ikorack wrote:
zer0netgain wrote:
I love to know why during political campaigns police have used "free speech zones" to keep people far away from the site in question so that they get almost no media attention but nobody does likewise to this group and let them spend money to fight it in court.
Because the church is rife with lawyers, and the Phelps family continues to educate lawyers from its families. There are probably other families within the church who want their children to become lawyers. If Phelps is mad he is also a bloody genius he gets debarred and sets up a lucrative cash cow, that even the government is susceptible to.
Still, you do the deed, put them in the pen, and let them go to court AFTER THE FACT to deal with it. You have precedent saying the government can do this, so why not use it here?
They have a right to protest, but apparently no right to do it wherever they want to.