pan6467

First and foremost there is a huge difference between people saying something at a funeral while paying their respects and someone throwing crap on a hearse or casket as it goes by.

That said, if the law prevents people from peacefully demonstrating on public grounds and prohibiting speech, then yes, I am against it.

In this particular case, they ban the protesters to 500 feet.... but do not ban the speech or demonstration..... but it is a very slippery slope and sets a nasty precedence.

Regardless of how crass or IMHO wrong the demonstration or speech is, it is a person's right to say it. I served in the Navy to protect a person's right to say what he/she wants, regardless of how I feel about it.

I look at it this way, you prohibit people protesting at funerals because someone is offended by WORDS. Then you prohibit people at schools, on the radio, in books, on television, in newspapers the right to speak out, because someone maybe offended, then you have to prohibit people from speaking out at all public places because someone maybe offended, and eventually, you get to the point where when a kid says something, he heard his parents say in the privacy of their own home, the thought police, the political correctness police, the school, childrens services and the government as a whole is investigating what was said in the privacy of one's home.

Oh wait....... we already do all those things to some degree.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"