I do not fault groups of like-minded individuals who come together to exercise freedom of expression in order to call attention to their plight or to achieve their rights.  Sometimes (usually), this inconveniences others, but life goes on for the inconvenienced, while those who protest continue to be more than inconvenienced, and, as evidenced on here, denigrated, because there are those who cannot muster the minimum amount of compassion needed to put themselves in the protesters' place, if even for a minute.  But, in this country, it seems this is the only way in which rights can be achieved, I'm sad to say.  We can't seem to come together and do the right thing in  order to achieve justice for all of us, together as one group of people called "Americans."  And the Internet has provided a forum for people to say with immunity mean things they would never say to someone's face.  (cont'd.)