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Protesters are outside SCOTUS homes. Tomorrow: Alito (Original Post) FelineOverlord May 2022 OP
It's an American tradition FelineOverlord May 2022 #1
If anyone thinks this helps, they're insane. BlackSkimmer May 2022 #20
I wouldn't go there . . . FelineOverlord May 2022 #24
I'm not taking a position on protesting outside someone's home. BlackSkimmer May 2022 #25
It reminds them that we know where they live. sir pball May 2022 #39
Paging: Rand Paul's neighbor. -nt CrispyQ May 2022 #2
If only.... -nt xocetaceans May 2022 #17
Looks protesters were also there last night FelineOverlord May 2022 #3
Citing no right to privacy, the justices reap what they have sowed. intheflow May 2022 #6
No peace. sarcasmo May 2022 #8
The six GQP US SC judges ruling . .. Lovie777 May 2022 #4
A Supreme Court Justice who is a blackout drunk and a liar. What a country. What a court. ratchiweenie May 2022 #5
He completely meets all republican values and then some more. n/t RKP5637 May 2022 #7
The debate rages on FelineOverlord May 2022 #9
Apparently they went to John Roberts' house, too FelineOverlord May 2022 #10
Going to Alito's home tomorrow FelineOverlord May 2022 #11
As someone who has been stalked at my house by an unhinged member of the public for doing my job meadowlander May 2022 #12
Tell that to Dr. Tiller's family Freddie May 2022 #13
Two wrongs don't make a right meadowlander May 2022 #37
Agree. I'm not much for protesting at peoples' home. Doesn't help. On other hand, I wouldn't vote Hoyt May 2022 #14
Protesting peacefully outside peoples homes is an American Tradition. Tommymac May 2022 #21
And what is the protest actually accomplishing? meadowlander May 2022 #38
If Kavanaugh didn't want no shit questionseverything May 2022 #47
18 U.S. Code § 1507 - Picketing or parading LeftInTX May 2022 #50
Then they should remove the barriers outside the Supreme Court FelineOverlord May 2022 #51
👆👆 crickets May 2022 #52
So these justices are perfectly happy to invade our loved ones' wombs Farmer-Rick May 2022 #29
No. They crossed the line. AntivaxHunters May 2022 #35
They crossed that fucking line, they can live with the consequences. sir pball May 2022 #41
They did commit crimes, they perjured themselves in their Congressional testimony, under oath Arazi May 2022 #45
I agree Takket May 2022 #49
They killed Dr. Tiller at his church. Is that a line you're not supposed to cross? Novara May 2022 #15
Exactly this Farmer-Rick May 2022 #30
I'd rather a protestor be at my house than a judge in my uterus. nt Ilsa May 2022 #16
Spot on. nt Tommymac May 2022 #23
Yes. Thank you. nt DLevine May 2022 #31
Alito has neighbors? Who knew? Jilly_in_VA May 2022 #18
If I wasn't prepping to go out of town Deep State Witch May 2022 #19
I was hoping this would happen. BigmanPigman May 2022 #22
Those women they are going to destroy Farmer-Rick May 2022 #32
And friends, too. 😔 electric_blue68 May 2022 #53
I imagine if they were doing that against a justice we like, we would be pissed! Nt USALiberal May 2022 #26
They do Farmer-Rick May 2022 #34
Bill Kristol doesn't like it and he's really getting it on Twitter FelineOverlord May 2022 #27
Everyone knows protesting outside someone's home is not Laura PourMeADrink May 2022 #28
Absolutely. This is like war on the life freedoms of women! electric_blue68 May 2022 #54
If you're in my uterus, I can be on your fucking front lawn. Novara May 2022 #33
Damn straight Farmer-Rick May 2022 #36
I like the way you think FakeNoose May 2022 #40
Storming his house would be legitimate political discourse SoonerPride May 2022 #42
Good. Back in the late 80's a bunch of asshole developers did the same because of impact fees JanMichael May 2022 #43
Yup, they gathered around more liberal officials' homes Farmer-Rick May 2022 #57
If they take this too far & start doing pregnancy tests at state borders it will get worse than this JanMichael May 2022 #44
This could get out of hand PurgedVoter May 2022 #46
Protesters drew a wire hanger in the street in front of Justice Roberts house FelineOverlord May 2022 #48
These RW lunatics are fine protesting... róisín_dubh May 2022 #55
If a candlelight vigil in front of their house is inevitable Arazi May 2022 #56

FelineOverlord

(3,580 posts)
24. I wouldn't go there . . .
Sun May 8, 2022, 05:34 PM
May 2022

. . . although if Alito still lived in West Caldwell, NJ I might consider it. I can't deny that.

