There Can Be Tragic Consequences When Protesters Block Streets
I'm a strong advocate of free speech, and I'd like to wake up and find out that I went a little nuts in my sleep and found Donald Trump the Republican who won the election instead of, say, that nice, decent Mitt Romney.
However, there's free speech and there's speech that endangers others' lives and livelihoods, and that's highway- and street-blocking speech -- to the point where drivers can't get where they need to go.
Jeanette DeForge writes at MassLive:
"The protesters were in the process of being cleared from the highway, but not before they obstructed an ambulance carrying a critically ill patient. Due to this delay ambulance personnel were required to perform an emergency medical procedure in the ambulance instead of at the hospital," police said in a written statement.








You really need to let go of this Mitt Romney delusion. He lost last time in a big way. He wasn't even an option this time. Just let the lemon go.
Ben at February 6, 2017 5:55 AM
Silly Ben.
Amy isn't saying she truely wanted ol' Mitt. (Well maybe she does, I don't know.) She's just demonstrating she's not opposed to all Republicans, just reality TV show stars that happen to call themselves as such.
A lot of sensible people have been expressing that sentiment lately. We've all suddenly discovered that Republicans and Democrats weren't the real enemy after all... it was in fact the reality television watching plebeians. I have many Democrat, Libertarian, and Republican friends suddenly united by that common enemy.
Cheers!
Renee at February 6, 2017 6:08 AM
Wait, Mitt Romney? the racist, sexist, homophobe, xenophobe, cold war nazi? that Mitt Romney?
I R A Darth Aggie at February 6, 2017 6:17 AM
This is not an anomaly. This is the Left. It is who they are and what they do, and it always has been. The Left wants to burn down everything that they can't control, and who is President doesn't matter. Unless you are a Davos Man or an SJW, the Left does not have your best interest at heart.
Cousin Dave at February 6, 2017 6:29 AM
These people are lucky they never protest around me when I have an emergency.
I have the sympathy quotient of a sociopath, and would not lose a single night sleep if I had to plow thru a crowd of them during an emergency
lujlp at February 6, 2017 6:30 AM
Charge them with manslaughter and give them high bail.
You right to protest ends when you krep me grom going about my lawful business.
David H at February 6, 2017 8:49 AM
Gasp! You mean "arrest them"! For breaking the law!
Damn Nazis.
Bob in Texas at February 6, 2017 10:32 AM
I know Renee. I don't think she voted for him even when he was an option. Which is why I'm a bit tired of this complaint that someone who wasn't even an option didn't magically get elected.
Ben at February 6, 2017 10:40 AM
LAX.
Crid at February 6, 2017 11:12 AM
One of the things that takes place when something like this happens is that the Democrats, liberals and self-proclaimed members of the left wing will deny that the leader (who was arrested) had anything to do with their causes. This, even though they were cheering him on before the ambulance incident happened.
Fayd at February 6, 2017 11:31 AM
Norman Clement - how on earth can he be a "leader"? He looks more like a stoner to me!
But, that helps to explain the type of folks who would try to block traffic to protest. Taking on metal, gas-powered, 2-ton, vehicles that can run one over as flat as a bug sounds like the kind of thing stoners think they could/should do.
charles at February 6, 2017 5:42 PM
Renee at February 6, 2017 6:08 AM is spot-on.
A career spent screwing second-tier investors in New York real estate deals has in no way prepared this man to administer the executive branch of the United States government.
If this administration lasts long enough to see through the nomination of Gorsuch, we'll be sensationally lucky. Innumerable American voters, sincere ones, had greater hopes for this guy. I feel bad about that. But they shouldn't have put their faith in a TV huckster. Ron Popeil would have done as well.
And with better hair.
Crid at February 6, 2017 6:18 PM
"If this administration lasts long enough..."
Then what?
Who do you imagine would be "in charge"?
Radwaste at February 6, 2017 10:15 PM
That's the point, Raddy.
Crid at February 6, 2017 11:08 PM
I feel bad about that. But they shouldn't have put their faith in a TV huckster. Ron Popeil would have done as well.
And with better hair.
Crid at February 6, 2017 6:18 PM
And I would have voted for him too if he was running agaist Hillary.
Stop trying to turn the rejection of the worst presidenrial candidate in a hundred years backed by the ever more lawless and unethical Saudi financed Democratic party, into some kind of ringing endorsement of Trump as either a candidate or a person.
So far, with the appointments that I care about, I have been quite pleasantly surprised.
I am also quite happy with the mainstream media's new found respect for the Constitution and the rule of law, even if most of them couldn't even recognize the first amendment if it bit them in the ass.
Isab at February 6, 2017 11:08 PM
Muffin, I don't have to "turn" a goddamn thing.
This aspiring kleptocrat has, through both his (Leftoid) policy obliviousness and the administrative idiocy which has typified his career, severely diminished the capacity of future executives to serve in good faith. Don't complain to me that you had no choice because Hillary!... That's just Bush Derangement Syndrome in shitty new lipstick.
This ain't about me. This is about him and the baboons who thought he could be trusted with the swollen but delicate authority of his office.
Crid at February 7, 2017 4:19 AM
Crid,
I don't think he can be trusted with that expanded power, but I think that he was the only candidate that can be resisted when deploying that power. Hillary would've had the media covering for her the entire time, and any opposition would've been automatically "Sexist!" Plus she would've continued to use the Federal bureaucracy to punish her enemies (something I doubt they'll do for Trump) and denied us fundamental rights.
spqr2008 at February 7, 2017 6:26 AM
Fayd: they deny that the guy blocking the streets was their guy. This is why Mussolini had his Black Shirts, Hitler his brown shirts, and Mao his Red guard--plausible deniability. How you can tell what is really going on is that democrat leaders including Obama refuse to denounce rioters. They insist that burning cars and beating people is just free speech (oh of course only when they do it)
cc at February 7, 2017 10:36 AM
> he was the only candidate that
> can be resisted when deploying
> that power.
?
Crid at February 7, 2017 2:55 PM
Trump proved he was corrupt by accepting millions from the Russians to help them purchase a uranium mine back when he was Secretary of State.
New York Times
How could anyone vote for such a monster?!
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at February 7, 2017 3:05 PM
Well, for the record it was Canadian money...
...Which Hillary accepted to transfer own-fifth of the United State's uranium production to Russian control.
One fifth. Technically, that's 20 percent.
More than anything else, this is why the complaints of Russia 'hacking' our election seemed so silly.
First, because the people most inclined to squeal about Moscow's sinister intrusions never talked about this story.
Secondly, this plainly suggests that Vladimir Putin, a genuinely, authentically kleptocratic tyrant of the old school, was going to be perfectly happy with anyone elected to our White House last year.
...Except maybe Johnson or Fiorina.
Crid at February 7, 2017 8:34 PM
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