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A mob of red zeplin protesters1/3/2024 But on those rare occasions when conservatives are “appalled” enough by Democratic policies to actually protest, they show that it is indeed possible to “petition the government for a redress of grievances” without creating new grievances for their fellow citizens in the process. The numerous Democratic partisans masquerading as objective journalists seem to think that this is just what “activism” looks like in a constitutional republic. At least 300 protesters were arrested for unlawfully demonstrating at a Senate office building, and nearly 200 more were arrested for similar infractions at the Capitol and Supreme Court buildings. Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., police made hundreds of arrests as protesters opposed to the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court flagrantly violated rules designed to ensure the orderly functioning of public institutions. "Antifa" protesters recently shut down public roadways in Portland, Oregon, blocking traffic and intimidating the hapless motorists stranded by their lawless antics. More fundamentally, the First Amendment guarantees Americans’ right to assemble “peaceably” - a qualifier that increasingly doesn’t apply to the type of behavior exhibited by leftists and Democrat activists. Last week, former Attorney General Eric Holder declared that when Republicans “go low,” Democrats should “ kick ‘em,” and Hillary Clinton delivered the mafia-esque warning that “ civility can start again” only once Democrats regain control of Congress. The incitement shows no signs of abating. Mobs aren't protected in the Constitution This sort of behavior is inconvenient for the people on the receiving end of such abuse, but the real victims are the restaurant owners whose livelihoods are threatened by it. Maxine Waters of California, radical leftists have taken to forming flash mobs when they spot a Republican official dining out. With active encouragement from Democrats such as Rep. Nor is private property safe from the depredations of the rabble, despite the fact that the First Amendment only applies to the government, and nowhere requires private citizens to open up their homes or businesses to protesters. That’s why you need a permit to hold a demonstration in a public space, and why such demonstrations can be restricted to the location specified in the permit. leave open ample alternative channels for communication of the information.” The Supreme Court has made abundantly clear that freedom of assembly is not absolute, explicitly allowing the government to impose content-neutral “time, place and manner” restrictions as long as they “are narrowly tailored to serve a significant governmental interest, and. Pathetic Unite the Right and angry Antifa sputter. When rioters tore down UNC's Confederate monument Silent Sam, I saw mob rule triumph More: Trump-era protests, Kavanaugh drama show we need less democracy Our right to protest has constitutional limitsĬonsidering that these “journalists” depend on the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press for their very existence, it would probably behoove them to actually read the entire thing … all 45 words of it: It’s people who are upset and angry with the way the country is going.” He then made the astonishing claim that the Constitution permits Americans to protest “wherever you want.” When Daily Beast columnist Matt Lewis condemned the mob of activists that drove Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and his wife out of a restaurant, angry CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin shot back, “Oh, you’re not going to use the mob word here.”ĬNN’s Don Lemon also defended the incident: “It’s not mob behavior. The “angry mobs” that Republicans have been denouncing, they claim, are nothing more than high-minded activists engaging in the “freedom to assemble” because they’re “appalled” by GOP policies. In an op-ed masquerading as “news,” Washington Post political reporters inform us that Republican criticism of left-wing “mobs” is merely “fearmongering” designed to rile up “white voters, particularly men.” Liberal journalists bending over backwards to defend the violent, left-wing mobs now plaguing this nation fundamentally misunderstand how political protest works in this country.
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