{"id":285,"date":"2017-08-20T17:58:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T17:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cbm2.cbehs.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2017-08-20T17:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T17:58:35","slug":"boston-massachusetts-free-speech-rally-of-august-19-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/blog\/boston-massachusetts-free-speech-rally-of-august-19-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston\u00a0Massachusetts Free Speech Rally of August 19, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"id_5996c743147f33158976672\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/blog\/boston-massachusetts-free-speech-rally-of-august-19-2017\/#Boston_Massachusetts_Free_Speech_Rally_of_August_19_2017\" >Boston&nbsp;Massachusetts Free Speech Rally of August 19, 2017<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/blog\/boston-massachusetts-free-speech-rally-of-august-19-2017\/#Mayor_and_Counterprotesters_Disrespected_the_US_Constitution\" >Mayor and Counterprotesters Disrespected the US Constitution<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Boston_Massachusetts_Free_Speech_Rally_of_August_19_2017\"><\/span>Boston&nbsp;Massachusetts Free Speech Rally of August 19, 2017<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A &#8220;Free Speech Rally&#8221; took place in Boston, MA on August 19, 2017.&nbsp; Some&nbsp; say it was organized by persons associated with White Supremacist. Organizers say it was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local-news\/2017\/08\/15\/what-we-know-about-the-free-speech-rally-planned-this-weekend-on-boston-common\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> not about White Supremacy or Confederate Monuments<\/a>.&nbsp; Indeed, one of the planned attendees was US Senate candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2017\/08\/14\/senate-candidate-plans-address-free-speech-rally-common\/CzFnJ4c4u1wOjojtdeLUzM\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shiva Ayyadurai<\/a>.&nbsp; He is a person of color; therefore it is doubtful he is a white supremacist or even believes in it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"site-container\">&nbsp;The Free Speech Rally&nbsp; was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2017\/08\/19\/thousands-expected-at-boston-free-speech-rally-and-counter-protest\/?utm_term=.52c898e69302\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held<\/a> although the attendees were smaller than expected probably because of the Charlottesville incident and the consequent expected increase in counterprotesters.&nbsp; Indeed, a large crowd&nbsp; of counterprotesters did show up.&nbsp; The rally was mostly peaceful as it was scaled back and organizers and participants left early in order to avoid interference by the counterprotesters.<\/div>\n<h6><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mayor_and_Counterprotesters_Disrespected_the_US_Constitution\"><\/span>Mayor and Counterprotesters Disrespected the US Constitution<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>Boston Mayor Martin Walsh said the following: \u201cThere have been questions about why we granted a permit for the rally,\u201d Walsh said on Friday. \u201cThe courts have made it abundantly clear. They have the right to gather, no matter how repugnant their views are. But they don\u2019t have the right to create unsafe conditions. They have the right to free speech. In return, they have to respect our city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor of Boston knew that the organizers had a constitution right to rally.&nbsp; Yet, it is clear that the Mayor and the counterprotesters responded in a way that did not respect the right to free speech. In doing so they did not respect the Constitution of the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston&nbsp;Massachusetts Free Speech Rally of August 19, 2017 A &#8220;Free Speech Rally&#8221; took place in Boston, MA on August 19, 2017.&nbsp; Some&nbsp; say it was organized by persons associated with White Supremacist. Organizers say it was not about White Supremacy or Confederate Monuments.&nbsp; Indeed, one of the planned attendees was US Senate candidate Shiva Ayyadurai.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/blog\/boston-massachusetts-free-speech-rally-of-august-19-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boston\u00a0Massachusetts Free Speech Rally of August 19, 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protests-and-rallies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}