Zone1 Someone put their money where their morals are....Local pride event relocated because all the permits were bought up.

[martybegan]

It's not even disobedience. They followed the law and legally forced the event to move.

Good point. Maybe "civil trolling"?

 

[alang1216]

Looks like they can express themselves someplace else....Like Cooters.

They have a constitutional right to assemble and to free speech. If a town said you couldn't own in gun in their town since you can just live someplace else, would that be OK?

 

[alang1216]

And in this case, legal.

Maybe.

 

[hadit]

Maybe.

How is it illegal? You don't like what someone apparently did, but there's no law against someone buying up all the permits for a time to prevent a gathering. If you think there is, feel free to cite it.

 

[alang1216]

They can express themselves at another location, again if that's what is happening instead of people booking something for a June weekend.

If people booked the venue for their own use, that is fine, if they booked it to deny it to the pride folk, that is objectionable to me.

 

[martybegan]

If people booked the venue for their own use, that is fine, if they booked it to deny it to the pride folk, that is objectionable to me.

If it turns out they don't use the permits, they can be denied the next time.

 

[alang1216]

How is it illegal? You don't like what someone apparently did, but there's no law against someone buying up all the permits for a time to prevent a gathering. If you think there is, feel free to cite it.

A case might be made, by someone smarter than me, that their constitutional rights have been violated. If a town limited the number of gun permits allowed in the town and I bought every one of them, that might or might not be legal.

 

[alang1216]

If it turns out they don't use the permits, they can be denied the next time.

No way to enforce that, the permits can always be gotten in another name.

 

[hadit]

A case might be made, by someone smarter than me, that their constitutional rights have been violated. If a town limited the number of gun permits allowed in the town and I bought every one of them, that might or might not be legal.

If their right to assemble is thwarted by a lack of permits, maybe they shouldn't be required to obtain a permit to assemble. Something like that is going to be pretty hard to enforce.

 

[hadit]

No way to enforce that, the permits can always be gotten in another name.

Sure can. An organized group of people can send in individuals to buy them up for a certain time so no one person can be seen doing it.