I know there is probably constitutional issues with this but I say NO WAY .. go after public officials however you like , but protests at someones private home is too close to intimidation of a public official iMO . What do you think ? I say leave officials and their children alone at their home . Regardless of political stances , but sadly it seems only the radical left thinks its OK .
Do you think int should be legal to protest something at the private residence of a public official ?
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All it does is turn people away from their cause. It shows their true colors. The groups doing this are hateful, spiteful and full of venom. They are losing the battle of killing babies and so they will go to the extreme and try to intimidate. It is all they have and their true colors come through. But "we got this". The old snake is under control and the venom drained.
I'm afraid that civility is a thing of the past. Ignorant people think they have a right to camp on the lawn of public officials, scream at them when they're out having dinner, confront them in a public space. It's rude. It's crass. It's unacceptable.
We had a perfectly capable health director in Ohio at the beginning of covid. When mask mandates and vaccine rollouts began, people went to her house to protest. She wasn't even an elected official, but rather she's a doctor that was appointed to the position, and accepted in order to serve the public interest. She quit. It wasn't worth having idiots harass her family and disrupt her home life. Same thing is happening with refs for youth sports. The harassment and threats and violence just aren't worth it. No one wants that job any more. We got HS football leagues where some teams play on Thursday and some on Friday, so that the few remaining refs can work two nights instead of one, and cover all the games.
People are nucking futs! And I'm afraid it may be getting worse.
We had a perfectly capable health director in Ohio at the beginning of covid. When mask mandates and vaccine rollouts began, people went to her house to protest. She wasn't even an elected official, but rather she's a doctor that was appointed to the position, and accepted in order to serve the public interest. She quit. It wasn't worth having idiots harass her family and disrupt her home life. Same thing is happening with refs for youth sports. The harassment and threats and violence just aren't worth it. No one wants that job any more. We got HS football leagues where some teams play on Thursday and some on Friday, so that the few remaining refs can work two nights instead of one, and cover all the games.
People are nucking futs! And I'm afraid it may be getting worse.
So I guess you're just going to gloss over when 200 right-wingers protested at Gov. Beshear's home and hanged an effigy of the Governor there a couple years ago?
They can chug a gallon of bleach, too, imo.
If I were Kavanaugh or Roberts, I'd post up on my front porch in a rocking chair with a cooler full of beer, a good novel, and a loaded AR-15 with tons of spare mags at the ready and enjoy the evening while my family was being guarded by some bearded men with lots of tattoos at an undisclosed location.
It’s ranged from the organized January 6th insurrection to county school board members being harassed at their homes over crt and this is what you’ve found to be “crass”?
[sarcasm]January 6 was done by a bunch of ANTIFA and the deep state you stupid lib!!!!!1!![/sarcasm]
No its totally wrong regardless of party .
Its all crass . I just happened to mention it today . Its all wrong. ( but I've mentioned this before , I have a friend who got invited last minute to attend Jan 6th .. he says what is portrayed in the media is far far .. miles far , from what he personally witnessed there . His videos back it up . )
fair point .. The right does it to ... if you go back 2 years . My point , the right might have learned something from the left , but the left has perfected the art of public intimidation . Whether you like it or not .
The right does this kind of thing far, far, far less so the WHATABOUTISM is pretty obnoxious, imo.
PS the CJ reported it was a 100 people, not 200 . At the governor's mansion. How does that stack up versus a summer of tens of thousands of whack job BLM fools burning cities / injuring 1000s ?
No. The person who leaked the home addresses of these Supreme Court Judges should be locked up, along with the person who leaked the Supreme Court documents to the press. What the left is willing to do to get their agenda across is despicable. They have no shame, and neither does the entire Democratic Party.
I'm shocked. I mean really, I thought Kavanaugh would live in a much larger house.
I agree with the OP. Sadly this is just going to turn into whataboutism now, like seemingly everything, but I think everyone agrees with the OP.
It’s something I can’t imagine ever doing no matter the issue. There are other ways to protest which I am all for. It should just strengthen the resolve of whoever is being protested. I imagine if they set foot on Clarence Thomas’ property he may have a surprise for them.
If you're not on private property, and ot creating a public nuisance, have at it.
That's part of what goes with willingly making yourself a public figure.
Not really sure what they're protesting. It was the correct decision IMO (and I'm pro-choice)
That's part of what goes with willingly making yourself a public figure.
Not really sure what they're protesting. It was the correct decision IMO (and I'm pro-choice)
No way. Whoever leaked it is an American hero. The Court can't just move this Country backwards like that with no public accountability. I believe in the end sanity will prevail and ultimately all of the protections provided by Roe v. Wade will stand one way or another all across the Country. Again, too many republicans willing to die on the hill for evangelist and other right wing lunatics. It's too bad, congress and in a couple of years, the White House will be ripe for the taking for the republicans. Yet, they just can't seperate themselves from this nonsense.
