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jlf1961 -> RE: The white supremacy incident (8/18/2017 8:28:41 AM)
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ORIGINAL: bounty44
I don't know the requirements of the permit---but philosophically speaking, its beside the point and the question still stands.
The permits issued are pretty straight forward, and based on the first amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Which basically means that the city issues a permit for people to gather peacefully to protest or whatever.
It also puts the responsibility for the protection of the protestors on local law enforcement.
By carrying guns in their march, the Neo Nazi groups violated the permit, and the city would have been well within the law to arrest anyone carrying a firearm or weapon of any type.
This also applied to the permits issued to the counter protestor groups, many of whom also showed up with various items that could be considered weapons.
In this respect, President Trump was correct, both sides were looking for trouble, there was no intent on either side to peacefully protest or assemble.
In fact, if President Trump would have continued his initial statement to condemn the racist group that supported the man who ran his car into a group of protestors, it would have covered the incident nicely, even though the liberal idiots would have still insisted that there side did nothing wrong.
And, I agree with bosco to an extent, that the liberal groups that were present are far from innocent.
But for liberals to claim that racism is only a southern thing, and that the south's insistence on holding on to these monuments is a desperate attempt to hang on to a failed cause they are full of shit.
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