Freedom of speech...for who?

I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Unless it is hate speech, then you should definitely shut the hell up...

White nationalists' conference stymied

When a white nationalist magazine announced a conference in Charlotte, anarchists and other groups vowed to protest or disrupt the gathering.

But behind the scenes the conference apparently met an unexpected obstacle: Charlotte City Council member Patrick Cannon.

On Wednesday, American Renaissance magazine said plans for its annual conference are now in limbo because the hotel where it was scheduled to take place canceled the reservation.

An e-mail Cannon sent to a constituent early this week suggested he was lobbying local hotels to refuse to book American Renaissance.

Cannon wrote that he had contacted hotels and that "they seem to be cooperating."

"An attempt was made for accommodations at another hotel but based on what I ask to take place they were denied again," the e-mail said.

Jared Taylor, American Renaissance editor, said Cannon's e-mail violated the First Amendment.

"It's unconscionable (that) public officials would try to interfere in private contractual affairs," Taylor said. "We have never run into this before."

In a brief interview Wednesday, Cannon said he sent the e-mail to "update a constituent on where things stood."

"By no means would I be in the business of trying to violate someone's rights," Cannon said.

The news came on the same day that the Jewish Defense Organization posted a statement on its website, saying City Council member Warren Turner sent an e-mail to Charlotte hotels about the conference.

Turner denied contacting hotels to stop the conference.

American Renaissance is published by the nonprofit New Century Foundation. The group advocates what it calls "race realism." The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such organizations, says Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists gather at Renaissance conferences.

Organizers scheduled a conference Feb. 4-6 at the Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel near Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. The group booked 100 rooms at the eight-story hotel, where rooms cost as much as $225 a night.

But the hotel released a statement Wednesday saying officials canceled the reservation for the safety of guests. Organizers did not reveal the nature of the conference when they booked the hotel, the statement said.

Taylor, the magazine editor, disputed the hotel's account. "We leveled completely with the hotel," he said. "They said they understood."

American Renaissance has tried to reserve rooms at other hotels but has been rebuffed, Taylor said.

Taylor said Cannon's e-mail reflected intolerance and was "profoundly hypocritical."

Richard Toenjes, associate director of UNC Charlotte's Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, said Cannon's e-mail could be construed as a violation of free speech.

"If the person used his or her name which would be recognized as the name of a council member, I'd say the member was functioning as a public official and hence out of line interfering with protected free speech," Toenjes said.

But Scott Huffmon, a professor of political science at Winthrop University, said merely warning hotels about the upcoming conference is within the rights of elected officials.

"Alerting the hotels and saying this isn't good for our image is using the bully pulpit, but not necessarily unethical," Huffmon said. "If he tried to use the position to cajole, coerce or bully that would be different."

Full Article

Look at them trying to doublespeak their way out of admitting that it is censorship. Very pathetic. The "anarchists" in paticular are shameful, and have no idea about freedom or anarchy, or freedom of assembly, as they are book burning commies. If they could, they would have a police state to enforce political correctness, I have no doubt about that. Just like the Zeitgeist cult would.

Kamau Kambon never got censored, and he openly called for genocide. Not that he should have been censored, of course. But my point is the insane hypocrisy, and how a lot of brainwashed white people don't understand what's going on, as they believe the school system paradigm of history, and its anti European, anti male bias.

You already know what my objections are to the masonic-symbol-toting, crown loyalist WNs. But still, no censorship, please. These boys in particular are as kosher as can be, and they still get censored. Kind of makes you wonder.