Pamela Geller hired her own security detail. If the mayor wants to keep his officers away because he doesn’t think free speech should be protected, I imagine most of the people in attendance were armed.
Pam Geller has had security for years. She is our own Ali Hersi. (I may have spelled that lady’s name wrong.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3287057/posts?page=8#8
In Texas, certain venues are off limits to CCW holders ... schools for example, and IIRC, this was one of them.
I’m glad there were police there for that event.
Hey, idiot. Get a clue. These are not just "her" freedoms. We all enjoy these freedoms via the Constitution. She was exercising her freedom of speech, as were the rest of the people who attended and participated in this cartoon contest. Her security detail protected and defended your freedoms too. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to spout off like you're doing now in bad-mouthing her.
Instead, you should be thanking her for not buckling under to the violent threats of these radical Islamic jihadists and going about exercising her freedoms as an American.
When the liberal media types and the Left in this country start twisting their logic so that they end up attacking the Pam Gellers of the world and not attacking the violent crazies of radical Islamic terrorists, we are in real trouble trying to sustain our freedoms in America.
Attendees weren't allowed to carry their weapons into the venue. They were asked to leave them in their cars.