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The right to peacefully assemble, like all rights has limits. Funny how the left adore this right NOW but complained bitterly about it when the right uses it.
Could someone point out a recent event where the right illegally took over a park, destroying it in the process, illegally blocked traffic and spent over a month in violation of the laws?
Right-wing extremists who question the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency tried to take on local law enforcement recently — and they seem to have come out on the losing end.
Right-Wing Extremists Take On Local Law Enforcement, Lose | TPMMuckraker
Angry enough, in fact, for one TPer, Jim Canelos of Golden Valley, to be arrested for trespassing during a meeting, after his refusal to comply with the regulation (he donned an American flag hat while speaking at the podium during the meeting) and then a request to leave the premises.
The Tea Partiers are also upset over this particular county's passage last year of an ordinance prohibiting weapons on county property. In March 2010 Mervin Fried of Kingman, Arizona, was arrested after violating this ordinance by bringing a pitchfork into the county administration building.
I am always gratified to see Tea Party members devoting their energy to this sort of protest
Daily Kos: Arizona Tea Party Member Arrested While Protesting For His Rights - To Wear a Hat
Point is, people are going to express themselves in one way or the other and to say that every person be they Tea Party members or Occupy Wall street can be defined as left or right is somewhat of an over simplification much less, no one here knows what each and every person who is involved with those groups political leanings are. While it's well documented that for the most part the Tea Party is associated with the Republican Party, in each and every interview with members , they are just as critical to both sides and will tell you that they are NOT a left and right movement. As for Occupy Wall Street as they have yet to have a singular message other than the one I mentioned, the same things can be said for all the people there too. I was simply pointing out to exercise one's rights under the constitution is a good thing, not something to be shouted down or denegrated be it a Tea Party gathering, or Occupy Wall Street.
With respect, Navy (and you know I do totally respect you), taking an opinion from the media is a high road to hell. Generally, the media are, these days, pushing their own agenda within their reporting. I find it wise to interrogate the source - particularly when using the media as 'evidence'.
Cali, you have to understand something here, when I look at these kids, as I do my own, when they take the time to get involved in their nation, I do not look at the way they dress, or their hair, (laughs well maybe the hair). Anyway, the point here is simply this, we live all of us in the same nation, and at least for me, when these kids take to the streets to exercise rights that are hard won they are taking part in their nation, right or wrong rather than sitting on their collective backsides playing videogames and not caring about it. What this tells me is regardless of what happens here as long as people care this much, that we have a future, it may not be the one I want 100%, but still in all it will still be American. Now that may sound old fashioned on my part perhaps, but I like to see the best in people on these sorts of things and believe even when my very liberal daughter does this stuff, they do so with the best of intentions. I also, believe the same is true for all people of of all political stripes. save for those who seek to do harm.
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