The right of the people to gather and petition the government for a redress of their grievances is one of the rights endowed in the First Amendment.
But that does not mean that you have to listen to Hanoi Jane - who probably is more harmful to the anti-war crowd than she is helpful.
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Most of the people in the anti-war crowd do their cause more harm than good. Have you ever been to a protest? I went to a couple in D.C. during the Gulf War, in '91. I saw several fights, lots of weed, and tons of morons.
The problem with the anti-War crowd is that they're still rehashing four year old events. I hate to tell them but, as Shakespeare said, what's done cannot be undone. The question now is how do we move forward? Intelligent people on the anti-War side recognize, I think, that you can't just pull out abruptly, not matter how much you think it was a mistake to go in in the first place. That's why these anti-War agitators look like idiots, young and old. The nostalgia crowd -- the Hanoi Janes -- ought to be especially ashamed of themselves, because they saw in living color what happens when the US abruptly disengages from a violent regional dispute.
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