In her letter “Protesters are protected” (July 18, TribLIVE), Mary Beth Walling defends protesting outside the homes of Supreme Court justices as a justifiable right under the First Amendment. Despite the fact that the examples she gives are of protests that occurred in public places, my supposition is that, by her logic, their recent rulings make it open season to invade their neighborhoods and disrupt their family lives.
By mentioning the Second Amendment, she seems to exhibit a passing familiarity with the Bill of Rights, but she appears not to have read all the way down to the 10th, which assigns to the states powers not relegated to the federal government, which includes abortion, and is the essence of the ruling.
She somehow knows that these same justices are “gleefully” establishing “their own right-wing agenda” (Can’t you just see all those evil justices in the back room, high-fiving each other after another “gleeful” rights-stomping session?).
She finishes by claiming that they are “set to take away all privacy rights from all Americans.” She must have missed the fact that the Patriot Act began that process 20 years ago, continues today with big tech monitoring each keystroke, and now has school districts taking away your teenage daughter’s right to privacy in the bathroom via gender appropriation.
It is incredulous to me that these selective rights fighters don’t see that, as every pregnancy involves at least two living beings, they demand that only one of them has the “right” to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness available to every other citizen.
Bill McMaster
Delmont