>Try doing something that is actually effective - like staging a protest - and you'll be charged with "unlawful demonstrating". How is that freedom? The 600 or

>Try doing something that is actually effective - like staging a protest - and you'll be charged with "unlawful demonstrating". How is that freedom? The 600 or so people who were arrested did so on purpose as part of the protest. They went there with the goal of being arrested and they staged a sit-in of a Senate office building in order to accomplish that goal. There were tens of thousands of other protesters marching through the streets who weren't arrested, asked to leave, or even bothered. >There are plenty of countries around the world that have real free speech. I don't know of a country in the world were taking over the atrium of a government building and refusing to leave when the police order you to wouldn't get you arrested. What countries are you thinking of?