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March 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Only days after clearing Congress, US President Barack Obama signed his
name to H.R. 347 on Thursday, officially making it a federal offense to
cause a disturbance at certain political events – essentially
criminalizing protest in the States.
RT broke the news
last month that H.R. 347, the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds
Improvement Act of 2011, had overwhelmingly passed the US House of
Representatives after only three lawmakers voted against it.
On Thursday
this week, President Obama inked his name to the legislation and
authorized the government to start enforcing a law that has many
Americans concerned over how the bill could bury the rights to assemble
and protest as guaranteed in the US Constitution.
Under H.R. 347,
which has more commonly been labeled the Trespass Bill by Congress,
knowingly entering a restricted area that is under the jurisdiction of
Secret Service protection can garner an arrest. The law is actually only
a slight change to earlier legislation that made it an offense to
knowingly and willfully commit such a crime.
Under the Trespass Bill’s
latest language chance, however, someone could end up in law enforcement
custody for entering an area that they don’t realize is Secret Service
protected and “engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct” or
“impede[s] or disrupt[s] the orderly conduct of Government business or
official functions.”
The Secret Service serves as the police that protects not just
current and former American presidents, but are also dispatched to
monitor special events of national significance, a category with a broad
cast of qualifiers.
In the past, sporting events, state funerals,
inaugural addresses and NATO and G-8 Summits have been designated as
such by the US Department of Homeland Security, the division that
decides when and where the Secret Service are needed outside of their
normal coverage.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund tells
the International Business Times that the Trespass Bill in its current
form “means it’s easier to prosecute under ‘knowingly,'” instead of both
knowingly and willfully, “which is an issue because someone could
knowingly enter a restricted but not necessarily realize they are
committing a crime.”
Speaking with IB Times, Verheyden-Hilliard tries to
lay to rest claims that the Constitution will be crippled by the
Trespass Bill, but acknowledges that it does indeed allow law
enforcement to have added incentive to arrest protesters who could be
causing a disturbance.
“[HR 347] has been described as a death knell for the First Amendment,
but that isn’t supported by the facts,” Verheyden-Hilliard adds. “This
has always been a bad law.”
Gabe Rottman of the American Civil Liberties Union adds to IB Times,
“Bottom line, it doesn’t create any new violations of the law.” So far,
however, it has raised awareness of the levels that the US government
are willing to go to in order to make it harder to express ones’ self.
Under the act, protesting in areas covered by Secret Service could land a
demonstrator behind bars, and the thing about the Secret Service (in
case you couldn’t tell by their name), is that they don’t always make it
clear where they are. You could even say that the service they provide,
at times, is kept secret.
Presidential hopefuls Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are
now officially covered under Secret Service protection, making it a
federal offense to disrupt a campaign stop.
That means whether it’s by
way of a glitter bomb protest or causing a disturbance on the same
Holiday Inn hotel floor that Santorum is staying in, doing such could
cause a bit of a legal battle for the persons involved.
Although the G-8 Summit originally scheduled for Chicago this spring
would have made much of the Windy City a protected area where crimes
could easily be tacked on to arrested protesters, the event was moved
this week to the presidential retreat at Camp David.
In turn, many have
suggested that the White House is only going out of their way to limit
protesting rights. While a Chicago summit would have meant the Trespass
Bill could have been enforced in the same area where thousands of
demonstrators were expected to protest, moving the event to a heavily
fortified rural location will instead deter protesters from likely
coming close atto the meeting at all.
And before you forget, the president can now detain you for getting too
close to his front yard, order your assassination if the country
considers you a threat and lock you away for life with no charge if
you’re alleged to be a terrorist. You, on the other hand, can’t yell
obscenities at Newt Gingrich without risking arrest.
March 10, 2012 – posted at SignOfTheTimes
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