All amendments count, not just the second one.

Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg was invited to be on FOX News this morning to discuss the infrastructure projects associated with Joe Biden's Infrastructure bill that was passed in 2021 on a bi-partisan basis, but when the FOX News host tried to move the conversation to people who are protesting peacefully against Supreme Court justices, Buttigieg took control of the interview and made it clear that all the Amendments of the Constitution are important, not just the second one. 

You are welcome to view the entire interview, but if you are looking to skip to the first amendment issue it can be found seven minutes into the interview. I recommend listening to the entire interview, as Buttigieg discusses how the infrastructure bill rollout is proceeding.   

Buttigieg could not be more accurate in his assessment that the American public has the right to protest PEACEFULLY public officials when they do something in their role as a public figure that upsets the public (the majority or minority of the public). 

Americans protest public figures all the time in this country, why should Supreme Court justices be any different, especially justices who perjured themselves, after being nominated by an authoritarian, to get themselves appointed to the court, and then overturned 50 years of settled precedent.

Make no mistake, people should not be violent in any way because the constitution allows for people to protest peacefully, but once they become violent and violate the law, they are now criminals like the domestic terrorists who stormed the Capitol looking to kill the Vice President and the Speaker of the House, among others.

These are the interviews that FOX News viewers need to hear on a regular basis, but in most cases, the opposing viewpoint is not welcomed on FOX News, and when it is, they are talked over and shouted down. Good for Buttigieg, not only for accepting the interview, but for not allowing the FOX host to interrupt him or silence him, even though he tried multiple times.

Let this be a lesson to the more progressive members of the Democratic caucus, who refuse to even go on FOX News. More than half the country watches this, for lack of a better word, "news" channel, and if all they hear is the constant BS provided by the extreme right, then that will eventually become their viewpoint as well. Thus, it's imperative that more Democrats do these interviews if nothing else to put an end to the one-sided propaganda that permeates this so-called "news" network.