Flashmob dancing: stupid yes, but is it constitutional?

[jimmy olsen]

Kokesh also found support from Fox Business News' host Judge Andrew Napolitano, who described the arrests as "a scene out of 'Footloose meets the Gestapo.'"

Nice line if nothing else. 

[The Minsky Moment]

Granted it might be a little ridiculous there exists a law against flashmobs inside the Jefferson Memorial but that is not the fault of the Police. 

There isn't.  There is a law that says any demonstration in a DC public park has to get a permit.  Standard, garden-variety time, place and manner regulation for the use of public space.

[garbon]

Unfortunately I was there and saw the fruitcakes today. The guy participating and filming with his iPad was really special...I left when the police started streaming in.

Also, the dancing sucked!

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/DC-Another-Flashmob-Getting-Footloose-at-Jefferson-Memorial-123158063.html

Last week, five men got cuffed at the Jefferson Memorial for doing a silent dance at the Jefferson Memorial.

The men said they were exercising their rights as citizens to free speech.  The Park Police said they were breaking a law recently reaffirmed in court.

This weekend, the dancers are back.  And they've brought a posse.

The five original arrestees, whose dance moves earned them arrests and a few body checks, have put out a national call for dancers to come to a "Party at TJ's."  Backed by civil liberty group CODEPINK, they've worked to get the word out for more people to join in another session of expressive dancing.

NBC Washington's Tom Sherwood said protesters have been arriving at the Memorial from across the country.  One person told NBC he had traveled all the way from California to attend the event.

Park Police also arrived in force on Saturday morning, in anticipation of the dance-off.  Tom Sherwood said most of the law enforcement was keeping a low profile, except for one officer, who stood watch carrying an assault rifle.

The dance party drew hundreds of spectators and dozens of dancers.

Police asked the gathered crowd to clear the rotunda shortly after 12 p.m, but around 20 remained, including a man wearing an oversized Thomas Jefferson head.  Those who stayed inside the memorial boogied in front of Thomas Jefferson's statue, as the crowd chanted "TJ, TJ."

[Eddie Teach]

Also, the dancing sucked!

You expected different?

[The Brain]

Was Techno Viking there?

[garbon]

Also, the dancing sucked!

You expected different?

I'd be willing to support the right to dance wherever as long as the dancers are competent.

[Ideologue]

I can do a mean robot.

[jimmy olsen]

I can do a mean robot.

The Bender?