Another Ron 'Fuck Your Freedom' DeSantis law in Florida. Criminalizing free speech? Miami Beach law used to cuff people filming cops Miami Beach’s city commission in June passed an ordinance making it illegal to “approach or remain within 20 feet” of a Miami Beach police officer with the “intent to impede, provoke or harass” an officer engaged in lawful duties, after receiving a warning. It’s punishable by a fine of up to $500 or up to 60 days in jail. The result: Miami Beach police, over a crowded weekend in July, arrested over a dozen people, almost all Black and in the process of video recording police officers. Since then, nearly every one of those cases has been quietly dropped. But in one of the few remaining cases, the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers asked a court to dismiss the case against an Ohio tourist, saying the ordinance unconstitutionally punished the right to free speech. Given the opportunity to defend the law in court, Miami Beach’s city prosecutor last week backed down — simply dropping the case. The Miami Beach city commission, aiming to appear tough on crime, in recent months has voted to dramatically expand the city’s prosecution program, including prosecuting misdemeanor battery, criminal mischief and indecent-exposure cases. The Miami Beach Police Department pushed to implement the ordinance in time to deal with expected crowds in town for the Rolling Loud hip-hop festival. A Herald review of 13 arrests over that weekend showed all of them were of Black people, and most were of people filming officers. Court records show that prosecutors — state and municipal — have dropped all 13 of those ordinance cases. That includes the case of Janae Senterswanson, 23, who was arrested after cops said she refused to leave the “20-foot” zone as officers were investigating a disturbance on Ocean Drive. The case lingered for months as the Florida Justice Center, which represents people for free, signed on to represent her.
Miami wants to get tough on crime.... so their target are people filming them a la First Amendment rather than actual criminals... are there actually pussy cops who cannot do their job if someone 19 feet away has a cell phone pointed at them? makes sense...
So pretty much the same as a DeSantis press conference... 'The Jew is the devil' — Neo-Nazis rally in Florida "The Jew is the devil" and "Jews rape children and drink their blood" were among slogans chanted at a rally in Orlando held by the National Socialist Movement. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-694960 So much for their spelling ability... Let's see what DeSantis' press secretary has to say...
Let's see if DeSantis will condemn the Neo-Nazis... Florida governor DeSantis under fire for refusal to condemn Orlando neo-Nazi rallies Spokesperson for governor questions whether demonstrators waving swastikas and yelling ‘Heil Hitler’ at Jews were actual Nazis — and not Democrats trying to make him look bad https://www.timesofisrael.com/flori...-refusal-to-condemn-orlando-neo-nazi-rallies/ Nah... instead his spokesperson, Christina Pushaw is busy deleting her absurd tweets claiming they were Democrats. DeSantis aide deletes tweet suggesting Nazi protesters were Democratic operatives Christina Pushaw's comments drew widespread condemnation from elected officials as well as a prominent South Florida rabbi. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/31/desantis-aide-nazi-protestors-democrats-00003678
Ron DeSantis still won't condemn Neo-Nazis. He says asking him to do so is a smear. Ron DeSantis said his political opponents were trying to 'smear' him by asking him to condemn neo-Nazi demonstrators https://www.businessinsider.com/des...-nazis-demonstrators-smear-white-power-2022-1
What makes me sad is that the Federalist Papers were some of the greatest discourse in politics along with the Constitutional Convention discussions and the name was taken for a group that is extremely conservative and one sided. George Washington was the first and only non party president even though he sided a little bit more with the Federalists at the time whose ideas made up most of the Consitution but in general the Federalist papers and GW spoke so harshly against factions, parties and the kind of movements that the Federalistr Society represents that the meaning is completely lost... George Washington’s family had fled England precisely to avoid the civil wars there, while Alexander Hamiltononce called political parties “the most fatal disease” of popular governments. James Madison, who worked with Hamilton to defend the new Constitution to the public in the Federalist Papers, wrote in Federalist 10 that one of the functions of a “well-constructed Union” should be “its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.”
Ron DeSantis is following Trump’s white supremacy playbook https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...-condemn-nazis-follows-trump-white-supremacy/