You don't need to stand in the middle of a highway to "Get noticed". All that does is makes people pissed off at you for being a jackass. They don't give a **** about your cause at that point.
If you want to protest, keep it legal and stay off property that common sense would dictate you don't be on. Also, don't destroy anything.
That said, I am sure this bill is BS and not well thought out.
" The guilt of an unnecessary war is terrible." --- President John Adams
" America goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy." --- President John Quincy Adams
" Our Federal Union! It must be preserved!" --- President Andrew Jackson
I think if we start seeing more of these type of protests I think you'll start to see more and more people rise up for laws against it, first it was BLM then some anti trump protesters (years and years ago I think it was some oil protesters in the 80 or 90's), next someone protesting some movie they don't like and someone will get killed over it (blocked emergency services, some half asleep truck driver plowing into the cars) and I think you'll then see the up-cry from both sides trying to put a stop to it.
And your entire argument rests on the assumption that being stuck in traffic due to someone else equals violence. Which is a retarded position to begin with.
Because, believe it or not, it matters in the eyes of the law. Hence why there's a distinction between 'murder' and 'manslaughter'.
However, considering how willing you guys seem to cut away other's rights, I assume you don't really care about the law.
ya someone tried that argument earlier in the thread, so what about some 80 old person with a heart issue, they are suppose to just walk off, or a lady I used to work with, she's retired but had no legs below the knee, she's suppose to walk off..... (I guess she can hobble with her walker but it's take a year for her to get anywhere)
yes supporting my right to free travel cuts away others rights to hold me hostage.
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again i will ask would you support the KKKs right to intentional block access to polling station in a predominantly black area by protesting if the residents could still go vote an hours drive away?
can you imagine how many here more would be supporting stopping these blockers, if it was a bunch of KKK member in the news blocking access to black Church or if some religious nuts were blocking all traffic to a planned parent hood place (granted I'm sure Belize would tell the pregnant girl to just walk a few miles to it, it's no biggie)
Stopping someone from voting is, again, unconstitutional. Which is why I'm also against things like voter ID laws.
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It's absolutely relevant when their entire argument is based on the principle that causing traffic is somehow committing an act of violence against them.