I heard a friend complain about Cincinnati Police Department for writing tickets and presenting them to the Occupy Cincinnati protesters.  She claimed it was wrong to harass them with tickets because of course they have the right to be there to protest.  I even heard national commentators talk of the right to protest.  The problem is, of course, you don’t have a right to “protest”.  You have a right to “Free Speech”.  But, even the right to “Free Speech” and “Free Assembly” doesn’t give you the right to “occupy” land that isn’t yours.  Public land does not imply individual ownership.  You cannot occupy something without declaring an illegal intent to deprive others of the use of that same public ground.  You have no more right to live in a public park than I do and if you are there in your tent all night and all day for weeks at a time you are depriving me of my rights to also use the park.  That makes you a criminal.  The government’s obligation to protect your God-given right to Free Speech means that reasonable permits shall be given to any group no matter how disgusting their point of view and they can use that permitted time and place to say whatever the hell they want.  And, then you do like the horrifying Tea-Party protesters do. You pay your bill to the Port-A-Potty folks. You clean up after yourself. And then you GO HOME!!!!  The occupiers are…just that.  Occupiers .  Squatters.  Bums.  They have housed themselves for whatever period of time rent free and tax-free and still claim the right to live under the same protections as the rest of us?  Baloney!! Criminals forfeit rights and the civilly disobedient of the past understood and accepted this consequence.  They wore their arrests like a badge of honor.  And, those of us who were supporters of the giants like Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted those arrests not as blots on a record but as the sacrifices of a martyr to a just cause.  The liberals of today not only are unwilling to accept consequences to actions but are outraged that anyone would be so outrages as to protect the rule of law for the rest of society.  There is a reason that when you get hauled in front of the Judge the charge is made by the “People”.  It’s because your offense is against all law-abiding citizens in your affront to civility and the peace.  Now the Campus Police at U.C Davis are under criticism because protesters who purposefully placed themselves in a spot that they would have to be removed from predictably refused to be removed.  So, the Campus Police motivated them with pepper spray.  No badge of honor to these folks. Nope. These great giants of civil disobedience are gonna sue.  The liberal press runs ad-nauseum the exciting part of the video but leaves out the refusals to vacate and the warnings issued by the U.C. Davis Police.  If the police were to drag them off kicking and screaming and someone were to get hurt the pepper spray would seem pretty benign, wouldn’t it?  The pepper spray was invented and adopted in reaction to the outcry against physical restraint and motivation by baton.  If the only acceptable response to criminal trespass is no response at all, I figure the next “Occupy” location should be Joe Biden’s house in Connecticut or Nancy Pelosi’s home in Pacific Heights.  And, if occupying other folk’s property carries no penalty, let’s not occupy the front yards.  The kitchens have to be phenomenal!!