In a chapter out of George Orwell, the pompous powers that be shut down free speech on the Boston Common Saturday in a cute bit of "civic concern." I have no idea what ideas were going to be expressed at the rotunda there because they weren't expressed. Some speakers were physically kept from reaching this platform in the name of "safety." Thousands of self-righteous counter-demonstrators, a few dressed in black with black masks no less, assembled there to show their hatred of "hate speech" ... defined as anything that might possibly go against the grain of their orthodoxy.
I seriously doubt that there would have been any truly obnoxious rhetoric coming from these few speakers who were scurried away in police squad cars before word one. ... but then, we will never know ... because fascism took hold to suppress ... fascism. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and his phalanx of police officers kept his city sanitized from the imagined invective. After all, the ironic motif of this rally was in support of our First Amendment guaranteeing free speech and, in the process, Boston crushed free speech.
Afterward: Whatever happened to "defend to the death their fight to say it"? Is it now "defend to being slightly uncomfortable their right to say it"?
