Disrupting a Church Service is Not ‘First Amendment’ Activity

 Minnesota Attorney General Keith X. Ellison, a notorious racist who had been accused of assault by two women, rallied to the defense of radical leftists who invaded a church and disrupted prayer services to protest ICE, claiming it was “First Amendment activity”.

First of all, let’s be clear, trespassing and disrupting anything is not “First Amendment activity”. Period.

First Amendment activity is the right to protest. It stops being First Amendment activity the moment any kind of crime, no matter how minor, is committed.

The Left has normalized what used to be called ‘civil disobedience’, which is protests involving illegal activity, and made it ubiquitous (but only for themselves, see J6) allowing them to do anything from trespassing to violent assaults and arson while calling it all “peaceful protests”.

The whole point of civil disobedience was to protest an illegal law. It was not to violate the law for the sake of disruption.

That’s the difference between refusing to move to the back of the bus or lunch counter sit-ins and the anti-war Vietnam era campus takeovers and ‘sit-ins’ which completely collapsed the notion of what civil disobedience was. By the current era, every leftist protest is ‘civil disobedience’. And it’s not an act of heroism because the perpetrators go completely unpunished.

Now attacking churches and synagogues in particular, as the Left and its Islamist allies have taken to doing, is a potential FACE Act violation. That’s the federal law that leads to anti-abortion protesters going to prison for 5 years for blocking an abortion clinic entrance. The Feds of course haven’t been enforcing that law for the anti-ICE or pro-Hamas or BLM rioters.

That may be about to change.

And what needs to change is this entire culture of leftist ‘peaceful riots’. Illegal protests are not First Amendment activity. They’re an attempt to threaten and intimidate others. And their perpetrators and backers need to get the full J6 treatment.

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