However, Alito says that Americans have no Constitutional right to privacy.

He's an American. That includes him.

The protesters outside of Kegs Kavanaugh's house appear to be his NEIGHBORS, or at least were organized by his neighbors.

They are allowed to be on their own block.

 

BlackSkimmer

(51,308 posts)
25. I'm not taking a position on protesting outside someone's home.
Sun May 8, 2022, 05:36 PM
May 2022

I’m simply saying it won’t change a thing.

sir pball

(4,743 posts)
39. It reminds them that we know where they live.
Sun May 8, 2022, 07:41 PM
May 2022

Yes, I mean that exactly as it sounds.

Protests only go so far.

intheflow

(28,477 posts)
6. Citing no right to privacy, the justices reap what they have sowed.
Sun May 8, 2022, 03:21 PM
May 2022

It they find it distasteful, oh, well!

Lovie777

(12,278 posts)
4. The six GQP US SC judges ruling . ..
Sun May 8, 2022, 03:02 PM
May 2022

USA citizens can only "protest" anyone or anything that is not GQP. Florida has done it.

Problem solved.

meadowlander

(4,399 posts)
12. As someone who has been stalked at my house by an unhinged member of the public for doing my job
Sun May 8, 2022, 03:53 PM
May 2022

I have to say I agree with Billy Binion. As angry and frustrated as people might be, there's a line and you don't cross it.

I also used to work with a guy who was fired in a very publicly humiliating way and the media and angry members of the public camped outside his house for days terrifying his daughter who had Downs Syndrome.

People are people, even when we disagree with them or they make horrendous mistakes. Their families and private residences should be off limits. If they're committing crimes, that's what we have a justice system for. If you want to protest his actions, do it outside his offices.

Showing up outside someone's house uninvited triggers their lizard brain instincts to protect their family and home at all costs. It's not going to make him change his mind about the ruling and it makes us look like bullies harassing his kids.

Freddie

(9,267 posts)
13. Tell that to Dr. Tiller's family
Sun May 8, 2022, 04:15 PM
May 2022

I am sorry what happened to you. But the anti-choice folks have NO hesitation about harassing families, publishing home addresses, threatening CHILDREN. Those justices that would end our human rights deserve every bit of this and mores

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
14. Agree. I'm not much for protesting at peoples' home. Doesn't help. On other hand, I wouldn't vote
Sun May 8, 2022, 04:28 PM
May 2022

to convict someone for protesting if on a jury.

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
21. Protesting peacefully outside peoples homes is an American Tradition.
Sun May 8, 2022, 05:32 PM
May 2022

I agree harassment/stalking is not, but then you call the police. But the vast majority of people protesting this are not insane.

Taking away a human beings fundamental Human Right is a damn good reason to do this to those fundamentalist theocratic monsters.

We aredesperately fighting for Our Constitution and Our Rights as a Human Beings. This protest is hardly out of order.

(Funny thing, it seems his neighbor is the one who organized the peaceful protest.)


meadowlander

(4,399 posts)
38. And what is the protest actually accomplishing?
Sun May 8, 2022, 07:38 PM
May 2022

Do you think Kavanagh is going to change his mind because his family is being harassed at home?

By all means, let's fight for our Constitution and rights. But this isn't even an effective way to do it and if anything its ceding the moral high ground and making it harder for people fighting through more constructive channels to maintain credibility.

questionseverything

(9,656 posts)
47. If Kavanaugh didn't want no shit
Sun May 8, 2022, 10:09 PM
May 2022

He aught not start shit

We need to do everything, everywhere until we get asswipes out of women’s decisions

LeftInTX

(25,381 posts)
50. 18 U.S. Code § 1507 - Picketing or parading
Sun May 8, 2022, 11:30 PM
May 2022

Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1507

Farmer-Rick

(10,185 posts)
29. So these justices are perfectly happy to invade our loved ones' wombs
Sun May 8, 2022, 06:09 PM
May 2022

To destroy our families with the burden of too many children; to ruin our daughters' future for having sex; to have our young girls so desperate for abortions they die from coat hangers and back alley abortion; to allow our wives and mothers to die from ectopic pregnancies because no doctor will sign off on an abortion; to force our little girls, Down Syndrome or not, to carry a rapist's fetus to term so that some commit suicide; to invade our medical privacy and allow greedy religious fools to bring lawsuits against us for helping each other obtain an abortion.

