Demonstrations, rallies, and protests are all valid exercises of our constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech.
In a democratic republic, such political speech must never include violence or threats of violence!
Unfortunately, it appears that some attendees of the upcoming March 10 "Coming Out of the Shadows: Undocumented, Unafraid, Unapologetic" rally in Chicago don't seem to agree with this important principle of our republic.
One planned attendee stated "Its time people to be prepared... let them feel your presence... make random hits back... let them know what its like to live in fear".... "those egyptians used rocks.... molotovs... etc; hit and run... even the watts riots and rodney king riots and the mardi gras gets willd...step it up people take it to em..."
Note the complete absence of criticism of this call to violence from ANY of the more than 1300 attendees of this rally throughout the course of an entire day.
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