Reply #67: It's corporate free speech... [View All]

...at least that's how they see it. They are free to purchase all the speech their marketing slush funds can handle, and the nitwits who do their bidding are either scared, ignorant, greedy, or downright deluded -- often all of the above.

What we need to do is show up in greater numbers and mock them. Just sincere laughter. The people who hold the events should get an excellent sound system -- it doesn't even have to be that big, for many of these venues -- so they can make themselves heard. Then they need to start by projecting the memo, with the tactics, and say these tactics are out of bounds, and anyone engaging in them is subject to expulsion from the meeting. When we see this behavior, we should point at them and mock them; and the organizers should flash the item from the memo up on the screen, then superimpose the red circle with the dash through it. Tell people who engage in disruptive behavior, you get one chance. Second time, you're out. And have the security back it up.

They complain, just point out that the rules are the same for everyone. Everyone gets to speak their piece. Yelling and shouting and thuggery will not be tolerated.

It's an old rule of thumb: the one who is shouting the loudest, is losing the argument.