Posted on 10/12/2020 1:12:27 PM PDT by rebuildus
I attended a “Rally 4 Freedom” yesterday in Franklin, Tennessee. Franklin is supposedly a very conservative city. But will it REMAIN a conservative city? That’s really up to the “silent majority.”
Left-wing disruptors attempted to sabotage the event. This article begins to explain what happened.
A Left-wing group called “The People’s Plaza” encouraged people–through their Facebook site–to come and disrupt the rally by honking their horns.
(Facebook post - Honk a Thon)
They called it a “Honk a Thon” to “drown out ‘white supremacy.'”
(Honk a Thon e-graphic)
So some lefties did come and do that, driving around the block repeatedly and leaning on their horns, disrupting speakers.
Some of these disruptors were chased down by the Franklin PD, and I applaud them for that. The crowd applauded too!
Toward the end of the rally, some angry older guy drove up to an open parking spot right next to the event and set off his car horn alarm. Myself and a few others challenged him. I yelled at him to “Turn it off!” He claimed a “First Amendment right” to disrupt our event in this way.
But there is no “First Amendment right” to disrupt a peaceful rally! Where I come from, this is called “disturbing the peace.” Perhaps it’s even considered a form of assault.
It appeared at first that the police were going to shut down this old angry Leftist, but this was NOT to be the case. They did NOT make him turn off his car horn-alarm, nor did they arrest him. Instead, they basically protected HIM, and kept people from our side from stopping his disruptive action!
Much of this clash was captured by a video of this event taken by one of the Leftists. This disruption begins at 12:13.
So my attention turned more to the police than to him. I asked to talk to the officer in charge. The officer I spoke with did not tell me who was in charge, only telling me that the Franklin police department was in charge of the street, and the Williamson County sheriffs department was in charge of the rally area. I asked this officer why they were allowing this guy to disrupt our event, that there is NO FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTION for this.
The officer got agitated with ME (NOT the angry old guy who was causing the commotion!).
One of the organizer / speakers of the event minimized the planned disruption: “Let him have his tantrum, it’s okay… we love them…” (you can hear him on the video). I appreciate the organizers and the event they put on, but as an American who appreciates the “right of the People to lawfully assemble”–NO, they do NOT have a right to disrupt our peaceful assembly!
I just noticed while watching the video, that a guy from our side walked by in the midst of the commotion and pushed the video camera into the face of the woman shooting the video. He was finally pointed out by the Leftists, and the police cuffed him, at least temporarily. Okay, that’s understandable, but NO MOVE WAS MADE to stop the guy blowing his car horn–the INSTIGATOR of the whole incident–the police only acted when someone from our side (assuming he was legitimately on our side) overreacted.
I certainly appreciate and support law enforcement one hundred percent, but frankly I find it disturbing when angry Leftists can come to an event with a PRE-DETERMINED MISSION TO DISRUPT, and not only does nothing happen to them, but WE are made to be the trouble makers when we dare challenge the disruption! This is a form of cowardice or corruption, and if we are really looking to “reform” police, this is where it should start. Law enforcement needs to work on behalf of the LAW ABIDING!
And if we know in advance that a Leftist agitator group is planning on Facebook or anywhere else to disrupt one of our events, we need to speak to the police in advance to make sure that they are not allowed to do so. We must stand up for our rights, or they will be trampled by the Left, and the police may not defend us. That’s just a reality.
In closing, I suppose you could say that this is just one more example of why the American People need to come out November 3rd and vote in President Donald J. Trump, and a whole slate of patriotic Republicans, to help stop the madness and “make America great again.”
Yes, this is certainly true!
But politics by itself–as critical as it is–is NOT ENOUGH. The so-called “silent majority” needs to stop purring like a kitten, and start ROARING LIKE A LION!
We must DEMAND that our sacred rights are upheld! Otherwise, we will lose them. Freedom has never been free, and it sure ain’t free now!
Go to a city council meeting and demand answers.
There is no First Amendment right to shout down a speaker. If a governmental actor, such a public university, sides with the heckler by canceling the event or refusing to protect the speaker against use of force, it has failed to uphold the speaker’s free speech rights.
In Forsyth County v. Nationalist Movement (1992), the Supreme Court held that the First Amendment protects “[t]hose wishing to express views unpopular with bottle throwers . . . Speech cannot be financially burdened, any more than it can be punished or banned, simply because it might offend a hostile mob.”
source: https://www.thefire.org/best-of-newsdesk-rejecting-the-hecklers-veto/
That’s a good suggestion. I think the se evil creeps get intimidated by lots of photos and videos where they can be identified.
Honkythons are racist
No I was at deer camp
Sorry I missed it
Franklin is not “very conservative”, it’s fairly GOPe with a liberal school board and moderate county manager
It’s about 50/50 northern southern
Very few blacks who don’t stir up much
But it even being mostly white only votes 70% Trump
Mississippi whites on the other hand voted 92% Trump
That’s “very conservative”
However I’m sorry me and my lads missed it but we were awol
Franklin is currently trying to remove all of the monuments to the Confederate Generals that died there and rename all of the streets that were named for them. The City leaders are also wanting to remove all Confederate monuments located there. Franklin isn’t recognizable from the city I helped put on a reenactment in November of 1989.
Thanks, wardaddy, for the correction. Yes, sorry you missed.
Thanks, tbw2. Good points.
I may do that, thanks.
Yes, they are at risk of losing support from the decent people with stunts like this.
Carl, unfortunately, there’s truth in what you say. I hesitate to call these that do this “traitorous participants” as I know we are pro-police, but I understand your viewpoint.
There is certainly an “artsy fartsy” element. And the leftists are either being protected out of fear or some type of agreement.
Agreed. I’ve seen the same thing. Police—like other human beings—often take the path of least resistance.
Yes, jimjohn, this makes sense. I hate to put the police under scrutiny as they get enough of that from the Left. But their job is “to protect and serve,” and if they are falling short in that regard, they must be held to account.
Yeah, exactly, CrappieLuck!
That's not just true of Franklin. Many from Illinois are fleeing this state and heading for Nashville, ruining that great city.
I've seen/heard so many from Illinois heading to Tennessee that this Conservative has taken that state off my list of states to move to when I retire in two years. I took Florida off too for the same reason.
The flight from blue states is infecting red states and is going to destroy this country.
Of course outside agitators will keep at it
On a more positive note I’m noticing here if we don’t get rained out in the next couple of weeks we should have a really good foliage season this fall I was just driving through Belle Meade where I do not live and noticed the trees were starting to turn nicely
Of course outside agitators will keep at it
On a more positive note I’m noticing here if we don’t get rained out in the next couple of weeks we should have a really good foliage season this fall I was just driving through Belle Meade where I do not live and noticed the trees were starting to turn nicely
“I was just driving through Belle Meade where I do not live and noticed the trees were starting to turn nicely”
Something utterly alien to SoCal, where the only sign of Fall is hot Santa Ana Winds.
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