Reverend Billy arrested by NYPD for reciting First Amendment

June 29th, 2007, Reverend Billy Gets arrested by NYPD for reciting the First Ammendment in Union Square, NYC before the monthly Critical Mass Ride

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[wildanimalboy]

Dude.. go back to the rock you live under, and shut the fuck up. These people are fighting for our/your human rights. Do you really think you are free? This is the "freedom" you want to live under. You make me wanna puke. Ignorant fuck. Wake up.

[friendofthefunk]

The "bitch with the bicycle helmet" is one of the cyclists whose first amendment rights to peaceable assembly were violated by NYPD. The "same thing over and over again" she's saying is called the first amendment of the Constitution.

[fowzie777]

those cops were breaking the law by filming the people at that gathering....

[9751asd]

It's funnier watch loudmouth rev Billy getting cuffed by the nypd

[amonkeyinmypocket]

Wow, that's quite a lot of homoerotic fantasizing about police cock going on there. Sounds more like you're just pissed that an officer turned down your advances.

[amonkeyinmypocket]

Oh, I forgot that when police arrest you they HAVE to charge you with what they arrested you for and nothing else. Like, if an officer arrests you for illegally passing a school bus and then finds drugs in your car they can't charge you for that. Oh wait no, that's retarded, of course they can. Why don't you go cram your tin-foil hat up your rear-end and then wank-off to some more conspiracy videos?

[amonkeyinmypocket]

"they said they'd arrest him on one charge and obviously could'nt" WTF does that even mean? Are you illiterate? If he was following them around with a megaphone then he WAS harassing them. Hurp derp. I hope someone follows you around with a megaphone ("one upto 78 decibells") and calls you a flaming sack of douche 24/7. It wouldn't be harassment, it'd be the truth. I'm not interested in having "right's" that allow people to be obnoxious imbeciles.

[amonkeyinmypocket]

"Disturbing the peace" isn't a right, dimwit. Why do all kooky zealots have a completely warped view of what our rights are? Yes, we have the right to freedom of speech, but abusing that right by screaming it through a megaphone 'to make a point' (which doesn't consist of anything more than proclaiming that it's a right) is going to result in that right being policed more. And who's fault is that going to be? The idiots that abused it. Rev Billy is cheapening our freedom of speech.

[amonkeyinmypocket]

So every jackass in NYC should have the "freedom" to walk around yelling into a megaphone?

It's idiots like this who abuse and cheapen our freedoms.

[JoeyBootsNYC]

i usually goof on these street preachers when they are shouting their homophobic hate speech in the square and around the city but i have to say i totally support this guys publicity stunt expressing his right to assemble and speak.

[815Jamie]

....he was not peaceful...he was blocking pedestrian traffic....refused a lawful order....using a voice amplified device...and causing public alarm.