In On The Media there was a discussion about if president Trump is
going to cause a constitutional crisis or not. The Courts put a hold to
Donald Trump's travel band. He was not too satisfied about that and he
plans on going to court over. People
think it is unconstitutional for him to do this because it is taking power away
from the court.
The other topic that was talked about was the protesting.
It is kind of a hard subject because, where is the line drawn?
There is protesting peacefully and doing it the right way, then there is people protesting just to cause
problems and to riot. There has been states and cities making laws to make
protesting unlawful and some of the laws are making it unsafe to protest.
In Washington it is a felony to protest if it is causing a problem and in
North and South Dakota they pretty much made it to where it is okay to run a
protester over if they are in middle of the road. Some people might think
that putting these restraints are a good thing because it is getting out of
hand once things turn violent and destructive. Others would say that this
is unconstitutional and is taking away their rights to practice the first
amendment. That is what our country
was founded on. We came here to be able to stand up for what we believe
in. The man that taught at Dartmouth had some good points and was saying
that it is one thing to protest, but we need to snip it in the butt at the beginning,
because if we wait too long it will be disastrous. The man from Columbia
suggested that we should make designated areas for peaceful protest because it
would make for less conflict and less destruction. In all these
large protest all we ever see is the rioting and destruction. This is because that is the way the media
portrays it to us. The media leaves out all the people protesting the
right way and only shows us the bad. This is the issue.
I do not see what President Trump is doing to be unconstitutional.
I think he is just trying to do what he has been telling us he was going
to do since he was a president nominee. I do not think he is trying mend
the constitution. He is doing the same thing that president Obama did and
nobody protested and rioted about that. It just seems like no matter what
Trump does people want to protest and freak out about it. Nobody is
giving him a chance. As far as the protesting goes, I think there is a
right and a wrong way to do it. I think it is one thing to stand up for
what you believe in and voice that, but once you are blocking highways and main
streets, then it has gone too far. In the protest in Washington DC at
President Trump's inauguration there was 6 police officers injured and 217
arrest. To me that is just too far.
I get that it is a constitutional right to have freedom of speech and
protest, but what is it solving? To me I see it as dividing our country and
causing conflict between all of us, because they are sitting here fighting each
other based on one and anthers political views.
I just do not see the point, because it is like religion. Nobody is changing anybody's mind when it
comes to those things. I also do not agree with these large protest
because there is always violence and destruction of public property. To me that is not protesting, that is
rioting. It puts people in harm’s way and puts police officers at high
risk. Not always but more so now than before I feel like a lot of people
do not even care about the protest itself, they just want to be part of
something, so they are following the crowd. I think that if we made
places designated for protesting it would be a good idea, but how do we know
that people are actually going to go and protest there instead of right in
middle of the street?
The points you brought up in your post had a lot of validity to them. As far as Trump is concerned, he is not the typical president. Although people may not agree with the election, there is no point in moving backwards i.e. rioting and blocking streets. Acting out in this manner only causes more problems, it does not solve anything. We need to come together with civility if we are to progress, regardless of the political party we lean toward.
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