CINCINNATI (AP) — An attorney for Richard Spencer said Monday the white nationalist’s plan to speak on the University of Cincinnati campus during spring break has been scuttled…
He'll have to provide Trump a personal briefing on the difficulties he's experiencing exercising his 1st Amendment rights.Um. if Spencer was scheduled to speak March 14 when the students were on spring break, who was he going to speak to?
Announce a Nazi party in Cincinnati and you’ll get a crowd. Kentucky taint wafts far and wide.
Perhaps they can find a suitable “free-speech zone” for Herr Spencer.
I’d suggest he looks for his free speech zone under that rock he crawled out from under. Time to crawl back or get punched in the face.
Oh dear , Mr Spencer cannot afford $11,000 ? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight .
Bristows says “I will not tolerate left-wing university bureaucrats spitting upon the First Amendment rights of right-wingers.” Pray tell, who is really spitting on and abusing free speech?
I’m guessing the requirement for an insurance certificate is more of a problem than journalist appreciate.
They should let him speak on campus in some faculty office with no one else around. They can guarantee his right to speak, but they don’t have to guarantee an audience.
Can’t we please take a page out of Germany’s book here people? Neo Nazi holocaust deniers like this putz are ILLEGAL in Germany. Against the law. Period.
How exactly is hate speech spewed far and wide by card carrying white supremist supporters of genocide not a crime? Why exactly can this piece of filth pollute our social discourse when a similar public appearance by a proponent of pedophilia or mass suicide or spousal abuse would be against the law?
Whatup, America???
Really? I can see some sort of effort to prevent public incitement of hatred, similar to squelching someone’s right to yell fire in a crowded theater. But do we want German style limits here? If 10 people in a bar are talking and one of them says the U.S. slaughter of Native Americans never happened do we want a law that would permit reporting that person to the authorities, resulting in their arrest? After all, it was a lie, and said in a public place, and provocative, and besmirched the memory of murdered Native Americans… I think enacting such laws treads on thin ice with respect to the 1st Amendment.
Germany is an extreme example and given their history they have earned the right to be extra firm about Nazi related free speech.
My point was that if hate crimes are illegal, then why are hate rallies OK? Not just lies. Neo Nazis don’t just lie. They promote violent white supremist oppression of everyone else.
I fail to understand why a speech promoting pedopholeia is a crime and a speech promoting Nazi values isn’t. Societies do not have to tolerate free speech promoting criminal behavior. They can, and do, draw the line.
KKK rallies are now illegal. White robes, burning crosses, even if no one is hurt, are OUT.
As a society, we do not have to tolerate hate rallies.