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If I followed you around for the next month, “silently praying”, would you feel intimidated?

This is the argument of a child who states “I’m not touching you” while holding their hand directly in front of another’s face. Technically true and contextually irrelevant. An obviously bad faith argument.



But the protester isn’t following an individual. I agree that if she was following a single person, then that would be specific and harassment.

But standing in a single public place and holding a placard or whatnot is not harassment.

No more than a war protestor standing in front of parliament for a month silently protesting is harassing the lawmakers in the building.




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