Law and order is preferable to the alternative. This would also include the right to protest within the decorum of the rules which are pretty clear in most places.
Given the homeless problem in Bloomington, this is a wise policy. It is inevitable that this would have become a homeless camp. We don't need discarded heroin needles all over university property, and homeless men have been arrested for sexually assaulting female students.
From Jeff Childers, "Click Orlando ran a local interest story yesterday headlined, “UF sets student protest boundaries, threatens 3-year ban for rulebreakers.” The sub-headline explained, “Students allowed only to engage in speech, express viewpoints and hold signs.” In other words, no summer camping.
Florida’s largest public university is located right in my home town. Local sources advised me that campus police woke the protestors up every thirty minutes throughout the night last night. The protestors appeared a little bleary-eyed this morning.
The University of Florida also handed out flyers to protestors yesterday, with three categories of permitted activity and fourteen categories of prohibited conduct:
Division of Student Life
Allowable Activities
SpeechExpressing viewpoints
Holding signs in hands
Prohibitive Items and Activities
No amplified sound
No demonstrations inside buildings
No littering
No sleeping
No unmanned signs
No blocking ingress/egress
No building of structures (chairs, stakes, benches, tables)
No camping, including tents, sleeping bags, pillows, etc.
No disruption
No threats
No violence
No weapons Any other items and/or activities deemed to be non-compliant with policy and regulations byuniversity officials.
Consequences for Non-ComplianceIndividuals found responsible for engaging in prohibited activities shall be trespassed from campus.Students will receive a 3 year trespass and suspension.Employees will be trespassed and separated from employment
Plus, any UF staff who break the rules will be “separated from employment,” which is a neat euphemism for terminated with prejudice.
Florida’s approach is one that all universities should follow, preserving the right to lawful First Amendment speech but also stopping the campus from becoming an angry circus that no one would pay to see."
It is possible that many of the citizens of Indiana support free speech, view point expression, and holding signs but do not want to see "summer" camping on campus during commencement. Or we could just start charging camping fees for the tents, kiosks, port pots?
Looks like freedom to assemble peaceably is being quashed. January 6, 2021 is a case in point.
Our First Amendment. An egregious violation of Americans Constitutional right of freedom of assembly was taken away by dictats from the Biden Administration and the CDC.
What does the First Amendment right to assemble refer to?
The First Amendment ensures freedom of speech and assembly. The plain text of the Amendment does not permit regulations on the time, place, and manner of assemblies. The right to assembly is a very important means for conveying ideas that are protected by the First Amendment.
The Constitution
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I think tents is a misleading term, given most were actually small marquees, which are those temporary shelters one sets up when putting out a stall, not a tent.
When one reads tents they immediately think of homeless encampments. It is selective and abusive wording by the media to enframe the issue fraudulently. Naturally, the ignorant and uninformed immediately jump to conclusions without reviewing the visual evidence and scream down tents, not realising they're actually small marquees.
Apparently one no longer has the right to shelter themselves - or their fliers - from the weather or the elements. Just stand directly in the hot sun and burn.
Tents do not belong on school property. No one gave them authority to pitch tents and protest against Israel in support of terrorists. It’s an outrage.
Oh, give the 'terrorists' argument a rest. It is the scapegoat and hiding place of every authoritarian.
Maybe if your mass carpet bombing campaigns exercised a little bit more discretion - say, not targeting small children or blowing up unarmed aid workers - you wouldn't be rightly condemned as the authoritarian bastards you are.
Fair enough, but what about the lovely citizens who crossed the border of a country and massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians in the name of "whatever"?. Where do they fit into your version of the world?
Hamas are financed by Israel, as documented by numerous Israeli outlets. The gunships killing Israeli citizens has also been confirmed.
Weird how the most secure border in existence with a complex missile defence network capable of shooting down drones couldn't hit larger sized paragliders.
I don't know what your positions are on the mandated Pfizer shots, but if the Israeli government lied about one of the most harmful shots known (causing more deaths than any Hamas paraglider gunman)... why on earth would you trust their reporting on war?
Law and order is preferable to the alternative. This would also include the right to protest within the decorum of the rules which are pretty clear in most places.
