This is a First Amendment violation. CFA should sue every authority that denies a permit to build because of the ceo’s views on traditional marriage. Notice that CFA is not denying gay people from entering their premises and eating CFA.
These politicians have presented us with the sobering fact that we have truly entered the Age of Obama...2013 can’t come soon enough.
You miss the point. The regs are written in such a way that you can be held in violation of something no matter how hard you try. Regs involve interpretation and your interpretation will be wrong if they decide it’s wrong.
To prove that they falsely found you in the wrong because of your views on X or Y is next to impossible.
Granted, in this case, because Rahm-shiite publicly attacked Chick-fil-A, it puts greater scrutiny on any bureaucratic harrassment. But they’ve written the codes and regs in such a way that there’s almost always some way they can “get you,” smiling all the time in smug “innocence.”
It’s the same way with the IRS. If they want to get you, the pieces are in place to get you.
Yes, to some degree you can fight it. But the very existence of the tenticles of regulation means that you’ll think twice or three million times before taking them on. Most people just jump through the hoops, pay the fee (protection money) and try to avoid standing out.
It’s tyranny. How do you get the Supreme Court to outlaw bureaucratic harrassment? By definition it’s a matter of subjective interpretation of laws.
The answer has to be legislative: dismantling the whole big government tyranny.
But whether that’s possible any more, I doubt. Too many people depend on sucking the bureaucratic teat.