So many of your letter-writers (Douglas Johnston, “Why are protesters allowed to break the law?” July 6, TribLIVE) seem to forget that protesting for the redress of grievances is enshrined in the Constitution. It is as sacred as the Second Amendment. In fact it is a First Amendment right, which might even make it more important than the Second. And thousands of people a year are not killed as people exercise it, as they are with the Second.
The Supreme Court has ruled at various times that protesters are protected in myriad circumstances. Protesters can gather and harass clients in front of Planned Parenthood facilities, for example. Members of that church from Kansas are even within their rights to loudly protest and disrupt funerals for fallen soldiers. Now, all of a sudden, we’re supposed to feel sorry for justices who I believe committed perjury to get approved by the Senate, and who are gleefully putting into place their own right-wing agenda. The snowflakes are getting a dose of the medicine they’ve administered to many others.
Six justices are set to take away all privacy rights from all Americans, and we cannot just sit back and let that happen. But what other recourse do we, the majority, have?
Mary Beth Walling
North Huntingdon