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I heard this right wing rally is taking place at some cities around the country but this seems to be rather large. Hope it ends peacefully, it appears Boston is prepared for this.
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So you’re heading to Boston this weekend to protest the “Free Speech Rally” happening Saturday on the Common. Great. Welcome to Boston.
Before you get here, a few words of advice: This looks like it’s going to be huge. Estimates vary, but as many as 20,000 or 3o,000 people may be turning out to counter the message of the extremist speakers lined up for the event. A rally similar to this one happened on the Common in May, and almost no one noticed. But this is different. After a truly heinous weekend in Virginia, people are pretty worked up right now, and officials are on high alert about the hordes of people coming our way.
I heard this right wing rally is taking place at some cities around the country but this seems to be rather large. Hope it ends peacefully, it appears Boston is prepared for this.
Do you have estimates of crowd size expectations for each side and a source?
I couldn't find the numbers you had in your OP.
Thanks.
No I don't have a source other than the Boston Globe, the PD is gearing up for this and telling people to stay out of the area. Boston is deploying 500 Police Officers, seems small for that estimate.
All for peaceful free speech, no guns and cars, leave those combat fatigues and flak jackets home. Convince me that it's really about free speech, and dress properly like those stylish, clean shaven young lads marching around the monument last Saturday, minus the torches.
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I wonder how many will show up to express their "free speech" rights with guns and lead pipes...
On a somewhat related note, one right wing crazy is looking at up to eight years in prison for beating people with lead pipes in Berkeley. Turns out the guy is a multi-time felon...
He's currently whining about how it's all some grand conspiracy to stop him from being in Boston.
Put enough of these losers in prison or out of a job (the ones that are actually capable of holding down a job, that is) and the rest of them will disperse back to the trailer parks they crawled out of.
The chancellor there is saying some of the right things about it at least:
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“Particularly now, it is critical for the Berkeley community to protect this right; it is who we are,” she said. “That protection involves not just defending your right to speak, or the right of those you agree with, but also defending the right to speak by those you disagree with, even of those whose views you find abhorrent.”
She drew loud applause when she asserted that the best response to hate speech is “more speech” rather than trying to shut down others, and when she said that shielding students from uncomfortable views would not serve them well.
“You have the right to expect the university to keep you physically safe, but we would be providing you less of an education, preparing you less well for the world after you graduate, if we tried to protect you from ideas that you may find wrong, even noxious,” she said.
Although everyone wants to feel comfort and support, Christ said, inner resilience is the “the surest form of safe space.”
No I don't have a source other than the Boston Globe, the PD is gearing up for this and telling people to stay out of the area. Boston is deploying 500 Police Officers, seems small for that estimate.
Your 20K to 30K estimate is by BLM.
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Black Lives Matter organizers said they expected as many at 20,000 to 30,000 people to participate in Saturday's marches.
Doesn't say if that's combined, both sides, or just the counter-protest.
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John Medlar of the Boston Free Speech Coalition thinks as many as 1,000 people could show up.
Doesn't say if he believes that's combined or just his side.
Wish I could find firmer numbers.
If that's 20/30 to 1 in favor of one side that's quite an imbalance.
All for peaceful free speech, no guns and cars, leave those combat fatigues and flak jackets home. Convince me that it's really about free speech, and dress properly like those stylish, clean shaven young lads marching around the monument last Saturday, minus the torches.
People wouldn't need to show up with helmets, and shields if ANTIFA didn't always come to these events and begin assaulting people.
Hopefully ANTIFA doesn't come and attack people like they always do, and this is a peaceful event.
I keep thinking it is a set up ... I think the left may have their hand in all this.. I will see if I am right when I see the outcome of it.
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