This is an understandable and human reaction to a horrible injustice.NVBear78 said:cbbass1 said:I don't think that anyone is saying that it's OK to harass.oski003 said:
Saying that it is okay to harass supreme court justices because nut jobs harass abortion clinics is an unfortunate extremist liberal view.
Peaceful protest is not harassment.
I really hate the idea of protestors at people's houses from the left or the right and of course violence against people or property by anyone is not right. Here was another example I saw today regarding the Supreme Court:
"The journalist for Rewire, Caroline Reilly, appeared to suggest more violence after a pro-life group's office was firebombed in Wisconsin over the weekend...
"More of this. May these people never know a moment of peace or safety until they rot in the ground," she wrote in a since-deleted Twitter post on Sunday."
It doesn't make it right, however, and it's counter-productive. The last thing that we need in all this is sympathy for the 5 un-American SCOTUS judges.
Anyone who engages in violence, assault, vandalism, or harassment, in the name of politics should be held accountable. When these acts go unprosecuted, 'small-d' democracy is damaged.
Such is the case here. In the decades since Roe v Wade was decided, Pro-Birth protesters have made a regular practice of harassing, intimidating, and assaulting pregnant women, with few of these cases ever being prosecuted. When these crimes are routinely prosecuted, they become rare.
Let's also not forget the acts of violence committed by police and right-wing domestic terrorists against peaceful BLM protesters. Strange that the response of law enforcement to demonstrations against the murder of innocent civilians by police was to assault the peaceful protesters.
Despite that, #BLM has not called for acts of violence, assault, vandalism, or harassment against law enforcement. They've shown admirable restraint, despite the lack of any real political support from Democrats.