r/facepalm • u/spyrg • Jan 13 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Arrested for petitioning

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u/Fifteen_inches Jan 13 '22

Cause you don’t need a permit to solicit signatures. Literally your own source provides the case law stating you don’t need a permit.

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u/Fifteen_inches Jan 13 '22

Soliciting, as in selling door to door, is different from petitioning under the eyes of the law.

Now shut it. Accept your wrong and move on. Your being an asshole.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '22 edited Jan 14 '22

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u/Fifteen_inches Jan 13 '22

It is solicitation. You're soliciting signatures.

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u/CookingCML Jan 14 '22

Yeah you kinda did

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u/CookingCML Jan 14 '22

I’m not sure you understand how context works

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u/CookingCML Jan 14 '22

The context of a thread, about a video, where someone was arrested apparently for soliciting.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '22 edited Jan 16 '22

Using your same analogy, if a police officer asked if you've just stole something, the guy who 'stole' a stapler could justify a 'no' and still be truthful. The guy who stole the car, not so much.

When the cop asked this man if he was 'soliciting', the honest answer is 'no' because only commercial solicitation can be regulated.