A week or so ago, a local tea party group invited a woman to speak at its event at the Hyatt Place Hotel in Sugar Land, Texas, about the dangers of Islam. Shortly thereafter, Hyatt rejected the group's reservation to meet on its premises, citing "security" reasons. Reportedly, threatening phone calls against the group's meeting at the Hyatt were received (although hotel management declined to confirm that).
Now, the Hutton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, has cancelled the November 11th-scheduled Preserving Freedom Conference on its premises. The senior vice president for hotels of the Hutton Hotel's management corporation says he "wasn't exactly sure what the content of the program was," but he personally cancelled the event because,
"They were veiled threats that there were going to be protests that could easily erupt into violence."
"All I am responding to is the threat to my staff and my property."
He said that management received "several calls, emails, letters and personal calls."
Now...
...I have no problem with private companies freely deciding themselves who they do and don't do business with; and I have no problem with protesters exercising their own, unalienable 1st Amendment rights.
But...
...my problem arises when one group threatens even a hint of violence in demanding another party not be granted the very same free speech rights they're endowed with, too.
It seems to me that might be called criminal intimidation....
...as it also seems to me the two hotels mentioned above might be called cowards for caving in to it.
* it has been written that The Muslim Brotherhood refers to itself as the "Muslim Mafia"
Now, the Hutton Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, has cancelled the November 11th-scheduled Preserving Freedom Conference on its premises. The senior vice president for hotels of the Hutton Hotel's management corporation says he "wasn't exactly sure what the content of the program was," but he personally cancelled the event because,
"They were veiled threats that there were going to be protests that could easily erupt into violence."
"All I am responding to is the threat to my staff and my property."
He said that management received "several calls, emails, letters and personal calls."
Now...
...I have no problem with private companies freely deciding themselves who they do and don't do business with; and I have no problem with protesters exercising their own, unalienable 1st Amendment rights.
But...
...my problem arises when one group threatens even a hint of violence in demanding another party not be granted the very same free speech rights they're endowed with, too.
It seems to me that might be called criminal intimidation....
...as it also seems to me the two hotels mentioned above might be called cowards for caving in to it.
* it has been written that The Muslim Brotherhood refers to itself as the "Muslim Mafia"
