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You mean like forming a picket line? Like what oppressed workers did in the throws of the industrial revolution? Its peaceful protest...

• hugh3 16y ago
  Yes, in fact that should also be illegal, and in most jurisdictions it is. You're allowed to form a picket line, but you're not allowed to physically prevent people from crossing it. And that's the way it should be -- if I feel like going to Wal-Mart then the opinion of fifty (or fifty thousand) random people on whether I should be allowed to do so or not really doesn't enter into it.
  • thefool 16y ago
    Yes, but what is going on here is the situation of there being so many picketers that it takes you a while to get through the picket line. The picketers aren't touching you, but you do become aware of the fact that they are there. It seems like the epitome of peaceful protest.
    • anamax 16y ago
      > It seems like the epitome of peaceful protest. Surely you're not suggesting that all "peaceful protest" is acceptable, because it isn't. Peaceful merely means that you're not committing battery. That's not enough to make something acceptable, and attaching "protest" help. Your right to speak does not imply that I have an obligation to listen.