right, but these festivals you keep referencing are on property that they made arrangements to be at, were paid for and there are generally contracts and accepted rules of conduct. what we have here is totally different. no one is saying protesting cant happen but hundreds of people camping out for months at a time in a park and causing a general safety hazard with visible crime increase ...... well thats a totally different story.

if a guy sits down in the middle of the road you call him a fucking moron ... if he says its free speech we are supposed to allow it?

all the people claiming the actions of the govt are that of a police state or against free speech are just ignorant. Free speech is always guaranteed so long as it doesnt incite violence or cause a general safety concern to the population. you now have people in the movement, be it actual members or instigators, threatening to fire bomb banks and private businesses ... sounds like a good time to put a clamp on this free ranging movement to me