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There are two basic groups: (1) first there are the people who want to listen to these speakers, sometimes coming from miles around and then there are (2) these other people that don’t intend to listen. These people want the speaker to stop speaking and that is not free speech. This riffraff’s greatest fear is that someone unaligned would agree with what they perceive is nonsense.
If only they could really listen to the message first, take a seat and absorb what is said they could generate some deep questions and form statements that could challenge the persuasive agreements instead of trying to end it before it really began. The Q and A is always too far away for them and it is not like they had any talking points to give, only slogans. I possess great empathy, but these people are not acting like adults, more like screaming kids in a temper tantrum. Cruise missiles set on a search and destroy with anything that might disagree with one of their super fragile belief systems.
Their actions would be like me going into the next mega blockbuster with hundreds of people enjoying a rollercoaster film; I would be with about ten of my most loyal followers. All of us would walk up and down the aisles banging drums, blowing whistles, letting out air horns and drowning out the dialog with loud speakers while shining flashlights in people faces. We would do everything, but yell fire. Instead we would yell out chants that I spent all morning writing. “One two three four this actress is a mindless whore.” “Too much violence, too much gore, this film should have been left on the editing room floor.”
As the movie goers clear out I would think it is all for the best because this picture made me laugh in disgust and besides the critiques gave it a sweepingly negative review. One of them even called it “pure dribble” so we are going to go from theater to theater stopping every showing until the studio that produced it burns every single copy. That’s Free Speech