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President Obama Signs “Anti-Protest” Bill H.R. 347
inquisitr.com ^ | March 15, 2012 | Melissa Stusinski

Posted on 03/15/2012 2:54:53 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

President Obama signed bill H.R. 347 (also known as the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011) into law on March 9th, amid numerous protests from the Occupy movement, as well as other agencies. HR 347 is a modification from Senate bill S. 1794, which restricted people from entering or blocking public areas that have been closed off by Secret Service while a person under their protection is passing through. The law also included major public events, such as the Inaguration and Presidential campaigns.

The new law, which passed the House with a vote of 399-3, extends the original law by adding more protected areas within Washington D.C, and removing the word “willfully,” from the paragraph stating that protesters can be prosecuted if they enter the area “willfully and knowingly.”

Representative Justin Amash, R-Michigan, explains this change by saying:

“ The bill expands current law to make it a crime to enter or remain in an area where an official is visiting even if the person does not know it’s illegal to be in that area and has no reason to suspect its illegal.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hr347; obama
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To: Monorprise
This is all about the humiliation the elected suffered during the 2010 reelection town hall meetings. They had to find a way to shut up the masses
This is the ruling class way of shutting up the little people
21 posted on 03/15/2012 9:39:37 PM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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Mark


22 posted on 03/15/2012 9:42:31 PM PDT by sport
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To: Buckeye McFrog
OWSers will not be arrested. This law, like the law giving them the power to lock up American citizens on the "battlefield" and hold them indefinitely is intended to be and only will be used against Conservatives.

Winston Churchill said something along the line of, "If we will not fight when we can win,we will have to fight when we have no chance of wining. Our only choice will be whether we die as men or die as slaves". We are fast approaching that point, if we have not reached it.

23 posted on 03/15/2012 9:51:23 PM PDT by sport
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