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This State Requires a Free Speech Permit | The Daily Bell

Posted by M. C. on January 23, 2018

Luckily there is an easy solution for most of us. Avoid New Jersey, which most sane people do anyway.

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/this-state-requires-a-free-speech-permit/

But live and let live is apparently not the philosophy of New Jersey cops. When they saw two people preaching on the property of the New Jersey Transit system, they had to step in. The Transit officers said that they asked for the preachers’ identificationbecause they were not behaving like normal commuters.

When the officers asked Karns and Parker for valid identification, neither complied. The officers then arrested the ministers on charges on obstruction for their refusal to show the officers ID. The two preachers were also charged with defiant trespass for preaching without a permit.

Under New Jersey law, “noncommercial” expression on state property requires a permit.

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