The State of Florida v. The 1st Amendment
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- Florida passed a law that makes protesting more... fun?
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As a Floridian, I want to protest this new protest law, but as the only Person who had managed to live in Florida for 40 years without getting a criminal record, I'd like to keep that record clean.
You're probably fine. Check to see what event organizers are doing in your area, they've likely adapted their strategy since the law passed. The main goal of HB1 was to give police discretion to arrest anyone they happen to want to. The best way to thwart it is the same way protesters have been for nearly a year: don't make it worth the effort and optics hit it would take to arrest you.
Just think about how the police already act. Who do they target: white-passing people participating in chants and waving signs from the sidewalk, or the black organizers getting their message out on a megaphone? HB1 just makes it easier to be even more cruel to all the people they're already cruel to.
How long until your governor makes it a law to vote against him?
I think its grate. It just need to be made stronger.
@@tbjtbj4786 So you don't believe in the first amendment then?
Is it just me, or does this law feel like it was written by a bunch of old guys named Earl who want the kids to pipe down and stay off of their lawns?
I mean most of the government is still old white guys so your not wrong.
The naming part isn't correct, but the rest is pretty spot on.
Yup.
In fact, that law makes everyone at a Florida theme park (and basically every Floridian under 60) a felon. Good job, Florida lawmakers, you've killed your primary industry.
Guess that means it's time to say "Goodbye Earl"!
You're being far too generous about their motivations unfortunately :(
"I want more chaos." Idk why this is such a shock to the government. Also "three people being loud is a riot" oop, guess I gotta be quiet with my dad and oldest brother the next time we go down to Florida lmao.
Florida theme parks = riots now, apparently.
Well actually, 3 people being loud wouldn't be a riot in Florida.
Unless they were part of a violent assembly and assisting each other in violent conduct that results in the injury of another person or damage to property.
See page 33 of the law.
www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1/?Tab=BillText
@@whitsend11 Buddy I was just referencing the video, I didn't actually think it was as ridiculous as that.
So me and two drunk college students with pogo sticks isnt a riot?
@@RudyBlackmanDepends. Does Ron DeSatan have beef with you for merely existing?
Who's not surprised that of all the places, this happens to be in *Florida*
I’m just waiting for this to become a Netflix show😂
Yes
Same.
I would definitely watch that!
@@Ben_Brainard WTF is a Hype House?
@@annbuccieri1267 it’s a stupid group of rich adults who act like children and make TikToks about more stupid things🥱
Also the governor is already being sued for this law
As he should be! State rights aside.. The federal government needs to ask and tell DeSantis. “What in the actual fuck, do you think you’re doing?”
@@abeardwithtattoos Like they have any business, the federal government doesn't deserve any power, only state governments do, each state should decide for itself. And also, this new law is one of the most sane logical things DeSantis has done, it makes way more sense then anything I've ever seen a Democrat do.
@@colthayes7536
All these conservatives turning into weekend anarchist, all because their Cult Leader didn’t win the election. States don’t have the right, to violate the 1st amendment.
@@abeardwithtattoos ^^^ yes exactly
@@colthayes7536 the state of Florida just basically said “f you” to the 1st amendment.
My new D&D character... I tried basing his personality on Florida.
First session was tonight. I have NEVER had a DM get up and leave the room for a moment! (Three of us are channeling Florida)
That is so mean!!! FL here is a whole batch of hot mess!!!
@@jamiecartright I was the quiet one! We all did have fun. Which is the important part, right?
bonus points if you find an ancestorial weapon thats a cheap looking knife embedded in the skull of a live gator
He probably left Florida n was like not again not again
How America got Florida:
Spain: *just constantly begging America to take it*
by florida's definition,most police teams are patrolling riots as they seek to do pretty much everything he laid out and usually come in teams of 2 to 5.
