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Old 10-27-2021, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Road-Runner View Post
That's what so many seem to miss today, once we've given up a right we'll almost never get it back. Free speech used to be one of those rights, but the side that used to promote it has now flipped to the side who no longer tolerates it. Up is down, and Left is Right...
But Ed wasn't "doing" anything. He wasn't being violent, he didn't threaten to harm anyone. He was exercising HIS right to free speech. Loudly. Obnoxiously. But that's all it was. He didn't try to peek in the woman's house, he didn't even get out of his golf cart. He didn't trespass on her property, he didn't use a bullhorn to disturb the peace in the middle of the night. He just parked on the street in his golf cart-of-signs. The judge awarded the woman a restraining order against him - for exercising HIS right to free speech.