Broward Commission to Consider Anti-Occupy Policy: "Expressive Activities" Need a Permit

• The item will be heard at 10:30.  You can park at the County garage to the west and get your ticket validated in the County Commission office so its free.   Speakers will be limited to 3 minutes.  You have to register to speak before they call the agenda item. The commission will then decide to approve Bertha Henry's proposed unconstitutional  ordinance,  disapprove it,  table it,  or adopt some other regulation.

• Change the Commission, change the staff.

• This was proposed by staff not the Commission

• Living in Florida is similar to living in the USA, but not the same. Prior restraint is unconstitutional in the broad sense.  In the specific case it is beyond unconstitutional; it is unconscionable.  There was no evidence at the time and there is none now that the people in this demonstration had any intent to riot or commit violence at any sort of level beyond that in the general community.  Your first duty is to the Constitution; a document that makes clear that it recognizes fundamental liberty interests.  The government cannot "bestow" those interests as they are not the government's to give.  They belong to the people -- to each individually.  They are unalienable, which means that even if ignored and violated, they still exist.  They can be willingly surrendered by a person, but only for the duration they so choose to surrender them; as an unalienable right they cannot be "given away" on a continuing and permanent basis by any single act or set of acts. An order repugnant to the Constitution is no order at all.  This is long-standing law; some cites: "The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now." South Carolina v. United States, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905). "If the legislature clearly misinterprets a constitutional provision, the frequent repetition of the wrong will not create a right." Amos v. Mosley, 74 Fla. 555; 77 So. 619. "It is the peculiar value of a written constitution that it places in unchanging form limitations upon the legislation and thus gives a permanence and stability to popular government which otherwise would be lacking." Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412. Would you care to argue with the First Amendment? Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The demonstrators do not need a permit to exercise a right.  You obtain a permit to exercise a privilege; by definition a "permit" is "permission."  Further, there is no limit on the time for such an assembly, either in its inception or for how long it may last.  The people clearly have the right to peaceably assemble for as long as they might choose, and in this case it appears that their intent is to so choose until their petition is heard and acted upon. You have no authority to take an action repugnant to the Constitution and you have a duty of discernment when so ordered to violate it.  You oath says so, and despite prior violations of that oath your duties under it are a continuing and permanent obligation.

• Broward Fascisti !

• Time for a new movement; ie, eliminating the broward county commission from power.

• Does a Middle Finger constitute an 'Expressive Activity?'

• This is what First Amendment Rights looks like in Broward County Florida

• This is completely unconstitutional.  Not surprising considering its in Florida, but this is even more blatant than normal. And I suppose this will still allow the tea baggers to gather and cause traffic issues every weekend?

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