• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    “can’t hold a demonstration in one office building” is precisely the same as “no citizen right to petition their representative”.

    When you’re locked out from your rep, you have no legal mechanism to get their attention

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      7 hours ago

      Again, you’re reducing not being able to protest inside a specific office building to not being able to communicate with them, see them, or protest them.

      Considering you seem to be basing this off of, generously, a few instances of people being arrested for protesting inside congressional offices with no context for how many people do communicate with their representative, and you’re arguing against “people should be able to talk to their representative, and the problem is people with more influence than their individual vote”, I’m honestly not sure what your point is. It doesn’t seem like you disagree with what the word means.