Last night, someone painted "Tastes Like Hate" along the front side of the Chik-Fil-A restaurant south of Carson street on Hawthorne Blvd. in Torrance.
The criminality which some activists engage in is enough to make people revisit the role of the state not just in protecting our rights, but also in punishing those who in claiming to exercise their rights, feel compelled to trample on the rights of others.
"People have the right to protest" read one post in a local media website.
The nasty message painted on the "Chik-Fil-A" front was vandalism, nothing more.
"Vandalism" is not protest, but a perversion of the First Amendment. Essential to every right is the respect due to others to exercise their rights, including safety in their persons and effects.
The outrage over one man's opinion is outrageous. There is a growing backlash in this country -- evident in the large lines that patronized Chik-Fil-A, against the growing grievance agendas, in which partisan partisans have felt justified walking over the rights of others to "protect" their own rights.
"Peaceably assemble" was not an after-thought but an essential element to the First Amendment.
When protest turns into unrest, then it is time to arrest those restless, restive protesters.
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