The Reason There Are Few Protesters At Hillary's Rallies. It's Not What You Think.

PROTESTING HILLARY NOW A FEDERAL CRIME

This is rather interesting.

According to Reason Magazine a few years ago congress passed a law that says if you protest a person who has secret service detail it means you’re in violation of the law and can be arrested and sentenced to 10 years in jail.

This is outrageous and you can thank Obama it exists.

You better believe this is one of the reasons Hillary has skated through this election cycle so effortlessly. It all makes sense now. At almost every single event she goes to all things are hunky dory .

That’s because people aren’t even allowed near her to protest!

The Orwellian-named “free speech zones”Flickr/Michael Vadonon college campus and political rallies are nothing new to regular readers of Reason, and suppressing political dissent with the brute force of government has been a feature of the American systemsince shortly after 9/11/01, when the Secret Service and local law enforcement entities began confining demonstrators to “protest zones.”

What might be a surprise is the fact that quietly and right under our noses in 2012, Congress nearly unanimously passed H.R. 347 (a.k.a. the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act) which makes it a federal crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison to “willfully and knowingly” enter a restricted area or to engage in “disorderly or disruptive conduct” that in any way impedes “government business or official functions.”

Signed into law by President Obama, this supposed tweak of a pre-existing law effectively criminalized protest of any person under the protection of the Secret Service, a select group which includes both major parties’ front-runners for the presidential nomination. During the general election, the nominees of both parties are automatically assigned Secret Service protection, but Hillary Clinton, as a former first lady, is entitled to a Secret Service detail for the rest of her life…

Dahlia Lithwick and Raymond Vasvari wrote inSlate that “the law makes it easier for the government to criminalize protest. Period.” They also assert the words “disorderly” or “disruptive” could be defined down to mean almost anything with regards to “impeding government business.”

And it’s not just presidential campaign events where free speech is so severely restricted:

Today, any occasion that is officially defined as a National Special Security Event (NSSE) calls for Secret Service protection. NSSE’s can include basketball championships, concerts, and the Winter Olympics, which have nothing whatsoever to do with government business, official functions, or improving public grounds. Every Super Bowl since 9/11 has been declared an NSSE.

This is madness as the constitution says we the people have the right to peaceful assembly. To make it illegal to protest a candidate who is in the midst of a criminal election is madness.

It shows just how bad things have gotten here in the U.S. When people like Hillary Clinton stand a decent chance of winning an election and good-hearted men and women are tramped on by the government it proves things are meant to change, and change soon.