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Governor Rick Scott (R) has declared a state of emergency in the county where the University of Florida lay, due to a planned speech by Richard Spencer. According to NPR:
When Hurricane Irma was bearing down on Florida last month, Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency. On Monday, he did the same thing in Alachua County, ahead of a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
"We live in a country where everyone has the right to voice their opinion, however, we have zero tolerance for violence and public safety is always our number one priority," Scott said in a statement. "This executive order is an additional step to ensure that the University of Florida and the entire community is prepared so everyone can stay safe."
"I find that the threat of a potential emergency is imminent," Scott declared in his executive order, noting that Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell had requested the state's assistance. The order will make it easier for various agencies to coordinate a security plan for Thursday's speech at the university.
[...] No campus group invited Spencer to speak, and the university is not hosting or sponsoring the event. Spencer's group, the National Policy Institute, is paying the university $10,564 for facility rental and security.
And it looks like it could get expensive:
The speech and accompanying protests are also a major expense: The university as well as state and local agencies expect to spend more than $500,000 to provide additional security.
And the University of Florida can't demand that Spencer pay the full cost of protecting him, because of a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Forsyth County v. Nationalist Movement.
In that decision, the university explains, "the Court clarified that the government cannot assess a security fee on the speaker based upon the costs of controlling the reaction of potential hostile onlookers or protestors," under legal doctrine known as the "heckler's veto."
Well, that is the cost of free speech in a free country.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday October 18 2017, @11:11PM (5 children)
Aristarchus submits these dogwhistle articles, and Soylent publishes them - why?
The only way aristarchus' position on white supremacists could be considered a dog-whistle would be if he was literally using a dog-whistle to communicate to people because they can't read.
Those opposed to white supremacists don't pretend they're saying something else.
I'll show you: I, DeathMonkey, am opposed to white supremacists.
(Score: 2) by rylyeh on Wednesday October 18 2017, @11:39PM
We will play both ends against the middle, annihilate the center, and overcome!
Seems a great deal like it's 1968 again, except the war is being fought on our soil.
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 19 2017, @12:19AM (2 children)
See AC's post, just above your post - https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=22117&page=1&cid=584233#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
White nationalists are the retarded children that the village tries to ignore. How does one "oppose" retardation?
But, we have people like Aristarchus who have some kind of agenda, to blow the retardation out of proportion, in hopes of starting a War on Retardation.
I've noted in the past that much of the liberal left's agenda only feeds the retards. The KKK was reduced to it's lowest level of membership in the 90's, and here they are making a comeback. All because the liberal left openly attacks hetero white males, again and again and again. The left literally feeds the gang mentality that white supremacy relies on.
(Score: 2) by rylyeh on Thursday October 19 2017, @12:31AM (1 child)
All (any category you please) who continue to think/speak based upon marketing demographics are doomed to FAILURE!
Abstraction (not curiosity) is what killed the cat.
Do not take the bait! Whatever you think - that's what you think. Sometimes - factual examination of issues can result in actual compromise!!!
Sheesh!
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 2) by arcz on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:41PM
I would mod +1 insightful but I ran out of mod points.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 19 2017, @12:37PM
What are you really saying, DeathMonkey?
Washington DC delenda est.