Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

The showdown between right-wing ralliers and the far larger group of counterprotesters in the heart of downtown Boston comes just one week after a chaotic gathering of far-right political groups — including neo-Nazis, white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members — left dozens injured and one woman dead in Charlottesville after a reported neo-Nazi allegedly plowed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters

In defense of ANTIFA’s actions, I shall quote Maximilian Robespierre(he was talking about Governance but I think it works here too)

virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.

as well as how – ahem – certain commentators in this thread have more or less indicated they thought the same about the Boston Free Speech rally goers

No. I’m serious. They see people ganging up on groups doing nothing and they call the other fascists.

I’ve seen history this happened before.

I’m trying to get them to see, who they support are no different. I can’t see any reason to celebrate a violent group attacking people. If this was a the other way around people would be furious. I legitimately want to know WHY they would support a group that hates, and spread violence.

Individuals representing the alt-right held the event in Boston. Alt-right opponents gathered for counter-demonstrations

John Medlar, one of the organizers of the free speech rally, previously told multiple media organizations the rally is not intended for white supremacists, neo-Nazis or members of the Ku Klux Klan. He also said the rally is not for those who attended the violence in Charlottesville.

The Boston Free Speech Coalition said on its Facebook page that the group is “strictly about free speech. We denounce the politics of supremacy and violence.”

John Medlar, one of the organizers, has told multiple media organizations that the rally is not intended for white supremacists, neo-Nazis or members of the Ku Klux Klan and has made it clear that the “Boston Free Speech Rally” is not for those who attended the protests in Charlottesville. He also claimed the event was for liberals and posted an email he wrote on Facebook that seems to indicate he invited Black Lives Matter’s Boston chapter to send a speaker.

Medlar maintains the rally’s aims are nonviolent and will promote free speech for all — except hate groups.

“We absolutely denounce the KKK, neo-Nazis, ID Evropa, Vanguard — all these legit hate groups. We have nothing to do with them and you don’t want them here, we don’t want them here,” Medlar said, according to NBC Boston. “If they want to come have their own rally, we don’t want any part of it.”

Also, the idea the First Amendment protects people’s freedoms of religion, speech, press, peacefully assembling, and petitioning the Government for a redress of grievances from any external influence needs to die, so here is the amendment itself:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
–The First Amendment

The sentence’s subject is “Congress”, not “no one”.