County ban on criticism earns warning from civil rights legal team Policy charged with imposing 'chilling effect' on speech

Officials in one county in North Carolina have decided to ban criticism of them, their citizens, and their employees.

That means no one at meetings of the Richmond County commissioners can make comments the chairman has "deemed inappropriate."

Nor can anyone say "comments which are harmful, discriminatory or embarrassing to any citizen(s), official(s) or employees," they've decided.

And commissioners have made it a "criminal offense" for someone to "willfully interrupt, disturb, or disrupt a meeting and refuse to leave when directed to do so…"

That all may eliminate those awkward moments when a citizens might bring up a question a commissioner would rather not hear, but it's also drawn a warning from a civil rights organization about the obvious suppression of speech.

At issue is the county's Public Appearance Policy which was adopted 25 years ago but recently abridged to include the new bans.


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So...uh...in other words....don't say anything that can cause them to be embarrassed or accountable.

The thoroughly useless Supreme Court has their heads in the sand over everything and refuse to take the initiative and start stopping this crap . That leaves us as the guardians of a once great experiment to start showing the way and to start meeting these people on the street and doing what is necessary .