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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It was content-based, and nothing to do with time, place or manner. Your test bootstraps the former. And it's pretty silly to say that anyone who refuses to change their clothes upon law enforcement demand can thereby be deemed likely to violate the law.
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You're assuming it's a public forum. The fact that it was ticketed suggested that it was not entirely public.
But I think the disconnect here is because of something different. Although nominally not a "campaign" event, presumably that's essentially what it was. WTF would Bush be at a podunk building to mingle with the public otherwise? And is it feasible to separate the two activities (campaigning vs. being president) in a coherent manner?
Anyway, when you become President, and eat dinner in the White House, I'll send Rush over to visit then.
In the meantime, send a letter to Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-WV), or Gov. Bob Wise (D), all of whom presumably have a little more control over the
W.V. Capitol Police, who were the ones who asked the putative protestors to move or leave.
