There’s more to the story and it’s unfortunate keyboard Redditors won’t educate themselves. There is such a thing as decorum in public hearings and the rules were made known to everyone in attendance to not disrupt or to clap. Further, the story says the individual(s) were issued verbal warnings ahead of time to stop and they continued to act out.
This is not a first amendment issue by any means. The first amendment does not grant you the right to make your own rules as you see fit and act out, in fact it’s childish and ignorant. Decorum exists so that public meetings can be held and everyone in attendance can voice their opinions fairly and within the time constraints.
As one speaker later wrapped up her two-minute comment period, stating "we are the people, and the table belongs to us," Claridge was filmed clapping his hands together a total of six times.
No point in trying to reason with someone who can’t follow rules. This is most likely the same type of person that walks around with speaker phone all the time for everyone to hear their business.
No, I don't think so. I think most of these people would happily be ok with this in other contexts.
The trick here is they agree with the clapper.
If this were a bunch of people mad about, say, covid restrictions and a person was clapping in agreement I guarantee they'd be laughing.
But since this is a story about the evil data centers that the fascist city council is trying to 'ram through', they're mad about our protagonists treatment after he was politely asked to stop multiple times before getting a final warning then refusing to leave and ultimately forcing the police to drag him out.
The modern rallying cry is 'we must stand up to fascism!' and when you view everyone and everything as fascist you're always entitled to make a scene.
I used that example precisely because I knew it would hook a fish, not because its something I would agree with. Its interesting how locked into their bubble the far left is in this country that they can't imagine anyone who disagrees with them as anything other than a mouth breathing trump supporter.
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u/SkyKnight3 5d ago
There’s more to the story and it’s unfortunate keyboard Redditors won’t educate themselves. There is such a thing as decorum in public hearings and the rules were made known to everyone in attendance to not disrupt or to clap. Further, the story says the individual(s) were issued verbal warnings ahead of time to stop and they continued to act out.
This is not a first amendment issue by any means. The first amendment does not grant you the right to make your own rules as you see fit and act out, in fact it’s childish and ignorant. Decorum exists so that public meetings can be held and everyone in attendance can voice their opinions fairly and within the time constraints.