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Fighting Noise With Noise
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What do you do when a crazy black separatist group sets up shop on the sidewalk right outside the entrance to your shopping mall, curses out passers-by, preaches how white people and gays and women and even the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are evil, and can't be removed because a court ruled that they have a First Amendment right to preach right there? In the case of Philadelphia's Liberty Place, the answer was to hire DJs to play music to drown them out. That's speech, too. It's a little noisy there now, but, oh, well. The DJs play editorially appropriate music, like "Black or White" or "Why Can't We Be Friends?" What else can they do? (WCAU-TV/Philadelphia)
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