IMO it has nothing to do with disturbing the peace. It's a stupid law. How many people are feel the need to dance there if it didn't exist?

IMO people that smack their chewing gum or eat with their mouth open are more disturbing. Maybe there should be laws against that as well.

How about a law against cell phones or crying children in public places as well... especially people that use that ringtone that's suppose to sound like the old bell phones... so disturbing!

One will stop if they don't want to be arrested.

Pigshit...being charged with a crime will only get you the legal consequence of that crime in a court. The judge is bound by law to follow the law as is a jury.

The way one gets a law changed is by working through your congressman or becoming a political activist yourself...organize petitions and/or appeal the law via the courts up to and until the law is knocked down/altered by the courts...with the Federal Supreme Court being the ultimate decider.

To do what these "dancing" fools did was just stupid.

You are wrong on pretty much everything you have said. The people ended up with the charges dropped and now due to the video and what they did they have brought exposure on a mass scale to a vile law that is just one more freedom being removed from Americans untill all people will be able to do is walk around where the same colour clothes. This way the law will get changed faster.

Dancing 'fools'? Not really they have shown a very effective way to highlight something that is wrong in America. This isnt just about dancing in public it is about America turning into a police state.

people are such closet cops on here. omg! people are dancing! arrest them!

This is the argument that some people in this thread can't seem to grasp. They watch the video and can't see past that singular act to look at the big picture of what all the singular acts combine and mean to America.

The sad part is, some of these people have children who will see even worse days, with less freedoms than we have now, and they do nothing for their own families. They just agree with every act of injustice, thinking it will never effect them and theirs.

^^^^^^^^^^

ridiculous

the only people making a scene were the police. if some kids were simply dancing you would hardly notice.. nobody else would have either.

There really isn't ANY excuse for banning dancing in a public place.. unless you are an uptight old fart .

Besides the fact that you are wrong simply by being outnumbered. I think the majority of people would not support a ban on dancing there, therefor you are wrong :)

unless the law is invalid like this law.
ever heard of precedent ?

thats exactly what i said, you don't need to work with your congressman nor do you have to be a political activist

you say that but jefferson ( the person everyone was there to see ) told us to do exactly what these kids did..

if you were to visit the jefferson monument and got mad at some kids dancing i would laugh my ass off at the idiocy..

how would you go to the monument of someone who would likely call you an idiot if he were standing there alive..?

it would be like getting mad at having to share a mlk monument with black people lol

I would notice, and I would think it's creepy.

It's not they they were dancing. They were acting odd. For example, if I'm on a public bus or train and people break out squirt guns, I would think that would be odd. And I can understand why people would feel uncomfortable with that.

Dancing isn't illegal, but you had better not be dancing next to my table while I'm in my favorite Italian restaurant. It's not illegal, it's odd, out of character, and it would make me feel uncomfortable.

I'm surely not an uptight old fart. I'm a fucking pornographer.

Again, it's not a ban on dancing. If you go into a movie threatre and dance during the movie, you'll be arrested. It's really no different.

Movie theaters and restaurants are privately owned businesses, this was a public place.

Yes, that's very true. But that one guy was dancing by himself... He looked like he was on crack.

Seriously.

Sorry, but another way is to get arrested, tried and convicted in a lower court. Then you can use the appeal process and hope that your case makes the Appellate Report. A law can be declared unconstitutional that way.

The problem is, these idiots are not accepting the arrest and letting it go to court. Instead, they feel the need to resist arrest. At that point they are definitely in the wrong and their "dancing" becomes secondary.

Pigshit.

Pig Vomit?

They also showed a very effective way to get an arrest record. That part doesnt matter if the charges were dropped later.

So what? Someone gets an arrest record and is highlighting that every day American freedoms are slowly being taken away.

What makes you think it was ever legal to hold a dance at the Jefferson Memorial?

Synchronized movements of any type should be banned in public places. We should also arrest old women who walk to slow. It's annoying when they are in front of me and don't walk the same speed as I do.

Also:
- Standing in place for longer than 5 seconds
- Speaking too loudly
- Speaking another language
- Having long hair or otherwise being recognized as a hippy
- Not being a member of the GOP

Should all be offenses resulting in arrest. Feel free to add to this list, we will fix this country yet!

Let's not stop there please. Let's add to that list.

- People who stop in merge lanes.
- People who talk on their cell phones in department stores.
- Bratty kids who cry.
- People who don't use their blinkers.

- People that like, use like, like 4 times in like every sentence
- People with one headlight that's a high beam and the other low
- People who don't say thank you after I hold the door for them
- People who sneeze and don't cover their mouths

Keep it going. We'll submit this to congress in the middle of another defense bill.

That does not happen. One is out of adjustment.

God I'm glad I stayed out of this clusterfuck of a thread. Yes, I'm shaking my head at those taking up for this shit.

Next time they should fire some rubber bullets before arresting them. Dumb fucking hippies.

That's awesome ...

They were warned and very nicely by the cop.