‘Is Operation Payback A Crime… Or Just The Modern Equivalent Of A Sit In?’
10th December 2010
Note the assumption in the headline that a sit-in is somehow not a crime — which it most definitely is.
For some reason we have become desensitized to levels of street violence that in the Good Old Days would have brought ‘a whiff of grapeshot’ response. The U.S. Constitution gives the right of assembly but specifies ‘peaceably’; once it stops being peaceable, it stops being a right.
Sometimes the old ways are best.