The federal government continues with its claim that it can comntrol your funadmental Constitutional rights based on where you exercise them and what federal officials are doing at the place.
Feds deploy snipers, arrest man for filming outside First Amendment area
None of the family members on the road were armed, but 11 BLM vehicles each with two agents arrived and surrounded him as he began filming the cattle, Paul Joseph Watson said at Infowars.
“They also had four snipers on the hill above us all trained on us. We were doing nothing besides filming the area,” Ryan added.
Bundy also said federal agents told them they had no First Amendment rights except in the areas so marked.
"The BLM has established two fenced areas near the City of Mesquite, that they have designated as free speech areas for members of the public to express their opinions," the Progress said.You probably thought that the entire United States was a "First Amendment Zone." But that's only because you are obviously a right-wing, racist extremist in the pay of the Koch brothers.
Update: The inimitable Mark Steyn makes the obvious point after posting a photo of the actual, designated "First Amendment Area."
If an anonymous pen-pusher in the permanent bureaucracy can confine the Bill of Rights to tiny enclaves where it will be entirely ineffectual, then there is no Bill of Rights.Which is exactly the objective.
More links:
The state's governor protests the "First Amendment Area"
.....CBS's mild report is here
.....A more comprehensive report is here
And this:
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