"The Right To Be Left Alone"

 I got this post from a guy named Shane Vaughn on farcebook, I went ahead and read the caselaw mentioned in his story.  what it involved was the anti-abortion people being overzealous.  But now you have all these far left groups pushing their pet causes, BLM or no ICE, or what have you and they are doing the same thing.  This is something for us to remember if we get pushed into that situation, our first instinct is to..

   But the police and the courts might get pissy, so you use the courts to sue the crap out of the protestors, sure the lice ridden vermin don't have any money, but the NGO that sponsored the protest that disturbed you is flush with Soros or USAID cash...so you sic a shark of a lawyer on them with a contingency clause.    They like lawfare, use their playbook against them, they are the ones that started the dance, they are the ones that disturbed you with their bullhorns, whistles, signs and any property damage they caused.....just a thought.

Folks, let me teach you something today that your civics teacher never told you — and the courts hope you never find out or else their dockets will fill up with lawsuits.....

You have TWO rights that live in direct tension with each other. Both are real. Both are protected. And most Americans only know about one of them.

The first one everybody knows: the right to speak. The First Amendment. Say what you want. Protest. Preach. Picket. Knock on doors. Shout from the rooftops. America was built on it.

But here's the one nobody talks about.

The Supreme Court — in a case called Rowan v. Post Office back in 1970 — said this, and I want you to read it slowly:

"The right to be left alone is one of the most cherished rights known to man."

One of the most cherished rights known to man.

The Court didn't stop there. They said — and this is the part that should shake you — no one has the right to press even a good idea on an unwilling recipient.

Not a bad idea. Not a dangerous idea. A GOOD idea. If you don't want to hear it, you have the right not to be forced to.

Then came Frisby v. Schultz in 1988. The Court said targeted picketing — showing up at someone's home, their unavoidable space — can be restricted. Why? Because a captive audience has rights too. The Court called it the captive audience doctrine. If you cannot leave, you cannot be forced to receive.

And in Hill v. Colorado in 2000, the Court upheld buffer zones — spaces where people trying to enter a location cannot be cornered into confrontation. The reasoning? You should not have to abandon your right to be somewhere just to escape someone else's speech.

Now here is where Professor Toto connects the dots for you.

We live in an age where everybody thinks their right to speak trumps your right to be left alone. Social media mobs. Protesters at private homes. Activists who will follow you to your car. Ideologues who show up where they know you cannot leave.

They'll scream "First Amendment!" at you while violating your most cherished right — the right to simply be left alone.

The First Amendment protects your right to speak.

It does NOT give you the right to force your speech on someone who cannot escape it.

Most Americans do not know the difference.

Now you do.

And Now You Know... THE BEST of the Story.