there are limits to "power to the people"

[acroyear]

Gallaudet's Loss - washingtonpost.com (editorial):

THE BOARD OF trustees at Gallaudet University certainly showed who was in charge when it voted to terminate Jane K. Fernandes's contract as president. Sadly, it wasn't the members of the board, who are supposed to serve the interests of the university. Nor, for that matter, were reason or right in evidence Sunday as the trustees ousted a woman they had recently judged to be the best person to lead the renowned school for the deaf. Instead, what triumphed was lawlessness and the principle that a university president should be chosen on the basis of popularity.

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breaking the law is not "exercising a first amendment right" unless the law itself violates that constitutional right.

no law violated by these people did so. the courts have continually upheld laws requiring permits.

if they want to assert that they were just "exercising their first amendment rights" THEN GET ARRESTED, SERVE THE TIME, AND FILE THE APPEAL ON THE BASIS OF THE RIGHT THAT THE LAW WAS EITHER WRONG OR APPLIED INCORRECTLY - deal within the system, not above it.

PERIOD.

If one minority group feels they can just discard the system, then the law and society might as well not exist.

this is not an episode of "I have immunity" survivor, this is LIFE under a constitutional republic.