Letter: Vandalism is not free speech

If I am to understand Sam Johnston, a Salt Lake attorney whose letter appeared in a recent Public Forum, the protesters who defaced the recently constructed Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office should be forgiven for their vandalism because after all it was a simple act of freedom of speech.Following that logic, then surely those who paint redrock green or blue in Utah’s scenic southwestern parks should be forgiven because their self expression is what it is, and at least they