Not positive about that particular jurisdiction but most of not all have specific protection for participants of the judicial process, including judges, jurors, attorneys, litigants, and witnesses.
Every person there with intent to harass them regarding this or any decision should be in jail. Any person who located and distributed that information for that same intent, should all be in jail as well.
The court did the right thing. They're not outlawing abortion, they're just saying that it isn't a Federally guaranteed right. Which is the correct decision. I wish they'd start striking down a lot of OTHER Federally mandated nonsense. Keep the ball rolling, and take some of the power out of that open sewer in DC.
(pro-choice with the exception of late term)
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You might (and probably are) be right in this instance. I hadn't thought about that angle.
I don't care who does it MORE. The only relevance is THIS: If you're on the extreme, of either side, you should do the intelligent people of this country a big favor by shutting TFU, and staying home on election day.
Limited scope/single issue or emotional voting is a sure sign of low intelligence.
Limited scope/single issue or emotional voting is a sure sign of low intelligence.
Uh, this is the exact opposite of what the court did. Returning the question of abortion to the states to decide via either ballot initiative or representative government is exactly public accountability.
This guy lol. None of this is a game to get invisible online political points. I'm sure everyone agrees with the idea of your post, but then you had to go Political Thread at the end just to get a shot in as if "your side" is morally superior. Then you add "sadly" as if you're typing with a sad expression of hopelessness on your face then typing "OK" in all caps to really try and drive your cheap shot home.
Well said. Adults, I mean, actual adults act like spoiled children now. When they don't get their way politically they act out publicly. Same with youth sports, officials who aren't elected, volunteers who are counting ballots at 10 pm instead of being with their families, etc. On KSR they always reference Ryan getting into it with a guy in a Rooster's parking lot and slamming his fist on the guy's car hood. A Louisville radio host allegedly pushed his gf's head into the side of his vehicle in a parking lot in March. Drunken adult fighting at sporting events, people screaming into the faces of politicians, parents getting kicked out of and banned from youth events. On That 70's Show, Red always called Eric a jackass. The adults/parents have become the jackasses now.
It's legal to protest in public. It's illegal on private property. So as long as they stay on the sidewalk, or public right of way it's legal. As soon as they enter private property they should be arrested.
No, you effing idiot. if you protest at someone’s house, you should go to jail.
Love how both sides, do it, both sides are wrong and both sides defend it by saying “well the other side does it far more”
Houston, we have found the problem…
Houston, we have found the problem…
I agree in principle. There might be laws against this particular behavior, though.
IF the protestors are standing outside on a public street, I have no issues with it.
However, if the protestors step foot on private property, they are trespassing and become fair game for prosecution.
However, if the protestors step foot on private property, they are trespassing and become fair game for prosecution.
False. Every bit of it. You should know better. Your right to protest does not supersede my right to use the sidewalk, or the street. A permit makes it legalk.
What about the neighbors of Kavanaugh? Does the mob have a right to disrupt their lives as well, just because they happen to live nearby?
Of course, there is no room for nuance in American public life anymore. What about a public officials family and children? They didn't run for office, they didn't get appointed to the Supreme Court. How about protesting where the public officials work and leave their families and neighborhoods out of it?
At this point, knowing that you were lied to about Covid, lockdowns, “vaccines”; knowing that the ENTIRE Russia collusion thing was a hoax; that the FBI staged a kidnapping plot….
I can’t believe any thinking person believes January 6th wasn’t staged. It boggles the mind.
And this is in advance of the soon to be conspiracy-theory-turned-truth concerning obvious organized vote fraud in 2020 in 5 key states.
Just stop with the January 6th ****. FCS.
No I do not unless their house is kind of a public space. Like protesting at the White House is fine or protesting outside a high rise where someone lives is ok too.
It's absolutely insufferable. The worst is that the side that dominates here thinks they got it going on because they pat each other on the back so much. Both sides spend time in spaces like this drinking the Kool Aid of their own people.
It’s ridiculous. Sadly a lot of the kids are acting hay way too because they’ve learned it’s ok.
Shakespeare had it right nearly 400 years ago.
"We're oft to blame and this is just too much proved that with devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the Devil himself"
We’ve become so “accepting” and obsessed with “anything goes” that now this stuff has become normal. And it’s just not acceptable. Period.
The problem is bullies to often cry victim. Instead of owning up to their bad behavior they dramatically make an appeal to the populace. Sadly, too many in decision making positions listen to them.
No one wants to be yelled at while eating their dinner p, not thinking about their job. No one wants crap hurled at their home while they’re trying to forget the crappy day they had at their job or event.
I used to get up everyday thinking, “No one wants to be an ******* by default”. I sadly don’t believe that anymore. I think there are sadly people that wake up with the priority of being a complete tool.
We’re all better than this. We’ve just chosen to give in to the extremes.
I'm not giving you my opinion. I'm telling you the actual law.
And did you really just say that people can't protest on a sidewalk, because you might want to walk on it? Why would your right to use public property supersede their right? The exact thing you accused them of.