Citing an impossibility to differentiate "sides" and unreasonable cost to ensure no violence, the City may have just given the framework to shut down Nazi rallies nationwide.
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They could have done this before this August, true. But the violence and death that took place certainly bulwarked the argument.
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Tacitly and explicitly both, the Charlottesville government has *accepted* activist findings regarding threats of violence and presented them as fact.
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This is not just reflected in this denial, but also in the lawsuit they filed against the militias, where they cited an activist-authored document six times.
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If this holds, this will reflect a step beyond the "imminent threat" test established in e.g. Brandenburg v Ohio.
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Whatever comes of this, Charlottesville has finally decided to stick up for its citizens and fight this in court if necessary.
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Wes Bellamy is very ungrateful. And Charlottesville's government is corrupt
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If they make peaceful public redress of grievances impossible...they get what they get.
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It's important to note that subsequent to that application, an outgoing member of the City Council filed an application that was also denied on the same grounds. I suspect that will aide the city's case vs Kessler.
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So, good news?
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