06-29-2020, 03:07 PM
(06-29-2020, 02:55 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Eh, that gets sticky, though. Say you live across the street from a government building. Now you have a federal law prohibiting protesting at that government building. If you carve an exception into it, then you have unequal treatment under the law.
In such an instance you are not protesting the person in their residence, they just happen to be across the street from a protest. Being the target of the protest is the issue, not the presence of a protest. My main issue with protesting outside someone's home is that you're essentially terrorizing them in their personal residence. You're also effectively imprisoning them in their residence. It's the same issue I have with burglary and why I despise how it is treated as a less than severe felony, you're destroying the person's feeling of safety in their home. I'll take freedom over safety every day, but inside your personal residence everyone should be able to feel safe. Also, let's be honest, protesting outside someone's home has only one goal, to make that person feel afraid.
