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April 18, 2009
The First Amendment can be so fickle!
I've been trying to reconcile two recent incidents -- one in which an angry and violent mob was allowed to shut down a talk by Tom Tancredo, and another in which a perfectly civil journalist was arrested for trying to ask questions of the public outside a Katie Couric award ceremony. Here's the video of the violent mob which shut down Tancredo's talk: Notice that despite the violence, no one was arrested for anything. Instead, the police terminated Tom Tancredo's talk -- precisely what the violent demonstrators were targeting. On the other hand, here's the video of journalist being arrested for asking questions at the Katie Couric ceremony -- which was not canceled: So what is the First Amendment "rule" here? Violent disruption of conservative events warrants cancellation of the event, while critical coverage of liberal events warrants arrest? posted by Eric on 04.18.09 at 05:44 PM |
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If it is leftist it leads, if it is truth it bleeds?
I don't think your question is serious--it is the same thing that has been going on since the 196's.