I get the anti-crossing a picket line rhetoric. I once drove 4 hours to a factory where they were on strike (kind of wish management told me). I told the picketers my business and asked their permission. They graciously said yes, they had no problem. I went inside and did what I came to do. As an aside, that plant closed a year later.

I think atp's point is there is a time and place for everything. Kicking a known individual anonymously on an internet BB smacks of the same thing the Westboro Baptist Church jerks do at military funerals. Except they show their faces.

There is a right time and right place for everything- someone's public demise is not one.