I really hate hecklers. Shoot 'em on sight.

[Drunken Irishman]

Okay, not really. Shoot 'em with beanbags. What a bunch of disrespectful assholes.

[KingFlorez]

1. No, shoot them with old, used teabags

[Imajika]

2. I agree, sadly many here do not...

It seems to me that many people here only hate hecklers if they are interrupting people we like.

When Code Pink interrupts a Republican State of the Union for example, or conservatives are shouted down or pie'd on college campuses, well, those things seem to be applauded all too often here.

Heckling is always bad. If you don't like what someone has to say, leave, or politely wait your turn and ask a tough question is time is allotted for it.

[niceypoo]

38. Is it bad when Karl Rove is heckled because he is a war criminal?

Or John Woo for inventing excuses for torture? Heckling is appropriate sometimes.

[uppityperson]

3. If you are a public speaker, expect to get heckled. It comes with the job.

[harkadog]

6. No it doesn't come with the job.

It is an attempt to suppress free speech. They should expect to be roughly ejected or worse for tampering with the Constitution.

[uppityperson]

8. Ejecting someone for speaking out is not suppressing free speech?

hahahahahaha

I do not think you understand the Constitution or free speech. It doesn't only work when people are speaking supportively.

[harkadog]

11. You have no right to invade someone else's meeting.

Create your own forum to oppose something. That is the Constitution. Invade and you lose any rights.

[uppityperson]

13. What about a public forum? Open to the public.

No, that is not the Constitution.

You do realize, don't you, that even if you trespass on someone else's property, that you still have some right? Just checking to make sure you know that.

It burns, oh, it burns!

[harkadog]

16. The President giving a speech at a campaign rally is not a public "forum".

You have no right to disrupt it. Thank goodness you aren't a judge so we are safe from your opinions.

[uppityperson]

18. A speech at a campaign rally is not a public forum? What is it?

I fear for anyone whose jury you are on.

[harkadog]

21. Fail. 99% of time rallies are a private event.

Campaign rallies are not sponsored by the government.

[uppityperson]

26. What about a public forum? Open to the public.

No, that is not the Constitution.

You do realize, don't you, that even if you trespass on someone else's property, that you still have some rights? Just checking to make sure you know that.

It burns, oh, it burns!

[uppityperson]

28. public forum="sponsered by the government"? huh, odd definition there

oh "i play a lawyer on the internet" dog

[Hippo_Tron]

34. A campaign rally might be open to the public but it is not a public forum

I'm not saying that somebody should go to jail for disrupting a campaign rally but it's not a public forum.

[uppityperson]

35. I may have the term wrong, meaning open to the public to attend.

that is what I mean. If the term is wrong, go with what I mean (opent to the public) as jargon sometimes escapes me (often)

[uppityperson]

19. What about a public forum? Open to the public.

No, that is not the Constitution.

You do realize, don't you, that even if you trespass on someone else's property, that you still have some rights? Just checking to make sure you know that.

It burns, oh, it burns!

[arcadian]

10. LOL, you really believe that?

That is just sad and pathetic.

[harkadog]

12. Sane people bellieve that

as well as those who follow the Constitution.

[uppityperson]

14. "sane people" believe that if you trespass on private property you lose all rights?

Those who follow the Constitution believe that?

um, no. We don't.

[harkadog]

15. Um, you lose your right to harass and disrupt..

Look up the constitutional law genius.

[uppityperson]

17. prove that. And yes, those who claim such things are responsible for proving them

[harkadog]

22. Tutoring you in Constitutional law

is beyond what I do for pro bono work. I don't take on hopeless causes.

[uppityperson]

27. No proof, just insults. Ah, gotcha. Not quite how this forum works.

If you make an assertion, you provide proof or it is just another case of "I play a _____ on the internets".

[Name removed]

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[uppityperson]

32. try posting some proof of your assertions rather than just insults and see

Rather than simply posting insults to your unproven assertions.

did you know insults are against Du rules?

[arcadian]

39. You got nothing.

I'm sure you're used to it at this point in your life. :rofl:

[HillGal]

23. I'm shocked, you mean you didn't enjoy Bush getting heckled? NT

NT

[harkadog]

24. I was in Chicago at a rally when Bill Clinton was President

and as guy got beat up by the SS for heckling him. I didn't shed a tear. I want to live in a civil society not one of mob rule.

[uppityperson]

30. SS beating up hecklers is "a civil society"? My goodness you have odd definitions.

[HughMoran]

4. Brown-holers

;)

[Bitwit1234]

5. First they are egotists

they think people want to hear what they have to say. It gets that little old ding dong bouncing. They just go to these things to do this. Notice how republicans only ammo is to try to disrupt democrats rallies, town hall meetings, these speeches. They have nothing to offer the public but discord, lies and hate. I don't know why some one NOT RUNNING FOR OFFICE doesn't give a speech and ""make that perfectly clear"..shades of you know who.

[Demoiselle]

7. Water balloons. Small, squooshy pies. Anchovy paste in a high powered squirt gun.

Just some suggestions.
I'd just be worried about retaliation from true right wing meatheads who have a "permit to carry."

[HopeOverFear]

9. anti-choicers scare me more than anybody. Those people are dangerous.

if they can blow up clinics and shoot abortion doctors there's no telling what else they'll do.

[Clio the Leo]

20. Did the President get heckled?

(nevermind, I found it!)

[johnaries]

25. You lie!

:evilgrin:

[ElmoBlatz]

29. What's your opinion on shoe throwers?

[smalll]

33. Yep, it they would've just SHOT those hecklers at the Obama speech for Coakley --

the whole thing would turn around! She'd win it if we did that! There's nothing America loves better than to see fellow-citizens shot down like Chinese dissidents. Hell, roll a tank over a couple of these obstreperous gadflies, and she'd win in a landslide!

:shrug:

[slackmaster]

36. Hecklers are really the ultimate freedom of speech advocates

Please discuss.

[Common Sense Party]

37. What about hecklers who heckle Repukes and teabaggers?