Comments on: Freeman No Longer: Man Allegedly Jailed for Failing to Sit Down Fast Enough http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/16/freeman-no-longer-man-jailed-for-failing-to-sit-down-fast-enough/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:29:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Buddha Is Laughing http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/16/freeman-no-longer-man-jailed-for-failing-to-sit-down-fast-enough/#comment-31646 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:34:06 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=6394#comment-31646 Excessive ego in the legal profession once again rears it’s ugly head. Judge? This judge can’t control himself so what makes him qualified to sit in authority over others? Uh . .. NOTHING apparently.

What an abusive tool.

]]> By: Bob, Esq. http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/16/freeman-no-longer-man-jailed-for-failing-to-sit-down-fast-enough/#comment-31558 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:04:27 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=6394#comment-31558 1983 Claim?

]]> By: Jericho http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/16/freeman-no-longer-man-jailed-for-failing-to-sit-down-fast-enough/#comment-31510 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:18:48 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=6394#comment-31510 In the land of the free, I guess, honour is a one-way street.

]]> By: rafflaw http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/16/freeman-no-longer-man-jailed-for-failing-to-sit-down-fast-enough/#comment-31438 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:29:38 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=6394#comment-31438 Mike,
You hit the nail on the head. Sometmes free speech is messy. This judge should be sanctioned and forced to “sit” in a jail cell himself. This is a reaction that I expect from Texas not New Hampshire.

]]> By: Mike Spindell http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/16/freeman-no-longer-man-jailed-for-failing-to-sit-down-fast-enough/#comment-31402 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:05:22 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=6394#comment-31402 Saw the video. Being sentenced 93 days is way over the top. The Judge is no doubt enamored with his presumptive power. Even taking a worst case scenario’s Freeman’s actions do not rise to the level of such a sentence. That he has pissed people off in the past is obvious, but isn’t that just the messy fact of free speech,someone with that freedom will piss a lot of people off? We go back to Holmes (is that right?)”fire in the theater” formulation as to its’ limits. The unfortunate fact is that too often the definition of “shouting fire in a theater” may be stretched beyond reason.

]]> By: waynebro http://jonathanturley.org/2008/12/16/freeman-no-longer-man-jailed-for-failing-to-sit-down-fast-enough/#comment-31401 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:57:21 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/?p=6394#comment-31401 I didn’t realize loosing a game of musical chairs incurred jail time.

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