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Monday, March 23, 2009

Free speech threatened

Bob Unruh reports:
A Washington, D.C., man who believes Barack Obama probably isn't eligible to be president – and colorfully stated as much to a federal judge who dismissed a case challenging Obama's residency in the White House – says he got a visit from U.S. marshals for his exercise of free speech.
At least the guy is still a free man. A California man is in jail for expressing anti-abortion opinion, according to the SF paper:
A pastor at a Berkeley church was jailed Friday for 30 days after unsuccessfully arguing that an order requiring him to stay 100 yards away from an Oakland abortion clinic violates his right to free speech.

Walter Hoye, 52, of Union City was the first person convicted under an Oakland ordinance barring protesters from coming within 8 feet of anyone entering an abortion clinic.
I don't know why he had to stay 300 feet away, when everyone else only had to stay 8 feet away.

2 comments:

thelema said...

100 yards from clinic, 8 feet from anyone entering clinic (even if they're more than 100 yards away from door)

autofyrsto said...

More on abortion clinic buffer zones:

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/assembly/topic.aspx?topic=buffer_zones

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