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Florida gov. declares state of emergency before Richard Spencer speech

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Ogodei

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GoldenEye 007 said:
From what I remember, they did originally ban it. They were then sued. Now they're allowing it. Because they probably know they would lose in court.
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So you fight it out in court and lose. If you're going to piss away taxpayer money, do it trying to stamp out Nazism, not by caving to it.
 
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Isaac Otherworld

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lightus said:
... and the tens of thousands of employees, students and civilians at the event and in the city.

I get the point you're trying to make but really it just comes across poorly.

A lot more than just the nazi's are benefiting from the increased security and drive-by posts like the one you just made only make it harder to fight against these Nazis.
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The police are going to beat, tear gas, and arrest the students and protesters on mass and buy Burger King for the nazi's. Because that's what they always do.

Did you just sleep through what happened in Charlottesville?
 
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Kusagari

Member
Ogodei said:
So you fight it out in court and lose. If you're going to piss away taxpayer money, do it trying to stamp out Nazism, not by caving to it.
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Auburn did try and basically got forced to host him by a judge. They’ll just be wasting more money than they already are on security.
 
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lightus

Member
Isaac Otherworld said:
The police are going to beat, tear gas, and arrest the students and protesters on mass and buy Burger King for the nazi's. Because that's what they always do.

Did you just sleep through what happened in Charlottesville?
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I certainly hope that won't happen. My interactions with the police here have been good so far and they seemed to handle the protests around the church that was burning Qurans a few years back well. I'm more so hoping I won't see that my friend got ran down by a nazi in a car on the news.

I guess we'll see though.
 
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FStubbs

Member
PBY said:
Uh....

Pardon my ignorance here - but why not just cancel the fucking speech?
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I mean, put yourself in Rick Scott's position. He agrees with what Richard Spencer says but doesn't want
white
people to be killed either.

Now if the people Spencer wants dead get killed, hey, so sad.
 
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III-V

Member
I thought I read this had been canceled wtf. And now we have to subsidize these shitheads to spread hate speech?
 
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TumblingHippo

Member
lightus said:
I certainly hope that won't happen. My interactions with the police here have been good so far and they seemed to handle the protests around the church that was burning Qurans a few years back well. I'm more so hoping I won't see that my friend got ran down by a nazi in a car on the news.

I guess we'll see though.
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Spoilers, cops are scum and will always protect nazis before Americans.
 
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thepenguin55

Member
Mammoth Jones said:
Or.......

We could classify White Supremacists, Nazi's and the KKK as terrorist organizations (that they are) and treat them the same fucking way we would treat ISIS if someone invited them to speak at a college.

But that's crazy talk. White supremacy will always defend its own no matter what.
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That’s the craziest shit about all of this. In what world are white supremacists not terrorists?
 
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LegendofJoe

Member
Angry Grimace said:
Just let him say his dumb little speech and then get the fuck out. The effort to suppress it gives it more attention than anything he could actually say.
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This is what my thinking is as well. Richard Spencer is a provocateur, he wants to be protested, and by this point people know what he's about. We know that white supremacy is ascending, so why do we continue to shine the spotlight on the same people promoting it? Ignore him and that twat Milo Idontcareapolis as well.
 
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Shauni

Member
LegendofJoe said:
This is what my thinking is as well. Richard Spencer is a provocateur, he wants to be protested, and by thos point people know what he's about. We know that white supremacy is ascending, so why do we continue to shine the spotlight on the same people promoting it? Ignore him and that twat Milo Idontcareapolis as well.
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Ignoring it is a bad idea. It's because Milo wasn't just ignored that lead to his downfall since all the attention he got lead to people digging up his pedo sympathy stuff.
 
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DrForester

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Nazi's were punched.

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Aselith

Member
KDR_11k said:
Universities are bound by the first amendment. Though I don't think anything in there says speakers have to be protected from the mob...
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No, first amendment is about not suppressing speech. That does not mean you need to schedule the fucker a stage to speak on.
 
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Shadow Puppetry

Member
Spencer got chants, "FUCK YOU SPENCER! GO HOME SPENCER! BLACK LIVES MATTER!"
Props to the female who asked if it hurt Spencer when he got decked on the jaw.
 
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The Kree

Banned
Some people were trying to talk to him, one dude hugged him, another dude punched him, and the crowd escorted him towards incredulous police.

Interesting variety of responses to the mere presence of a Nazi. I wonder which of these he learned from, if any.
 
