First Amendment Fun
Can you fine people for public swearing? They are starting to in New England. Ever have to sit on a long bus ride and a loud obnoxious person is flinging loud obnoxious obscenities into their cell phone for a long long time? You think it will never end. You wonder if the person just escaped an insane asylum. You secretly pray for someone to clobber the person over the head. The bus driver never does anything for fear of starting an altercation -the person may be intoxicated or three minutes from barfing all over his bus. I can't stand it-it is a breach of the 'peace'- some of the five hundred pounder skunk ho filthy mouths on buses should be just kicked off the bus until they can get a civil tongue or shut the EF up. If this has not happened to you yet consider yourself blessed.
A town in New Hampshire is giving the police power to fine people for public swearing. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/12/public-swearing-middleborough-fine_n_1587270.html?ref=topbar
Good for them! Everyone should do it. It is a public nuisance. There are noise ordinances which do not violate First Amendment rights. This shouldn't either. Lets see if anyone actually challenges it as unconstitutional. (apparently the ACLU thinks it already is declared unconstitutional)- I would argue it is prone to incite violence because someone will want to clobber the offending culprits to make them Shut the EF Up!
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