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Huntington, INDIANA, April 16--Police stopped a small rally for Ward Churchill after an hour. "The local car club who just happened to be having an event there at the same time as us were offended by our unpatriotic speech and offensive literature. The few people who stopped and listened to our line later on came back with the police. We tried to let the police know that we had a right to be in a public space and voice our opinion to no avail. We lacked permits for the event."
The Indiana rally is indicative of mainstream Amerika. For police to escort people off public property there has to be a law to delegate authority for that. According to the supposedly highest law of the land called the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment, there can be no such law.
Weak-kneed Liberals and libertarians have gone along with the bureaucratic permit system in the country; even though it is obviously impractical and not all expressions (speeches or assemblies) can be planned out to the satisfaction of a bureaucrat. We are to picture people pushed off public property or arrested after the Boston Massacre. Conversely, we are sure these biased bureaucrats did not in most communities stop the spontaneous assemblies and candle-lighting on public property after 9/11. The Indiana event for Ward Churchill is typical and indicative of the relationship between power and truth: reading comprehension of the First Amendment depends on the distribution of power. The demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989 had more than an hour before social-fascists shut them down. The demonstrators in China were there for weeks.
The Bill of Rights and the laws against civil rights violations are just pieces of paper. The governor of Colorado Bill Owens has proved that as have the police in Huntington, Indiana. There is a federal prosecutor that is supposed to look out for Ward Churchill when he faces death threats, but though we petition that office, an intervention by that office would likely only happen to twist events further. To sum this up, MIM sometimes reminds people there are "no rights, just power struggles." It's important not to mistake a piece of paper for reality.