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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, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 19 2017, @12:10AM (4 children)
No man, no woman, of any color, race, religion or culture, needs be "politically correct", at any time, at any place. The term originated in one of the most oppressive governments to have ever existed - the Soviet Union. For an American to adopt such a bullshit term is insane. The concept is contrary to anything and everything the founding fathers stood for. To even attempt to be politically correct, is to kneel down to the real fascists. Fascists want to dictate what we can discuss, and what terms we may use while discussing whatever it is that we are permitted to discuss.
For starters, "diversity" pretty consistently means, "stab whitey while we can", or, maybe more accurately, "we've got to punish heterosexual white males for being heterosexual white males".
When you use their terminology, you've already lost. You've thrown the game.
Fuck political correctness. Give me honest people who can disagree with each other, and still respect each other.
(Score: 2) by rylyeh on Thursday October 19 2017, @12:26AM (3 children)
FU!
Individuals are just that. You can play any categorization game - but a person is still unique!
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 19 2017, @12:43AM (1 child)
Isn't that pretty much what I said? People don't have to conform to politically correct expectations. Be yourself, don't be a liberal, don't be a conservative. And, don't be a racist asshole either.
(Score: 2) by rylyeh on Thursday October 19 2017, @01:14AM
My is missing from the first line! I Do Agree with your point.
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Thursday October 19 2017, @04:56AM
"Jesus Christ, Supper Star""The Life of Brian" [youtube.com] , where Brian tells them they do not need to follow a Messiah, that they are all individuals, and the crowd responds, in unison, "We are all individuals!" Runaway is the one saying, "I'm not."