"Left Attacks ACLU for Defending Milo Yiannopoulos’ Right to Free Speech"

[jim bell]

http://observer.com/2017/02/aclu-defends-breitbart-milo-yiannopoulos-free-speech/

[partial quote follows]
"On February 1, Breitbart technology editor and right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at the University of California-Berkeley. Students at the university protested his speech, and radicals—many of whom may not have been students—turned violent."Yiannopoulos’ speech was canceled for safety concerns, as demonstrators threw rocks and fireworks at the building where the speech was set to take place. What began as a speech to 500 students expanded to thousands as the media (including this writer) wrote countless articles about the riots and Yiannopoulos."If the Left wanted to shut Yiannopoulos down, they failed by behaving in such a manner that raised his profile. Who knows how many people wondered who this person was who caused such a backlash, and how many of those people then found at least some of what Yiannopoulos says to be acceptable?"In a follow-up article on the riots, Washington Post columnist Steven Petrow spoke to a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, Lee Rowland. Rowland told Petrow that she finds much of Yiannopoulos’ speech to be “absolutely hateful an despicable—but those adjectives don’t remove his speech from the Constitution’s protection.”[end of partial quote]Jim Bell's comments follow:The ACLU is being correct, at least here.  They were also attacked in the late 1970's, for standing up for the right of Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois.  That march (which never actually happened) was humorously portrayed in John  Belushi's movie, "Blues Brothers". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTT1qUswYL0
(Head Nazi is played by actor Henry Gibson, perhaps most famous for the TV show, "Laugh-In".  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k61ZJpMDBzU
      Jim bellT
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