Most of them are, but where a lot of my concern (I can't speak for anyone else) comes in is that this re-codifying of the statutes would make it illegal to protest at, say, the RNC - because Santorum has requested Secret Service protection due to all the glitter-bombs, or the DNC if Pres. Obama was there; or if Pres. Obama were to visit ground zero, it would be illegal to protest against the continuing war in Afghanistan while he was there; or even if someone wanted to stage an occupy protest on Wall Street and Biden was going to ring the opening bell, it would be illegal to protest on the sidewalk outside the NYSE building.
It's a knee-jerk reaction to all of the recent protesting, which could prevent any and all peaceful protesting near these "protected buildings". Hell, this bill would have made the Million Man March even more illegal than it probably already was at the time, because they marched through parts of Washington DC that are "protected buildings." Members of MADD could be arrested for picketing too close to the White House fence, teachers could be prevented from protesting outside of a federal court house, the list goes on. And, while police in riot gear lining a parade route is nothing new around here (it was certainly a common enough sight during the Civil Rights Movement days that the images were burned into my brain by my history books), it certainly does seem ridiculous to be sending riot police and SWAT teams to apprehend the "dangerous criminals" demonstrating against, say, banning birth control.
Then too, there's the issue of the punishments that the bill levies against people. Simply being at a protest can net you a fine and an up-to-one year prison sentence. Now, in order for them to send you to prison or even to levy a fine against you, they have to charge you with some sort of offense. If it carries a possible prison sentence, that usually makes it a criminal offense. There are a lot of jobs out there where having anything at all on your criminal record makes it impossible to have that job - for instance, teaching in Washington state requires a clean record. So what if you're a teacher, you're sick of wage cuts and having to pay for school supplies out of your own pocket, and you decide to go picket out in front of the state capital building in Olympia, and Michelle Obama is in town for a fundraiser, or to give her support to Jay Inslee, a democrat running for Governor? Bam! Immediately you can wind up with a criminal record that could (and probably would, in this state) cost you your job, for walking on a sidewalk in front of a building while holding a sign. I'm not even going to get into what would happen if you had a concealed carry permit and were carrying a handgun while you protested.
Edit: Krisken beat me to it, and in a much more concise way, but I'ma leave this here anyway.
