Posted on 08/26/2017 5:11:13 PM PDT by impetrio1
In an ongoing effort to legitimize the immature "Whose streets, our streets!" disruption of traffic during liberal protests across the nation, the Southern Poverty Law Center sent out an email which cited a 1965 ruling by Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. who they claim affirmed such behavior under the First Amendment.
Oh, and it's also a fundraiser....
Of course as liberals commonly do, relying on the blind ignorance of their own, they left out a significant piece of the ruling that renders their argument moot, if not insulting, because according to Judge Johnson....
(Excerpt) Read more at blackandblondemedia.com ...
Moot is an interesting word.
It commonly is used to mean the exact opposite of what the dictionary says it means.
Which makes me wonder if the dictionary should be updated
” Read more at blackandblondemedia.com ...”
No, thank you. One reason I rarely visit FR anymore is the amount of blog-pimping that goes on.....
Blogs and alt-media are important.
I wanted to copy the text to my hard drive for reference, but it seems that blackandblondemedia.com has done something to prevent this.
Talk about narcissism.
I’ll get the data somewhere else, and won’t be returning to blackandblondemedia.com.
Here ya go..
In an ongoing effort to legitimize the immature “Whose streets, our streets!” disruption of traffic during liberal protests across the nation, the Southern Poverty Law Center sent out an email which cited a 1965 ruling by Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. who they claim affirmed such behavior under the First Amendment.
Oh, and it’s also a fundraiser…!
The basis of their argument is that people protesting and disrupting the movement of others should be immune from arrest and prosecution.
Fifty-two years ago today, famed civil rights judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. issued a momentous federal court ruling that prohibited Alabama Gov. George Wallace and a local sheriff from interfering with voting rights marchers.
The SPLC likened the Selma march which protested the racist legacy of southern, segregationist Democrats to the North Dakota pipeline protests of today. Any time a liberal can legitimize a cause by likening it to civil rights (black people), they do.
“You can protest all you want, but you can’t protest up on a roadway,” said North Dakota Rep. Keith Kempenitch in January. “It’s dangerous for everybody.” That’s not how Judge Johnson saw it.
“The law is clear,” he wrote, “that the right to petition one’s government for the redress of grievances may be exercised in large groups. These rights may be exercised by marching, even along public highways.”
— Southern Poverty Law Center, 3/17/17
Of course as liberals commonly do, relying on the blind ignorance of their own, they left out a significant piece of the ruling that renders their argument moot, if not insulting, because according to Judge Johnson….
The law in this country constitutionally guarantees that a citizen or group of citizens may assemble and petition their government, or their governmental authorities, for redress of their grievances even by mass demonstrations as long as the exercise of these rights is peaceful.
Given the number of protests where even the liberal media labels the protests as “mostly peaceful”, law enforcement is almost always on alert whenever a leftist group conducts a social media-driven assembly because the chances of confrontation and damage are high.
What the Southern Poverty Law Center omitted from their fundraising email was what Judge Johnson also said.
These rights may also be exercised by marching, even along public highways, as long as it is done in an orderly and peaceful manner; and these rights to assemble, demonstrate and march are not to be abridged by arrest or other interference so long as the rights are asserted within the limits of not unreasonably interfering with the exercise of the rights by other citizens to use the sidewalks, streets and highways, and where the protestors and demonstrators are conducting their activities in such a manner as not to deprive the other citizenry of their police protection.
— Williams vs. Wallace, 3/19/65
We’ve personally witnessed #BlackLivesMatter protesters in the streets, intimidating motorists who wanted to know what the holdup was, and demanding they get back in their car and deal with the inconvenience as long as the roving “protest” continued. And their unreasonable interference of other citizens to use streets and highways is well documented.
During the years of the Civil Rights marches, protests against the racist policies of Democrats, black people and their supporters were well-dressed, articulate and peaceful. They marched because of legitimate discrimination which was the legacy of the southern segregationists. Yesterday, black people could be killed just for being black in certain jurisdictions. Today, young black people put themselves at risk by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, engaging in behavior that would have earned us a well-deserved whuppin’ from our parents (not parent) back in the day.
Again we’re not implying they deserved to die, but whether we’re talking Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown, had they been home at the direction of a responsible FATHER and mother, they would be alive today. But we now have those who believe they have license to mouth off to law enforcement, if not worse, and believe they are so important that they can take to the streets and screw up everyone else’s schedule just because their cause is all that.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, by consciously omitting much of one sentence, has given marching orders to the happily ignorant rabble. Orders they would never adhere to themselves because they’re too good to go to jail… but your kids can.
So, donate today!
Thanks. I wonder why you could get it when I couldn’t.
Your 1st amendment right doesn’t trump my right to travel to school, church, work, the grocery store or any other place I damn well please.
Of course not! it is a legal term that even children can understand, once learned. In the same class and problematic to the illiterate, in the same category as "niggardly."
Moot and mute are not synonyms.
Moot is defined as "legally irrelevant"
Confusing only to pervert-addled brains.
Dunno..
I just copy/pasted. Maybe something with whatever browser you
are using? Or a script they run on their page that NoScript on my end kills?
NoScript, eh?
I’ll have to have a look at that.
If you use iTunes you may have noticed they have an ad for donations to SPLC. I emailed them a complaint for what good it will do. I will however be looking to other means for movies from now on.
It’s an add-on for Firefox. Not sure if it is available for any other browser. Keeps a lot of stuff that you don’t know is there from running, thus killing popups, banners and those invisible single pixel graphics they use to track you.
I’ll have a look. Thanks.
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