Showing posts with label Palm Beach County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palm Beach County. Show all posts

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Palm Beach Bans Free Speach

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, 
which represents about 
40,000 field workers, 
has sued Palm Beach in federal court 
and is accusing the town of maintaining unconstitutional ordinances that make it impossible to stage a protest. here

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Good Job Governor Scott

Palm Beach County's "Snitch On Your neighbor" Program
One place where liberals and libertarians can find common ground is government intrusion into private lives, and Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw’s “Violence Prevention Program” has all the earmarks of authoritarian overreach. Bradshaw, a Democrat, stoked anger amongst conservatives when he suggested the program would be used to target political free speech deemed potentially violent by authorities.
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Florida Governor Rick Scott said, no thanks.
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However, (Please note) Scott’s reason for vetoing funding was because the whole state would have been paying for a local program, and apparently had little to do with public rancor over the proposal. Scott called the program a “very-well-intended project.”