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| Hey guys, I wanted to discuss this earlier when it was up and coming rather than afterward, but I have free time at the moment, so here it is, late.
Denver was the site for the Democrat National Convention, as you guys are probably aware. There were a few mega left-winged groups talking about protesting the DNC heavily. Why the Dems and not the Repubs? Because they said the knew the Repubs wouldn't listen, but were hoping to reach the Dems.
Anyways, there is a national law (don't know the name/number. It was talked about on the local radio) where demonstrators, picketers, etc have to be allowed within sight and sound of the group they want to exercise their 1st amendment rights on.
The picketers at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota march within 84 feet of the front door. In Denver for the DNC, they could not get within several hundreds of yards away and had to be enclosed within a "freedom cage" as so tongue in cheek described by those who wanted to picket, protest, etc.
Photos taken directly from this site:
Surrounded by spotlights
these next photos taken from this site:
Anyways, so Colorado is usually a red-state, and when the guys from these left-winged groups went on the news, radio, etc to get support for their 1st amendment rights being "trampled" as they saw it, most of the average citizens looked at the groups complaining, like Recreate 68, and were mostly of the opinion that it was GOOD for these extreme lefters to shut up, be away, etc, etc.
A few people, like myself, thought the guys in these groups may have been full of jerks, losers, conspiracy theorists, marxists, or whatever, BUT... this is our 1st amendment rights and yeah, maybe they are being trampled. But nobody seemed to care because of the groups that were being affected.
To exercise your 1st amendment rights... does that mean you have to be in a cage surrounded by heavily armed cops, spotlights, guard-towers, etc if you want to exercise that 1st amendment right to protest? This right was so important to the founding fathers that it was the 1st one stated before all others. I'd imagine most of you heard and saw nothing about this on the news either. Why don't more people care?
Most of the people who debate here on 1BC are right-winged to varying degrees. Do you guys seem anything wrong with this as well? I think people should be outraged, but no body seems to care (or seemed to care, since this is now past tense).
LC, I thought the Dems were the self-proclaimed party of the people. What the? 
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