03-08-2016, 02:08 PM
(03-08-2016, 01:33 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: If you attended you could just get up and leave. Or I guess act like a fool and riot
Anyone who went to the trouble to attend knew what he was going to talk about. It wasn't something you would just randomly wander into.
And that is one reason I don't think anyone who attended has any right to complain about what they heard. But sometimes you don't have to attend to feel threatened by the message some people bring.
For example last year here in Knoxville there was a big dispute over an anti-Muslim speaker. he was originally scheduled to speak at a public high school (after school hours). Some people protested and the school cancelled the speech. The speaker just rented a private venue and gave the speech anyway. But he was able to make a big deal out of how the government was trying to violate his freedom of speech.
In this case I think it was just much ado about nothing. I don't see keeping him from using a public building as violating his rights. And I would have the same opinion if it was a radical leftist instead of the radical conservative.
