“Clapping is a First Amendment right:” an interview with the person arrested for clapping at a data center meeting

We are going to need international help. France, please send guillotines.

We're going the route of Germany; I sincerely doubt we're just going to snap out of it and return to normal on our own.

I agree that this is ridiculous and hope the guy wins a hefy lawsuit over this. That said, you can't seriously tell me that other parts of the world don't also have corrupt, power hungry people who make it to local office here and there who do asinine stuff like this, can you? We have a lot to fix. I'm just not sure that this particular thing is what makes America ridiculous. There are so many more ridiculous things that impact so many more people.

Iran should bomb major cities in USA

its like the opposite, "shoot whoever stops clapping"

They were even yelling at people who were waving their hands in Sign Language, so it wasn't the noise, or the interruption, or the delays that were the issue, they simply didn't want the audience to show support for each other, which is insidious.

When I was in high school, the School Board did something unfair to the band, so all the musicians showed up to multiple school board meetings to try to change their mind, and we were treated worse than disrespectfully each time, for daring to care about school policy that directly affected US.

At the last meeting we attended, I pointed to each member of the Board, and told them that we would replace them in the next election, except for one, who had two kids in Band, and was on our side.

We didn't forget. When election season came, we spread across the city, and knocked on doors. There were are least 250 kids in band/orchestra/chorus, and every parent, and older sibling, relatives, etc. were on our side, and we could count on their votes. Beyond that, there were a LOT of residents that counted their band experiences as some of the best they had in school, and weren't happy to hear about the band being screwed by the School Board.

Every single one of those disrespectful school board members was voted out by a wide margin, except our own guy, and everyone coming in had learned not to fuck with the band. We proved ourselves to be a powerful and effective voting block in that town.

The 2nd Amendment exists for when ALL the other amendments fail.

Part of the issue is that when something like you suggest is done, it's not mentioned in the media. You heard about bryan thompson of course, and you heard about one warehouse being set ablaze ("all you had to do is pay us enough to live") but you haven't heard about Wesley LePlatner. You didnt hear about the ice agent getting hit by a car in new jersey, and nobody being able to find who did it. You didnt hear about any of the other warehouse fires.

"The revolution will not be televised"

Pretty normal in a lot of places for a government to crack down on speech and protests.

They don't even have to do that. They can just do what my local politicians do and schedule it at the end of the meeting, limit testimony to 4 or so people, ignore that there's hundreds of others that came to speak and 90% registered as opposed and then hastily vote and adjourn.

It was genetically modified to grow through concrete very fast if I remember correctly. Would be crazy if someone made that.

God I was so embarrassed watching the king of fucking england cringe at our clap obsession in congress a few months ago...

The Bible only works in the US when it comes to persecuting minorities.

Bigots only have the OT quotes about hatred barrelled, book, chapter, and verses. They cannot recall where a single passage talks about love and mercy and generosity.

Free labour, free data, free from consequences...

Only for the oligarchs of course. The pesants aren't people

Some terms and conditions apply

How's that boot taste

everyone and their dog knows if someone clapped for the opposite talking points it would have been permitted

Funny, you tried to reply to me and immediately deleted your comment before I could clown on you for how cucked the gubbmint has you. Realized I know more than you about laws and rights, got embarrassed, and ran away before I could clap your cheeks, I reckon.

Run on back to maga.place, fash

Edit: Really beating those fascist allegations by DMing me death threats and telling me to kill myself

“It was annoying,” Claridge told 404 Media. “So what happened was I clapped for the previous speaker. She hadn't even gotten back to her seat before I stopped clapping. My wife was on the way up to the podium. The time for my wife's speech hadn't even been reset yet [...] you see the 51 seconds remaining from the previous speaker. So I don't know what I was disrupting exactly, but I was not clapping the entire time.”

i have to admit that the article was too long and I stopped, so I'm not really sure that was the "wrongdoing"

Local government is still government, and is beholden to state, federal, and constitutional law. The first amendment allows US citizens to address their government as they see fit, barring a few exceptions such as viable threats or violence. Clapping in approval of others expressing their first amendment right to address grievances with their government is not basis for government force, and any reasonable court would struggle to claim it was so disruptive as to prevent the event from being able to proceed. He didnt stop any speakers or officials from moving to or from the podium, prevent them from reasonably being heard by the attendees, or cause the event to be unsafe.

Government buildings are also public property, and authorities cannot legally force someone to leave public property in the US unless they can articulate a crime being committed. Cops love to throw around disorderly conduct, but that typically gets thrown out because, shocker, those statues are more complex than "I find you personally annoying."

This is basic US civics and the most basic of basic rights in the US. I'm no attorney, but a bachelors CJ degree and 10 years in that career field always leaves me astounded at how poorly the average person in this country understands their rights. I guess that's why it's so easy for them to be eroded.

According to the article he was arrested after he was told to leave and refused.