The same right you would have to punish me, were I to stay awake at night dreaming up the most loathesome, provocative things possible that I were certain would infuriate you beyond all reason, and then shout them in your face.
I would hope, as a matter of honor, that your response would be something "Remedial".
One has to look at the intent. the intent is not to express, not to preach, but to outrage. As in dressing up like Hitler and attending a Bar Mitzvah, or wearing a Klan outfit and attending the Million Man March. It is deliberately planned to go as far beyond Free Speech as rape is from a wink.
They want outrage and notoriety, and should be given it in full.
Gorzaloon wrote: “One has to look at the intent. the intent is not to express, not to preach, but to outrage.”
How are we to know their intent? Even so, where does it say the government has the right to regulate speech intended to outrage? An outrage for one group is not necessarily an outrage to another. Where do you draw the line? So long as they aren’t advocating violence or trespassing or breaking other laws unrelated to free speech, where is the legal right to stop them? When the neo-Nazis marched in Skokie, many people made arguments similar to yours, but the neo-Nazis were allowed to march.
I’m concerned that this precedent might allow our side to be sued should we do a Freep in a place with a sufficiently hostile jury pool