OK, how about they swarm into your city or town, and literally take over the whole place, bringing all commerce to a screeching halt, just because they want to say something.
And, of course, you and your fellow citizens will get stuck with the bill for the extra police overtime, sanitation department overtime, court employees' overtime, etc.
Believe it or not, but many of us have to live and work here. And their freedom of speech ends where it interferes adversely with my life.
That's very easy for you to say when it isn't your city or town that's about to be invaded by these selfish, smelly cretins.
Augusto Pinochet knew how to dispose of these types.
I agree with some of your sentiments.
1. Assemblies should be peaceful.
2. Assemblies should not disrupt other peaceful assemblies.
3. Assemblies should not (greatly) disrupt the daily life and economy of the local area.
So, if we roughly establish those as the rules, why must assemblies be pre-approved by the government or have their location dictated by the government? If I wanted to get a group of people together in Central Park to discuss politics - and we don't damage the park or disobey the above rules - why must I check first with the government?
Obviously, any assembly that becomes unruly or seeks to disrupt should be (legally) dispersed. That's not a peaceful assembly.
I look at it this way: those anarchists are going to assemble anyways... and they are going to get arrested. So the only people the laws hurt are the law-abiding citizens - because it is that much more difficult for us to put together a peaceful assembly.
This parallels gun laws. In NJ it takes THREE MONTHS for a law abiding citizen to get a license to lawfully own ANY weapon. If I wanted to skirt the law, I could go down to teh city basketball courts and buy a gun within a day. The criminals get by and the law-abiding citizens suffer.
"OK, how about they swarm into your city or town, and literally take over the whole place, bringing all commerce to a screeching halt, just because they want to say something.
And, of course, you and your fellow citizens will get stuck with the bill for the extra police overtime, sanitation department overtime, court employees' overtime, etc.
Believe it or not, but many of us have to live and work here. And their freedom of speech ends where it interferes adversely with my life.
That's very easy for you to say when it isn't your city or town that's about to be invaded by these selfish, smelly cretins."
Except for "smelly", every word you said describes the GOP in NYC and the Dems in Boston!