VIOLENCE: NOT CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED SPEECH
- jgl358
- 14 hours ago
- 3 min read
This is NOT Constitutionally protected speech; there is a line.
"Soon also orchestrated the collection of military-grade riot gear, and personally delivered supplies to the protesters — coordinating pickups as many as three times a day outside public libraries and churches throughout the Garden State and recruiting volunteers to help, her social media posts show."
If you show up to what is supposed to be a Constitutionally protected protest for whatever reason, you do not show up with weapons of violence and warfare. If you do, then all who do and make violent moves against the police who are involved to ensure that peaceful protest should IMMEDIATELY be arrested, charged with insurrection and tried.
"According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, protest (as a noun) means, “a solemn declaration of opinion and usually dissent,” “the act of objecting or a gesture of disapproval, especially a usually organized public demonstration of disapproval,” “a complaint, objection, or display of unwillingness usually to an idea or a course of action,” and “an objection made to an official or a governing body of a sport."
Key Supreme Court precedents have shaped the understanding and application of the right to assemble and protest:
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969): Developed the "incitement test," establishing that speech can only be prohibited if it is directed at and likely to produce imminent lawless action.
Hess v. Indiana (1973): Reinforced the protection for provocative speech if it doesn't reach the threshold of incitement to imminent violence or illegal activity.
Healy v. James (1972): Affirmed student rights to assembly within educational institutions, emphasizing that concerns over potential disruptions are insufficient to suppress peaceful assembly.
Snyder v. Phelps (2011): Tackled the balance between free speech and emotional distress, holding that public speech on matters of public concern, even if deeply offensive, is entitled to "special protection" under the First Amendment.
"The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech…or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”."
The word "PEACEABLY" in the First Amendment has been allowed to be replaced with the word "VIOLENTLY". If you show up supplied and gear up to go to war then that is what you should expect if you choose to become violent. And then be arrested, possibly make a visit to a hospital, prosecuted and jailed and or severely fined.
There is a fine line between peaceful political speech and treasonous "speech" and action by people who intend by their own clearly stated rhetoric and words the destruction of the Constitution and the country. There is a line and why we the people have allowed the line to be so blurred to the point where these bad actors have become a clear and present danger to the country.
Politicians who find themselves in control of political power and the legal / political system who are Leftist aligned I.E. memebers of the Democrat party leadership in their desperation have become what the Founders feared the most, tyranny and the abuse of power by abandoning the intent of the Constitution.
Are You Paying Attention Yet America? JGL all rights reserved 6/6/26
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