Thank you for reminding us that Cruz believes that a person who exercises his free speech rights is the one to blame when violence and oppression is perpetrated against him and his supporters. Anyone who actually believes in the First Amendment would not blame the person for his words, but the rioters for their anti-Constitutional actions. He spent a few seconds briefly condemning the left-wing anarchist protesters, and several minutes blaming the victim because he exercised his free speech rights in ways that Cruz didn’t like.
Of course, the Trump haters would prefer that the protesters just be allowed to run amuck, continually disrupting Trump and making it as impossible for him to speak as possible. That’s why they continually excuse everything the protesters do or simply refuse to report it, while fixating on the 3 or 4 disruptors who were mildly hurt. There are a disturbing number of people in this country who want to shut up Trump, because they are afraid of him getting his ideas out even though that is a fundamental Constitutional right, and they are doing any and everything to try to stop him. I’ve never seen anything even vaguely like it before.
One can be on the side of free speech or one can be on the side of those opposing free speech. One can’t legitimately claim to be for both. By blaming Trump, Cruz in effect excused the radical leftist disruptors, which included moveon.org and the Revolutionary Communist Party members.
Thank you for reminding us that Cruz believes that a person who exercises his free speech rights is the one to blame when violence and oppression is perpetrated against him and his supporters. Anyone who actually believes in the First Amendment would not blame the person for his words, but the rioters for their anti-Constitutional actions. He spent a few seconds briefly condemning the left-wing anarchist protesters, and several minutes blaming the victim because he exercised his free speech rights in ways that Cruz didn’t like.
One can be on the side of free speech or one can be on the side of those opposing free speech. One can’t legitimately claim to be for both. By blaming Trump, Cruz in effect excused the radical leftist disruptors, which included moveon.org and the Revolutionary Communist Party members.