Lawyers have to defend their clients. It's what they do. But there are limits to what they should do.
To claim outside a courthouse that there's legal justification for snatching the papers containing the words of someone else's talk because the talk is somehow "hate speech" and therefore not protected is laughable. Except it's not a laughing matter. Chipping away at free speech isn't in the best interests of anybody, except for totalitarians.
The community college adviser who now faces charges for trying to disrupt the controversial "It's O.K. To Be White" talk at the University of Connecticut saw her case pushed back to next month on Wednesday, but claimed outside the courthouse she acted to fight fascism.
The Hartford Courant's David Owens reported that 33-year-old Catherine Gregory of Willimantic, currently on leave from her job at Quinebaug Valley Community College, said she is receiving "support from people around the world."
