previously on best left.

As organizers as well, we need to be very critical at this moment right now

around the American Civil Liberties Union because I hold them partly responsible for that.

They went to court to protect these white supremacists who were not saying we're going to have a rally

and expose or excuse our hate speech that we're also ready to fight and violently

espouse that speech.

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the American Civil Liberties Union will no longer defend hate groups seeking to march with

firearms a policy change that comes on the heels of protests by white nationalists and counter

protesters over the weekend in Virginia the newspaper quoted the ACLU's executive director saying

in an interview that after violence during the Charlottesville protests judges police chiefs and

legal groups will be required to look at the facts of any white supremacy protests with a much

finer comb white nationalists stage day unite the right protest in Charlottesville over plans to

remove a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from a park a number of them carried weapons

according to witnesses and video the ACLU's Virginia branch defended the right of the white

nationalists and neo-Nazis and others to rally in the city that is home to the University of Virginia

for decades the ACLU has defended rallies by such groups on the grounds that they have

constitutional rights to free speech but some critics on both the left and the right say it's time

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