Given the homeless problem in Bloomington, this is a wise policy. It is inevitable that this would have become a homeless camp. We don't need discarded heroin needles all over university property, and homeless men have been arrested for sexually assaulting female students.
From Jeff Childers, "Click Orlando ran a local interest story yesterday headlined, “UF sets student protest boundaries, threatens 3-year ban for rulebreakers.” The sub-headline explained, “Students allowed only to engage in speech, express viewpoints and hold signs.” In other words, no summer camping.
Florida’s largest public university is located right in my home town. Local sources advised me that campus police woke the protestors up every thirty minutes throughout the night last night. The protestors appeared a little bleary-eyed this morning.
The University of Florida also handed out flyers to protestors yesterday, with three categories of permitted activity and fourteen categories of prohibited conduct:
Division of Student Life
Allowable Activities
SpeechExpressing viewpoints
Holding signs in hands
Prohibitive Items and Activities
No amplified sound
No demonstrations inside buildings
No littering
No sleeping
No unmanned signs
No blocking ingress/egress
No building of structures (chairs, stakes, benches, tables)
No camping, including tents, sleeping bags, pillows, etc.
No disruption
No threats
No violence
No weapons Any other items and/or activities deemed to be non-compliant with policy and regulations byuniversity officials.
Consequences for Non-ComplianceIndividuals found responsible for engaging in prohibited activities shall be trespassed from campus.Students will receive a 3 year trespass and suspension.Employees will be trespassed and separated from employment
Plus, any UF staff who break the rules will be “separated from employment,” which is a neat euphemism for terminated with prejudice.
Florida’s approach is one that all universities should follow, preserving the right to lawful First Amendment speech but also stopping the campus from becoming an angry circus that no one would pay to see."
It is possible that many of the citizens of Indiana support free speech, view point expression, and holding signs but do not want to see "summer" camping on campus during commencement. Or we could just start charging camping fees for the tents, kiosks, port pots?
University of Florida has the right idea.
Looks like freedom to assemble peaceably is being quashed. January 6, 2021 is a case in point.
Our First Amendment. An egregious violation of Americans Constitutional right of freedom of assembly was taken away by dictats from the Biden Administration and the CDC.
What does the First Amendment right to assemble refer to?
The First Amendment ensures freedom of speech and assembly. The plain text of the Amendment does not permit regulations on the time, place, and manner of assemblies. The right to assembly is a very important means for conveying ideas that are protected by the First Amendment.
The Constitution
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Nobody is restricting their right to assemble. Only their ability to occupy in tents or other structures.
Why state police and not Bloomington police?
Not that I think either one is justified. Just wonder what the rationale is.
I think tents is a misleading term, given most were actually small marquees, which are those temporary shelters one sets up when putting out a stall, not a tent.
When one reads tents they immediately think of homeless encampments. It is selective and abusive wording by the media to enframe the issue fraudulently. Naturally, the ignorant and uninformed immediately jump to conclusions without reviewing the visual evidence and scream down tents, not realising they're actually small marquees.
Apparently one no longer has the right to shelter themselves - or their fliers - from the weather or the elements. Just stand directly in the hot sun and burn.
Tents do not belong on school property. No one gave them authority to pitch tents and protest against Israel in support of terrorists. It’s an outrage.
Oh, give the 'terrorists' argument a rest. It is the scapegoat and hiding place of every authoritarian.
Maybe if your mass carpet bombing campaigns exercised a little bit more discretion - say, not targeting small children or blowing up unarmed aid workers - you wouldn't be rightly condemned as the authoritarian bastards you are.
Fair enough, but what about the lovely citizens who crossed the border of a country and massacred hundreds of unarmed civilians in the name of "whatever"?. Where do they fit into your version of the world?
Hamas are financed by Israel, as documented by numerous Israeli outlets. The gunships killing Israeli citizens has also been confirmed.
Weird how the most secure border in existence with a complex missile defence network capable of shooting down drones couldn't hit larger sized paragliders.
https://thedailybeagle.substack.com/p/the-side-of-the-israeli-gaza-war
I don't know what your positions are on the mandated Pfizer shots, but if the Israeli government lied about one of the most harmful shots known (causing more deaths than any Hamas paraglider gunman)... why on earth would you trust their reporting on war?