Oh, I disagree. He and his cohorts disagreed about the would-be protestors' constitutional right to congregate and express protected free speech.
Had he/they personally known the targets in advance, your argument might have worked; one could then invoke an existing personal relationship between target and nutjob to avoid the general "terrorist" umbrella.
(I do agree that protesting at a funeral is poor in taste, but it is protected.)
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Date: 2007-05-23 05:36 pm (UTC)Oh, I disagree. He and his cohorts disagreed about the would-be protestors' constitutional right to congregate and express protected free speech.
Had he/they personally known the targets in advance, your argument might have worked; one could then invoke an existing personal relationship between target and nutjob to avoid the general "terrorist" umbrella.
(I do agree that protesting at a funeral is poor in taste, but it is protected.)