And neither is the view of affected people camping out near the place where they see the issue (when the weather permis). I am stressing this as at #OWS protests we see the directly affected who can at this point weather the cold representing the other directly affected who in this weather or at this time cannot attend.
What we also see is the similarity in response (I quote): "in 1932, the parties were alarmed by this motley assemblage and its political rallies; the Secret Service infiltrated its ranks to root out radicals. But a good Communist was hard to find. The men were mostly middle-class, patriotic Americans. They kept their improvised hovels clean and maintained small gardens. Even so, good behavior by the Bonus Army did not prevent the U.S. Army’s hotheaded chief of staff, General Douglas MacArthur, from summoning an overwhelming force to evict it from Pennsylvania Avenue late that July. After assaulting the veterans and thousands of onlookers with tear gas, MacArthur’s troops crossed the bridge and burned down the encampment"
Sounds familiar? It should, and there are other more gruesome instances where the 1st amendment has been violated: think of Kent State University.
How come the United States of America has engraved the freedom to assemble into it's founding documents and has always be so willing to break that one part of the contract?
This is probably the one thing that has become under real scrutiny with the Occupy Wall Street protests.
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