Read the decision. The Court was very careful to point out that the protestors were on a public street, 1,000 feet from the Church where the funeral was taking place, and behind a barricade put up by the police, and that the plaintiff (the father of the dead soldier) didn't even know the protest was going on until he saw it on the news that night. The Court said that, under different facts, there might not be First Amendment protection.
Yes. I know. Please chalk up my response to frustration at the total lack of civility on the part of those who always get a free ride from the press.
Fair enough, LL. But it’s easy to see, with the Wisconsin fiasco, that pukes can easily put elected representaives in a strait jacket by exercising their own “freedom of speech” in a boisterous way. I’m embarrassed that the GOP has allowed their state capitol to become trashed by human garbage. Bob