If I'm in the public street blocking your driveway, no problem, right?  It's free speech in a public space.  You can't go to work, can't earn a living, can't go get groceries, can't visit friends or family.  I'm just protesting on public property.  I'm doing great things here.  Changing the world, one driveway at a time.  And if you try to push me out of the way then you are the one being violent.

 

Now consider that shutting down the Interstate is like blocking the driveway of 40,000 motorists.  Consider that fire trucks and ambulances cannot get through.  How many millions in lost wages?  How many school children stranded?  How many people will die? 

 

Note that the few motorists that did ram through the Interstate protests, strewing bodies left and right, were not even ticketed by police.   

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