Dessension & protest are what make our country great!!

No... no it's not. The things that make our country great are exactly the things you would think. Smart, hard working people, brave soldiers, police & rescue workers, brilliant inventors & an overall attitude of confidence & pride.

Dissidence, in and of itself, has NEVER made any country great. Of course there have been times, events & circumstances that require protest. And obviously there have been many that changed things for the better... but most are just selfish indulgences, of no use to the country as a whole.

The only thing inherent to protest that shows America's greatness is, that our constitution & we as a people, don't allow our government to protect itself from verbal & ideological attack. The natural inclination of a power, like government, is to stop anything even resembling rebellion. But in our system, we protect the right to disagree, even with the government, that makes us great.

So, just as you suspected, it's really not the clan rally that makes us great, it's that we don't shoot them on the spot. It's not the unshaven, out of shape nudist yelling at the white house that strengthens us... its that we arrest them for public nudity, not public demonstration.

Our brave soldiers fight to keep ALL of us free, even those we agree with the least. We must let even the most idiotic tree hugging jackass be free to express his, or more likely her, stupid opinion... Or one day, when idiotic tree hugging jackasses are in power... common sense could be banned.