deactherunner
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Good thread here:
Good thread here:
http://www.newsleader.com/story/new...lanning-2018-rally-charlottesville/906235001/
Dear god, and fuck me in the morning. Kessler is planning a 1 year anniversary rally here in Cville. I was hoping his move to OH was going to take him out of Cville politics and news for a while. But that's right - there are good people on both sides.
Don't bet on it. It'll be interesting to see what the courts do from here on out after Berkeley, Portland and Cville. I don't think localities will be able to reject them outright, but I'm assuming they'll pay more attention to time/place/manner restrictions.
If it's the same group who created all the problem, it's an easy no. They wouldn't have a leg to stand on about being peaceful.
It is not an easy no, and this will end up back in the courts. They still have the right to assemble/rally, subject to the city's reasonable time/place/manner restrictions. What will be litigated is what restrictions are reasonable under the circumstances. The city is currently employing a firm to review its public meeting policies and procedures. Said policies and procedures must still be content neutral.
You no right to create violence.
Corrected...no need for that...and you understood what it meant. Well, if anyone other RJ had posted it.
Corrected...no need for that...and you understood what it meant. Well, if anyone other RJ had posted it.
It's not about curtailing free speech because of content. It's about the fact that this group created violence. You don't have the right to scream fire in a crowded theater. They have a track record of doing so.
If another RW group came to town, I would agree with you 100%.
You don't get it. There were several hundred white supremacists here on 8/12 with a large number of subgroups of white supremacists. Not all behaved violently, and only a handful have been arrested. And there were plenty of counter protesters who also behaved violently, and at least 2 who I know of have been arrested. Kessler's contention was that they were there for peaceful assembly, and it's the police's fault that the violence occurred. There was not 1 defined group who created the violence as you contend. And FWIW, our police chief did eff up on a number of scores.
Here's what's going to happen. Kessler files his permit. If it's denied outright, he goes to federal court. If the city is smart, which they may well not be because the new city council may be disposed to just say no, they'll put significant restrictions on any permit. First, they'll try to move it from downtown where it's nearly impossible to separate the white supremacists from the counter protesters. Probably to McIntire Park where they can put up a barrier in the middle with separate ingress/egress for both groups, 1 from the high school and 1 from the bypass. In addition, they'll curtail bringing anything that can be used as a weapon or projectile into the event - guns, flags, poles, aerosol cans, water bottles... so that the only things folks can use as weapons are their fists and feet. And say that they'll have cops at the entrances inspecting both sides fairly. Kessler won't go for that and will again file suit, but I believe the city has a much better chance of winning on that front this time around.
Dude- there is no way you know as much as RJ on this subject.