Someone is confused -- in fact, several ‘someones.’ Amendment I of the Constitution of the United States of America states, “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.” POINT -- The Way cannot find anything in that amendment, or anywhere else in the Constitution or the law, that gives a right to the people to break the law in pursuit of their right to speak freely. Yet, the current crop of war protestors, having never been taught nor having learned civics, think that it is their right to break the law, whether that be assembling unlawfully without a permit on someone else's private property with the intent of not being peaceable or carrying Molotov cocktails and bombs with the intent of hurting or killing the innocent, as they did in San Francisco, California on March 20, 2003, the day after Operation Iraqi Freedom started.
Today, April 7, 2003, in Oakland, California, hundreds of these self-important but obviously confused protestors, organized by a communist backed group of thugs called Direct Action to Stop the War and led by a 40-year-old child-punk named Joshua Clover, gathered unpeaceably and without a permit on private property, not their own, a violation of the law, to protest, which you can read about here. The Oakland Police Department did the right thing in asking them to leave the private property and disperse. The protestors/thugs refused to do so, instead choosing to attack the police officers, at which point the police had no choice but to protect themselves by firing non-lethal bean-bags, wooden dowels and rubber pellets to get the violent thugs to leave the private property and disperse. Now, of course, the police are being accused of being violent.
Perhaps, inasmuch as these fine officers will always be accused of being violent when they have the 'audacity' to enforce the law, the police should have used real bullets and killed a few of these punks. Sadly, this did not happen, and the best we can hope for is that those who were arrested are duly prosecuted.
Amendment I of the Constitution of the United States of America does NOT give any individual the right to break the law. Can someone who kills a protestor (other than the police in the course of their duty after being assaulted and attacked) claim that they were only speaking freely? They can claim all they want while they spend the rest of their lives in prison, which is where they would appropriately belong. Accordingly, the communist thugs from Direct Action to Stop the War should also not be permitted to break the law, despite their irrational and uneducated claims that doing so is constitutionally protected. (They sound like little children going on age 3!)
What is needed here is a bit of rationality. Something needs to be done to get the attention of these punks. POINT -- The Way urges the police to do the right thing and says to them, “Next time you are assaulted by these 'someones' in the course of your duty, confound 'em -- SHOOT TO KILL!”
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