...the cops aren't as nuts as the City Council. They are not about to enforce an ordinance that forbids "any person or group of persons to loiter or congregate on Bourbon Street for the purpose of disseminating any social, political or religious message between the hours of sunset and sunrise."
Thus, Newt Gingrich's supporters, say, are free to solicit votes on Royal, but Mitt Romney's could get six months for doing the same a block away. Someone should wise the council up to the First Amendment.
In fact, the council does seem to have heard of it, for the preamble to the ordinance claims an intention "to recognize free speech rights for all citizens." The exception for citizens on Bourbon Street after dark, spelled out on the seventh of eight pages, seems like an afterthought.
But, as was noted last week, the ordinance was sponsored by District C Councilmember (and primary curfew proponent) Kristin Palmer. So the question, "Why does Kristin Palmer hate our freedoms?" remains before the floor.
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