First Amendment

State legislators take steps to criminalize protests

State legislators take steps to criminalize protests

I am bothered by protesters who engage in criminal acts to get their message across -- and jeopardize the public safety. There are plenty of public sidewalks and common areas where people can protest during ordinary business hours and during the daytime without trashing the land, causing car crashes, burning and looting buildings.

I have no problem with ordinary rallies and protests. And if people want to camp in the back country or a developed campground, that's fine too -- they just need to follow the rules, get the necessary permits, and so forth. Just because you are protesting, doesn't mean your exempt from all the other ordinary rules.

Donโ€™t Shutdown Highways

Itโ€™s obvious that tougher federal criminal penalities are needed against those who would intentionally shut down an interstate highway, railroad, or airport. The fact is illegal blockades of high-speed roads, railroads, and airports are dangerous both to motorists and blockaders, not to mention first responders and those who drive truck for a living.

Nobody doesnโ€™t think people shouldnโ€™t be allowed to protest. There are many public places that are available for protests, without putting human life at risk. Those places may not be as dramatic or get the news coverage sought out by protesters, but they protect the public safety.

Iโ€™m all for people getting out and expressing their views. Like most people, I have a problem with some of our presidentโ€™s choices. But donโ€™t cause innocent moms and dads who are just trying to get home to their children to be held up unnecessarily, donโ€™t cause crashes, donโ€™t block truckers just trying to feed their families, and donโ€™t keep firefighters from getting to fires.

Itโ€™s just common decency.

Why I Support Displaying the Rebel Flag

I have never viewed the confederate flag about racism, but about rural freedom and rural rebels, who push back against the urban and industrial dominance of the big cities.

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We should celebrate the freedom of rural areas, were a spread-out population allows people to do things that would never be tolerated in more urban areas. In rural areas you can farm, make a lot of news, burn things, shoot guns, and otherwise have fun in woods and fields that would never been tolerated in urban areas. A low population means individual impacts are often diluted to de minimusย amount.

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Nobody can dispute that the south once had slavery. That’s history, something that was resolved by the Civil War. The south resisted the aggressive north which tried to push it’s urbanized ways upon them. But nowadays, the south has many rural people — some who are black and many who farm, hunt, and fish — pushingย back against the big money urban dominance of our nation.

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Cities are often held up as models of multiculturalism and diversity. However, many northern cities are highly segregated and racial tensions are held just under the cover, by de-facto housing segregation and aggressive policing of minority neighborhoods. Maybe we should ban hip-hop and rap music, and other symbols of urban life, and require city folk to listen to country music.

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The rebel flag celebrates rural freedom and pushes back against our country's urban dominance.