Obama Signs Bill Protecting Funerals from Protest

[bcoop]

Posting from phone, so I'll just post the link. If someone else could copy/paste the article I would appreciate it.

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=16943770

I'm torn on this. On one hand, these people are scum and it's nice to see someone doing something about this. On the other hand, he signed a bill limiting the right to free speech, and he has no right to do so. What's next? A bill making it illegal to criticize him and his administration? Thoughts?

[slow06]

Can't stand the group of people that caused this (I don't even want to spread their name) and I don't support anything they do, but their right to protest has already been affirmed by the supreme court. I don't see how this could even stand, can a new law supersede a previous supreme court ruling based on the constitution?

Edit: Here is the article

Obama Signs Bill for Camp Lejeune Water Victims
Yesterday, 5:46 PM
President Barack Obama signed a bill Monday promising health benefits for Marines and families who were exposed to contaminated water at a North Carolina Marine base for decades.
"I think all Americans feel we have a moral, sacred duty toward our men and women in uniform," Obama said in an Oval Office ceremony before signing the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act.
"They protect our freedom, and it's our obligation to do right by them. This bill takes another important step in fulfilling that commitment."
The bill passed Congress last week with bipartisan support. Health officials believe as many as 1 million people may have been exposed to tainted groundwater at Camp Lejeune from 1957 to 1987.
Jerry Ensminger of Elizabethtown, N.C., was one of those affected and attended Monday's ceremony. He led the fight for information about the water problems at Camp Lejeune since his daughter, Janey, died in 1985 at the age of 9 of a rare form of childhood leukemia.
Other soldiers, who suffered from a rare form of male breast cancer, also said the government spent years trying to hide the problem and the poor response by officials.
"And, sadly, this act alone will not bring back those we've lost, including Jane Ensminger, but it will honor their memory by making a real difference for those who are still suffering," Obama said.
Documents show Marines leaders were slow to respond when tests in the early 1980s show higher than normal levels of contaminates in ground water and the base, likely caused by leaking fuel tanks and an off-base dry cleaner.
The law also bans protesting within 300 feet of military funerals. Numerous states have passed laws restricting protests at funerals after members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas began protesting at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[Forever_frost]

This has already been ruled free speech. You limit this and then you start limiting other forms you may not like. I'm against this.

[2165 Turbo Rail]

I agree good thought but not right

[ceyko]

Concur with everyone else. You have to take the good with bad. Which I could see obama-goons then trying to or actually arresting the Patriot Guards. Regardless of family consent and everything else.

[momo]

i'd rather this have been ended years ago by the hands of a vigilante parking his peterbuilt right on top of the westboro protest.

[Sean88gt]

It will be overturned.

[4eyedwillie]

Jesus Christ....If he wouldn't have signed it you guys would be screaming that he refused to sign a bill that would help the soldiers and their families that drank the bad water (which IS the main part of the bill). If you wanna bang someone bang the moron who added the unconstitutional rider. Hint it wasn't Obama!

Some of you guys are pathetic.

[stevo]

Jesus Christ....If he wouldn't have signed it you guys would be screaming that he refused to sign a bill that would help the soldiers and their families that drank the bad water (which IS the main part of the bill). If you wanna bang someone bang the moron who added the unconstitutional rider. Hint it wasn't Obama!

Some of you guys are pathetic.

Back funneling 0bama's phallus I see....

Stevo

[91cavgt]

This has already been ruled free speech. You limit this and then you start limiting other forms you may not like. I'm against this.

I feel exactly the same on this.

[ceyko]

Jesus Christ....If he wouldn't have signed it you guys would be screaming that he refused to sign a bill that would help the soldiers and their families that drank the bad water (which IS the main part of the bill). If you wanna bang someone bang the moron who added the unconstitutional rider. Hint it wasn't Obama!

Some of you guys are pathetic.

Not so much

[RCITNet]

Where is the ban on free speech? All the bill does is ban them from being within 300 feet. They can protest all they want from 301 feet away.

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[Downs]

This has already been ruled free speech. You limit this and then you start limiting other forms you may not like. I'm against this.

+1

[4eyedwillie]

Back funneling 0bama's phallus I see....

Stevo

So...Does rush's taste better?

[bcoop]

Where is the ban on free speech? All the bill does is ban them from being within 300 feet. They can protest all they want from 301 feet away.

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You cant be serious...