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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProtesters in Ferguson Should Rebrand Themselves as "Sidewalk Counselors"
"You might be asking yourself: Why do these things matter? Both protesters and counselors are assembling to express a message about which they feel strongly. Thats cute. The critical thing about being a free speech protected counselor instead of a less free speech-protected protester, you see, is that the court recognizes that as a counselor, you have important information that you need to deliver to your audience and apparently some kind of magic inherent wisdom that your audience would benefit from hearing. A protester, on the other hand, can be pushed back from his desired location or corralled into a free speech zone.
Presumably this is because what protesters have to say is less urgent or informed. As described by Justice Samuel Alito in his McCullen concurrence, counselors are even better read than the women they counsel. A counselor, thus, cant be banished to a remote island location because that really gets in the way of all that important counseling. Follow? We dont either."
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/08/ferguson_protesters_rebrand_yourselves_as_sidewalk_counselors.html
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Protesters in Ferguson Should Rebrand Themselves as "Sidewalk Counselors" (Original Post)
ehrnst
Aug 2014
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Kber
(5,043 posts)1. Civil rights counselors?
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)2. First Amendment Rights Counselors? (nt)
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)3. Good idea needs a kick n/t
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)4. I Like The Way You Think, Sir
Why should people not be able to flock around an officer and implore him to keep his gun holstered, to respect the people he deals with daily, to....
VanGoghRocks
(621 posts)5. It also helps if the "counselor" is white and middle-class.
JimDandy
(7,318 posts)6. I love the connected thought! n/t