@Setanta,
Quote:People certainly have a right to be heard
There is where you are 100% WRONG.
NOBODY has the "right to be heard".
Everybody has a right to freedom of speech, but nobody has to listen.
If the "right to be heard" truly existed, then you and every other liberal/dem would have to listen to people like Rush, Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and every other conservative commentator and pundit out there.
If the "right to be heard" existed, then you would have to stand and listen to every street corner preacher and every street corner doomsayer out there.
You dont have to, because the "right to be heard" does not exist.
Quote:Their very obvious purpose is to prevent others from being heard. And i consider that to be evidence that they have not peaceably assembled.
I dont remember you saying this when the left disrupted many repubs when they tried to speak at college campuses during the Bush admin.
Why didnt you speak up then?
But, since your entire premise about a "right to be heard" is flawed, then anything you say in support of that "right" is flawed.