Is the glass half-full on yesterday’s abortion clinic decision? Carl Gibson, co-founder of US Uncut, thinks so. He helped organize thousands to protest corporate tax dodging and budget cuts in the months leading up to Occupy Wall Street:
In the summer of 2013, I was arrested over and over again. My crime? Singing songs from the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda during lunch hour. I was one of dozens of protesters who came out for the Solidarity Sing Along, a daily gathering of anti-Walker organizers. Over the course of three months, there were 200 arrests and hundreds more citations issued.
Today, the Supreme Court made these kind of anti-protest maneuvers a lot harder. And even though I’m a liberal, I support their ruling.
The Court’s decision to abolish protest “buffer zones” at abortion clinics will undoubtedly traumatize women (some just 15 or 16 years old) exercising their protected right to control their own bodies. It’s a high cost, but an essential ruling.
With its decision, the Supreme Court potentially opened the floodgates for abolishing all protest buffer zones, even those that protect politicians and the court. It’s my hope that this precedent will have a profound impact on all forms of protest crackdown, paving the way for more effective and free citizen actions in the future.
There’s no maybe about it. Gibson is 100% correct. Liberals often outsmart themselves and end up in a worse place then when they started. Take the use of violence for example. In the end those who use violence to further their cause more often then not become the objects of scorn. You can’t bite the opposing player. Safe Zones or Free Speech Zones limit the right of the people to peacefully assemble. That’s a First Amendment right. Free speech is also a First Amendment right.
Why does the Supreme Court building have a buffer zone?
Is SCOTUS above the constitution?
The writer seems to think SCOTUS is inviting a challenge on that point.
I don;t think it will be difficult for the casuistry of this court to carve out exceptions for every form of authoritarian privilege. Hypocrisy is a retired concept among our betters, and after all it’s only silly wymmins who are protected by abortion clinic free speech zones.
Caesar let the plebes call out to him from the crowd for redress of grievances, Caligula and Nero and Domitian did not.