Constitutional Law

Solution to Brady foulup: they'll just crash the memorial service

From Bitter comes this article. We old attorneys are cynical and hard to disgust, but this comes pretty close.

As mentioned a few days ago, Brady Campaign wanted to have a PR event, on Virginia Tech, on the anniversary of the shootings. Then they found out it required a permit, which they didn't have, and the time and location of their PR event conflicted with the University's own memorial service.

Solution: go ahead anyway. Brady Campaign don' need no steenking permit! We already notified the press, dammit!

"The Brady Campaign sent out a media advisory last Thursday announcing the event, planned in conjunction with the gun control group ProtestEasyGuns.com. Hamm said the gun-control groups had not discussed the event with the university, but he was initially discouraged by what he saw as a hard-line stance by the university against issuing a permit. He said this morning that the event would go ahead as scheduled ? permit or no permit. But by this afternoon, he was optimistic that Tech students involved in the protest would be able to reach a compromise with the administration. He said the goal of the protesters was never to interfere with memorial events."

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on April 09, 2008 (boomark / email).