So, if someone didn't like the fact you had guns in your house, it would be lawful for them, and all their friends to protest day and night on the sidewalk in front of your house?
What hours should be Free Speech hours? 9am-5pm?
Which homes should protest be banned in front of? Veterans? Politicians?
Relax. People barely protest the tyrants in charge of this country. They will surely get bored in front of your house in pretty short order.
None of which would apply to a peaceful protest.IC 35-45-1-3
Disorderly conduct
Sec. 3. (a) A person who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally:
(1) engages in fighting or in tumultuous conduct;
(2) makes unreasonable noise and continues to do so after being asked to stop; or
(3) disrupts a lawful assembly of persons;
commits disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor.
(b) The offense described in subsection (a) is a Class D felony if it:
(1) adversely affects airport security; and
(2) is committed in an airport (as defined in IC 8-21-1-1) or on the premises of an airport, including in a parking area, a maintenance bay, or an aircraft hangar.
(c) The offense described in subsection (a) is a Class D felony if it: (1) is committed within five hundred (500) feet of:
(A) the location where a burial is being performed;
(B) a funeral procession, if the person described in subsection (a) knows that the funeral procession is taking place; or
(C) a building in which:
(i) a funeral or memorial service; or
(ii) the viewing of a deceased person;
is being conducted; and
(2) adversely affects the funeral, burial, viewing, funeral procession, or memorial service.
As added by Acts 1976, P.L.148, SEC.5. Amended by Acts 1977, P.L.340, SEC.70; P.L.92-1988, SEC.8; P.L.123-2002, SEC.40; P.L.3-2006, SEC.1.
Unreasonable noise at a funeral is anything over a whisper.
well if we already have IC that keeps people 500 feet away from the funeral what is kepping them 300 feet away going to do???
(a) A person who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally:
(1) engages in fighting or in tumultuous conduct;
(2) makes unreasonable noise and continues to do so after being asked to stop; or
(3) disrupts a lawful assembly of persons;
Politicians that don't know the law of course.
I am all for the 1st amendment, but it also ensures freedom of religion. Therefore, there is a do not disturb sign on funerals.
Road noise is not unreasonable.So anyone driving a car down the road should be arrested? Church bells go off, arrest them. Kids are playing nearby, arrest them! Sing a hymn, off to jail!
This is just just rolling out the welcome mat for these Westboro Baptist attention whores. They fish for lawsuits which finance their whole organization, and this ban is an easy target to get slapped down in court.
Next paycheck: Hebron IndianaThis is just just rolling out the welcome mat for these Westboro Baptist attention whores. They fish for lawsuits which finance their whole organization, and this ban is an easy target to get slapped down in court.
This is just just rolling out the welcome mat for these Westboro Baptist attention whores. They fish for lawsuits which finance their whole organization, and this ban is an easy target to get slapped down in court.
In both cases no government (federal or state or it's sub-divisions) can restrict "speech".
Many of us here point to "shall not infringe" when we refer to 2A and how licenses, permits, etc are infringements on our rights. Yeah you turn around as say "oh 300 feet is OK".
we can not have it both ways. The right to speak in a public setting (ie. road, sidewalk, public park) can NOT be touched. You and I may NOT like what is being spoken but that is a totally different topic. The fact that "person A" can speak about whatever in a public setting is and MUST be protected.
Today we allow the .gov to say protestors must be 300' away
Tomorrow we allow the .gov to say protestors must obatin a permit and paid $1 for said permission.
Next week we allow the .gov to say protestors can only speak on weds.
Next month we allow the .gov to say no protesting
Aren't funeral homes privately owned? What about cemeteries? (I honestly have no idea, but assume they are?)