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Captainbojanglesiii

Banned
From what I read, only the one guy here got punched. I know another person was arrested for being armed, but I don’t know any more than that

Also lmao at the protestor in the blue. Got ricochet-hit in the face, and got called a nazi on here. Poor guy
 
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nitekrawlwer

Member
Would anything more than a fine happen if they decided to not host the event anyway? If it's just a fine it still seems fiscally responsible to cancel this bullshit even if it's in contempt of court.
 
Acerac

Acerac

Banned
old manatee said:
What a collosal waste of time and money. "STOP EVERYTHING A TROGLODYTE HAS OPINIONS"
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It's an efficient way to fuck with institutions that bother you if you're willing to be an absolute scumbag.

In all fairness laws that assume nobody is willing to act like a scumbag are fairly useless in my eyes.
 
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mid83

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Captainbojanglesiii said:
Also lmao at the protestor in the blue. Got ricochet-hit in the face, and got called a nazi on here. Poor guy
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A perfect reason why I don’t like it when people use pictures of these events to figure out the identities of those present and proceed to “out” them as nazis.

If you want to do that with somebody with a swatstika on their shirt, fine, but other people present are sometimes wrongly assumed to be nazis as well. I’m sure people on this forum aren’t the only ones wrongly thinking the guy in blue is a nazi. It only takes one person to find out his identity, post online he’s a nazi and that will forever be present via a google search.
 
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ChainedMaster

Banned
VenomousCoffee said:
Yup. Some people seem to have forgotten, but after 9/11 (some of) our major media announced explicitly that only brown people/Muslims can be terrorists. We are tougher on black people who want peace than we are on white people who want death.
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Yeah it's not like the Oslo shooter or the OK City bomber was called a terrorist, ever. Oh wait.

Anyway, I went to the speach. I really wish people chilled with the disruption and stupid "fuck you" questions that wasted time during the Q&A. I was next in line for a question and it would have been great.

"You have been adamant about the cause of death of the woman who died at Charlotesville, Heather. You claim she died of a heart attack, but an autopsy showed that was not the case. Why do you spread fake news?"

It would have been epic. But nah people gotta get their insults in. I was SO close. Oh well, I won't complain much. I enjoyed it very much and it was definitely worth the drive from Jacksonville.
 
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shem935

Banned
ChainedMaster said:
Yeah it's not like the Oslo shooter or the OK City bomber was called a terrorist, ever. Oh wait.

Anyway, I went to the speach. I really wish people chilled with the disruption and stupid "fuck you" questions that wasted time during the Q&A. I was next in line for a question and it would have been great.

"You have been adamant about the cause of death of the woman who died at Charlotesville, Heather. You claim she died of a heart attack, but an autopsy showed that was not the case. Why do you spread fake news?"

It would have been epic. But nah people gotta get their insults in. I was SO close. Oh well, I won't complain much. I enjoyed it very much and it was definitely worth the drive from Jacksonville.
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Answer: "Fake news"

Next question
 
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Shauni

Member
ChainedMaster said:
Yeah it's not like the Oslo shooter or the OK City bomber was called a terrorist, ever. Oh wait.

Anyway, I went to the speach. I really wish people chilled with the disruption and stupid "fuck you" questions that wasted time during the Q&A. I was next in line for a question and it would have been great.

"You have been adamant about the cause of death of the woman who died at Charlotesville, Heather. You claim she died of a heart attack, but an autopsy showed that was not the case. Why do you spread fake news?"

It would have been epic. But nah people gotta get their insults in. I was SO close. Oh well, I won't complain much. I enjoyed it very much and it was definitely worth the drive from Jacksonville.
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And he would have easily side-stepped that question with some bullshit whataboutism and/or 'not what I read, but you're entitled to your opinion' and then called on someone else
 
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alternade

Member
ChainedMaster said:
Yeah it's not like the Oslo shooter or the OK City bomber was called a terrorist, ever. Oh wait.

Anyway, I went to the speach. I really wish people chilled with the disruption and stupid "fuck you" questions that wasted time during the Q&A. I was next in line for a question and it would have been great.

"You have been adamant about the cause of death of the woman who died at Charlotesville, Heather. You claim she died of a heart attack, but an autopsy showed that was not the case. Why do you spread fake news?"

It would have been epic. But nah people gotta get their insults in. I was SO close. Oh well, I won't complain much. I enjoyed it very much and it was definitely worth the drive from Jacksonville.
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Asking reasonable questions to a man who would rather see half the people there hanging from a tree is the epitome of wasting your time
 
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