by Tyler Durden, May 30, 2017

Three days after a known white supremacist killed two men and wounded a third on a Portland commuter train, the city’s mayor is asking the federal government to revoke permits for two pro-Trump rallies planned at the federally-controlled Terry Schrunk Plaza because, apparently, in the far-left bastion that is Portland, Ore., voicing support for President Trump qualifies as hate speech.

"My concern is they're coming here to peddle a message of hatred and bigotry," Wheeler said in a news conference Monday.

"They have a First Amendment right to speak, but hate speech is not protected,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said during a press conference on Monday, according to local TV station KATU2.

A rally entitled the Trump Free Speech Rally Portland is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. June 4. A Facebook event page dedicated to the rally already has nearly 300 confirmed attendees. Another protest, the so-called #MarchAgainstSharia, is slated for June 10.

In an unanticipated turn of events, the ACLU of Oregon stepped up to defend attendees’ right to free speech, explaining in a string of tweets that “although it may be tempting to shut down speech we disagree with, once we allow the government to decide what we can say, see, or here, or whom we can gather with, history shows us that the most marginalized will be disproportionately censored and punished for unpopular speech.”