Does the First Amendment protect someone's "right" to speak to me in public? To get in my face?

[TheKentuckian]

40. I don't think the vulture capitalist is on Wall Street for a debate either but I think we should be

able to protest and speak our peace there and they are not forced to engage and can go on to their "work".

I'm sure the board of directors of Aetna and Cigna is spoiling for Political discourse but I strongly believe in being able to bring it to them.

Many had ZERO interest in Martin Luther King's message and less interest in engaging him, they were just trying to go about their business and be left alone, right?

Really believing in free speech is fucking hard, it requires of you to accept what is repellent, to suck up deep offense, to give up the bubble of the peace of your own thoughts, and in the extreme be as willing to protect the vile as you are the good.

It must be this way because it is neigh on to impossible to in an intellectually honest manner to protect the good in a way that limits the other.

That doesn't mean that saying fucked up shit has no consequences, that is a separate issue because what we are talking about here is government sanctions and protections.
This is why I argue it is an individual civic responsibility to nullify if you are on a hypothetical jury on a case were a grieving person fucks up or even kills a Westboro clown one of these days at a funeral. Now, if these people enter someone's personal space or obstruct them then there can be laws to react and the person accosted has latitude to defend themselves and nullification should be employed when we see a fucker going as close as they can and someone responds but I don't see how we navigate a logically consistent way to avoid this kind of situation and not fashion a noose for ourselves someday.

I don't see how you set limits on speech that cannot be exploited to silence what needs to be said.

I believe all of these protest zones and similar tactics, even really hate speech laws are unconstitutional and should and must be swept away, sometimes the motives and rationales are good and reasonable but then the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.