White nationalist rally in Va. linked to 3 deaths, officials say

[Jim Lane]

4. Do you mean they should have been confined to a "Free Speech Zone"?

I was in one of those once, when Bush the Lesser came to a fundraiser in NYC. We were confined to a pen (surrounded by police barricades) a couple blocks away.

When I was nearer to the hotel where the dinner was, a cop told me I had to move along. I asked, "You mean where I'm standing now is not a Free Speech Zone?" He answered, "That's right." I was tempted to respond, "I remember when the whole country was a free speech zone" but I didn't have bail money on me.

The point of all this is that even hateful people like white supremacists and neo-Nazis are protected by the First Amendment (which, if they ever got power, they would quickly abrogate).

Anyway, even if the march had been held on the edge of town, the counter-demonstrators would still have shown up there, and this murderer would still have tried to kill some of them.