I watched the 90-minute Manchester event on youtube yesterday. The people were riled up, but not enough. Killian tried to morph the problem from “speech” to “assault” as if we don’t know the difference. He tried to change the subject from his comments about mere speech, to violent action.
I don’t think people are prepared to confront such fraudsters.
He kept them at simmer level, and I kept waiting for a rotten vegetable to hit the projector screen.
The muslim speakers were obnoxious, too.
There was a lot of booing.
Not nearly enough.
I'm not a lawyer, but I had some classes about assault and battery because of the need to teach about medical malpractice at medical school.
Speech was enough to make a charge of assault, i.e. just a verbal threat. You have to make physical contact before a charge of battery can be made, i.e. just touching someone during a physical examination. Ergo, speech is assault in legalese mumbo jumbo.