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The First Amendment Doesn't Guarantee Your Right to an Audience · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Tuesday morning,
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fourteenth day of November. I'm West Thanks for starting your day with me,
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or whatever time of day you listen. We call it a morning show,
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but you can listen anytime. It's just whenever you want to listen. It's
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up to you, and I do thank you for listening. Quick reminder.
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I'm gonna be talking about it more and more as we get closer and closer
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to the day and we're a little over a month away from all the goodness
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beginning. But just a quick reminder that as we get a little bit closer
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to the Nutcracker happening at the Columbus River Center, don't purchase your tickets from
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some third party outlet. You don't need to do that. They're gonna mark
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them up and you're gonna pay more than what you should pay for them.
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Get them through the Rivers Center box office. You can go to the Columbus
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Ballet dot org, or you can go to the River Center website or the
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box office for the River Center and get your tickets directly. The Columbus ballet
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dot org is where you can get your tickets for the very special Mother Ginger
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tea event hosted by Mother Ginger. I know her well. She will be
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there hosting the event, welcoming everybody and walking them through some fun activities.
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It's going to be a good time. As I'm told by my good friend
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Mother Ginger. This is interesting. This is a different dynamic to this because
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this is my fifth year in the role of Mother Ginger in the ballet.
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When I signed up, initially, they were looking for someone six years ago.
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I don't know if someone flaked on them. I don't know exactly what
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the circumstance was, but they were looking for someone, and I thought,
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oh my gosh, if they need a Mother Ginger, I'll I'll step up
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if they need somebody to do this, really not fully knowing what I'd be
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getting myself into, to be honest, but I reached out and they said,
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you know what, we we've worked it out for this year after you
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know, having a vacancy that happened, or someone dropped out, whatever it
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was. I said, but if you will, we'll invite you next year.
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We'll reach back if you're interested, And I said, sure, So
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they did, and I said yes, And I've been doing it ever since,
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and I'm I'm in for the long haul. As long as I'm capable
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of putting on stilts and walking around, I'm in. And I hope that's
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for a nice long time. But this is year number five. You set
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a series of goals and things like this, and you know, I had
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small goals in the beginning, and they've turned into bigger goals where it's you
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know, I want to do more. We're doing something this year in the
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show that I've never done before. We still haven't fully rehearsed it yet.
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We rehearsed it with some of the participants, but not all of the participants.
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I'm excited about sort of up in the game. It is a little
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bit there is some daredevil to it. I'm going to tell you right now,
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me on stilts doing some things I have not done before. But I'm
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excited. I like the idea. A high risk, high reward, baby,
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That's what I say. So this is the first time, now that
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we're doing this tea party, that I will actually have to speak as the
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character of Mother Ginger. I love the idea. I've been pushing them to
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do this tea thing for a couple of years and this has finally come together.
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So and I'm excited about the opportunity to do it. But speaking as
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Mother Ginger, giving her a voice for the first time, because the ballet
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there's not really a speaking role. Now, I say that some ballets will
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have a narrator. I've done that before actually, for the Columbus Ballet.
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The first year I did it, I was the narrator for the show for
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one of the shows. They do a show that has a ballet or has
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a narrator, at least they did then. So this is different for me.
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I haven't had to be in full character. I like the character.
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I like the opportunity to play the character. And yes, typically Mother Gingers
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are played by men. It's stilt, it's a big dress. There's kids
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under the dress. Sorry, it's supposed to be a surprise, I guess.
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But yeah, I'm really excited about the opportunity to do this tea party
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event. I'm I've got a few you know, I've been working on this
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voice. Someone told me the other day, I think you should not have
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a voice at all. You should be like a Disney character. And I'm
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like, no, but I'm the host of the tea party anyway, so
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I feel like when I'm in character, I should deny that I am,
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you know, me like this alter ego. I can talk about playing Mother
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Ginger in the show, but I think Mother Ginger should make no reference to
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me, right, Isn't that kind of the way it works? You know,
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mascots don't typically talk or you know whatever, but if they do,
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they don't reference that it's a person in there anyway. So looking forward to
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it that that event will take place on Saturday, December the sixteenth, Yep,
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that's the that's a week before Festivus Man and then the second show,
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so we'll have a show that evening. Sorry, on the on the sixteenth,
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the Mother Ginger tea event will be lunchtime, there'll be a show in
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the evening, and then the next day, on the seventeenth, which will
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be a week before Christmas Eve, that'll be the matinee show. So we'll
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have a school show that we do on Friday, and then the Basically I've
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got two shows Saturday. They're different because the tea event will be a show
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in itself. I have that performance to do, so I'm excited about it.
