I too think this is a good issue to be examined by the courts.
Where was the ACLU when their leftist buddies benefited from the restrictions? Yep, out collecting donations from them.
What's reasonable? Well, from what I can see, whatever is convenient for those in power. What's the public interest? Why, whatever the government says it is. You see, it all depends on what the maaning of 'is' is.
They'll torture and manipulate those words until they get just what they want which of course is to take any dissenter and send him to a parking lot surrounded in chain link fence and a battalloin of riot police a mile away from anywhere meaningful.
Among the ideals of the very founding of this nation is that government will never suppress dissent or unpopular ideas. Now those in power spit on the sacrifices of those who gave it all for our freedom. For what? So they won't have a bad photo op of protesters as some high and mighty official rides by.
Such behavior is disgusting and contemptible. Such raw, soaring arrogance is what I expect from the King the founders rid us of.
FReepers comlained then, ACLU was silent.
ACLU complains now, FReepers are silent.
Two sides of the same coin.