The Supreme Court Ruled in Support of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler About “Protected Speech”
Leave a commentJune 4, 2017 by Alfred
In The Washington Post’s June 1, 2017 editorial titled “Free Speech vs. Decency in Portland,” it states that Portland’s Mayor Ted Wheeler’s commendable (temporary) ban of rallies by extreme right-wing white supremacist ethno-nationalist Alt-Right/NeoNazi type organizations is an act which violates the First Amendment “Free Speech” clause of the U.S. Constitution.
What happened on a train in Portland, Oregon is that two young American female friends, one of which was wearing a veil, were vituperatively and terrorizingly verbally assaulted and told to go back where they belong by a white supremacist racist who is also a violator of religious freedom, when two American male solid citizens who also were friends, one of them a former military officer and the other one who had just graduated from college, intervened to protect the two females by merely trying in a very urbane manner to tell the agressor that these ladies deserve to be respected and left alone. Very tragically both men lost their lives when said right-wing extremist supremacist stabbed them to death in response to their statement.
In its ruling on “Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire”, the Supreme Court clearly established that speech which incites violence is not protected by the First Amendment.
It is deplorable that this Supreme Court ruling is being ignored either deliberately or by incompetence or Supreme Court ruling’s history amnesia.
The following is a one paragraph synopsis of said 1942 important ruling which allows Mayor Ted Wheeler to commendably block planned rallies by Neo-Nazi groups inspired by Trump and the websites such as Breitbart of Trump’s advisor Steve Bannon, and by the likes of Richard Spencer et al. which in the past and presently have incited racist and anti-religious violence by fundamentalist white supremacists and which have in the past, and in this case, turned lethal.
“ Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court articulated the fighting words doctrine, a limitation of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech.”
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