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But anyway, so if I make any references to, you know,
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mother Ginger being a separate person, sometimes it's fun to just do it that
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way. All right. I want to talk about protests because I did a
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show last week where I was talking about how I feel like now that we've
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conditioned protesters to think that they can just do whatever they want to do,
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we're getting back into that season of protesting again. We're less than a year
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now to election day next year. We have protests that are taking place in
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happening over what's going on in Gaza and in Israel. I feel like,
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obviously people I didn't see a lot of people protesting or standing out in the
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street and blocking traffic over what happened to Israel. I think that was so
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horrific when it happened. And now you've got people denying that it even happened,
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and all these sorts of things. This sounds kind of familiar, isn't
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it. But then we've got now protesters that are because of what's happening in
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God they say it's an overreaction, they say that Israel's going too far.
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They're trying to get to hostages back. There's a whole long list of things
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going on. One of the things that makes this more complicated is I know
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people who are Palestinian that are for a Palestinian compromise but not Prohamas, And
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there are a lot of people that are protesting that don't understand the difference.
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They don't understand that when terrorists do terrorist things, it makes it very difficult
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for people to just go find them. You know, this is obviously putting
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in on a much milder scale, but think about it like a classroom.
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If you've got one kid in the classroom that is acting out and you know
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that's the kid that acts out a lot, and the other kids point at
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the kid who's acting out, it's easy to find the kid that's acting out.
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When you get seven or eight kids in the room that are acting out,
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you don't know which one did it. You have no clue, and
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maybe it could be any combination of them. If they're hiding surrounded by the
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other kids who don't act out, it's hard to pinpoint which one that it
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is. So now put this on a scale with terrorists when they hide underneath
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the hospital and dare you to attack the hospital, and if you know they
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set off some sort of a bomb or mortar outside the hospital by accident,
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and then they blame you for doing it. And then suddenly you've got this
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scenario where there's a lot of misinformation, there's a lot of questioning of information
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anyway. So we've got these protests going on. We've got one apparently coming
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to the Columbus area this week. We'll talk more about that, I think
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later in the week, but we've got you know, we're getting back into
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protest season, is what I'm getting at, and protests are starting to rise
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up. We're going to get more of this, and protests when they're done
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peacefully, genuinely, peacefully, it's great. It's exercising the First Amendment.
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It's doing the things that our founders wanted you to have the opportunity to do.
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They wanted you to have the opportunity to stand up for yourself. It's
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an interesting dynamic when we have American citizens that are protesting on behalf of someone
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in another country. That's sort of a different dynamic to it. But you
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know, again, should be able to do it, I shouldn't be able
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to do it in a way that disrupts the flow of life for other people.
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This has been an issue that I've had for quite some time. Peaceful
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protesting is great. Terroristic protesting is a crime. It should be a crime,
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any sort of crime that's taking. But now I was trying to see
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if it is specifically less. I'm looking at some information about this incident that
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happened in Seattle over the weekend. There were people that were protesting and they
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were blocking traffic and people were stuck, they couldn't move, they couldn't go
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anywhere, and the Seattle police officer were just basically saying, it is what
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it is, and basically said as people were asking questions, I guess there's
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a person on some sort of a journalist or something on X the Choe Show,
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Chowy Show. In the video, basically the police are saying, well,
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the purpose of protesting sometimes is making others' lives a little bit uncomfortable.
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No, no, that's not the purpose of protesting. You are there on
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behalf of the executive branch of government. Your job is not to interpret the
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law. Your job is to carry out the law. That's what you're there
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for. And people were asking, we need help, we want to get
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home, we're stuck, and the officer just said Hey, the purpose of
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protesting is kind of bring awareness to what they're protesting by making everyone's life a
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little bit uncomfortable. That's the full quote. No, no, it's not.
