It’s getting on inauguration time for Donald Trump and that means one thing: the liberal loons are taking to the streets in massive numbers.
And while their messages may be different – women marching on Washington, D.C., want equal pay, for instance, compared to illegals storming spots west, demanding open borders – they all share at least one underlying theme: the right to assemble and speak their minds.
Apparently, speaking minds in leftist lingo also means carrying bombs, staging violent uprisings and plotting property damages.
As the Gateway Pundit reported: “Project Veritas has dropped another undercover video bombshell. This time they are exposing the radical leftist group, D.C. Anti-Fascist Coalition. They were planning a potential terrorist act which included setting off butyric acid stink bombs and fire alarm sprinklers at a Trump inaugural party.”
Meanwhile, #DisruptJ20 is calling “all people of good conscience to join in disrupting the ceremonies” by whatever means necessary, with the ultimate goal of stopping the parade. The anarchists also demand businesses in Washington, D.C., declare their allegiances.
“D.C. will not be hospitable to the Trump administration,” the group writes on its website. “Every corporation must openly declare whether they side with him or with the people who will suffer at his hands.”
Why? Is that so protesters can notify which businesses to loot, and which to leave alone?
But it’s all about First Amendment rights, right?
Isn’t it strange that when necessary – that is, when a Republican is about to assume a position of high power — Democrats, progressives, socialists, anarchists, communists and all manners of things left-of-left can become immediate experts at the Constitution. That once-shabby document they generally mock Republicans for quoting and rip tea party types for waving can instantaneously, during emergency, become a left-leaner’s best friend. As such, in the lead-up to Inauguration Day, it’s not at all uncommon to hear the shrill screams on broadcast news of some outraged liberal mouth or another who’s reciting, impressively verbatim, the First Amendment, and rushing in rapid-fire fashion to extol the brilliance and hard-fought determination of the Founding Fathers to protect these all-crucial rights to protest.
“It’s my right, it’s my right,” they breathlessly explain, their eyes glazed in newfound reverence for their latest tool of battle.
Seriously, if you ever want to find a Democrat who loves the Constitution as written, put a Republican in the White House. Ever hear the saying grasping at straws?
But don’t be fooled. This is how leftists think: The Constitution means nothing, until they can use it for something. And currently, they’re finding the First Amendment a real help in furthering their destructive means for Trump’s inauguration and likely, presidency.
That’s such a skewed interpretation. Founders wanted to make clear the Constitution upheld the very basic natural right to protest political grievances and peaceably assemble, yes. But there’s a boundary. What is it? Well, here’s one standard that could be used as a sort of guidepost in determining when an intent to assemble and protest crosses the line of First Amendment right and heads smack into “go home” land: If bombs of any kind are involved, then it’s probably not what Founding Fathers had in mind.
1. Stink bombs are not bombs. You do know the difference, don’t you?
2. It turns out the group made all this stuff up to flush out the Veritas mole in their group: https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/01/16/dc-antifascist-coalition-okeefe-stink-bomb/
Whoopsie on you!