What is it with y'all and hating police? Y'all do realize the police keep you safe, if you'd prefer to not have them then go right ahead, but trust me crimes will go so high so fast you won't even have time to regret it before you're dead.
@@colthayes7536 when the police grab random students and beat them in the streets, when they abduct young girls who happened to be walking near a protest in unmarked vans, when they gas hundreds of people in a city street, you think that makes people safer? i think those are crimes that went unpunished, because we are policed by criminals.
@@colthayes7536 finally someone with a brain. Yeah go ahead and call the fire department so they can put out the RAPE
@@colthayes7536 Leather is not a healthy diet.
@@colthayes7536 because they keep abusing their authority. Constantly.
When the penalty for protesting is the same for lighting a police precinct on fire, guess what people will choose.
Molesting gators
@@Ragde-sf8om thats not enforced by law. Just natural selection.
2% sure did cause a lot of damage and deaths crazy
I was wondering if I would find a comment on here that made reference to that. Thank you
But wait. Wouldn't that also affect spring break, any block parties, and basic family reunions and get-togethers?
Yes. Police in florida, can now arrest anyone they want, anytime they want, charge them with a felony, and then claim they're antifa and send them up on federal terrorism charges.
Isn't that fantastic?
*I never thought the fascism would officially begin in florida*
So everyone in a group of 3 or more at Disney is “rioting”...call the police on every vacationer and spring breaker and see how long this law lasts when if affects the tourism dollar.
@@jesylynw744 only if there intent is to be violent
That's what I was thinking
@@annabordelon6663 but they said "loud" as well, and loud doesn't mean violent, so idk how they're going to handle it
California literally prosecutes *everything* as a felony, and provides an all-but-mandatory process for getting them retroactively reduced to misdemeanors as long as the felon didn't serve any time in a prison for the conviction.
“We’re sure to see some fun!” - Florida (who has a strange sense of fun)
Florida, with the 3 or more rule just became the state equivalent of Professor Umbridge from Order of the Phoenix!!!
So Spring Break is a Riot then?
Is it? Does it fit the definition in the law?
(2) A person commits a riot if he or she willfully participates in a violent public disturbance involving an assembly of three or more persons, acting with a common intent to assist each other in violent and disorderly conduct, resulting in:
(a) Injury to another person;
(b) Damage to property; or
(c) Imminent danger of injury to another person or damage to property.
www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1/?Tab=BillText
@@whitsend11 4 drunk guys threaten to fight someone. That meets 3 or more people agree, with common intent, to assist each other in violent and disorderly conduct resulting in the injury of someone.
@@route2070 Yes it would. But they should probably be more worried about the Assault charge. Or Battery if they laid hands on him. Both of those are worse charges.
Even without the new law, they are still breaking the law.
This law doesn't make criminals out of anyone who is not already breaking other laws.
@@whitsend11 yeah but virtually everything in the new law involving riots are also illegal: vandalism, assault, unlawful assembly, disturbing the peace. This law in itself is redundant, except maybe in sentencing. If that is the case, which would seem to be true, or else there is no reason to have it, a prosecuting attorney or judge may use it to show they are tough on crime and use it to appease an angry electorate come election year, especially if a bunch of spring breakers piss off the locals. I can see this law with its vagueness being abused.
@@route2070 Ding ding you've got it, the law is so broad it will absolutely be abused
I get 90% of my political news from these skits now 😅
couldn't get it better if you watched local
Same here! I watch these episodes and then go research what I haven't heard about yet.
Same, it so much better than a depressing half assed news article. His videos make me laugh every time
Dam This news is worse then cnn and fox combined it’s literally just lies full of lies
@@ariesmars8592 yea, he's so biased he might as well be msm
I wanna know who the 3 people that disliked this are. 20 bucks says DeSantis is one of em.
Probably people who actually read the law.
