basically supportive of their right to protest
They have a right to protest. Not to be dirtbags and trash the parks and not to be vandals and spray paint slogans on buildings and not to be criminal and rape and steal and sell drugs.
Their actions drown out their protest...............
I wonder, if I pitched a tent and the sidewalk in front of Megan McArdle’s house, and started banging a drum at all times of the day and night, parading around naked and crapping on her begonias, if she would continue to be supportive of my right to protest.
They have a right to protest. Not to be dirtbags and trash the parks and not to be vandals and spray paint slogans on buildings and not to be criminal and rape and steal and sell drugs.
Notice how the police are always on the scene delivering a wood shampoo to Operation Rescue protestors who gather peacefully for a few hours then quietly disperse. The city is willing to break out the tear-gas and rubber bullets if a TEA party didn't get the proper permits, install the restroom facilities and pre-pay for police overtime and bond the well-defined and time-limited First Amendment guaranteed protest. For this group the city is practically sponsoring the mayhem. Why anyone with character or morals still lives in that wicked city is beyond me. Stockholm Syndrome most likely.
Yep, they're just like that racist Tea Party, aren't they? /sarc
But if these loud mouths' inability to put together a coherent line of thought is any indication of their education, the taxpayers should demand their money back for having that money wasted on them for years in the public schools.
Sloppy words and sloppy thinking often go together, both in the mobs and in the media that are covering them. It is common, for example, to hear in the media how some "protesters" were arrested. But anyone who reads this column regularly knows that I protest against all sorts of things -- and don't get arrested.
The difference is that I don't block traffic, join mobs sleeping overnight in parks or urinate in the street. If the media cannot distinguish between protesting and disturbing the peace, then their education may also have wasted a lot of taxpayers' money.