Pro Palestine Disruptions and Protests

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Pro-Hamas Protestors Shut Down West LA and Desecrate the National Cemetery, Making More Enemies​

When you ask them why they are doing it or even why they feel it is okay to disrupt people's lives, if they answer, it usually oozes with ignorance and shines a light on what mental midgets these people are. The usual, "it's just a minor disruption, we're not hurting anybody." All that comes as a protester's balloon could possibly get sucked into a jet engine of a landing airliner, causing it to crash, or an ambulance on its way to a medical emergency could get blocked and not arrive in time to save that heart attack victim.

In this most recent case, protestors defiled a National Cemetery of fallen war dead, as well as the graves of those who served and made it out of the wars alive but earned their right to lay amongst their fellow brothers and sisters. For me, a Combat Veteran, it makes my blood boil with rage to see the images of protestors spraying paint over a war memorial, regardless of what war or conflict it is memorializing. In this case, they spray-painted their garbage on the walls of a Spanish American War Memorial located at the cemetery.

To be clear, as a Veteran, I am honor bound to keep the memory of not just my generation of American fighting men and women alive but all generations of warfighters, dating back to our Founding Fathers and their generation of patriots that gave us this blessed nation. To see a memorial to the warfighters of any war hurts us all. It hurts us because no matter the war, no matter the fight, we served our nation because it asked us or we asked it, to defend it and our principles. We all agreed that our rights and our Constitution are worth enough that we would die to defend or stand up for them. And we all agree that while you have the right to say what you want, we don't have to agree with what you say and how you say it. Just like when protestors burn our flag. It is their right to do so, but I do not have to like it. It is their right, that is -- until they start breaking the law and defiling our nation's dead.

As time goes on, more and more people, especially from the younger generation, forget something so very important. An adage has been referenced by Winston Churchill and George Orwell and was taken from a poem written by Rudyard Kipling that said in part: ..." O makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep...[.]" George Orwell cleaned that line up a little in his 1946 "Critical Essays" when he said that:

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite, and Kipling’s understanding of this is perhaps the central secret of his power to create telling phrases. It would be difficult to hit off the one-eyed pacifism of the English in fewer words than in the phrase, “making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep.”

 

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Public Interest Law Group Seeking Plaintiffs For Possible Lawsuit Against “Anti-Israel” Protesters Who Blocked Traffic​

A pubic interest law firm is calling for plaintiffs in a possible suit against “anti-Israel” protestors who obstructed traffic. The “[f]ree-market public-interest litigation firm” Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute (HLLI) tweeted a call for plaintiffs “stuck in traffic” during the February 2024 “anti-Israel” protests in Northern Virginia and Washington, DC, which blocked traffic.





“People have a First Amendment right to protest. But that doesn’t give these protestors the right to interfere with the rights of others to move freely without restraint or to create a harzard that potentially puts peoples’ lives at risk,” HLLI attorney Ned Hedley told Legal Insurrection.

Hedley outlined HLLI’s strategy for identifying individual defendants, who often conceal their identity at protests. Hedley told Legal Insurrection that HLLI could identify individual defendants through social media activity identifying them as organizers or leaders or through arrest records.

After filing suit against organizational defendants, HLLI could identify other individual defendants and organizations through materials obtained during discovery, the process by which opposing parties exchange relevant evidence before trial.

Hedley acknowledged that HLLI is pursuing a relatively novel legal angle but told Legal Insurrection that HLLI believes there are viable false imprisonment and public nuisance claims. Hedley also stated that a claim under RICO, which targets criminal enterprises, may be possible when groups supporting the protests encouraged criminal activities.

Pursuing these claims may compensate for the failure of law enforcement and prosecutors to rein in disruptive protests, according to Hedley.

“The response of law enforcement so far has not worked to deter this conduct,” Hedley told Legal Insurrection, pointing to a pro-Palestinian protest in San Francisco where protesters shut down a bridge for hours but only received community service and had to pay restitution.