Counter-protesting street theater is one thing.

www.slacc.com/stlcofcc/20050505.html -- as an example. However, even at that, the histrionics about "bombs" could have been left at their respective homes.

But crashing a picnic crosses a line of decency and tact. If we learn that various far-left groups are going to have a picnic at a given place/time/day, we sure as Hades won't show up to the venue at all, much less crash it wearing face coverings, donning vinyl signs with curse words, overturning tables in the process.

There's free speech, but there's also a time and a place for everything. An analogue on the "far right," if you will, is the Fred Phelps milieu and his protests at military funerals. I agree with legislation to prohibit protests close to military funerals. Abusing free expression will lead to the end of free expression.