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A direct question for you ... Would this same logic train of yours work for the KKK having a protest in Selma on MLK day ... locking arms and keeping people from having their own activities?
Yes. A KKK march in Selma would be constitutionally protected. In fact there have been such marches.
Yes. A KKK march in Selma would be constitutionally protected. In fact there have been such marches.
Obfuscation, thy name is NOLA(with numbers). Of course it would be protected and there have been those types. Now again ... would you, NOLA(with numbers), approve of it as adamantly as you do the BLM crap?
So in your opinion, it's ok to negatively impact someone's else's livelihood to get what you want, no entitlement attitude there now....there are plenty of smaller businesses along that stretch that were impacted as well....but hey, we don't care about those people, your protest is more important
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Protest is an important part of being a citizen, so yes, I would say it's a price we pay for the freedom to protest. All freedoms have costs.
The Montgomery bus boycott only worked because it affected people's livelihoods and the economy of the city. if they went to some abandoned field and protested instead, they'd still be riding in the back of the bus.
I'm glad you get it ocnjgirl. Peaceful protest is not a complicated idea.
While both of you have strongly held opinions, you have not offered proof of a cover up, other than some claims that have been made in public by sources that may or may not be credible. Even if I grant your assertions that there was a cover up, the system worked, and charges were filed, and that brings us back too my statement and post that your posts appear to imply is not valid because it does not address all police corruption, or all attempted cover ups by persons in a power position, or all racial problems between the various police departments and minorities.
My statement was about a specific cop and a specific statement about that specific cop by a specific protester that was on its face a moronic statement. Feel free to read the post(s) again if you think I am misrepresenting what I have posted.
Read the news from various sources. That's what I do and why I have "strongly held opinions." I'm informed. You?
It allows for peaceable assembly, specifically to petition the government for a redress of grievances, but not for a right for people to be targeting and interupting commerce or commercial enterprises. It is first and foremost a limit on congressional authority, not permission to injure innocent third parties for political gain, as many previous posters seemed to imply.
"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."
Edit: don't confuse an effective Alinsky tactic with a constitional right. They are not the same thing.
Peacefully assembly and redressing government grievances are two separate clauses in that sentence, not one and the same.
By the same respect, who are you to tell anyone what they can lecture a group of individuals on? I would like to lecture people on the perils of running down a main thoroughfare, brandishing a knife, making threatening gestures at law enforcement, while jacked up on an illegal substance. Maybe if these same protestors dedicated themselves with educating their community with the same vigor as they are shutting down family owned businesses, we would see a decrease in these types of incidents
Mark is a lawyer and probably has studied the document in question more than many other people. He's intelligent, uses facts to argue his point and doesn't tow a party line. I trust what he says. He's not lecturing you or anyone else. He's taking part in this discussion the same as the rest of us.
I wonder what your attitude is towards other protesters. Are you against any form of public assembly?
Shouldn't they be down at the police station protesting? It's not the shoppers that are causing the police shootings.
Do you understand the point of peaceful protests?
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no entitlement attitude there now....there are plenty of smaller businesses along that stretch that were impacted as well....but hey, we don't care about those people, your protest is more important 
