I completely disagree with the person who wrote in praising the organized agitators at the Trump rally.
This was not an example of a peaceful protest. These selfish people disrupted traffic for hours, intentionally causing a great deal of anger. People were minding their own business; some were on their way to the Trump rally but many were just on their way to work, on their way to appointments, returning from stores with expensive meats and ice cream, on their way to play golf and otherwise running errands on the weekend.
These law-abiding citizens were disrupted by a lawless group of (most likely paid) people who felt the constitution only applies to them and that freedom of speech only applies when the person speaking reflects their beliefs.
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Barbara Winterfield
I completely disagree with the person who wrote in praising the organized agitators at the Trump rally.
This was not an example of a peaceful protest. These selfish people disrupted traffic for hours, intentionally causing a great deal of anger. People were minding their own business; some were on their way to the Trump rally but many were just on their way to work, on their way to appointments, returning from stores with expensive meats and ice cream, on their way to play golf and otherwise running errands on the weekend.
These law-abiding citizens were disrupted by a lawless group of (most likely paid) people who felt the constitution only applies to them and that freedom of speech only applies when the person speaking reflects their beliefs.
These protestors then continued to the rally and chanted loudly to try and prevent anyone from hearing what was being said, as apparently their arguments are so weak they cannot persuade others to their cause but instead must silence the opposition.
Their behavior is reminiscent of that of Democratic Governor George Wallace and his “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” when, on June 11, 1963, he and others stood in front of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama to prevent the legal enrollment of black students.
The protesters, like Governor Wallace, are blocking the freedom of others, not promoting it.
To laud these anti-Constitutionalists is to say that the laws and Constitution only apply to a few and are not applied to all law-abiding citizens.
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