It isn't suppressing any protest, at least, not any more than as a deterrent, the same way social media outrage and destruction of an individual's social life is a deterrent to people doing some things. And a lot of the protesting going on isn't a protest. As usually defined, once violence begins, it's a riot. And riots do not fall under the First Amendment anyway.Penner wrote:Speaker to Animals wrote:Penner wrote:Great legal murder/dismemberment. Sure you may or may not agree with what is being protested but come on this seems extreme and what if the shoe is on the other foot- with this law in place?
How would the shoe be on the other foot? I would try to stop anybody I care about from walking out into the highway in the middle of the night to stop oncoming traffic. I would definitely try to stop somebody I care about from participating in race riots and attacking innocent people in vehicles.
I think you guys are projecting your own violent tendencies upon the rest of us when it simply does not apply.
If the shoe were on the other foot, and that evil bitch won the election, the more likely reaction you would see right now is secession, either formal or disorganized, in which large swaths of America refuse to cooperate at all with the federal government. The violence, even then, would be initiated by you guys in trying to keep it under control.
If you guys did the same thing, I would respect that. I happen to think Californians have a good case for secession. Just not attacking innocent people.
So, basically, you are saying that if Hilary Clinton won, your side (and I am guessing you were for Trump or at least the GOP in this race) would've been the ones protesting, etc...
Also, this proposed law isn't respecting anyone. It's just another tactic to use against the side that lost this election. If people want to protest Trump then that is fine-n running them over and then being legally protected for it is overstepping it and encouraging people to suppress the protest of the opposite side.
Emphasis obviously mine.The First Amendment wrote:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.