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Protect peaceful dissent and newsgathering, punish violence and serious obstruction by individual proof, and forbid mass surveillance or guilt by proximity at public assemblies.
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
The 2024 Democratic platform expressly warned that protest freedom was under threat and generally emphasized civil-rights enforcement, while Democratic officials have also supported public-order restrictions during disruptive protests. The 2024 Republican platform promised to restore law and order and make campuses safe while defending speech against government censorship; it did not state an individual-conduct rule that separates protest from riot. Each coalition strongly defends assembly when aligned with its own constituency and is less consistent when disruption comes from the other.
The Innovation Party supplies one viewpoint-neutral operating standard. It protects spontaneous assembly, press, and observation; permits targeted action against violence and essential-access obstruction; rejects guilt by proximity; and restricts biometric dragnet use. The test stays the same at a racial-justice march, abortion-clinic protest, labor picket, campus encampment, gun-rights rally, or election demonstration.
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