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Susan Sullivan's avatar

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for writing about this! These vile marches are a stain on British society. They are offensive, wicked, distruptive and downright hateful! London is shut down on a Saturday. People can’t go about their business. However, for Jewish people, they are horrendous and intimidating in the extreme. Why, why, are they allowed to continue?? Weak, weak, weak Government! They will reap what they sow!

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Doug Israel's avatar

The problem is not the freedom of assembly or the freedom of expression. The problem is the abuse of these freedoms. Freedom of assembly does not mean the right to harass and menace others. It does not mean the right to shut down the streets. These are crimes. In the United States which has a more expensive view of these freedoms than anywhere on earth, the framers of the 1st Amendment never saw the right to assemble as a right to shut down the streets in unruly public demonstrations. They saw it as the right to hold meetings and gatherings for political purposes (or otherwise). Allowing street rabble to abuse the right smacks of late period Weimar. And it's how liberal societies die.

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