That's all perfectly acceptable. But just don't protest at their houses and disturb their little families. Just don't bother their little families, their girls, their wives, their mothers at their homes. They just want to bring back long dead atrocities because their sky daddy cryptically tells them to.....and of course to increase the domestic supply of infants preferably with less melanin.

I'm sorry you were so harassed unfairly but it doesn't let this black robed junta off the hook.

 

AntivaxHunters

(3,234 posts)
35. No. They crossed the line.
Sun May 8, 2022, 06:37 PM
May 2022

They should NEVER be allowed to be seen in public ever again & their lives made an absolute living hell for eternity.

sir pball

(4,743 posts)
41. They crossed that fucking line, they can live with the consequences.
Sun May 8, 2022, 07:45 PM
May 2022

To be clear, peaceful protest is best, but it's also a good reminder to them that we know where they live.

Sorry not sorry. Would you have objected to peaceful protests outside Joseph Goebbel's house? Birth slavers are no more "off limits" than Nazis.

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
45. They did commit crimes, they perjured themselves in their Congressional testimony, under oath
Sun May 8, 2022, 08:11 PM
May 2022

Do you really think there will be any “justice” for that?

I’ll wait.

I’m the meantime, nobody’s breaking any laws here. The Christofascist judges were never going to change their minds but now they too have to suffer some invasion of their privacy.

Tough shit. It will NEVER be as painful for them as it is for millions of women deprived of their basic rights

Takket

(21,577 posts)
49. I agree
Sun May 8, 2022, 10:23 PM
May 2022

Here in Michigan they went to the home of our SoS after the election. Magats claiming it was stolen. I was scared for her. She was tweeting about the panic she felt for her family.

Political protests should be kept in political settings. A vigil held outside SCOTUS would be far more impactful in the eyes of the public.

That being said, maybe if one of these scumbags realizes how bad they fucked up seeing all the anger, they'll change their mind? I doubt it.

Novara

(5,843 posts)
15. They killed Dr. Tiller at his church. Is that a line you're not supposed to cross?
Sun May 8, 2022, 04:33 PM
May 2022

Fuck Justice I Like Beer

Fuck Justice I Hate Women Alito

Fuck Justice Uncle Tom

Fuck Justice Handmaiden

Fuck Justice Stolen Seat Gorsuch

Fuck Chief Justice I Lost Control Long Ago Roberts

FUCK THEM ALL.

Stay the fuck out of women's uteruses if you don't like people protesting in front of your houses.

Farmer-Rick

(10,185 posts)
30. Exactly this
Sun May 8, 2022, 06:13 PM
May 2022

Do they have any idea how much suffering they are bringing to our families and homes? They don't care. Why should we?

Jilly_in_VA

(9,983 posts)
18. Alito has neighbors? Who knew?
Sun May 8, 2022, 05:25 PM
May 2022

One would think the stench would drive them away. Kind of like the smell of empty beer bottles in Kavanagh's trash.

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)
22. I was hoping this would happen.
Sun May 8, 2022, 05:32 PM
May 2022

I read that Anonymous is going after them and I bet they are going to be doxxed by others. Make their lives as Hellish as the lives of the women they plan on destroying.

Farmer-Rick

(10,185 posts)
32. Those women they are going to destroy
Sun May 8, 2022, 06:18 PM
May 2022

Are our daughter's, mother's, wives, sisters and aunts. If you think messing with them won't affect the entire family, then you are just plain crazy.


Ok, that sounds like I'm disagreeing but I'm not. I 100% agree with you. I was just building on your momentum.

Farmer-Rick

(10,185 posts)
34. They do
Sun May 8, 2022, 06:37 PM
May 2022

"Many pandemic restrictions in the United States and Canada have been relaxed, but that has not stopped protesters from gathering outside some government officials’ homes and badgering them.

