Is it OK to challenge their patriotism now?

Lileks links to LGF with a photo of some vicious twit carrying a sign that reads "I [heart] New York even more without the World Trade Cente." He should be arrested and shipped to Aghanistan, where he can support al Qaeda to his heart's content.

I'm sure the defense would be that this is why we have the First Amendment. Yeah, we have it specifically to allow people without a clue to spout off and show everybody else how indecent, hate-filled and narcissistic they are. These are the kind of people who will wonder how we could have reelected George W. Bush. After all, they had lots of people at the demonstration.

They're not only treasonous, but thugs according to this account by a woman protesting the protest:

At one point things got really pretty dicey as one of my fellow protest warriors was being choked right there in the middle of the street and the NYPD came in and rescued us! They corralled us into a bull pen sort of place and protected us from the peace marchers . . . Then, they assigned a scooter brigade to guard us while we expressed our right of free speech. My poor sainted husband, who I talked into coming with me was being shoved and screamed at by the ANSWER security squad (brown shirts) and he remarked that we have free speech in the U.S. to which the goon screamed in return "there is no [expletive] free speech."

(Link via Best of the Web)

As I keep saying, with people like this, rights go only one way. If they ever get power, there will be no more freedom to protest. How many stories have we read from students whose grades are threatened by lefty professors who were demanding tolerance and understanding when they were the students, but have no qualms about preaching punishing dissent in their own classrooms? Post-mdernism seesm more like post-freedom these days.