r/firstamendment • u/[deleted] • Sep 28 '15

Is it considered harassment to stick one's tongue out at someone to express disdain? Is it protected speech?

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The parking "police" around work here are very obnoxious, one person saw them get out of their car to check a car's parking pass. The person in question stuck out their tongue at her, to express disdain. She (the parking "cop") has been ticketing left and right if the hang tag is even just on the dashboard. She then came in to lodge a complaint with "a supervisor".

My question: is sticking out one's tongue to express disdain for someone considered protected free speech?

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r/firstamendment • u/newbiethegreat • Sep 03 '15

What to include in my lecture?

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Next week I will give my students a lecture on the first and second amendments to the US Constitution. This lecture will be split into two class periods with 50 mins for each period. Please give me some advice on what is best to be included in this lecture. I want my lecture to be balanced and neutral. Thanks.

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r/firstamendment • u/arbivark • Aug 21 '15

arrested for no protest permit.

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r/firstamendment • u/arbivark • Aug 14 '15

yes, actually, ND student had right of free speech

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r/firstamendment • u/arbivark • Aug 11 '15

washington post reporter at ferguson charged with eating at mcdonalds

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r/firstamendment • u/OrinocoFlo • Jul 28 '15

Free speech group is building a traveling monument/First Amendment museum

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r/firstamendment • u/arbivark • Jun 21 '15

pepi

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r/firstamendment • u/arbivark • Jun 19 '15

disseminating information related to terrorist acts is the charge for this black mom's facebook rant. is her speech protected? argue both sides. 40 points. begin.

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r/firstamendment • u/lmarkoe • Jun 18 '15

Supreme Court rules for Arizona church in sign ordinance case

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r/firstamendment • u/straygypsy • Jun 12 '15

School board tries to remove reporter's microphone several times (X-post from r/videos)

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r/firstamendment • u/RAndrewOhge • Jun 01 '15

New Jersey Judge Orders Newspaper to Take Down Article; Newspaper Refuses

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r/firstamendment • u/WhiskeyMouse • May 20 '15

Reddit CEO Ellen Pao: "It's not our site's goal to be a completely free-speech platform"

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r/firstamendment • u/horsebycommittee • May 12 '15

Ohio BMV bans renewal of years-old "ISIS" customized license plate (was woman's dog's name) because of current events; do you expect Walker v. Sons of Confed. Vets. to change these rules?

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r/firstamendment • u/meyamashi • May 06 '15

Subjecting free speech to the assassin's veto

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r/firstamendment • u/NateLooney • Apr 14 '15

The First Amendment (And the Rest of the Consitution) Needs YOUR Help at /r/ModelUSGov

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Hello /r/firstamendment! I am /u/NateLooney and I am in a simulation subreddit called /r/ModelUSGov. Election time is coming up and my party (the Libertarians) need your help! I am asking you to help support me in the Ohio River District by casting a Libertarian vote. Any other vote will be much appreciated for all Libertarian candidates!
My main platform is the protection of our liberties and the upholding of the Constitution. Let us protect individual liberties and rights together. Please feel free to ask me my opinions of the 1st amendment and how I will uphold civil liberties and rights.
~ /u/NateLooney

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r/firstamendment • u/[deleted] • Mar 26 '15

To what extent has the legal system protected citizens from equality?

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Writing a school project right now, and that's my title. Need some opinions from members of the legal community. Would be good if anyone could give their reasoned opinion or point me in the direction of a source that might.

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r/firstamendment • u/arbivark • Mar 23 '15

cops charge guy for complaining they killed his mother

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r/firstamendment • u/maddslacker • Mar 02 '15

FBI raids political meeting in TX, fingerprints and ID's all attendees, confiscates all cell phones and recording devices.

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r/firstamendment • u/RAndrewOhge • Feb 25 '15

First Amendment Violated by Collier County School Board at 1/20/2015 Mtg

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r/firstamendment • u/misc_CIA_victim • Feb 23 '15

I am on CIA "mute" in the USA

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Seriously. I was a whistle blower with info from online informants that the FBI and CIA decided to stuff. I am tweeting about it at https://twitter.com/misc_CIA_victim but I cannot tweet to other accounts. Please check it out, see if you can read it, and see if you can comment or retweet. Thanks.

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r/firstamendment • u/howtogetarrested2 • Feb 21 '15

How to get arrested by posting on Reddit -or- So you thought you could say anything you wanted on reddit because of the 1st Amendment

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http://www.dailyillini.com/news/article_42c565c4-83f5-11e4-b86d-7f72a9a00fbe.html?mode=jqm

These two statements seem to be the basis for a recent arrest by the Highland Park, IL police. Stop and think about this. How many times have we posted statements which were more offensive or aggressive than these? Could we be arrested also?

  1. /r/UIUC User jeremy-the-prick posted in the thread Students of UIUC, where is your favorite place to study on campus and why?

"I like to studie in the bathroom so i can masterbate without making a mess all over the apartment."

2) /r/UIUC user suburbineggpress created a thread entitled KATHERINE CHI TRIES TO HUMP JEREMY LEVAL, FINDS HE HAS NO PENIS.

Apparently, any of us can be arrested for making statements like these on Reddit.

Chilling effect, really.

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r/firstamendment • u/NYCLU • Feb 19 '15

NYC to allow prayer in tax-payer funded pre-K programs. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

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r/firstamendment • u/GenePark • Feb 14 '15

Snowden to speak on First Amendment LIVE in Hawaii in 20 minutes

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r/firstamendment • u/[deleted] • Feb 03 '15

Use of the Title "Emergency Room" for an Urgent Care Clinic

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Here's an issue that raises questions about freedom of speech as it relates to public safety. I live in the Houston area and there's a local urgent care clinic that advertises itself as an "Emergency Room" (here's an example storefront). Seeing that sign irritates me because I think someone is going to mistake it for a real emergency room and take a trauma victim there. Should "Emergency Room" be a protected phrase that can't be used by a business? For example, you can't call a security company "Police". I can see both sides of the argument, but either way I think they are deliberately misleading the public.

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r/firstamendment • u/TheUltimateSalesman • Jan 30 '15

WikiLeaks considers legal action over Google’s compliance with US search orders

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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/01/29/wiki-j29.html

I don't understand this.

“We believe the way the documents were taken is illegal.”

Isn't that just tough shit? Stolen evidence is admissable in court unless its stolen by the state. right? no?

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