Russellville, Arkansas Mayor Richard Harris has announced that he will hold a community-wide meeting at nine a.m. on Friday, May 17th, to address how best to handle the presence of organized hate groups, such as the ADL, in the community. The Mayor announced the meeting, taking place during work hours on a weekday morning, just 24 hours before it was scheduled to be held.
Mayor Harris came under criticism in Russellville nearly two weeks ago when he consciously chose to participate in an anti-Christian rally supporting the ADL and other outside agitators, many of whom were unsuccessfully seeking to pressure and intimidate Arkansas Tech University into refusing a scholarship endowed by the estate of a former tenured professor at the college who had run afoul of Jewish interests. Despite being personally informed in person that the racially oriented rally he was about to speak at was overtly anti-Christian to the point that organizers had publicly announced in the Courier newspaper that no Christian symbols would be allowed, Mayor Harris continued with his speech, and refused to answer questions from concerned citizens present. Perhaps recognizing his error, the Mayor left the rally before its scheduled march began, without any explanation for his hasty and premature departure, and did not return for the remainder of the ceremony.
The ShieldWall Network counter-protesters at the May 5th rally, who came to represent the pro-Christian perspective, peacefully coordinated their planned activities with the Russellville Police Department prior to the event. They cooperated with and followed every instruction of law enforcement to the letter, and did not break any ordinances. Furthermore, all of the speech expressed was protected from government interference specifically by the first amendment, whether any Shabbos Goy anti-Christian politicians considered it “hate speech”, a subjective term, or not. Hate speech is often simply speech which people hate hearing, but it is precisely to protect unpopular speech that the first amendment was enacted. To a desperate, inept Mayor in British Colonial America, all of the Founding Fathers would have been guilty of “hate speech”.
ShieldWall Network officers and citizens of Pope County who support the pro-Christian side of the controversy will be present at the meeting to speak on behalf of the first amendment and freedom of speech, if allowed to do so, and also to grant interviews to the controlled media, at the Russellville City Hall, 203 S. Commerce, Russellville.
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Update: due to, in his words, how the purpose of the planned meeting had been “misconstrued”, Mayor Harris has cancelled the meeting this morning, and has not rescheduled one for the future. Excellent work to all of those who contacted the Mayor’s office and who were prepared to attend.