[wideawake]

in both cases, the injured parties believed they had legitimate grievances

The Founders were correct, and Pion is not.

Hence the inequity in your comparison.

[Altariel]

Really?

Even the Founders would agree that arresting a man with possession of a plant and “resisting arrest” was a violation of the man’s freedoms.

But then, they (particularly the Anti-Federalists) had a far more limited view on the proper boundaries of government than even many Freepers today.