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Sedition
Don't know you, your age or background, but you appear to be a product of the "Power to the People" group. The power does belong to the people but it is to be esercised through the ballot and not in the streets. We can debate and talk all we want, that is our right, but how long has it been since there was a real peaceful demonstration in this country. I remember them when Martin Luther King was around, but after his death, it has been chaos. Womens rights were gained throug peaceful demonstrations and persuassive actions on the part of women, not through physical force. Maybe you can differentiate between riots and "relentless Protest", but to me they have become synonomous. The killings in Tieneman Square were carried out by a Communist regime, which did not allow this freedom, but no government can tolerate total anarchy which is what occurs when throngs hit the streets with the mission to disrupt the daily exercise of other people's rights. that is not protest or free speech, that is Sedition. Where do you think the sports riots came from? they came from folks seeing it on television and reading about it in the papers. The Watts riots and the riots when the police were freed after the King beating. What did they accomplish except to give people the idea that they could get anything they wanted if they were willing to break the law and infringe on others rights. To attempt to draw comparisons between the actions of our founders and those "Rent-A-Protestors" of today is ludicrous and shows a total lack of understanding as to what this country is and what it was founded upon. When you go into the streets to protest something, don't take your weapons along and don't plan on confrontation with the police who are only doing their duty.
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