SKOKIE, NEO-NAZIS, FREE SPEECH AND SAFETY

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A look at the Neo Nazi rally in Skokie, IL in 1977 and the resulting Supreme Court Case and the ACLU's role. In recent days Skokie has been brought up; and a look at the history of events is useful. We look at Louis Brandeis's great speech on the First Amendment, Chief Justice Robert's view of it recently, Alito's other take. Finally Bruce wonders about the consequences of these rights in a social media world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:07.3	You know what that is.
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0:34.7	I want people in the party who are willing to die for the movement, even though they may not be sure we're going to win tomorrow.
0:42.7	You're not willing to kill. You're not willing to shoot somebody.
0:46.7	Because there was no rally, and I believe to an extent it was because of the intimidation, there's no example that really can be used for what might have happened. We don't know how or where it started.
1:24.2	So said the grandmother of Frank Collins, a high school dropout, born to a Jewish father
1:29.9	who had a...
1:30.9	I decided it would be a good idea to don the Nazi uniform.
1:36.2	He tried going to university, he was a bit of an outcast, and started getting involved
1:41.4	with the American Nazi Party, and then thought it would be a good idea to organize his own organization when the American Nazi Party didn't make him the new leader and march against Jews and blacks in Chicago.
1:53.7	It was a white neighborhood, a neighborhood which had reacted harshly to the civil rights movement. Indeed, in 1966,
2:02.5	Martin Luther King had been beaten in the neighborhood.
2:06.4	Chicago did not think it was a good idea. It was a big city with lots of protests. This was
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