> If I stood out front of your house and silently prayed for your family as they came and went, you’d eventually call the cops too. Especially if I brought my 2

> If I stood out front of your house and silently prayed for your family as they came and went, you’d eventually call the cops too. Especially if I brought my 20 mates and we stayed all night. It’s not cut-and-dry https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1144/protests-in-neighborhoods https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1144/protests-in-ne... It’s an tension between free speech and privacy. > Protest should be utilised to bring attention to issues, and change the opinion of the majority, to enact change. That’s the goal. In a free society, however, no one group owns the definition of an issue; and being near a protest is also intimidating whether or not that is the protestors’ intent. That alone doesn’t justify restricting protests.