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24.2.06

The fascist American media...

From Local6.com in Orlando:

Police in Orlando are asking people to stay home during a neo-Nazi march planned for the downtown area over the weekend, according to a Local 6 News report.

The same neo-Nazi group that instigated violence in Toledo, Ohio, last year will march Saturday in downtown Orlando, officials said Tuesday.


No, the neo-Nazi group did not instigate violence last year in Toledo. They exercised their rights to speak and assemble, and local residents who do NOT respect the right of people to do so instigated the violence.

In a free society, speech cannot be a precursor to violence. Anyone who responds to speech with violence must bear the full blame and responsibility of their violent acts.

For the media to paint the speech of groups whose messages they do not like as the instigation of violence clearly show that these fascists believe only certain ideas fall under the protection of the 1st Amendment.

From CNN (about last year's rioting in Toledo):

The Nazi march was called off, and none of the National Socialist Movement group's 80 members who showed up to participate was arrested, White said.

Hours later, aerial video showed people vandalizing buildings and setting fire to a two-story building that apparently housed a bar, Toledo police spokeswoman Capt. Diana Ruiz-Krause told CNN.

The violence was contained to a six- or eight-block area in the north Toledo neighborhood, she added.

At least 150 officers from various units -- some on horseback, bicycles and in riot gear -- were on the scene. The city's police chief said his officers showed "considerable restraint" after being pelted with rocks and bottles for "considerable hours."

"We could have made a couple hundred arrests," he said.

Ruiz-Krause blamed the mayhem on a disorganized group of the community's youth.

Most of the violence happened when residents, who had pelted the Nazi marchers with bottles and rocks, took out their anger on police, said Brian Jagodzinski, chief news photographer for CNN affiliate WTVG.

Video showed crowds at around 2:25 p.m. using bats to bring down a wooden fence as looters broke into a small grocery store.

"The crowd was very ... extremely agitated at the police ... for doing this [making arrests in] the community when they should be doing this to the Nazis," Jagodzinski said.