i would find it hard to believe anyone could get a supreme court case heard in 7 months..

how exactly do you fight a bad law without breaking it ? i am not a legal expert by any stretch so i really have no idea, but i am pretty sure you have to break the law to have a case heard..

And it brings me back to my point one.

Nothing this video has done has changed the law, repealed the law, or made anyone else think twice about this after a day.

Don't mind me, I'm using this thread as a vehicle to make 10k.

So keep arguing with me.

Hardly dancing, more like making a scene, there are plenty of public places where such activities (making a scene, not "dancing") aren't cool.

7 months, 7 years. With what we are going through right now, slow dancing at a national monument is the least of our worries.

NDAA is on the President's Desk right now. I've been on a online campaign to get the word out as there is a black out on the news about it.

If you really care about our Country's future, forget this bullshit about dancing, fill this out, and send it. Share it with everyone.

https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocac...AAveto_fixNDAA

i think you missed the fact they dropped the charges.. they dropped the charges because they likely knew if it went the distance they would find the law unconstitutional .

You cant simply go to court and ask them to change a law.. You must break a law to challenge its validity.

One way of looking at it, or maybe the dropped the charges because it's a waste of time and taxpayer money. We need to spend that money on buying upgrades for planes that the Air Force doesn't need.

it all starts somewhere.:2 cents: maybe we are where we are because we stopped caring and have slowly let our constitution get trampled piece by piece

If we are laying blame, then let's start with Abraham Lincoln, and what we let him do with our Constitution.

There is a time and place for everything.

Obviously that was not the place for dancing or the time to be acting like an immature douche.

http://www.videomedia.com/wp-content...footloose1.jpg

All kidding aside, this is some bullshit.

It's not that dancing is illegal, it's more about disturbing the peace. You can't go into a local restaurant where I'm eating dinner and start dancing or singing. Along the same lines, if I was drop thousands of dollars in plane fare and hotels to go to visit monuments in Washington DC only to have my afternoon ruined by stupid kids making a scene, I'd be pretty pissed to.

And these dumb kids will understand this more twenty years from now when they have kids of their own, they shell out a ton of money to spend a day at a museum or monument on vacation, only to have their day ruined by a bunch of stupid kids. I remember once at the Grand Canyon a group of four or five teens all bought ice creams cones, and decided to have a ice cream fight in the middle of the path. It was a five minute scene, and then I had to try to explain to my kid what was happening. I'm pretty easy going (and I've acted like an asshole more than once in Vegas myself), but there's a time and a place for that.

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.