Library Ousts Occupy Bangor Tents From Their Property

Seems like insurance issues trump free speech issues.






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>>Seems like insurance issues trump free speech issues.

How is camping free speech? What message is being conveyed? No one is stopping them from holding up signs and conveying a message. How is the first amendment being violated? The insurance is not trumping anything.

I am tired of all the crying wolf about supposed violations of first amendment rights.

Agree on occupy crying wolf about supposed 1st A violations

I agree this is crying wolf. See what I just wrote, "Library Kicks Out Occupy Encampment."

Illegal Camping Is Not Free Speech

Illegal Camping Is Not Free Speech

It may seem strange to hear from a libertarian, but free speech has its limits. You certainly should be free to criticize government, which is why we have a first amendment in the first place, but you can't do it anywhere you please. Cities and counties have the same right as people to set limits on how their property is used.

I don't see how setting up an illegal camp on city or county property furthers the OWS cause. In fact, now it seems the issue has switched to the illegal camps themselves as opposed to whatever this was about in the first place. How illegal camping, or confrontation with the police, is going to get the supposed rich 1% to give up their money is beyond me.

In any case, this is not about free speech and never was.

'Camping' is not a synonym for free speech

The disallowance of camping at a public park or other public space whose mission does not include overnight stays doesn't inhibit peaceful assembly or free speech. Rather, ordinances that define and preserve the "public" aspect of public spaces do so with the very democratic aim of preventing "our" interests from taking precedence over "your" interests, whoever we and you may be

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