It is Saturday and as the weekend begins I will do my best to be as informative as I can…..since most news these is days is redundant, silly and useless……
Florida makes the news again….this time they want to ban the use of the tactic of picketing…..
Think you might stage a demonstration outside someone’s private residence in Florida later this year? Think again. The state’s governor on Monday signed a bill that will ban “picketing and protesting” outside a home when it takes effect Oct. 1, CBS News reports. “Sending unruly mobs to private residences, like we have seen with the angry crowds in front of the homes of Supreme Court justices, is inappropriate,” said Gov. Ron DeSantis in a statement, referring to the protests that have taken place over the high court’s apparent plan to overturn Roe v. Wade. “This bill will provide protection to those living in residential communities and I am glad to sign it into law.”
ClickOrlando reports that lawmakers started working on the bill in the wake of protests over George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in 2020, when protesters gathered to demonstrate outside a Windermere vacation home owned by the officer convicted in Floyd’s death. Police at the time did not have the legal right to disperse demonstrators in a residential neighborhood. When the new law takes effect, law enforcement authorities will give protesters a warning, and will only arrest anyone who does not peacefully disperse, DeSantis says. Violation of the law is a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to 60 days behind bars and a fine as high as $500.
Since states are attempting to eliminate the use of boycotts and other tactics like picketing I thought I would look into other stuff that is banned…..
Several things like honking a horn or high heels…..
https://www.indy100.com/news/buffalo-shooting-gun-violence-america
This article was prepared to show that some dumb stuff is banned and yet guns , the worse killer in our society, gets a free ride…..
All this is silly…..in my town it is banned from spitting on the sidewalk….
Anything silly that is banned in your town?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
In Saner Thought 
In my town there is a ban on racial-oriented signs being erected.
A good idea. chuq
I think a spitting ban is a good idea. Filthy habit. In London, it is illegal to spit out gum or throw cigarette butts on the street. But millions still do both every day. It is so hard to enforce.
Best wishes, Pete.
Littering is a problem here…..we are the most littered state….fines are high but no one cares…..when I take MoMo for her walk in the local park I try to pick-up as much as I can….never ending job…..chuq
How the f*** did this even happen? Picketing is an iconic form of free speech.