Though vaccination and masking rules have generally eased in the last few months, protests have continued outside officials’ residences in Massachusetts and other places in the United States, and in Nova Scotia and Alberta in Canada. Demonstrators have disrupted traffic, disturbed neighbors and, in some cases, addressed officials with racist and sexist language.

Protesters have targeted the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, since she took office in November."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/world/mandates-are-ending-in-the-us-but-protests-outside-officials-homes-continue.amp.html

They did it through out the pandemic.

But this is not about liking a judge or state official. This about the lives, careers and deaths of millions and millions of girls and women. I lived through the hell of before Roe v Wade, millions are going to die and be mutilated. Many more are going to suffer tremendously so that some idiot judge can say he's following his sky daddy's orders.

There is no soul. Fish like fetuses aren't human. Why should athiests have to follow antiquated dessert goat herders' rules about imaginary beings? Why are we forced to carry to birth fetuses when we don't want or need to? It's not about liking crap. It's about freedom from religion.

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
28. Everyone knows protesting outside someone's home is not
Sun May 8, 2022, 05:53 PM
May 2022

nice. But when an issue is SO vital and some SO wrong about it...its the last desperate alternative. Carry on neighbors!!
.

Farmer-Rick

(10,185 posts)
36. Damn straight
Sun May 8, 2022, 06:42 PM
May 2022

If you can force your antiquated goat herders' magical beings opinions in us, I can force you to listen to some noise while you're hiding in your home, vacation house or yacht.

JanMichael

(24,890 posts)
43. Good. Back in the late 80's a bunch of asshole developers did the same because of impact fees
Sun May 8, 2022, 07:51 PM
May 2022

in front of a family members house who was in county government. Over fees to pay for schools and roads and water/sewer from greenfield subdivision developments. Basically to pay some for the increased service demands on a a county. So the cheap fucks blocked driveway at 7am on a weekday..

So for anyone saying that the a-hole reich wingers deserve peace?

Fuck you too.

Farmer-Rick

(10,185 posts)
57. Yup, they gathered around more liberal officials' homes
Mon May 9, 2022, 09:24 AM
May 2022

All through the pandemic. Screaming and fighting over having to protect themselves and others from a deadly virus. Many people died from Covid because they believed those protests.

But they didn't care who died from the virus. Remember Kill Your Grandmother rallies? They only care about that fetus inside that woman......they don't even care if that born baby is taken care of. Just don't let that fish like fetus die.

JanMichael

(24,890 posts)
44. If they take this too far & start doing pregnancy tests at state borders it will get worse than this
Sun May 8, 2022, 07:55 PM
May 2022

These people are protesting nicely. If THEY the reich wing take it much further what choice do people have?

To lay down and take it?

This country is going to get ugly real soon if they christofascists go much worse than they are now.

PurgedVoter

(2,218 posts)
46. This could get out of hand
Sun May 8, 2022, 08:36 PM
May 2022

Just like the lack of protection offered to people looking for legal medical help had things get out of hand. They had their information released, had their communities hunt them. It wasn't an issue for conservatives since they were not the target. Medical practitioners have died because of conservative support for standing mobs invading others privacy.

Conservatives, you know what could happen, since you have always been gleeful about conservatives getting mad and taking things into their own hands. You called it manly while issuing thoughts and prayers to the victims. It is sad that we have lost civility in the last ten years. But the conservative side has been feeding raw meat to their mob and ignoring civility as their troops burned crosses and more.

Conservatives, your side has been using mobs since before any of us where born. You always smiled your little smiles and grinned as you mentioned second amendment solutions when liberal justices did their jobs. Now you are seeing a mob and golly gosh, mobs can sure get out of hand.

Worse yet, your side might just have provocateurs ready to take advantage of this and blame liberals, like the always do. All I am saying is, your side might push this over the top. Please be careful and please think before riling up the usual mob to to push this further than it should have gone.

Thoughts and prayers, Conservatives, Thoughts and prayers.

róisín_dubh

(11,795 posts)
55. These RW lunatics are fine protesting...
Mon May 9, 2022, 08:20 AM
May 2022

outside abortion clinics, so I say fuck them and their “right to privacy”.
I was 18 and trying to get birth control pills, and was shouted down by these jackasses. I was terrified then. More recently, I walked a former student through a mob of them as her support person when she needed an abortion. They got an earful from me that time.
Cry me a river.

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