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When the secret service arrested Alexis Baden-Mayer of the Organic Consumers Association, they were essentially working in collusion with the federal government to prevent the right of individuals to petition their government, as protected by the first amendment of the Constitution. While some might object and say that the petitioners did not leave when police instructed them to, if the government refuses to return calls or send out an intern to receive a petition, then, it should become incumbent upon the police to allow the assembled individuals to fulfill their constitutionally backed mission without unnecessary interference. But that is not their de facto role, as agents of the state, and so while the petitioners should realistically expect to be arrested for attempting to air grievances, they are certainly not in the wrong for acting as they did. When the police suggested there could hypothetically be an "emergency, and so the gates could not be blocked, there was already a very real emergency taking place: a constitutional emergency, as well as the coming health emergency resulting from unlabeled, widely consumed toxic GMO foods. In reality, the emergency that the secret service was preventing referred to none of the aforementioned situations, but instead it was the perceived emergency of "citizens" attempting to exercise power, and thus threatening not the peace, but the violently maintained order that masquerades as a tranquil day in Washington.
