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Seriously! Florida declares state of Emergency over Alt-right!

Accepted submission by aristarchus at 2017-10-18 07:04:10 from the From the "Free speech does not entail a right to a forum" dept. dept.
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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 the arrival of the alt-white. According to NPR [npr.org]:

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.

And it looks like it could get expensive, all this white supremacy talk and what all.

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.

Well, that is the cost of free speech in a free country! We got to pay for Nazis to threaten the safety of us all. Well, at least they lost the war.


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