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   https://nypost.com/2024/08/30/us-news/bananas-republic-arizona-mom-   
   arrested-for-violating-law-against-criticizing-city-officials-at-public-   
   meetings/   
      
   Eat your heart out, North Korea.   
      
   An Arizona mom was arrested for violating a bizarre authoritarian-style   
   city law that forbids anyone from criticizing city officials at public   
   meetings  — outraging a free speech group that now plans to sue, officials   
   told The Post.   
      
   Rebekah Massie, 32, was speaking out against a proposed $12,000 raise for   
   Surprise City Attorney Robert Wingo — who reportedly already earns   
   $266,000 annually — at a city council meeting on Aug. 20, when she was cut   
   off by Mayor Skip Hall.   
      
   Hall accused Massie of violating a city rule that bars people from using   
   their time at the podium to “lodge charges or complaints against any   
   employee of the city or members of the body,” according to azcentral.com   
      
   “That’s all fine and good, but that’s a violation of my First Amendment   
   rights,” Massie shot back.   
      
   “So that’s, well, this is your warning, OK?” Hall replied, adding the   
   rebuke was “for attacking the city attorney personally.”   
      
   “This is all factual information,” said Massie — who had been speaking   
   about Wingo’s alleged failure to take action on an issue involving   
   campaign signs.   
      
   After more back and forth, Hall ordered the city’s police chief to haul   
   her away.   
      
   “Chief, could you have somebody come down here and escort Ms. Massie out   
   of this chamber,” Hall said.   
      
   “In front of my 10-year-old daughter, you’re going to escort me out for   
   expressing my First Amendment rights?”  Massie said, according to the   
   local radio station KJZZ.   
      
   Massie was charged with trespassing, resisting arrest and obstructing   
   government operations.   
      
   The free speech group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression   
   later caught wind of the arrest and said it plans to sue the city of   
   Surprise over the incident.   
      
   “The First Amendment protects every American’s right to criticize public   
   officials,” FIRE attorney Conor Fitzpatrick told The Post.   
      
   “And the last thing people should fear when they go to a city council   
   meeting to make their voice heard is leaving in handcuffs. FIRE looks   
   forward to vindicating Rebekah’s constitutional rights in court.”   
      
   Massie said Friday she hoped to teach the city “a lesson.”   
      
   “As an American, it’s my right to speak out to keep the local government   
   accountable. And as a mom, it’s my obligation to set a good example and   
   stand up for our fundamental rights — like the right of free speech — when   
   they’re threatened,” she said in a statement.   
      
   “That’s the lesson I wanted to show my daughter. And now, it’s the lesson   
   I am determined to show the City of Surprise, Arizona.”   
      
   It wasn’t immediately clear how Massie could be arrested for trespassing   
   at a meeting that was open to the public.   
      
   Surprise Police Chief Benny Pina and Mayor Skip Hall didn’t return calls   
   from The Post Friday.   
      
   Sgt. Richard Hernandez, a public information officer for the city, told   
   The Post a person may be charged with trespassing if they are asked by a   
   “police officer or the owner of a property” to leave and refuse.   
      
   He said the police chief had not asked Massie to leave the meeting — but   
   declined to elaborate on how the law applies to the incident, considering   
   Mayor Hall doesn’t own Surprise City Hall, where the meeting took place.   
      
   Conversation   
      
   NK1947   
   30 August, 2024   
      
   Isn’t it the tax paying citizens who fund these city employees overblown   
   salaries? How can residents of the city be barred from questioning   
   anything going on when city employees technically work FOR them??   
      
   Liberal F. Clownz   
   30 August, 2024   
      
   put all the politicians there in federal prison. 30 years minimum. let   
   them enjoy.   
      
   Rick Darick   
   31 August, 2024   
      
   give a small person a little bit of power and they soon become a big   
   dictator.   
      
      
   --   
   We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem.  It has none.   
      
   No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.   
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   Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden   
   fiasco, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
   President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed   
   dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.   
      
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