West Palm Beach Judge hates women

[donsu]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2006/04/18/s1a_buffer_0418.html


Judge overturns West Palm's clinic buffer law

A federal judge has ruled that a city law imposing a buffer zone on abortion protesters violates free-speech rights and has ordered the city not to enforce it.

The law — enacted in October after someone set fire to the Presidential Women's Center, the last clinic in Palm Beach County where abortions are done — created a 20-foot buffer around entrances and other public areas outside health-care facilities.

U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks ruled that the city didn't prove the existence of problems that it said the law addressed: restricted patient access and a threat to public safety. Even if it had, the law is too strict, he ruled.

"Freedom of speech is rarely an issue when everyone agrees," Middlebrooks wrote. "Perhaps more than at any other place and any other time, in cases such as this, speech guaranteed by the First Amendment must be protected."
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selective free speech

personally I'd kick Donald in his nuts

[GDAEx2]

1. There go those "activist Judges" again!

eom

[Justitia]

2. Sooo, setting the place on fire is NOT "a threat to public safety"???

That makes no freaking sense whatsoever.

This is simply an invitation for stepped up violence / harassment / intimidation.

[rucky]

3. Maybe we can use this to test the "free speech zones"

next time the Prezzie is in Florida

:shrug:

[bunkerbuster1]

4. Some people are more equal than others

The Preznit, he deserves protection from violent thugs who want to kill him.

OB-GYNs, not so much.

[rucky]

5. And you'd think they'd want to let 'em "give their love to the women"

:shrug: