From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. This weekend marks one year since Heather Heyer was killed as she protested against a unite the right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

As I record this, the city and state have declared a state of emergency, even though the organizer

of last year's rally, white supremacist Jason Kessler, says this year's version won't take

place in Charlottesville.

He argues that his First Amendment rights were violated when the city denied his permit

application. Charlottesville rejected the application in December, saying the proposed

event would present a danger to public safety.

He abandoned the legal fight, then posted a message on Twitter, saying they will be focusing

exclusively on a rally outside the White House at Lafayette Park on August 12th.

Because we're recording Friday afternoon, you know more now than we do about what transpired this weekend in D.C.

But whatever the facts on the ground, it is another clash between the First Amendment right to speak and those who take that right to its ugliest violent extreme.

Mark Randaza is a lawyer, not a First Amendment absolutist, but pretty, pretty

close. He's represented fringe actors ranging from the political performance artist Vermin Supreme

to the notorious Andrew Anglin, publisher of the neo-Nazi website, Daly Stormer, and others of that ilk.

One of his newest clients, and maybe his most high profile, is conspiracy theorist and

Info Wars host Alex Jones. Jones currently faces multiple lawsuits, including for defamation,

filed by family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims.

Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured. It took me about a year

with Sandy Hook to come to grips with the fact that the whole thing was fake. Because the media

lies so much, you can't ban free speech of people that are asking questions.

The parents say that five years after the shootings, they are still harassed and threatened by Jones followers.

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