text: if cops contest your right to free speech&assembly &arrests claiming you're nuisances,what right matters most? used these abbreviations to fit q in the q-box: right= constitutional right; cops=law enforcement officials; nuisance=public nuisance my file reference: twh 11302006-1q whatever all that q stuff means.  cops do not contest rights, they enforce the law.  if you break a law, even if you feel its a violation of your rights, the cops can do nothing about it...the decision as to whether it is a violation or you will be punished is in the jurisdiction of the court to decide.  take a good luck at the work of martin luther king jr. with peaceful civil disobedience.  if you get involved in an issue regarding civil rights, you must be willing to be arrested.  peaceful civil disobedience has several facets.  one, you do not resist arrest.  two, if arrested you stay in jail as the goal is to fill the jails (hit the government where the money is).  three, when you do get out, you go back out and do it again.  four, you tie up the court system.  sooner or later the issue will be adjudicated at the supreme court level which is the ultimate goal.  gbu  okay, since we are having some fun with this.  in my opinion the predominant right in any given situation if the freedom of speech...without which, btw, we would not be sitting here answering q's.