[trubluolyguy]

Would Toledo grant a permit to the KKK?

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Yes. Yes they would. And to Farrakhan, and to the Black Panthers, and any other groups just as detestable as the Neo-Nazis. It's called the Constitution, you might try reading it.

You and I don't have to like it, but it is a right.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

From my post 65...

Exceptions established by the courts to the First Amendment protections include the following: Defamation; Causing panic; Fighting words; Incitement to crime; Sedition; Obscenity.

Fighting words: In the famous case of Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the First Amendment does not protect "fighting words -- those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace." (315 U.S. 568, 572 [1942])

Note that the harm involved is physical harm caused by someone else who was provoked by the speaker whose speech is being suppressed. The fact that someone else flies into a rage and causes physical harm results in justifying suppression of speech by another person.

It is simply not a cut-and-dried issue.