While the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution does protect the right of free speech, hate groups use this as a loop hole to spread messages of intolerance, anger, and violence. The messages they send, while protected, also violate the unalienable rights of citizens outlined in the Declaration of Independence: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. According to the FBI, the actions of these organizations "primary purpose is to promote animosity, hostility, and malice against persons belonging to a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin which differs from that of the members of the organization." That is the base definition of terrorism, and should not be tolerated.