^^ this guy gets it
@@whitsend11 aclufl.org/en/news/governor-desantis-anti-protest-legislation-hostile-harmful-and-fundamentally-anti-democratic
Under his anti-protest bill (HB 1/SB 484), any person who participates in a peaceful protest that turns violent (through no fault of their own) could be arrested and charged with a third-degree felony - that means a peaceful protester could lose their right to vote and be locked up in a cage for five years because they attended an otherwise peaceful protest where other people did something wrong. If they were one among ten protestors, they could face up to 15 years in prison, the same as someone charged with sexual assault. There is nothing more chilling to speech than the prospect of being locked up for merely speaking your values.
@@ft4903 that’s when the fun begins when it does turn violent you run but there not going to do that no they join it because it’s human nature to go with the group and then they would be punished for participation in a violent mob I do believe in protesting I think how the UK does it is stupid but the riots in Portland that people tried to hide and deny for almost half a year is complete bullshit and they all need to learn a lesson
@@hdhddogh7744 hell not just Portland, then they want to ignore everything and label it as "mostly peaceful protests".
I have done a dam good job of staying center my entire life but damn do i hate the left for making me lean right the past couple years.
Just to be clear, straight from the bill.
“A person may not wilfully obstruct the free, convenient, and normal use of a public street, highway, or road by:
1.Impending, hinder, stifling, retarding, or restraining traffic or passage thereon;
2.Standing on or remaining in the street, highway, or road; or
3.Endangering the safe movement of vehicles or pedestrians traveling thereon.”
"It is unlawful for a person, assembled with two or more other persons and acting with a common intent, to use force or threaten to use imminent force, to compel or induce, or attempt to compel or induce, another person to do or refrain from doing any act or to assume, abandon, or maintain a particular viewpoint against his or her will.”
Which sounds about as reasonable and pro America as you can get. Your right to protest ends at my right to travel and engage in commerce.
@@timothyarnold1679 Nobody is saying you can't protest. You just can't protest in the middle of a street and block everybody else unless you have already obtained the permission to do it in that area.
Get out of the road.
@@richlayman5630 I was agreeing with the bill. That's the difference between legal and illegal protest/ riots. Protest all you want... but the minute you impede other citizens rights to go on about their business it becomes civil disobedience/ riot and the police need to respond.
@@timothyarnold1679 They way you worded it sounded counter. As there is no right to travel and commerce.
@@richlayman5630 of course there are. The constitution protects rights to travel and do business in a dozen varying forms, including within the first amendment and its protections on expression. If a govt allows those rights to be violated by a mob, particularly when it agrees with that mob (portland) and it possess the power and duty to protect those rights, then it has violated those unprotected citizens rights. At the very least it has committed an equal protection violation.
how is it that these show up in my recommended before i get the notification :) thanks youtube
Not surprised anymore it’s Florida
Claim your "here before 5k views" ticket here
“You know how I act every day”
“Yeah….”
“THAT”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
California might want to stop making 1984 references. There's a reason legal documents and warnings have specific ones for that state.
Actually, California probably shouldn't make references to public decency either, all things considered.
What?
@@Kevin-cf9nl He's equivocating taxes, environmental protections, and gay rights with authoritarian rule because he has never read the book 1984 that was written by the leftist george orwell who fought alongside anarchists in Catalonia.
Dont worry they'll eventually be dead and the world will improve
@@ft4903 Orwell wasn't exactly jumping for joy at any overreaching state (in case you somehow missed reading Animal Farm by the same author). It's not like Californian politicians are currently pursuing policies pushed by the real world versions of the governments he was allegorizing or anything. Wait...
And I don't seem to recall ever mentioning anything about gay rights. If my public decency statement somehow set you off, I was referring to the fact that at least one California city has an app to notify you about the location of human 'solid waste'. Which means there's enough people publicly relieving themselves that it's an issue. I know people you're doing a good job emulating tend to project harder than a megaphone instinctively, but you might want to stop and think before choking on your own foot.
