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posted by martyb on Wednesday October 18 2017, @09:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-if-nobody-showed-up? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday October 19 2017, @12:41AM (13 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 19 2017, @12:41AM (#584292) Journal

    Aristarchus submits these dogwhistle articles, and Soylent publishes them - why?

    I guess this one had some merit to it. Declaring an emergency just for a speech is pretty weird. He's posted several journal articles complaining about how most of his crap doesn't get past the editors.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 19 2017, @01:01AM (12 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 19 2017, @01:01AM (#584309) Journal

    Yeah, I've looked at his journal. A lot of whining and crying that he was disciplined for bad conduct, as well as complaining that his agenda isn't being pushed by Soylent. We've all taken some flack over the past year, to year and a half, about the number of political submissions.

    When does Ari submit anything that is NOT political in nature? Everything he submits is political, and divisive. Not to mention, he denigrates women - https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=22117&page=1&cid=584204#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] Let it be noted that Aristarchus has no use for boobies - but that's to be expected of a Greek male.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday October 19 2017, @01:36AM (7 children)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 19 2017, @01:36AM (#584320) Journal
      As I see it, aristarchus is committing the one great sin of the court jester - not being funny.
      • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday October 19 2017, @05:19AM (2 children)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday October 19 2017, @05:19AM (#584378) Journal

        I find your lack of faith disturbing, khallow! And your lack of a sense of humor. Here, let me give a dogwhistle for you! "Taxation is Theft!", another? "White lives matter, too, sometimes, even though they mostly are really pathetic and boring and only achieved on the back of white privilege, which some khallows are know to call, "inherited intelligence." Just amazing, truly, truly amazing. Got a racist tarbaby stuck to your backside, khallow! Prove us wrong! Are you not a Republican? Are you not a Libertariantard? Are you, or are you not, a member of the Communist party? At long last, sir, have you no shame? Sir? khallow, I am talking to you. Have you no shame?

      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 19 2017, @12:41PM (3 children)

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday October 19 2017, @12:41PM (#584509) Journal

        Buzzard is also not funny, so at least there's symmetry [youtu.be].

        --
        Washington DC delenda est.
        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday October 19 2017, @04:06PM (2 children)

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday October 19 2017, @04:06PM (#584628) Homepage Journal

          I'll have you know I absolutely kill with the Harpo Marx "hold my leg" gag, thank you very much.

          --
          My rights don't end where your fear begins.
          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:05PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @07:05PM (#584761)

            I think we're all done believing anything you say. Except jmo, hallow, runaway, vlm, and probably some others. They seem to love you long time.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @03:12AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @03:12AM (#584348)

      &page=1 is -always- noise in a S/N URL.

      I have seen no difference when a S/N URL contains noupdate=1 and when it doesn't.
      If someone has, please enlighten me.

      I suggest leaving out both from URLs.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @09:47AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @09:47AM (#584448)

        I have seen no difference when a S/N URL contains noupdate=1 and when it doesn't.

        That's because you are not logged in. If you are logged into an account, any visit without noupdate=1 will have all comments posted so far on the story marked as seen, and greyed out on the next visit. This includes comments you actually have not seen if you happen to be on a view that only shows part of the comments (or just happened to not scroll through the complete page). The noupdate=1 prevents comments from being marked as seen when they haven't been actually seen yet.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @11:36AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @11:36AM (#584476)

          Ah. That makes sense.
          Thanks for the clarification.

          -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 19 2017, @01:48PM

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 19 2017, @01:48PM (#584537) Journal

        FYI, we serve bloated URL's specially for bloated Brits and Americans.