And when Muhammad won won his right in court to gather on Malcolm X Boulevard, the cops closed all the subway stations and cross streets so nobody could join in along the route. In December, demonstrators seeking to observe World AIDS Day and mourn the 77,000 New Yorkers who've died of the disease were likewise denied a permit to rally in City Hall Park, and likewise went to court to win their case. Or Repohistory, denied permission by the Department of Transportation to put up posters commemorating famous civil-liberties cases. It's not as if any of these people were baseball players or astronauts or Disney puppets or Columbus Day Italians. It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons.
Ideas are much more fatal things than guns.
This was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. All rights reserved.