What is my grandson talking about..anyone familiar with this bill?

[shraby]

a member of the government ex. senator, president, mayor, representative doesnt like a protester or a sign held by one - they can get them jailed,

He wasn't sure when it was passed and signed, but it was 2010 or 2011. I checked snopes and couldn't find anything.

[jody]

1. Alien and Sedition Acts passed in 1798. Interested to find a more recent one. nt

[brewens]

2. As if they needed a law. I remember a 50 something librarian was arrested outside a McCain rally.

She was on public property with a sign that said McCain=Bush. One of McCain's goons told a cop to arrest her. The cop who had to know damn well she wasn't breaking any laws busted her for disturbing the peace I think. A judge threw it out but I don't think the cop got in any trouble so mission accomplished.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. This probably

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr347

that sounds like a dramatic overstatement of the actual scope of the law, see also here:

http://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/how-big-deal-hr-347-criminalizing-protest-bill

[shraby]

7. That sounds like it might be what he's talking about..I sent him the links to

have first hand info on the bill. Then we can discuss.

[Live and Learn]

4. H.R. 347? The bill

is supposed to update Section 1752 of Title 18.

[RKP5637]

5. Maybe it had something to do with this ...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/06/politics/protester-arrest-controversy/index.html?eref=rss_latest

Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) -- James Ian Tyson acknowledges that he is a political activist. He admits he has been arrested a couple of times for relatively minor offenses. But he insists he's not a terrorist.

Tyson, who describes himself on his Facebook page as a carpenter with a "veggie farm," says he has no idea how he wound up on the government's terrorist watch list. He just wants to save the rain forest. The only dings on his record, at least as far as he knows, consist of fishing for trout out of season and driving while impaired.

The 27-year-old, known as "Jimmy" around Charlotte's activist community, was pulled over Sunday near a building where protesters plan their demonstrations. He was charged with driving with a revoked license. And then he was thrown in jail under exceptionally high bail -- $10,000.

The arresting officer asked a magistrate to keep him behind bars for the duration of the Democratic National Convention, which ends Thursday night. He advised against releasing Tyson on his promise to show up for court.

"Why do you feel suspect is a risk?" a bail sheet asked, and the officer wrote: "Known activist + protester who is currently on a terrorist watch list. Request he be held due to DNC being a National Special Security Event." (Both political conventions received the designation from the federal Department of Homeland Security. It freed up federal funding for security and put the Secret Service in charge.)

[shraby]

9. I'm pretty sure that's not the reason he mentioned it.

[socialindependocrat]

6. I just saw a post about Scott Walker in Wisconsin about signs and t-shirts n/t

[shraby]

8. Yup, Walker doesn't like them much if they are anti Walker ones.