Protesting to a government official outside of a restaurant on a public sidewalk.

[MineralMan]

I wonder if the Constitution says anything about that being a right....Just let me go look...

Oh, look what I found in the very first amendment to the Constitution:

"Congress shall make no law...abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Seems like that's what they were doing...to me, at least.

I don't see anything in there about the right to enjoy dessert after your restaurant dinner...nope.

[elleng]

1. No right to coffee, either!

[MineralMan]

2. Nope. I don't see that in the Constitution, either.

Now, tea on the other hand...didn't the people have some sort of party about tea or something?

[elleng]

3. I think I heard something about that!

(and read something about it yesterday, too, 'boycotting' tea resulted in 'Americans' getting 'into' coffee!!!)

[Girard442]

4. Tsk. The principle is obvious.

Very Important Serious People have extensive rights regarding privacy and not being disturbed or annoyed.

Little people have none.

[gab13by13]

5. Made me read the Constitution again,

nothing about prohibiting peaceful protests for any reason, coffee or tea, or covfefe.

This reminded me about whiskey and another section of the Constitution that has to do with the real militias, not the domestic terrorists we have today who call their gangs militias. I'm from Pa. and the whiskey distillers refused to pay any taxes on their whiskey and so they rebelled. I think that's why they called it the Whiskey Rebellion. Well, being that the central government was a bit far from Pa. a group of people from various states were formed, by the central government, to put down the Whiskey rebellion. In other words, militias in the Constitution worked for the central government and were not a check on it.

[unblock]

6. if he wants government protection,

perhaps he should have thought about that before he left the uterus.

[Voltaire2]

7. The right of assembly is almost nonexistent.

[MineralMan]

8. Nonsense!

[Voltaire2]

10. Ignorance!

[Hekate]

9. Well spotted! SCOTUS itself agreed anti-choice protestors could go where they will...

Beyond that, the anti-choice crowd has pushed past all boundaries and indeed past all decency in their efforts to destroy their opponents’ rights to a peaceful life. Stalking the children of clinic workers and doctors surely is a crime in a sane world, and yet Randall Terry et al. did it for years.

Praying outside a clinic — well, okay. Shoving people who want to enter — not okay. Yet they continued. My former Mayor, Harriet Miller, long ago signed an ordinance requiring protestors to stay across the street from Planned Parenthood, and it was overturned by — you guessed it, the SCOTUS.

Protesting outside SCOTUS’ homes and places they visit should be A-OK — by their own written decisions.