I'm now living in Sydney, Aus, and to be honest, it isn't considerably different here. Last week a planned protest of the "Lockout Laws" (which has very strict limits on when venues can serve alcohol and allow patrons to enter) was denied because the the organizers did not provide police with "had failed to show mass evacuation and crowd dispersal plans." http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-20/sydney-lockout-laws-co...
Yeah, that protest business was extremely shady. According to KSO it was approved previously (as noted, they applied on Jan 9th for the protest to take place on the 20th) and approval was revoked at the last minute and taken to the Supreme Court at the request of the commissioner, giving the protest group in question about 1 hour to submit those previously unrequested documents (which didn't need to be submitted for any of their previous protests, somehow).
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The same thing happened in Canada during the Harper years.
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2013-2014/the-silence-of-th...
Thankfully it was reversed after Trudeau became PM.
For a look at a few other things under Harper which it seems may be copied by Trump, see http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/adam-kingsmith/canada-freedom-o...
Lots more where that came from.
I'm now living in Sydney, Aus, and to be honest, it isn't considerably different here. Last week a planned protest of the "Lockout Laws" (which has very strict limits on when venues can serve alcohol and allow patrons to enter) was denied because the the organizers did not provide police with "had failed to show mass evacuation and crowd dispersal plans." http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-20/sydney-lockout-laws-co...
Yeah, that protest business was extremely shady. According to KSO it was approved previously (as noted, they applied on Jan 9th for the protest to take place on the 20th) and approval was revoked at the last minute and taken to the Supreme Court at the request of the commissioner, giving the protest group in question about 1 hour to submit those previously unrequested documents (which didn't need to be submitted for any of their previous protests, somehow).