This is a picture of people gathering to protest the Iraq War. They have the right to assemble and protest againt government decisions only to a certain extent. No where in the Constitution does it say that there is the Freedom to Riot.
In the Bill of Rights, The First Amendment guarantees that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
If we didn't have the right to assemble, speak, or print, minorities probably would still be in a extremely racial environment. If the right to assemble and speak wasn't included in the Constitution, Martin Luther King Jr, Caeser Chavez, or Rosa Parks would not have had the opportunity to fight for the rights they were stripped of.
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