As a utahan, please don’t loop us in with California😅
Funny thing being, is that according to the new laws the celebration of any sporting event is now a riot and is a felony offense.
But we know they aren't going to be out there pursuing sports fans who overturned people's cars, set buildings on fire, and looted stores because their sports team won. Even though that's exactly what happened earlier this year in Tampa.
This this law also makes illegal:
Children's birthday parties
Bachelorette parties
Stag parties
All theme parks
All bars, pubs, and nightclubs
BBQ
Going to the mall with your friends/family
Going to the grocery store with your friends/family
The Renaissance Festival
Concerts
Musical theater
... ect.
@@SkySong6161 How? Is this what you do at a child's birthday party?
(2) A person commits a riot if he or she willfully participates in a violent public disturbance involving an assembly of three or more persons, acting with a common intent to assist each other in violent and disorderly conduct, resulting in:
(a) Injury to another person;
(b) Damage to property; or
(c) Imminent danger of injury to another person or damage to property.
www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1/?Tab=BillText
@@whitsend11 think hitting a pinata. That's acting violently towards an object and promoting violence. And, of course, is loud.
@@applesauceoverlord That is not a violent disturbance. And even if it was, you are not working together to injure another person or damage someone else's property.
Try again. Or just admit that the law doesn't apply to birthday parties.
not true
California calling anyone "1984" is the best kind of cognitive dissonance.
Because everything gets called 1984 if it's the slightest amount away from the status quo to the left, or did I miss something that happened in California?
@@eddie-roo I mean you lot are ok with locking children up for the majority of the lives for no reason so I will never be taking right-wingers moral advise. The conservative is irredeemably evil. And that includes the Dems like Bidens and Pelosi.
@@TheLastSane1 what? Did you misread?
huh?
@@sameendusk2623 do you need clarification?
I love Loui he’s so iconic
If I go to Florida and it isn't like how Florida is in these videos I'm going to be upset. I want chaos and alligators.
"Chaos and alligators" should be our state motto
“Or else its a riot and everyone gets a felony” cracked me up 😂😂😂
Tomato, tomato... man, I thought Louisiana was messed up. lol btw I need a shirt with a rainbow and a sun with the words "chaos" on it. Lol
0:43 I like how my home state has become synonymous with calling someone square despite the fact it's most definitely missing the top right corner.
“Well these guys are a riot” ...Moe, Larry & Curly are making noise & smacking each other in the face again...arrest them.
Florida is the definition of chaotic neutral
Ok, so i say get together in groups of two on every corner!! Scream and shout!!! And get a lawyer cause they will arrest you anyway. ALSo i am guessing if Conservative supporters protest a liberal law or election they will be just fine in the street. If there is one thing i have learned sadly is that the law is really about who is enforcing it.
Nah last time the conservatives went out to protest in numbers they got accused of insurrection and treason.
Correct
I love this more than life *florida laugh*❤️
Duck, Duck, Grey Duck! May be the weirdest thing in the Midwest.
Aah, duck, duck, grey duck. It IS a Minnesota thing! :)
Despite that more than unsettling law... I'm so happy about the 1984 reference!
Are you KIDDING ME!?!?
Less than 2% that's the best joke I've heard all year
16 to 30 million people participated in those peaceful protests, what's the number you got for violence?
@@ft4903
2 billionm in damage 60 people dead
@@EvilDickism and how many protests turned violent?
@@darthmaul216
2 billion in damage and 60 peoples worth
Florida is both the most painfully republican and painfully democratic state in the US i swear
It just took the worst from both sides and ran with that
We actually are a great mix that works. Socially liberal and politically conservative. Don't pollute and don't tax.
Calm down Utah as Florida is speaking to California 😂😂😂
3:40 Florida just had a great idea. In order to to protest without getting a riot charge, you just need to do it in your car. A huge group of people in their cars, no more than 2 people per car yelling, chanting, blocking the roods without "standing in the road" can get a lot more attention, be harder for the police to break up, not risk a felony.
