Sounds like the policies of a totalitarian state in the making?
You cannot protest where government officials are nearby! This new law grants the secret Service with the right to arrest you and those assembling to protest.
Simply standing with a bullhorn, holding up a sign, promoting a contentious message or even being on the grounds of a Secret Service secured event will now make it possible for the government to detain, arrest and charge those involved in these "disruptions" (even if you just happen to be passing through) with a felonious criminal act. (Brasscheck TV)
The President, those Congressional Democrat and Republican represents who signed the bill into law do not have to see protesters. If protected by the Secret Service, you do not have to see them either! Protesters can be arrested on the spot for your convenience.
Just call, write, email and tweet the haloed ones from your home, please! The President does not want to see you on a street near him! That is good government. Government by and for the people!
Human rights violation? Yes, again because the law ultimately favors the 1%, the corporate rulers who, in turn, need to keep their representatives, the president and the congressional folks, safe from you, the protester! As we all know, corporations are persons! Their rights cannot be violated!
You rights can be violated!
Remember Shays' Rebellion in the summer of 1786. Resentment in the western Massachusetts sent citizens in the streets to protest "against the legislature in Boston." "Illegal conventions began to assemble"to organize opposition to the legislature," historian Howard Zinn writes, Plough Jogger spoke: he was greatly abused. He did more than his share in the war. But now all the "great men are going to get all we have and I think it is time for us to rise and put a stop to it" (A People's History of the United States). Daniel Shays' "seven hundred" organized "armed farmers," veterans of the Revolution, marched to Springfield where, despite their permit to parade, confrontations between the farmers and militia ensued. Ultimately Shays' Rebellion was quelled after several protesters were arrested and some executed (People's History).
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