Yeah, let's squash their right to protest. Only our voice matters, since they're a bunch of facist, brown-shirts who have no rights if the won't agree with us. I hope a dirty bomb goes off in Times Square that day.

The people on the other side of the aisle, when they're not out and about trying to destroy everything that is good and right in the world, like to complain about "being persecuted".

The comment above is a good example of this.

What I would say to this particular commenter is simply that his or her drivel needs to be manually approved before it can be seen on this site. Therefore, far from quashing the freedom of speech of a winger contributor, which could be accomplished with a simple click of the 'delete' button, The Daily Gotham makes a conscious choice to allow his views to discredit themselves by being made public.

Now try that on Free Republic, and see how far you get, especially when you call for a terrorist act in the treasonous, murdering way this one thought appropriate.

I attended the New York Times protest Last evening; It was my first. When someone asked my why, I responded, "Because I was too busy getting an education, working & raising a family to get involved in this sort of thing." There were 150-200 people protesting, with a stage & microphone. The main leaders were an Orthodox (not UltraOrthodox) Rabbi, and a blond haired woman. Guest speakers were Roy Innes, some Black man from C.O.R.E,and an Osama impersonator. There was good representation from all age groups, genders, and skin races, and apparent social classes. Opposing us in front of the N.Y.Times building were 4-6 white people, 5 males and 1 female (if you could call her that) between 25 and 35 yr old, waving little signs, and shouting nonsequators in a desperate attempt to block-out the cheers and speeches. The obese blond chick on the street bike, with the war-protest stickers on her bike & helmet was a poster-girl for the war protest movement; she blew into a whistle continuously, trying to impair others of their freedom of expression. The young cops kept order and it was clear that they drew short straws for this beat. Such was my first protest. Not Pro-war, but Anti-N.Y.Times, violating its public trust,on a politically-motivated mission,which endangers our troops and every citizen in this country.

...the basic thrust of his argument is that the people fighting for, you know, freedom of the press, rationality and the American Way were basically icky in his view; not quite good enough, as it were. Certainly not decent, wholesome people of the sort our commenter claims to be. Feh.

The simple fact is that all the large Progressive orgs in this town, who could easily have turned out a larger and far more attractive crowd than Miss Maglalang the illegal immigrant anchor baby and the freeper freak show, took a pass.

One reason for that, perhaps, was that a right-wing protest might lead to physical injury or even death, considering the demonstrated propensity of right-wingers to call for the physical destruction of opponents a la republican terrorist Ann Coulter.

All I can say is that there wasn't another Timothy McVeigh to carry out a truck bombing. I don't think anybody would be surprised had that occurred. Thank god the cops were there, deterring any further or overt republican terrorism.