So Judge Tinlin thinks he's a comedian? He said to artist Greg Travous, "Go and sin no more" about selling flags in the Plaza de la Constitucion (Slave Market Squre).
(See below)
Surely he jests.
The City ordinance attempting to criminalize art sales is unconstitutional. The attempt to criminalize flag sales was crazy. The effort to make a joke about it ("Sin mo more") fell flat on its face when I read it this morning. Perhaps the atmosphere in the courtroom was such that it was funnier there.
Selling American flags in our Plaza is not a "sin."
It is not "malum in se" (a thing that is wrong in and of itself, a priori).
It is an ordinance violation ("malum prohibitum").
The City's attempt to turn an ordinance violation into a crime is, at best, facetious.
The judge's joke isn't very funny. "SIN?"
The City's criminalizing art and music in public places is a sin, a crime and a tort.
And who ever thought selling the American flag was commercial speech? It's political. Our City Attorney is wrong, again.
Enough gooberishness -- our City Hall is embarrassing to a free people.
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