Talk of The Villages Florida - View Single Post - Ed McGinty
Thread: Ed McGinty
View Single Post
 
Old 10-28-2021, 08:51 AM
lpkruege1 lpkruege1 is offline
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2020
Posts: 180
Thanks: 419
Thanked 190 Times in 86 Posts
Default Stalking is not a protected first amendment right.

Quote:
Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
But Ed wasn't "doing" anything. He wasn't being violent, he didn't threaten to harm anyone. He was exercising HIS right to free speech. Loudly. Obnoxiously. But that's all it was. He didn't try to peek in the woman's house, he didn't even get out of his golf cart. He didn't trespass on her property, he didn't use a bullhorn to disturb the peace in the middle of the night. He just parked on the street in his golf cart-of-signs. The judge awarded the woman a restraining order against him - for exercising HIS right to free speech.
You do realize there are laws against stalking. This wasn't just Free speech protected by his first amendment rights. When you take it to the point Ed did, it's stalking. When someone goes that far, because someone wore a shirt he didn't like, is not normal. I don't care for Ed's message either, but it's his opinion. Why can't he respect that the other people have the same rights he has, and just let it go?