Defecating on the street is pretty damn disgusting, but that doesn't preclude them from the right to protest whenever and wherever they choose. putting down a resistance does not warm my heart. I may disagree with them, but they the right to do it.
Actually it does preclude them from protesting whenever and wherever they choose.
Freedom of speech is heavily protected but not absolute.
I do not have the right to protest on your front lawn. I do not have the right to trespass at your business simply because I have a grievance.
By the same logic, the people have enacted laws regarding how public property may be used and many of these protesters have infringed upon the rest of the public's rights by misusing this public property.
If the republic wishes to allow anyone to protest in any manner they so choose, they will change the laws of the republic.
Michael Brown