Video: “This used to be America!” “It ain’t no more, okay?” (police of

hotair ^ | aug 28 2009 | Allahpundit

[blueyon]

Lots of outrageously outraged e-mails flowing in about this, although it’s interesting to me mainly as a First Amendment curio. The footage comes from Jim Moran’s health-care town hall on Tuesday night. The question: Can a congressman bar signs, or certain types of signs, from an event at which he’s speaking? The answer (and the ambiguity) turns, I assume, on whether the event is “public” or “private.” It’s a public school and Moran is very much a public official, but recall that Claire McCaskill evidently got away with imposing a “no signs” policy at her own town hall where the incident with the Rosa Parks poster happened. That makes me think either there’s some sort of public/private wrinkle to these meetings that we’re missing or that banning signs is valid as a “time, place, or manner” restriction on certain forms of speech. But if that’s so, why does the guard here seem to distinguish between signs with images on them and signs that are text-only? Help me, constitutional scholars and law-school grads, you’re my only hope!

[Canedawg]

Anyone think obozo will say the cop “acted stupidly”?

I didn’t think so.

[Anima Mundi]

So is this how it is? EVERYTHING from our children to our bank accounts to our Doctor visits are PUBLIC and OPEN to the government...BUT a congressman holding a townhall meeting is PRIVATE and off limits to us? FIRE THEM..we should send them millions of plastic FIRE ants.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Watchya wanna bet these two in the video end up at the WH for a ‘Bud’ (for propaganda purposes, of course).

[EDINVA]

Per Wiki for Fairfax County where Officer Cheeks works

72.91% White
8.83% Black or African American
0.26% Native American
13.00% Asian
0.07% Pacific Islander
4.54% from other races
3.65% from two or more races.

[Jeff Head]

Yep...that's mine. Apparently someon over there saw it and liked it and made a poster out of it.

The vidoe is unbelievable...the officer was (IMHO) intejecting his own political feelings and opinions of the poster into a exercise of 1st amendment rights on what appeared to be public property.

Folks should watch the video. It is indeed a poster created from my site:

It's the latest one. Really is bringing them out of the wordwork.

Cooments at the yourube site indicate that the officer is Fairfax County Public Schools Security Services.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I saw this info posted on one of the vids. I altered at word that was VERY inappropriate. I just called the school security dispatch and and they confirm that this guy works for them. I asked if he knew about the youtube video and he said "yeah I heard about it". I thanked him and told him to get ready for the email and letters! 24-Hour Dispatch/Call Center 703-764-2400 Main Office 703-658-3760 Jim McLain, Security Coordinator 703-658-3769

[Cinnamontea]

I am still trying to figure out how he could get charged with traspassing because of his sign.

I got the strong impression that trespassing is just the first thing that popped into the cop's head. The more I think about this, the angrier I get.

[Cinnamontea]

Excellent work!

[bobby.223]

thanks for that, just blasted one off his way.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

‘I’ haven’t done it, yet. I’m sorry the way I posted it ‘without paragraphs’. The individual said he/she had called them. Not I. Just putting the telephone info up here. ;-)

[Cinnamontea]

But that's what I meant! I love having the info at hand.

[japaneseghost]

Fairfax bump

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Gotcha! Haha! Sorry! I’m just not ‘trying to take credit’...so to speak.

[supremedoctrine]

Add to all that stammering and filler material the phrases
“make sure that”, and “figure out”. TO my knowledge, NOBODY on Earth uses these phrases more than Zero.

[supremedoctrine]

Add to all that stammering and filler material the phrases
“make sure that”, and “figure out”. TO my knowledge, NOBODY on Earth uses these phrases more than Zero.