Tolerance, Scott.
George has a right to express his opinion no matter how much you disagree with it. It is called democracy.
I do think that vigilance of overly zealous law enforcement officers is necessary. I remember the civil rights movement in the southern states in which the police turned dogs loose on protesters properly exercising their rights to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.
The civil authorities also tried to derail Martin Luther King's march on Selma, Alabama by enforcing an ordinance restricting the assembly over a certain number on the highway route of the march. Large numbers of protesters gathered at the sites of the beginning and end of the march. Only a handful were permitted on the actual highway route connecting the two sites. There was apparently no civil control exerted over Klansmen traveling the road up and down the route threatening the marchers with shot guns extended out of the windows of motor vehicles.
There is also the matter of the 1968 Democratic Convention in which the Chicago Police indiscriminately beat protesters with night sticks. Oh, and let us not forget the Kent State University student massacre by national guardsmen called in to restore order.
When people are willing to sacrifice civil rights and liberties for order, tyranny results.
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