There is no excuse in the United States – where our First Amendment guarantees ample means for the people to speak their minds and otherwise peacefully seek change – to resort to lawbreaking to try to bring about change.
But some seem to believe that breaking the law to “get their way” on a political matter is acceptable.
In Wisconsin, union members demonstrating against a sensible plan to limit government workers’ collective-bargaining “rights” clogged the Capitol for weeks, often staying overnight in violation of administrative rules at the building. A judge finally had to order their expulsion.
Then, after the Wisconsin Senate approved the limits on collective bargaining, protesters massed at the Capitol and tried to block lawmakers in the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature from entering their chamber to vote on the bill.
That’s government by mob force, not by rule of law!