{"id":33,"date":"2006-04-02T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-02T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2006-10-27T08:02:51","modified_gmt":"2006-10-27T12:02:51","slug":"freedom-of-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this country, the right to peaceful protest is one of our core values.  However, the definition of &#8220;peaceful&#8221; may need some scrutiny, as evidenced by last Wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mexica-movement.org\/granmarcha.htm\">immigration<\/a> marches (hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/029446.php\">Instapundit<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Already in Tennessee, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060331\/NEWS0201\/603310412\/1010\/NEWS02\">reaction<\/a> to the wheelchair protest over TennCare policy has lawmakers ready to establish some rules of engagement: although protests are perfectly legal, blocking public streets and the entrances to\/exits from public buildings is not.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Charlotte Burks&#8217; comment got my attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There was staff here that had children in day cares and couldn&#8217;t go get them, and I saw a couple of them crying, and this should help that,&#8221; Sen. Charlotte Burks, D-Monterey, a co-sponsor of the bill, said before casting her &#8220;yes&#8221; vote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Regardless of how strongly you feel about an issue, keeping others from entering or leaving a place of public business is simply unacceptable.  Protest, wave signs, grill steaks at the door (making the occupants hungry), whatever&#8230; but be polite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this country, the right to peaceful protest is one of our core values. However, the definition of &#8220;peaceful&#8221; may need some scrutiny, as evidenced by last Wednesday&#8217;s immigration marches (hat tip: Instapundit). Already in Tennessee, reaction to the wheelchair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=33\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}