It’s not ‘mob rule.’ It’s our right

Re “Don't let the mobs rule,” Opinion Voices, Jan. IL

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BY contributing writer Josh Hammer's logic, Americans taking to the streets to protest injustice, a right sanctified by the 1st Amendment, is an example of “mob rule.”

He would, apparently, have citizens stand by silently accepting as lawful every action of our state and its agents, no matter how transparently illegal.

He takes offense at the Democratic Party’s completely factual social media post: “ICE shot and killed a woman on camera.” This is literally what happened. Hammer calls this barebones statement of fact “irresponsible fear-mongering.” Now stating facts is “irresponsible”? I shudder to conceive of the sort of world in which Hammer would have Americans live.

It is what this country was founded on and for many of us right now, the only recourse we have left.