Great job Florida! Car Protesters for the win!
Those lawmakers really decided they don't like tourism or the Constitution anymore, huh?
Well it's hard to dislike something you never read. As for tourism they know the only people this will be used to be extra punitive to is:
1. minorities especially teenagers and young adults outside of tourism spots
2. Liberal protestors especially protests for minority rights or environmentalism
The largely white spring breakers and the snow birds will be fine. This is about giving police any excuse they want to make the lives of those that are already facing oppression even worse.
Think about Stop and Frisk. If applied without bias it would have tanked the Tourism Industry in NY. Instead it was the same local residents black and Latino including kids on their way between school and home, playing basketball, or running errands being harassed by police over and over again. In 2009 in Brownsville, Brooklyn 93 of every 100 residents had been stopped and frisked. www.huffpost.com/entry/nypd-stop-and-frisks-15-shocking-facts_n_1513362
Told my friends about this. They then said 10 or more is a revolution. I said "Are we dunking tea in the harbor?" And they said "No we're dunking Brits in the harbor" And I said "Can we go up in a rowboat, pretend we're from Rhode Island, and burn their ship" and the conversation just went on and honestly I'm upset only I got that reference.
I love the duck, duck, gray duck shirt.
But what if it's just _two_ people acting disorderly, but it's two or more groups of two people? And they just so happen to be talking about the same thing, and they just so happen to be particularly close to each other?
What's stopping 3 people from going to a riot and being violent to get it shut down
Absolutely nothing.
Ding ding
Exactly
I love Florida (the character) but Florida (the state) is starting to make me side with DC ...wait what? omg no time to rethink my thinking.
Lol I'm kinda seeing where Florida is coming from 😅😅
Am I mistaken or is Florida the loud state. people go there to let off steam. so spring breakers are not going to be going to Florida anymore because they can't have any fun . okay Florida good job
People also won't go to Disney World or the Universal Studios theme park for the same reason.
Florida's lawmakers have effectively made their primary industry illegal (and, y'know, decided several Constitutional amendments don't count).
How the new law actually defines a riot:
(2) A person commits a riot if he or she willfully participates in a violent public disturbance involving an assembly of three or more persons, acting with a common intent to assist each other in violent and disorderly conduct, resulting in:
(a) Injury to another person;
(b) Damage to property; or
(c) Imminent danger of injury to another person or damage to property.
www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1/?Tab=BillText
@@whitsend11
aclufl.org/en/news/governor-desantis-anti-protest-legislation-hostile-harmful-and-fundamentally-anti-democratic
Under his anti-protest bill (HB 1/SB 484), any person who participates in a peaceful protest that turns violent (through no fault of their own) could be arrested and charged with a third-degree felony - that means a peaceful protester could lose their right to vote and be locked up in a cage for five years because they attended an otherwise peaceful protest where other people did something wrong. If they were one among ten protestors, they could face up to 15 years in prison, the same as someone charged with sexual assault. There is nothing more chilling to speech than the prospect of being locked up for merely speaking your values.
I don't think it'll work that way.
Florida is the only state that handled the coronavirus by the science.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHABAHAHAHA
@@ft4903
he is right though
@@EvilDickism how? Florida got the highest cases of every state
@@darthmaul216
No they don't
Less than two percent. I love your skits, they're so funny.
When the protest against police brutality was met with more police brutality,
most of our country either correctly recognized there was a serious problem
or started looking for a different minority scapegoat to blame. #BLM
Okay watching this for the first time as i binge watch bens work and the moment florida said rookie numbers i could only think of my favorite floridian youtuber, Graystillplays.
Keep up the awesome work ben, your a legend.
Literally the "not in my backyard" law
I love how they just completely tune out CA.
Okay but Florida's actually right though that things being illegal makes them more fun. That's why I think we should bring back prohibition. Speakeasies are cool y'all!
