Local governments want you to sue them. What other possible explanation could there be for them ignoring or breaking (bending, subverting) the law? They have your money to pay lawyers and all the time in the world. If they lose, you still pay (or the insurance pays – the same thing, really).
Even if one person wins, everyone else loses. In most cases, specific individuals responsible for (repeated) violations face no threat of personal fines or incarceration. Taxpayers swallow the costs and the band keeps on playing.
The same appears to be true of every monolithically progressive institution, including schools and universities where the indoctrination centers focus on suppressing free speech, expression, or issues of compelled speech. Most of which are wholly or partially funded with your tax dollars.
In the suit and the press release, the group documented an incident from September 10, in which three students demonstrating against gun-free zones were allegedly stopped by a campus police officer for not having the proper permission to speak.
The policy, called the Demonstrations and Assemblies Policy, stated that anyone, especially groups or organizations, should give two weeks of advance notice to the dean of students with their “planned objective” of the event. The dean would then review the application and either approve or reject the application or, the suit alleges, modify the demonstration of “any reason …. within any set timeframe.”
The local chapter of YAF, with help from the Alliance for Defending Freedom, is suing the school. “The suit also alleges that the Office of the Dean “has the power to selectively enforce the Speech Permit Policy based upon the content and viewpoint of students’ speech,” and called the policy an “unconstitutional prior restraint.”
We’ve covered these cases at length. The University will drag it out (if they can) until the students leave or graduate and no longer have standing. Or, they promise to make changes but never do.
YAF is also pressing an issue of cronyism by the Student Government Association that favors groups based on its partisan preferences — infringing on equal rights of assembly for any lawful purpose. Another example of how an institutionalized left, at any level, hopes to rule.
Warning signs that many refuse to ignore. Because the same people who are trying to rob you of your rights have made the political arena so toxic that a majority chooses to stay silent or not play the game at all for fear of getting brutalized by the left’s mob culture.
The 24/7/365 assault on Trump supporters is a good example. Their refusal to lay down is an even better one. The never-Trumpers and the political left cannot abide by anyone challenging their supremacy. President Trump neither needs or wants anything they have to offer to make him, and anyone who would support him a clear and present danger.
After the Tea Party revolution and the 2010 elections, the Obama administration used the IRS to infringe on non-profits who might oppose their agenda. That game has elevated to a point where anyone who doe snot support the left is a bigoted, White Supremacist Nazi.
It’s all the same game with the same goal. Use whatever force you have available to suppress resistance to progressive rule. And it is the reason why you should call it out and push back at every opportunity. Maybe not with a lawsuit, but they are always waiting to sue you for something so maybe it’s the only language they understand.
