Scott Walker Wants to Charge for 1st Amendment Rights

[Galraedia]

Source: PoliticusUSA

Oh, Governor Walker. Does your hubris know no end?

The destroyer of Luntz’s Orwellian meme “shared sacrifices” wants to charge protesters for police and clean up of the Capitol. Now, aside from the larger issue of charging for first amendment rights, there are several other layers of crap piled onto this Walkerstan Freedum Policy.

Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/en/walker-charge-1st-amendment

[Blue Meany]

1. Gives a whole new meaning to "free" speech...n/t

[Eric J in MN]

2. Great system: You can't give a speech unless you can pay

...for cops. Poor people shouldn't give speeches, apparently.

[BanzaiBonnie]

3. Free speech is only free

If you can pay for it. Precious.

[Journeyman]

4. "Congress shall make no law. . . abridging the purchase of speech" . . .

Nah. It just doesn't have the same panache. Gonna have to give Walker a fail on style points alone.

[Iliyah]

6. free speech - 1st amendment applies

ONLY to gopers not no one else. Just like they are the only ones entitled to carry guns, bibles and up hold the constitution. ERRR sounds like a dictatorship to me. Oh, and its ok to cheat on your wife/husband and also make unwanted sexual advances. GAWD has also told them they "gopers" are the chosen ones to boot.

[Citizen Worker]

5. As we have been told repeatedly since 9/11, "freedom isn't free."

[oldhippydude]

7. its a good thing..

facism isn't fast (at least we have some time)

[SoapBox]

8. V for Vendetta...what more can I say???

First it was the Cheeeeny's Family in the bunker...Now it
is to be followed with Gov. "Hosni" Walker, hiding in the bunker.

And these loons wonder why Occupy has grown?

[AsahinaKimi]

9. OH I can see it now...

Your first Amendment Rights are available to you at $145.00. Please send your bank check or money order to the State Government FREE SPEECH department, (See address below)VISA, Master card and American Express maybe used by calling this toll number (see below) so long as you provide a legitimate Email Address.(Sorry, Yahoo, Hot mail, Gmail addresses are not legitimate.) You may have your FREE SPEECH Certificate sent to you via Federal Express (or UPS) with additional fees. Due to problems with the Postal Services, only UPS and Federal Express may be used. Please specify. The Certificate will only be good for the holder for the specified THREE HOURS on the date requested, and may not be used by friends or Family. Anyone attempting to include friends or family, will be fined $200.00 dollars and if convicted serve 1 year in prison.


Kinda something like that?.... :grr:

[Swede Atlanta]

10. May be unconstitutional and Walker knows it...............

This may not pass constitutional review. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to pay to exercise your 1st Amendment rights. Now, no fundamental right is totally boundless. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that reasonable regulation is acceptable. For example you can be charged for yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater. You can be required to submit to a background check to purchase a gun. You can be required to license a firearm, etc.

So the question is are these proposed regulations "reasonable"? When it comes to fundamental rights the threshold is very high.

The Founding Fathers anticipated that democracy will be messy. The cheeks and balances organization of our government is intended to make things hard and slow. They also knew that exercising fundamental rights would not be free.

If Walker thinks had these rules been in place last winter he would have avoided the mass uprising he is mistaken. Even though I don't live in Wisconsin I would have contributed $100.00 to pay for the rights of the people of that great state to assemble and petition their government.

[alterfurz]

12. Walker simply does not care about lawfulness or not...

...he considers himself far above all that. During his Milwaukee Co. exec years, whenever advisors told him he couldn't do something because it was illegal, his response invariably was: "Let's do it anyway. Challenges and appeals always take a long time to work their way through the courts, and in the meantime, we get to do what we want. And who knows, we may even win."

[JJW]

11. Apparently he agrees with the Conservative Surpeme Court

Justices that, free speech is corporations bribing public officals. If ya don't pay to play you need to get off the lawn.

[The Straight Story]

13. kick (nt)