All peaceful protests matter by Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

It is an American right to peacefully protest. All peaceful protests must be protected as a right of all American citizens.

Black Lives Matter peaceful protests matter, but equally so do Pro-Life peaceful protests matter, Second Amendment Gun Rights peaceful protests matter, Election Integrity peaceful protests matter, and all peaceful protests matter. Even peaceful protests that we might disagree with, and maybe especially those we don’t agree with; they are all guaranteed the right to peacefully congregate and stand in solidarity for their cause and peacefully communicate their views to make their case for their particular cause.

The law protects protests and those who are protesting, but the law does not protect those who break the law and turn to violence and vandalism, murder and mayhem. Those who hijack peaceful protests and turn them into acts of arson, looting, and rioting are not to be protected, and people must not be allowed to break the laws of the land. We will no longer be a land of law and order, but rather we will become a land of lawlessness and disorder.

Those who use violence do not anymore speak for the Election Integrity cause than do those who use violence speak for the Black Lives Matter cause, or for the Pro-Life cause, or for the Second Amendment Gun Rights cause.

In the United States satanists, socialists and supremacists (those groups are purposefully written with a lower case letter, not to give them the honor of capitalizing their despicable and deplorable names) have the right to peacefully protest.

Look how the peaceful protests in Hong Kong are being crushed by the Chinese Communist government. That is not democracy in action that is tyranny in action.

Law enforcement means just that, officials who have been given the power by the people to enforce the law. However, it is prudent power that they must exercise of enforcing the law by serving and protecting, and not absolute power to disregard the rights of citizens. But when protests turn from being peaceful into being violent then law enforcement must act to keep the peace and protect people and property.

Marian Casillas, Ed.D.

 

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