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What's a MUCH bigger issue here to me than any of the minutia, and what I was really driving at is the fact that:
2. These confrontations escalated because the BLM agents set up a specific area for 1st amendment "free speech" protestors. This was supposed to be where they were "allowed" to exercise their first 1st amendment right. Are you familiar with the 1st amendment Rok? It guarantees you the right to peaceably assemble. Does the fact the federal agents specified a specific area where you can protest and then engaged in confrontation with people who did not follow this ridiculous rule not scare you? It fucking should dude. This is the issue that the Nevada governor has focused on and it's the issue that scares me the most.
The right to peacefully protest is what won African Americans and women their civil liberties. Are you comfortable with the government telling you where you can exercise this right?
These are called time/place/manner restrictions. They are not unusual. Constitutional rights are not unlimited and courts have long recognized that the government possess the authority to regulate the time, place, and manner in which an individual exercises their right to free speech, as long as the restrictions imposed are not based upon the content of the speech.
