[kellychaos]

Chicken or the egg?

Are the gangs more at fault for taking the mere threat of a racist parade and escalating it into violence even though the parade never happened ...

OR

Are the rascist paraders more responsible for originating the planning the parade, planting the seed and inciting the violence.

I'm far from trying to take away anyone's civil rights but, as in Spiderman, "With great power comes great responsibility.". Not to mention that the Constitution only guarantees the right of "peaceable assembly" and the paraders intentions hardly seemed peacable in this instance.

The old civics class analogy about "screaming fire in a crowded movie theater" comes to mind. Yes, you have civill rights but inherent in those rights is the expectation that you'll use common sense.