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We Are Change Booted Out of California Tea Party Event

Members of We Are Change from the San Francisco area were kicked out of a Tea Party event on April 15. The event was held at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, California. See the video below.

YouTube - We Are Change Kicked Out Of TEA Party 4/15/2010

I love it where the guy says, "We have a Free-Speech zone over there."

What does that mean? That every other area is a Controlled-Speech zone? Basically puppets on strings? That no one in the other areas is allowed to speak their minds? That what they hear is what they get?

Is it not against the law to quell Free-Speech through forceful methods? Or has there been new laws enacted now which have destroyed that part of the American Constitution?

I enjoyed the video ...thanks for posting. I sympathized with the person shooting the video.

Unfortunately free speech only applies to how the government relates to the citizen. In the private market, private property, you don't actually have those same rights. You can be fired for anything you say, or kicked off property for anything you say or do. Worse, a corporation has rights of the civilian, but with little of the restrictions. For example, there's no death penalty for companies.

But that's "freedom." They were free to kick him out. Unfortunately the utopia these guys seek is going to be a bit "disappointing. "Freedom" and words like that are fairly pointless, because they don't ever say who's free to do what to who.

yaaarrrgg;1306032 wrote: I enjoyed the video ...thanks for posting. I sympathized with the person shooting the video.

Unfortunately free speech only applies to how the government relates to the citizen. In the private market, private property, you don't actually have those same rights. You can be fired for anything you say, or kicked off property for anything you say or do. Worse, a corporation has rights of the civilian, but with little of the restrictions. For example, there's no death penalty for companies.

But that's "freedom." They were free to kick him out. Unfortunately the utopia these guys seek is going to be a bit "disappointing. "Freedom" and words like that are fairly pointless, because they don't ever say who's free to do what to who.


True.

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America begins with, "Congress shall make no law..."

So what you say is only protected against federal laws that interfere with said speech, religion, etc.

If those guys were really fascists he probably would never have gotten out of the place with his film.

The end of that video is precious.