"Ron Lee" wrote in message
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One occasional participant in this newsgroup used to live in a house in
the
midwest. A presidential motorcade was scheduled to pass by, so he plopped
himself down in his own front yard with a homemade sign critical of the
president. HE was told to remove the sign, go back in the house, or he'd
be
arrested. On his own private property.

Then they would have had to arrest me. What nonsense is that in
America.


And if you do nothing else, you'd be out the next day and the best you can
hope for is that your neighbors/employer/customers would here that you have
been taken in for creating a nuisance. If you start making verbal threats
(which most people seem to do in these situations), that is assault of a
federal agent. And these aren't new laws, either. Better hope that they
aren't federal marshals; there was a person in the 1980s that verbally
assaulted a federal marshall, and when he (she?) blew off the court notice
thinking it was like a traffic ticket, was arrested. It's an old law from
the 19th century, but if you are convicted of assaulting a federal marshall,
you are not allowed to appeal the conviction until you have served the
sentence! The person spent several years in prison and had their life
destroyed. IIRC, the whole thing started because the federal marshalls
parked in front of the person's store, and he (she?) was afraid that the
presence of the marshalls (in a marked car) was driving customers away.