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Plucketeer

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25. You pay to rent a hall or wherever

Reply to Trust Buster (Reply #8)

Tue Mar 15, 2016, 12:31 PM

Mar 2016

you certainly DO have a right to have who you want in attendance. But if it's a purportedly public event - what "controls" would you have to be able to say someone violated them? Are there genuine and verifiable "Trump Supporter" identification cards to be checked for admittance? I don't think so. That's not what "public" means.

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Was the cancelled Trump rally just quashed free speech? [View all] rsacamano Mar 2016 OP

It looks like the students exercised their rights to free speech just fine. Kalidurga Mar 2016 #1

Everything the Trump does is staged randr Mar 2016 #2

Well yeah... Kalidurga Mar 2016 #3

I'm ready heaven05 Mar 2016 #17

Trump paid to rent out that venue. The protestors payed nothing. Trust Buster Mar 2016 #4

as did the other attendees.... so what's your point? NoMoreRepugs Mar 2016 #5

Exactly, in this country, he who pays gets to talk. Trust Buster Mar 2016 #6

Interesting theory. truebluegreen Mar 2016 #7

Rent out a party hall yourself. Trust Buster Mar 2016 #8

The Drumpf was so afraid of violence truebluegreen Mar 2016 #9

I read somewhere they were professional protestors Person 2713 Mar 2016 #11

Doesn't take away from the fact that Trump paid for the use of that venue and others that paid Trust Buster Mar 2016 #12

Nobody "took" anything. He canceled. truebluegreen Mar 2016 #14

So, you rent out a party center for a wedding reception. Trust Buster Mar 2016 #18

You are making the assumption that Drumpf's hand was "forced" truebluegreen Mar 2016 #23

Deflection. Trump paid for the use of that venue. Bottom line. Trust Buster Mar 2016 #24

And nothing prevented him from using it... Human101948 Mar 2016 #26

No, that's not the bottom line Jack Rabbit Mar 2016 #28

You pay to rent a hall or wherever Plucketeer Mar 2016 #25

I will stick with the ACLU release before hand Person 2713 Mar 2016 #10

Only a case if he could prove there was a conspiracy for violence or premeditation for violence. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2016 #13

right heaven05 Mar 2016 #16

The protesters were mainly students from that college. They jwirr Mar 2016 #19

My only point was that I hear about free speech this and free speech that. Trust Buster Mar 2016 #20

And nothing prevented him from speaking Human101948 Mar 2016 #27

I don't know heaven05 Mar 2016 #15

A private marriage rafeh1 Mar 2016 #21

No. Trump did it purposefully to make some points and wrangle another media news cycle. FighttheFuture Mar 2016 #22