And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ACLU Challenges Denial of Klan Rally
Permit
http://www.aclu.org/news/n123098c.html
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, December 30, 1998
MADISON, WI -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin
today filed a federal lawsuit challenging Governor Tommy
Thompson's denial of a permit to a Ku Klux Klan group seeking to
hold a demonstration at the State Capitol.
In court papers, the ACLU said that the Governor's refusal to grant
the permit violates the group's constitutional rights to free speech and
assembly.
"The ACLU believes that the constitutional guarantees of freedom of
speech and press would be meaningless if the government could pick
and choose the persons to whom these rights apply," said Chris
Ahmuty, Executive Director of the ACLU of Wisconsin.
"Just as civil rights protesters engaging in free speech deserved the
protection of the law when threatened by hostile crowds in the 1960s,
so do other unpopular groups."
Governor Thompson has claimed that he denied the permit in order to
preclude a violent outcome of the Klan rally.
But Ahmuty said the state cannot take pre-emptive measures to stop
the Klan from demonstrating on the presumption that the event will
have a violent outcome.
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