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To: bramps

I assume, even if this is NC and not GA, that these street preachers are like the street preacher who used to hang out at the Downtown Atlanta MARTA subway station. I don’t know his name, but a lot of us referred to him as Screaming Willie. He screamed so loud and violently, it could sometimes shock even folks who saw him only a daily basis. The tourists were certainly disturbed by him, and I doubt if any of them got a religious message, or even understood much of what he was saying.

I respect his right to do that. But I also see how someone would want to regulate this behavior in some way. Like, for example, limiting the decibels of sound allowed.

I would suggest that anyone who hasn’t experienced such behavior might want to be slow to judge. It may not be what you think.


18 posted on 08/06/2018 5:06:50 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

I appreciate what you are saying but this is the ordinance as stated in the article,

“any person or group of persons willfully making any loud, raucous, or disturbing sound that – because of its volume, duration, and character – annoy, disturb, frighten, injure, or endanger the comfort, health, peace, or safety of reasonable persons of ordinary sensibilities in the neighborhood or Central Business District.”

Who is to judge the ‘character’ of one’s speech? Or exactly what ‘annoys’ someone? Or what is a ‘disturbing sound’? The ordinance is ridiculously vague. If this could stand you might as well abolish the first amendment.


19 posted on 08/06/2018 5:51:24 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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