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To: bryan999

Portland revoking the conservative group’s permit are siding WITH the liberal bullies.

They’re empowering the violent heckler’s veto, destroying freedoms in the name of “liberals might riot”.

This is contrary to prior court decisions.

“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/


6 posted on 07/01/2018 4:52:57 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Yep. Pussy Hat Portland allows Antifa to call the shots.

Portland cops might as well don the Pussy Hat.

Try that crap in the South. We have cops that uphold the law.

Portland is a weak city ripe for the taking.


10 posted on 07/01/2018 5:00:43 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: tbw2

“Portland revoking the conservative group’s permit are siding WITH the liberal bullies.”

Just what you’d expect from a filthy democrat city.


16 posted on 07/01/2018 5:22:01 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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