Parades Are Not A First Amendment Right
Posted on May 17, 2006
For today’s dose of idiocy and insanity from our friends at the ACLU, we go to New Orleans, that Corpulent City of Cocoa that continues to entertain and baffle those of us in this country that don’t understand what it means to be a permanent ward of the welfare state.
At issue are “second line fees”, the fees the police department charges civic groups to assure there is a police presence at group sponsored events.
The ACLU claims the new fees are so high as to be “unreasonable and excessive” and that they will prevent clubs from holding future parades, thus trampling on the clubs First Amendment Rights.
Poppycock.
The NOLA PD have raised the fees after two parades this year turned violent, resulting in one death and several people wounded.
While you do have a right to peacebly assemble, other citizens have the right to be safe while in public, and the safety of the public at large trumps some groups desire to wander down the street displacing traffic and having a party.
The ACLU is wrong on this one (are you seeing a theme here with the ACLU stances?), the NOLA PD is right, and that is all there is to it.
From the article:
Despite violent incidents, the city ordinance letting the police decide what fees to impose on parading groups “is constitutionally problematic,” said Schwartzmann, the staff attorney for the local ACLU.
To the ACLU, most everything is “constitutionally problematic”. Maybe they should incorporate that phrase into their motto, huh?
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There is indeed a theme to (almost) everything the ACLU does. With the exception of the occasional rare ACLU support for a religious cause (shows they’re “balanced” you know), the ACLU is anti-anything related to God or His church, anti-police, anti-government (U.S. only, of course), anti-heterosexual, anti-parent, and basically anti-morals.
This hourde of Godless lawyers is a cancer on our society.
Somebody needs to explain to a bunch of teenagers in Los angeles that parading DOWN THE MIDDLE OF A FREEWAY isn’t ‘excercising your first amendment rights’ either.