No, Union Leader Editorial Writer, It Is the Point. Entirely. - Granite Grok

No, Union Leader Editorial Writer, It Is the Point. Entirely.

NH Union Leader

Back on Jan 3 (it seems SO long ago!), the Union Leader has an editorial titled “Wrong place to protest: Sununu’s home should be off-base.” They were kvetching that ordinary citizens shouldn’t be protesting NH Gov Chris Sununu’s Emergency Orders at his home.

Related: The UL’s Mark Hayward Finally Publishes His Republican Hit-Piece

The entire editorial is below but here is my response to a few of their “salient” points of blunder.

“Crying freedom of speech and the right to assemble isn’t really the issue here.”

Wrong – you left out the part that really counts – what does the Constitution say about this? And that is rather plain:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

For the three clauses I bolded, it is obvious that these actions are protected – and it is completely silent on the time and the place of those actions by Absolute Defiance.

It doesn’t state that only during the day are these Rights valid. It doesn’t say that they are only applicable in the Public Square.

And remember, Union Leader, before the Constitution, a “peaceful protest” also included the day that then NH Governor Wentworth looked out his window and spied that cannon that was pointed at his door. It wasn’t primed and loaded. There was no crowd at the time – just a hunk of iron and wood. So, Writer of:

We have no sympathy for the loud and foul-mouthed individuals who feel they have the unqualified right to harass and disrupt the peace and privacy of public servants in their own homes.

Would you deny those of today the actions that started our insurrection that led to the formation of the United States? Too many today FORGET that the US was forged in war, was steeled in rebellion, and our freedom from the Crown was won by violence (again, giving lie to that stupid phrase that “Violence never settles anything” – it certainly does). Go ask the Shade of Wentworth – did it make a difference with him? History says it did.

But it did send a message. And without it, perhaps the Revolutionary War might have had a different ending. But it was peaceful. Rowdiness is not a signal to be “un-peaceful”. Carrying arms is not a sign of “un-peaceful.”

We have no sympathy for the loud and foul-mouthed individuals who feel they have the unqualified right to harass and disrupt the peace and privacy of public servants in their own homes. Recently, it has been Gov. Chris Sununu and his young family who have been targeted. But it could be any public official or, for that matter, any private citizen.

Now, take the Antifa/BLM rioters – the UL has little to say about those folks much at all (either that or their search engine really is crappy). They’ve assaulted people with REAL violence, there have been approximately 30 deaths at their hands. Billions of dollars of damage done all over the country. Yet the UL complains about a couple dozen people yelling and waving signs?

AntiBLM has gone after much private property – and some public as well (Federal buildings, police stations) – yet nary a boo out of the self-assured Brahmins of Boston wannabees. Case in point; let me take a second smack

Crying freedom of speech and the right to assemble isn’t really the issue here. The protesters would have a case if the government tried to shut them down in the public square. They would also have access to a much larger public audience there.

Oh, so that in order to protest, to claim and use their Constitutional Rights, one must first engage in actions writ large before descending to the small? That they must first engage to get a “LARGE” audience? Are you REALLY stating that protest can ONLY happen in public places?

Sorry, last time I knew, public roads are public places. Therefore, game on.

But that is not what this is about. This bunch wants to teach the governor a lesson for having the temerity to order public health directives, such as mask-wearing, with which they disagree.

Temerity? You’ve twisted words and intent – you couldn’t even have the courage to honestly state what they were / are protesting – a Unitary Governor that has taken on martial laws by way of a single law that was meant to be employed if the nation / State was militarily attacked. They are protesting, along with thousands of others, a move to being a Strong Man style of Government instead of the Constitutional one in which the NH Governorship is the weakest in the Union and the Legislature is supposed to make the Laws and not the Chief Executive.

Teach the Governor a lesson? You bet – he needs one. In fact, he has needed several for quite some time. An affable fellow, I’m sure, in private but not in this matter. After all, the Union Leader has not a single mention of Sununu’s favorite phrase this past year: Public Safety trumps EVERYTHING. So which other “Constitutionalist” has ever uttered those words – and meant it?

They want you to know that they are from the “Live Free or Die” state and they will scream their four-letter, monosyllabic epithets to prove it.

They must – because you certainly are proving you no longer understand the ethos behind it.

Must be nice to be the latter-day Royalists. Curry that favor on your knees.

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We have no sympathy for the loud and foul-mouthed individuals who feel they have the unqualified right to harass and disrupt the peace and privacy of public servants in their own homes. Recently, it has been Gov. Chris Sununu and his young family who have been targeted. But it could be any public official or, for that matter, any private citizen.

Crying freedom of speech and the right to assemble isn’t really the issue here. The protesters would have a case if the government tried to shut them down in the public square. They would also have access to a much larger public audience there. But that is not what this is about. This bunch wants to teach the governor a lesson for having the temerity to order public health directives, such as mask-wearing, with which they disagree.

They want you to know that they are from the “Live Free or Die” state and they will scream their four-letter, monosyllabic epithets to prove it.

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