I was just watching one of your videos and this popped out
Florida: "those are rookie numbers."
me: "GrayStillPlays, is that you?"
This aged evel better than I thought, now Florida is claiming kids don’t have free speech
Might I remind you of the silent marches and sit ins of the civil rights era? LOL Oh it can be done quite and peaceful.
forgot the part that if you Run over that "riot" with your Motor Vehicle, you are now protect by law.....
You are literally what’s great about America, my friend!!!
I just discovered your show and have been binge watching for the last 10 or so hours… Getting a little bit of a reminder of recent history. But from the best point of view!! 💜💜💜
Oh please! That law in Florida is so easy to bypass!! Just get together at least a 50 2-people group and just situation them along the street! Then tell them to be loud! Boom! You just got 100 people in pair of two “not rioting”! I see no flaws whatsoever in this plan
Did a wild Minnesota just appear?!
I love "Calm down, Utah!"
When people ask me why I don't live in Florida anymore, I'm just going to show them this video. 🤣🥴
When the people of Florida elected their current governor, they did not elect a man from Florida; they elected a Florida Man.
DUCK DUCK GREY DUCK!!!!!
Best skits I’ve seen in awhile 😂 my fav is La who dat!
Best part of this was Minnesota's shirt. #Truth #GreyDuck
Does this mean Disney is close? 🤣🤣
People being quiet and out of the way? this is not the chaos i was promised
Factually: the law prohibits the following and only one is currently a problems with prosecution:
Awwww, just saw this. 2 yrs later and Desantis is a libertarian had me pissing my pants. Watched it 3 times. What's the emoji for laughing through the frightened tears 🫣
This just reminds me of the “superparty” law in Delaware. Obviously that’s not about protesting but still
Rookie numbers? I hear GrayStillPlays in the background...
I live in Rhode Island and you nailed it! You must have lived here at one time. No school Foster gloucester! That's such an insider thing.
Its hilarious watching California call "state" 1984
Florida's got a point though is there anything more lame than a legal, permit protest?
That last sentence really cut after the bastard took a plea deal and the death penalty is off the table.
Rookie numbers 😆
Professor Umbridge is secretly running Florida.
duck duck grey duck! woo
ROOKIE NUMBERS.... makes me think of gray still plays.
How bewildered those jurors must be that literally sacrificing a cop isn't keeping their city or black owned businesses safe...🤔
Florida, the chaotic evil of America.
Glad its gonna be a mistrial
Ahhh, you gotta love Florida. He makes everything so much more fun! (Florida please stop-)
I LOVE MINNASOTAS SHIRT
You should talk to Silver Spook, a native water protector with a lot of historical information.
Also if protesters are in the street you won't get in trouble for just hitting them with your vehicle. Part of the new law 🙄
It should be legal everywhere to hit them if they are impeding the flow of traffic.
Now I want more then 3 kids
So I might type this too early
You know, in a VERY sick way, I’m for this. In the way that EVERYONE (the most violent, I should specify) who’s mad at Florida’s laws might go there to protest and everyone who’s FOR what florida is doing also goes there to counter protest , then we can just saw off florida and everyone will be stranded there
Ahh yes Florida come on vacation leave on probation
A little exaggerated but damn. If I'm with two friends and we decide to yell profanities for no reason whatsoever, it's an affray. That's a misdemeanor offense. But if we took it a step further and hurt someone else who isn't involved, even if it's accidental like steppingon their toes while walking, that's a second degree felony charge of aggravated riot.
Definitely going to protest this. The wording is terrible.
Edit: Please note this does not prohibit peaceful protests. The question is what does and does not count as peaceful in the eyes of the state?
DeSantis is a republican, I don't see where he ever advertised being a libertarian
So Florida is kinda of competing with umbridge for most pointless rules with different end goals
I was just watching the three stooges and said wow these guys are a riot lmao