Gould, Arkansas wants to ban free speech...

[TM7]

The real war is the war for your mind...and they're winning......fyi...TM7
 
 Small Arkansas Town Wants To Ban Free Speech And Freedom Of Assembly, No “Group” Will Be Able To Meet Without Cities Permission         
           
The Intel Hub
By Alex Thomas
July 18, 2011
A small Arkansas town of 850 is attempting to ban groups from meeting to talk about the city without first getting permission from the city itself.
In a move reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the Gould, Arkansas City Council has moved to ban all groups from discussing the city, even in their own home!
Mayor Earnest Nas, in strong statements supporting the peoples constitutional rights, said he is willing to go to court to stop this plan.
“This is America and even though this is Gould, Arkansas, this is still part of America. And in America, you can’t just vote and violate peoples constitutional rights,” said Nash.
This ordinance would effectively ban citizens from talking about the city at the dinner table, boy scout meetings, and book clubs. In fact, the ordinance is so Orwellian that the interview that the local Fox affiliate did with the mayor would actually be considered illegal under the proposed city ordinance.
A prominent lawyer looked over the ordinance and immediately deemed it unconstitutional.
 

Spokane Conservative Examiner
John DiPippa, Dean of the Law School at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, expressed disbelief when he first read the proposed law.
“The truth is the city of Gould doesn’t have the authority to tell anyone that they have no right to petition them, no right to speak and no right to exist in their city,” DiPippa told Fox16.

If the precedent is set in Gould, Arkansas it is only a matter of time before it is proposed in a town near you.
If the city council of this town actually believes that they can legally stop citizens from talking about city issues in the privacy of their own home they have another thing coming. This is America not Nazi Germany.

Gould Council bans citizens group
 
 
 
...TM7

[jlwilliams]

There is just no way that bill will become law.  If it does, I'll go all the way to Arkasas just to break that law.

[Torwe]

So it begins............

[nw_hunter]

The real war is the war for your mind...and they're winning......fyi...TM7
 
 Small Arkansas Town Wants To Ban Free Speech And Freedom Of Assembly, No “Group” Will Be Able To Meet Without Cities Permission         
           
The Intel Hub
By Alex Thomas
July 18, 2011
A small Arkansas town of 850 is attempting to ban groups from meeting to talk about the city without first getting permission from the city itself.
In a move reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the Gould, Arkansas City Council has moved to ban all groups from discussing the city, even in their own home!
Mayor Earnest Nas, in strong statements supporting the peoples constitutional rights, said he is willing to go to court to stop this plan.
“This is America and even though this is Gould, Arkansas, this is still part of America. And in America, you can’t just vote and violate peoples constitutional rights,” said Nash.
This ordinance would effectively ban citizens from talking about the city at the dinner table, boy scout meetings, and book clubs. In fact, the ordinance is so Orwellian that the interview that the local Fox affiliate did with the mayor would actually be considered illegal under the proposed city ordinance.
A prominent lawyer looked over the ordinance and immediately deemed it unconstitutional.
 

Spokane Conservative Examiner
John DiPippa, Dean of the Law School at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, expressed disbelief when he first read the proposed law.
“The truth is the city of Gould doesn’t have the authority to tell anyone that they have no right to petition them, no right to speak and no right to exist in their city,” DiPippa told Fox16.

If the precedent is set in Gould, Arkansas it is only a matter of time before it is proposed in a town near you.
If the city council of this town actually believes that they can legally stop citizens from talking about city issues in the privacy of their own home they have another thing coming. This is America not Nazi Germany.

Gould Council bans citizens group
 
 
 
...TM7

I was born and raised a few miles from Gould in what is now known as Crime Bluff, Arkansas. Formally (Pine Bluff)

Gould was a sleepy little farm community in the fifties. I had several friends and family living there and nearby.After the 60's a large number of the Caucasian population left.
Same can be said of Pine Bluff. Today the population of Gould is about 80% African American and 20% Caucasian.

[mcwoodduck]

Liberalism at it's best.
You have the right to free speach as long as you agree with us.
Sounds like a Federal marshal needs to be called to a meeting and have the people that passed this law arrested for Civil rights violations.
 

[Pat/Rick]

Coming to a city near you?
 
+1 mcw

[powderman]

Liberalism at it's best.
You have the right to free speach as long as you agree with us.
Sounds like a Federal marshal needs to be called to a meeting and have the people that passed this law arrested for Civil rights violations.

 
YEP. POWDERMAN. 

[gypsyman]

Sounds like the people of Gould,Ark., need to proclaim a false election, and a new city council needs to be voted in. gypsyman

[powderman]

Sounds like the people of Gould,Ark., need to proclaim a false election, and a new city council needs to be voted in. gypsyman

 
YEP. POWDERMAN. 

[Casull]

I see at least two problems with this story before I would comment on it.  First of all, it says that they are "attempting" to do this and that it is a "proposed" law.  What exactly does that mean?  Have they voted on it yet?  If so, what else must take place before it becomes law?  Secondly, the story is very suspicious in that it does NOT state what the law is/would be.  Why is this supposed law not printed in the story?  The whole story almost seems made up.  Maybe there is something to it, but as written, it smacks of tabloid journalism.

[nomosendero]

Just a bunch of Dems who don't want a dissenting question or argument, not unusual. But this one made the news, but I don't see it doing more than that.

[Casull]

Why don't you click on the links provided in the original post for more info..??

 
I did, AND I did not see the text of the ordinance on any of them.  In order to be law, it would have to be printed somewhere.
 
 

If it is a town 'ordinance'...then there isn't any voting except by town board consensus

 
Uh, that would be a vote.  In clicking the links (which I did not even realize were links until I went back to the OP), I did see that there was a 4 to 1 vote on it.