The left has always been at war with freedom of speech, and assembly, and...

Protest is like "free speech". In the '60s, when the new left began the "free speech" movement, they demanded it loudly and repeatedly, shielding perverse, disruptive, and offensive behavior (the better to advance a leftist political agenda) under its protection, but now that the leftist pigs are living in the farmer's house, they've always been at war with "dangerous" expressions, and "dangerous" assemblies.

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