Burke: Are you ready to say "No Kings" in your country?
Protests in America are as old as, well, America.
Older, actually, as in 1636 Roger Smith “founded” Rhode Island protesting the strict mandatory mix of religion and government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Smith advocated for separation of church and state, freedom for other religious viewpoints, and fair treatment of Native Americans (My goodness, he sounds like a modern Democrat!).
Then there was Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676, staged by Virginia settlers protesting then-Governor William Berkeley’s refusal to drive Native Americans out of their state. (Where was ICE when they needed ’em?); the Boston Bread Riots between 1710 and 1713 were in response to food shortages and high bread prices (I wonder how they would have reacted to gas at $5.49 a gallon); and the Philadelphia Election Riot in 1742 sprang from disagreements over how votes were counted and the thugs hired by one party to disrupt the process.
Now, the grand old guys who wrote the Constitution ensured the great American tradition of protests continued in the new United States by writing, “Congress shall make no law … 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.”
So, this coming Saturday, 3/28/26, we again celebrate that 1st Amendment via “No Kings Day” as perhaps another 7+ million souls turn out to make their voices heard; physically show the strength of their numbers and convictions (and in today’s ICE-fraught environment perhaps putting their actual bodies on the line); and make a very public statement telling the Dear Leader/Wanna-Be-Dictator/Wish-I-Were-King Donald J. Trump just what we think of him and his war, tariffs, place-name-changing, voter rights curtailment, grifting, covering for pedophiles, ballroom, etc.
https://www.heraldnet.com/2026/03/25/burke-are-you-ready-to-say-no-kings-in-your-country/