia..."

Man are YOU going to have to get some MAJOR surgical alterations to consummate THAT marriage...

Bring grease...

[EUPHORIC]

"While you may disagree with Newsom's actions..."

Poppycock.

[EUPHORIC]

"if 2 hetero people can get married, then in all probability, it's unconstitutional to say that two gays can't. your argument about father/son marriages has zero bearing or applicability..."

Twist and spin. Nothing but BS 100%.

[abraxas_sandiego]

wow...what an insightful, intelligent response. well done.

[HitmanLV]

I dunno about that. He is already a hero to millions, and if we do nothing it will encourage more 'heroes' like Mayor Daley to do the same.

The state AG should investigate and go to court to issue am injunction to stop these marriages going on in SF. Then, take the process to the courts, where it will be decided fairly.

A state court could find Prop 22 illegal under the California State Charter. If that's the case, Cali should take steps to amend it's Constitution defining marriage, just like we did here in Nevada.

If the state court finds that the law is valid, then SF can't issue the licenses. My guess is that even then, they won't stop. The recourse then is to arrest the folks who are giving these licenses, or fine the city of SF (amd the elected officials personally) for every invalid license it wilfully issued, or some combination of those remedies.

I agree we shouldn't be ras, but clearly SF can't be allowed to continue breaking the law. What course of action would you prefer?

[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!

[highlander_UW]

We don't want to make a martyr of Newsom, which would make him the hero to millions. We have to be very careful what course of action we take.

I agree. Everyone in S.F. with a parking ticket should return it and say they don't believe the city has the authority to charge parking to the very citizens that own the public land, and since Newsom can ignore laws then laws don't apply to parking tickets as well.

[mewzilla]

A marriage license isn't a right, it's a privilege. If it was a right then incest, polygamy, and polyandry wouldn't be illegal, too.

[highlander_UW]

the argument is that it's unconstitutional to deny someone a LEGAL right based on their race, sex, etc...if 2 hetero people can get married, then in all probability, it's unconstitutional to say that two gays can't. your argument about father/son marriages has zero bearing or applicability...it's not a LEGAL option for ANYONE.

False logic here. Heterosexual and homosexual people have an EQUAL right to marry someone of the opposite sex. There is no discrimination. The efforts are to change the meaning of marriage...and if it can be changed to fit one perversion, why not others?

[expatguy]

Obviously they are.

It does not matter what the law is. Its what you think the law is.

[.30Carbine]

...but your state is next.

Actually, my state, Vermont, was, sadly, first.

[w1andsodidwe]

Shouldn't this petition be directed at the State Attorney General instead of the Governor?

[davidosborne]

SIGNED/BTTT !!!

43. David C. Osborne (www.davidosborne.net) Dear Gov. : Please uphold the RULE OF LAW in your State, If you have the authority to remove this man from office pleae do so IMMEDIATELY.. After removing him from office please ensure that any applicable criminal charges are filed... The WORLD is watching... whatcha gonna do sir?

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[davidosborne]

I would think that the AG could not act so long as he is IN office... The Gov. would have to remove him first... I called the Gov. Office yesterday, and was told that the Gov. does NOT have the authority to remove him from office, and that he must be IMPEACHED.. any CA lawyers out there that can shed some light on this?

[davidosborne]

Reg,

Can you do anyhting with this?

[MHGinTN]

Publicity or no, this city mayor has violated state law ... where's the Terminator? This is what one gets with a RINO.

[freebilly]

My religion, for which I am an minister, ordained by an accredited internet source for diplomas, decrees that all males at 18 shall marry two females. If two females are not available then the male is free to substitute one for a close personal family member or a border collie.

Our attorney assures us that there are strong constitutional reasons why we will prevail. We believe that it is unconstitutional to discriminate against us due to our religious beliefs, plus we want insurance benefits the same as married couples everywhere....

[Coleus]

Please sign this petition.

[freebacon]

bump

[My2Cents]

Why not recall this anarchist bozo?