One of the most iconic protest photos ever captured shows a blond hipster stuffing a carnation into the muzzle of an M14 rifle during a 1967 antiwar protest in Washington.
This week, people across the nation are erupting to protest questionable immigration policies and the nation’s troubling rightist tilt toward autocracy. Americans unhappy with their government should resist violence and turn to their First Amendment constitutional protection to assemble in peace:
“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.”…