The rally was deliberately misrepresented by city officials and much of the media. I live in the area and I feel personally violated because I supported the rally in spirit and would have attended if I could. I am horrified that the government and media would lie the way they did. It reminds me of the Soviet Union where the media was propaganda controlled by the state. I always thought living in the US I would be free and it is terrible to find out that now I live like they did in the Soviet Union. The local government and most of the news media are lying and suppressing free speech in order to suppress their political opponents. They hate President Trump, they support the violent anti-Trump group Antifa, and they can't stand the possibility anyone would promote free speech as an alternative to that kind of political violence. They have forgotten the histories of the city of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and their role in the American Revolution which was a war fought to obtain freedom. They are a shame and a disgrace to the memory of the Minutemen of Massachusetts who fought and died in that war to win for their descendants the rights of free speech and free assembly.
Here is one of the rare honest articles about the rally that was mentioned in the video:
BostonGlobe.com: A free-speech rally, minus the free speech by JEFF JACOBY
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Participants in the “Boston Free Speech Rally” had been demonized as a troupe of neo-Nazis prepared to reprise the horror that had erupted in Charlottesville. They turned out to be a couple dozen courteous people linked by little more than a commitment to — surprise! — free speech.
The small group on the Parkman Bandstand threatened no one. One of the rally’s organizers, a 23-year-old libertarian named John Medlar, had insisted vigorously that its purpose was not to endorse white supremacy. “The rally I’m helping to organize is about promoting Free Speech as a COUNTER to political violence,” he had posted on Facebook. “There are NO WHITE SUPREMACISTS speaking at this rally.”
UPDATE: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_politics/2017/10/rally_organizer_sues_marty_walsh_for_100m
Rally organizer sues Marty Walsh for $100M
Claims mayor comments ‘reckless’Dan Atkinson, Laurel Sweet Wednesday, October 25, 2017
An organizer of a recent Free Speech Rally in Boston has filed a $100 million lawsuit against Mayor Martin J. Walsh after he says Walsh purposefully defamed the group as neo-Nazis, which led to him being hounded by internet activists and losing his job.
