Comissioners want to restrict traffic at Camp Casey...

[shrdlu]

Hot and bothered McLennan County comissioners scoff at First Amendment in seeking parking, walking, standing ban near bush's play ranch.
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"Commissioner Ray Meadows is pushing for the traffic restrictions on roads around the Bush ranch, which is in his district. A protest on Prairie Chapel Road this month has drawn hundreds of protesters from around the country, and Meadows said the traffic poses a safety hazard and a nuisance for neighbors.

The restrictions against parking, stopping or standing would apply to Prairie Chapel, Hester, Old Beulah, Morgan, Mattlage, Homestead, Quiet Valley, Canaan Church, Coryell City, Bohne, Spross, Castle Creek and West Middle Bosque roads.
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The Texas Civil Rights Project has a lawsuit ready to file in case the regulations go through, said executive director Jim Harrington.
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Harrington said the proposed traffic rules are a violation of the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and assembly, and he's surprised that the county's attorneys would allow them.

“You can't have a de-Constitutionalized zone around the president,” he said. “They have got to let people get near the ranch. This is just a casualty of having Bush as a neighbor.""(Waco Tribune)

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Link??

If the county wants to restrict traffic in the Camp Casey area, they need to go after the rightwingnuts who are driving by the camp fast enough to hit and injure bystanders. They are a lot more dangerous than the folks parking their cars along the road.

[shrdlu]

5. Here...

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/08/23/20050823waccommishadvance.html

[noamnety]

2. I'm surprised Bush's caravans haven't been a problem

You'd think all those secret service mobiles would be a safety issue as well. I assume they will be banning those, too?

[Imagevision]

3. Bush should have thought of this earlier before the Cindy threat!

Countdown to Washington - this train ain't stopping for no-one!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[EST]

4. I have a better idea-

How about we go back in time and institute housing restrictions?
If you are, or are about to become, a controversial figure, you will naturally attract the "wrong element" and that will drive down property values and unduly affect the privacy and lifestyles of your prospective neighbors, causing the possibility of creating a "blighted" area.
Therefore, such public nuisance figures are to be banned and not allowed to reside or own property in the vicinity of "real" people. Throw the bums out.
Force them to relocate near their own kind.
Disenfranchise the bastards!

[Contrary1]

6. Meadows is concerned for their safety, don't you know.

Here he is, pictured with one of the locals...

[wli]

7. I'd like to send gifts and/or letters of support to the neighbor.

He apparently understands the Constitution far better than the Federalist Society Klansmen or the neocon genocidal maniacs.