The officer got into my car with me and only got out a few blocks away. The intimidation had succeeded. I was silenced and their horrible message went unanswered in the plaza near Faneuil Hall.
That is not the way the marketplace of ideas is supposed to work. It is not the conception of liberty for which Sam and John Adams spoke so eloquently and controversially in and around Faneuil Hall more than two hundred years ago. It was far more reminiscent of rallies conducted by Nazi thugs in Berlin seventy years ago.
I will not be silenced or intimidated. The shouters know that. Their goal is to silence and intimidate others who do not get police protection and do not have access to the media. Let the debate about Israel and the Palestinians continue unabated. Let all views be heard. The shouters in front of Faneuil Hall wanted no views but their own to be seen and heard.
They succeeded that day in front of Faneuil Hall as they have on some university campuses but the marketplace of ideas is far too vibrant to be shut down by a bunch of
self-righteous thugs shouting ugly and bigoted epithets. (IsraelInsider.com)