What a Load of Shit

There are many ways to exercise your rights under the First Amendment: write a book, blaze the phone lines of talk radio, or door-to-door campaigning all come to mind. Until today, I would have not put dumping three tons of shit into the street as another. Said shit was dumped by a farmer in Arkansas as a protest against a planned local gay rights parade. He dumped it in front of a gay couple's home, as well (so much for Southern hospitality). "[A] man is allowed to protest. That's what I was doing." My guess is that a court will say otherwise. At the very least, one imagines that the First Amendment would allow time, place, and manner restrictions on shitty protests.