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I'll go to the mat for Nazis to speak the truth in defense of egalitarian democracy, I'll admit that they have a right to do that   But, then, they wouldn't be Nazis, would they.   

I reject the claim that Nazis and other enemies of egalitarian democracy have a right to attack or undermine equality and democracy, to claim their right to do that by the very same doctrines that they, themselves deny are true.   I don't even pretend that they have a right to do that by the vote.  The vote exists to serve egalitarian self-government, it doesn't exist to destroy that primary good. 

That judges and "Justices" pretend to not be able to make that distinction, that lawyers for groups like the ACLU claim that that distinction is not obvious and should not have any influence on legal decisions is a transparent and willful lie and fraud and dereliction of responsibility.   It is based on a phony pose of judicial and legal blindness that, in reality, in most cases, they would certainly not claim.  Judges and lawyers can tease out and parse and make distinctions, basing final decisions on those distinctions  in areas that are far harder, far more esoteric, far, far outside of their personal knowledge and areas of expertise than that Nazism can and is eroding American democracy by an appeal to racism, bigotry and racist paranoia under the slogan of The First Amendment.  By their past actions, benefitting media institutions like FOX and Breitbart and the entire American Nazi blogosphere, they have aided and abetted that decline into Nazism through a ridiculous and absurd interpretation of that amendment.  

If you want an example of how the professional "free speech" industry twists and bends things to maintain their various poses, look at the ACLU explanation of its position on the Second Amendment.   I haven't teased out what part they might have played in allowing Nazis armed with what are euphemistically called "semi-automatic" weapons in an American city but I can tell you it is legalistic double-speak of the kind they apparently teach you in law schools, these days. 

Update:  If you want a good example of how ridiculous that old ACLU line gets, you can go back to the early years when the lefty hero,  Roger Baldwin (who would later, opportunistically expel commies from the ACLU) wrote about as outrageous a piece of double-speak as imaginable "Liberty Under The Soviets" noting the transparently dishonest alteration of the meaning of words he practiced in it.  It's no wonder that the ACLU is going to court on behalf of Nazis to spread their poison today with that kind of history.  And he's hardly the only one of its prominent past members to do that kind of thing.

You might want to check out what some of the opponents of the Soviet government were writing about the mass killings, the already up and running and enormous slave labor forces the government was pressing into service, the total suppression of the freedoms enumerated in the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights here, etc. as Roger Baldwin was writing the book.   I have to say, Roger Baldwin's heroic image, something I imbibed from the time I was in high school, is largely bull shit. 

I will note that his book was published by Vanguard Press which was founded with money from the Garland Foundation, of which Baldwin was a trustee.  

Update 2:  Roger Baldwin, having claimed to be a great admirer of Emma Goldman and having been influenced by her, even joining the Wobblies through her inspiration.  He would certainly have known of her book, published four years before his, My Disillusionment in Russia.   If he had read it and had gotten to Chapter 29, he could have read her account of the Americans and other, foreign communists and other lefties of the time during the Third Congress of the Third International and the First Congress of the Red Trade Union International in 1920 and their covering up of the earliest of the terrible crimes of the Soviet Union.   He certainly knew better by the time he wrote that book linked to, above.   He chose not to tell the truth about it.