I’m responding to your post here that articulates a kind of speech supremacy. I don’t know enough about the Oklahoma law to have an opinion on it. Speech rights coexist with other rights in the American system of ordered liberty. They do not cancel out other rights. Someone’s right to own a home or a downtown retail store and use them lawfully are not cancelled out just because someone is protesting. If I oppose private property and am protesting, I don’t get to burn down someone’s house or store and have that be legal. I can’t just declare something speech and suddenly laws don’t apply. “…the right of the people peaceably to assemble…” is protected. Protest is not a grant of royal privelege that gives someone rights to violate other peoples’ rights.
