Robert Norse Coverage In Haaretz

Great. These articles seem to deliberately never mention that Norse is at least ethnically jewish, and he was trying to say that the city council were being fascist, with his gesture.

Norse being jewish has nothing to do with anything which is why it wasn't mentioned. Norse was being disruptive which is why he was removed. Norse and his ilk immediately label anything they don't agree with facist, racist or clas war.

Norse was not being "disruptive" in either instance. To be disruptive, according to law, it must disrupt the functioning of the meeting so it cannot proceed, and it must be sustained. Neither situation was the case in either instance.

In 2002, the gesture was silent, did not block anyone's view, was done directly in front of the Sgt. of Arms who did nothing. It was done in a place where citizens customarily stand, often holding signs which can be seen by members of the council. Sometimes those messages are contemptuous. The video (which I taped) shows that it was FITZMAURICE who interrupted, and thereby disrupted the meeting, because he (as he explained later) his wife who IS Jewish (and was not at the meeting) would have been deeply offended.

In 2004, Norse was arrested for WHISPERING which clearly was NOT disruptive!! Scott Kennedy invented this weird formula of 3 demerits = a disruption, clearly NOT a legal rule. If the "parade" was a disruption, then why weren't all 25 people banned from the meeting? Why only NORSE? Why not me, for instance? I "paraded". Why not Michael Parenti? He paraded with us. In fact, Parenti was the ONLY person who spoke ( our intent was to be entirely silent so as not to disrupt the meeting). Kennedy didn't even name Parenti in his List of Offenders. He DID name Thomas Leavitt who wasn't part of the "parade."

As for the "parade" itself. We MEANT to speak at oral communcations. That is why we lined up where we did. But KENNEDY was playing game with us, and wouldn't let the public know when he would be holding oral communcations. We lined up, waited several minutes, and when it became clear that oral communications would not be held for hours, we decided to exit the room via the long route, passing in front of the rail in front of the council and out the door. THis is an area where members of he public are allowed to walk, and allowed to carry signs. It is not an area where a person is allowed to stand and hold a sign. We didn't do that. We walked past the council silently. Kennedy stopped Porter in mid-sentence (he didnt have to) and waited while we walked past. then he denounced us for "disrupting the meeting" and he began to give "first warnings". Micheal Parenti looked Kennedy in the eye and said "No, it's not. You know it's not". Norse walked silently with no sign.

When Kennedy asked Porter to continue, he blamed the protesters for causing him to lose his train of thought.

This was not a disruption because Kennedy didn't have to stop the meeting. He chose to in order to claim a disruption. It was HIS fault anyway. We were there to speak for oral communications!!
We were responding to his game playing with sleight of oral communications!

Of course we have never had a trial on these facts. Barisone basically spent $114,000.00 to prevent a trial from happening.

The 9th circuit court got a few things wrong too. Norse was not ejected for the "parade". He was ejected for inaudible whispering. And they thought he was "supporting a disruption at the back of the room". the disruption was at the side of the room, and that was caused by Michael Tomasi. Robert Norse did NOT support Tomasi's ACTUAL disruption.

Nor was it "disruptive" apparently 2 weeks later when two people used "Nazi" salutes at City council during oral communications. So using the Nazi Salute is not the issue. It was whether Norse disrupted the meeting . He didn't. Fitzmaurice disrupted the meeting. the video is clear on that.