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Criminal charges may be a bit much, but without that threat, how to stop this type of activity from increasing? This doesn't appear, to me, to be a protected form of speech. If it is, then I could attend my local council meeting and scream gibberish for the duration of the meeting until they adjourned out of frustration. This wasn't in the public square, it was in the place that the "public" (i.e. government) does business.

How might the participating UT professor feel if I were to attend his class for the sole purpose of disrupting it? He is a public employee, speaking (ostensibly) for a public institution. Would my disruptive behavior be acceptable to him?

As I said, pressing criminal charges seems severe, but if ain't illegal, then it's legal. And if it's legal, we'd have a whole lot of disruption on our hands.

local council meeting and scream gibberish for the duration of the meeting until they adjourned out of frustration

Please tell me why exactly stopping my local government from exacting more unconstitutional laws upon me by disrupting its "business" through my use of the First Amendment is a bad thing.