Wow, I thought this kind of thing was done away with years ago

[Jester]

In fact, Obama's good friend Bill Ayers, was a domestic terrorist.

Obama's acquaintance and fellow community member (Good friend? We've had this discussion before. Not buying it.) was a pretty harmless domestic terrorist almost forty years ago, during a very different era. He hasn't been involved in any terrorist activities since Obama was barely a teenager, and has been a peaceful and respectable member of the Chicago intellectual community for decades.

However, as is perfectly obvious, neither Bill Ayers nor anyone else has the right to break the law (even without casualties) as part of their protest.* When intimidation, fraud, violence and even assassination are a part of the protest toolkit, then I don't think it's unreasonable to put some commonsense limits on the types of protest allowed. I cannot support censoring the message, but there's no good reason why that message has to be conveyed within spitting distance of an abortion clinic, where it can create a strong chilling effect on people trying to live their lives and exercise their rights (this is, no doubt, the idea).

-Jester

* I have no problem with civil disobedience in protest of unjust laws. But deliberately breaking a law to make a point is still illegal, and not all causes are righteous.