"Rigid formalism"
That's what San Fran supervisor Gerardo Sandoval called it when 3rd-generation Chinese-American Ed Jew voted against a hate speech resolution against Michael Savage, on First Amendment grounds. And it is a First Amendment issue. The Board of Supervisors members can say anything they want individually. When they act as a Board, if they're condemning somebody's speech, they're suppressing it, even if they don't have a law to beat the speaker with...because, don't worry, they'll find one. Which would be kind of ironic, given that Savage's "hate speech" seems to be "I want the government to enforce the law." I'm appalled that only one out of ten supervisors broke ranks on this. I've got to wonder if Jew's "rigid formalism" extends to the rest of the Constitution...the 2nd Amendment, for instance.
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