Whenever you see videos of “protestors” blocking traffic in order to vent their spleens about … whatever … the people trapped in their vehicles are being coerced into listening; when you see videos of “protestors” getting their stupid on in restaurants with loud-speakers and airhorns, those patrons are being constrained to listen.
Usually followed by public officials snivelling, “They have a First Amendment right to protest.”
“… the right to be let alone – the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.”
~Justice Louis D. Brandeis, in his dissent to Olmstead v. United States
Blocking a throughway, causing traffic to back up, resulting in drivers being trapped in their vehicles and having to listen to your bushwa is a violation of the civil right of the drivers to be let the hell alone. And I tire of it.
Intruding into the private space of a restaurant to berate the patrons with bullhorns and shrieking, forcing the patrons to choose between the meal or leaving is a violation of the civil right of the patrons. And I tire of it.
I also support his deas on suitable punishments.
2 comments:
There is no right to "protest". There are rights to free speech and to peacefully assemble, but that's not the same thing.
This is why my truck has big brush guards. Unfortunately they are very sharp in spots.
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