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It's to raise awareness. And quite frankly, many people that protest,
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their message never gets heard because they're doing it the way that it's supposed to
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be done. Okay, does that make sense. You're on the side of
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the road, you're out of traffic, people drive by. You can't force
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people to hear your message. There's nothing in protesting. There's nothing in the
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Second Amendment, I'm sorry, the First Amendment. There's nothing in the First
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Amendment that says it protects your right to protest, and it protects your right
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to express yourself right freedom of speech. You don't have a right to people
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hearing the message. That's different. The right to hear the message would be
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amazing, wouldn't it. If you have a right to force feed people your
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message. That's happened in our history, it certainly has not some of our
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better days. But you don't have a right to hear have your message heard.
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You don't. There's no obligation to it. We're not going to force
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people to sit there and listen to a message that we don't agree with.
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We're not going to be forced to sit there and listen to a message we
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do agree with. That's not the purpose of the First Amendment. You have
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a right to try to get your message out, you don't have a right
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to get the message heard. And these are people that are forcing the message
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to be heard. And here we have police officers in Seattle, of course
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it's in Seattle, right, that are just going along with it, not
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asking the people to move, letting them block traffic. See the whole idea
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behind all of this, behind this country, to begin with, the whole
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idea of you have rights to do all of these things that are guaranteed in
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our constitution, but you don't have a right to hurt someone else. You
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don't really have a right to inconvenience someone else. But now think about it
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like this, say, well, what are they They're not stealing anything?
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Yeah, they are stealing time. Is there anything that we have that's more
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valuable in time? Have we learned nothing since COVID that time is important?
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We wasted many of us were put in a situation where we wasted valuable time.
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It was wasted, just time taking a knee on life. Man,
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you get about maybe eighty years spending on this blue marble, and two years
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of it a fortieth of it. You were basically just asked, Hey,
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stay at home, hide at your house, crawl under your bed, put
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your head between your legs, and wait for the end of the world.
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And there are people who are responsible for all that, by the way,
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and no accountability. But that's another story altogether. So by stealing time from
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you, they are stealing from you. And I know you could say,
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well, how do we measure time? Do we measure the value of that?
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It's not about how you measure the value of it. It's about the
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fact that they're taking it from you, forcing you to say. And I'm
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not talking about a situation where okay, your car breaks down and you hold
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up traffic. That's an accident, right, that's not intentional. People that
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are intentionally doing it, especially in a circumstance when police could easily say move
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along, get out of the road. You don't have a right to force
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people to hear your message. That's not the purpose of protesting making everybody's life
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a little bit uncomfortable. These are police who just agree with the message and
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they want the message to be heard. It's not going to help the protesters,
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cause how many people do you think are sitting there in traffic going yeah,
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you know what, I thought, I wanted to go home, But
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now that I'm hearing these people shouting and screaming whatever the message is, it's
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really turned me around. Now. I feel like that when are these cases
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going to I want this to go to the Supreme Court. I want cases
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like this to go to the Supreme Court. I want the protest that are
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blocking traffic, right, you can't get what if there's an emergency? I
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mean, what if someone is inconvenience to the point that it's an emergency.
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What if someone's trying to get to a loved one who's about to die.
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What if there's a birth, childbirth, it's about to happen. What are
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their rights to get through this? Can they push their way through? Can
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they push their car through a bunch of people holding bikes blocking the road?
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Are they allowed to do that? Should be right? If they feel threatened
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in the situation and they feel like their life is in danger, shouldn't they
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be able to do whatever they have to do to protect themselves. We know
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that that doesn't always hold up right. I like to see this go to
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the Supreme Court. I like to see the High Court hear this case or
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here cases like this. I want to know, can we put a definition
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on what it means to protest? Peaceful? Protest? Is being a terrorist
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that investment would be fifteen hundred and ninety two dollars today. If you
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big tech company. Google taking aim at inactive Gmail accounts and has plans
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to wipe them out on December first. Now, a lot of people have,
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they use regularly, but some people have a lot of them. Google has
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