Yes you have your right to protest, but you do not have the right to destroy, vandalize or impede others/commerce. In other words, you can protest but don’t block roads, if you see someone in your protest party doing something illegal or just wrong stop their dumbass before it gets out of control because you too shall be arrested and sued by the victim of ones stupidity. Oh and you can only protest every other Saturday between 1:15p – 1:43p and 6:45p-7:18p at “X” park and no taco trucks allowed! – PB/TK
New protest bills: Stamping out ‘economic terrorism’ or chilling free expression? – Patrik Jonsson March 16 2017
Atlanta—After watching protests erupt around the country against police shootings, tougher immigration laws, and the Trump administration, Arizona state Sen. John Kavanagh reportedly came to a conclusion: “This stuff is all planned” by “ideologues” and “anarchists,” he told the Arizona Capitol Times.
In response, Senator Kavanagh sponsored a bill patterned on the kind of racketeering laws usually reserved for the Mafia: Anyone involved in a protest could be guilty of a felony if things get out of control, “whether or not such person knows [the] identity” of the person actually breaking a law.
Senate Republicans in Arizona voted in favor of Kavanagh’s proposal, joining conservative lawmakers in some 18 states in moving forward tough new bills intended to curb what they see as lawlessness during a new age of demonstrations and street mobilization.
For their part, opponents of those bills don’t see efforts to keep the peace – they see police state tactics. Civil rights activists say such bills violate the First Amendment and have more to do with chilling free expression than law and order, given that several of the proposals could open up peaceful protesters to serious criminal liability.
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we are seeing [antiprotest bills] filed at a time when more and more Americans are taking to the streets to practice their constitutional right,” says Mike Meno, an American Civil Liberties Union staffer in Raleigh, N.C.
Continue to csmonitor.com article: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2017/0316/New-protest-bills-Stamping-out-economic-terrorism-or-chilling-free-expression
