Well its still the best in the world subcool. Other places in the world you would have been shot for that outburst.
Don't be such a flag waiving fool, this is absolutely not what this country is supposed to be like or anything remotely close to this. Nor is it acceptable or excusable.
Freedom to assemble did not mean if granted a permit, and freedom of speach did not include a "if it goes along with the party line" clause. Our country would be completely unrecognisable to anyone from our past.
And no peaceful person needs to be thrown on the ground and cuffed and hauled off like this, they could have cuffed him standing up if that were even warranted, which it wasn't.
We need to change this for sure, but we don't need to go the way of libya and if you've been following the news like I have, you can just see one thing after another after another in country after country designed to push people to the edge and over it, and provoke more war on purpose and by design. Don't fall for it. If our country wants to start offing people without cause make them do it don't give them a legal reason to do it.
Educate every voter you can, look for the root cause and how to fix it non violently, we must find a peaceful way out of this because your option is suicidal.
Someone in high places really likes war, and anything happens like that you know full well the full power of the UN will be here very efficiently bombing us faster than you can sprout a new seed.
If you keep looking further, you'll see country after country is being divided into killing eachother for the benefit of just a few. Further still, and it really makes you wonder who has this kind of power over the minds of our leaders, and how. Think way way way outside the box.