Yep. First amendment. Just like I have the right to oppose the very fascists who would end it.
Germans experienced the real deal and they don't think fascists are healthy for democracy. They know what happens when marches like the one in Charlottesville go unopposed:
“defensive democracy.” The idea is that democracies might need a boost from some illiberal policies — such as limits on free speech and the display of imagery, in this case, connected to the Holocaust and the Second World War — in order to keep everyone free. In 2009 the law was strengthened again, when the German Constitutional Court officially ruled that a march to celebrate Nazi Rudolf Hess was illegal under Article 130 of the Penal Code, which bans anything that "approves of, glorifies or justifies the violent and despotic rule of the National Socialists."
“Our German law centers on the strong belief that you should hinder this kind of speech in a society committed to principles of democratic coexistence and peace,” Matthias Jahn, a law professor at Goethe University in Frankfurt, told the Washington Post this week.
Nazis don't recognize free speech or the rights of others, nor were they rallying to protect free speech on Friday and Saturday last week in Charlottesville. 1st Amendment allows that march, so government was forced to issue a permit to a "free speech" group that has no intention of protecting free speech for everybody.
Without a legal system to shut down the fascist march, the people of Charlottesville performed the act of defensive democracy. Antifa's strategy was perfect and beautiful. They let Nazis hurl fighting words, responded appropriately, then the police shut down the march due to safety concerns. Instead of leaving the city as ordered, fascists went out into the neighborhoods and were followed and harassed until the police could arrive to move them along.
The people ultimately responsible for the safety of people in Charlottesville are on record of saying all of the violence of the weekend was due to actions of the white supremacists. To back their claims, they point out that nobody was hospitalized and no property damage took place due to actions by Antifa. The only property damage, death and hospitalizations came at the hands of the murderous Nazi after the main events were over. I'm in awe at the restraint shown on both sides to avoid more violent escalation during the heat of events on that Saturday morning.
We have the first amendment protecting speech from government action. And so it's up to us, the citizens of each and every burg in this country who enjoy the right of free speech to protect it from fascists, racists, bigots and Bernie Supporters who look more and more different from Bernie every day.
Nobody should feel safe walking any street in this country holding aloft the Nazi flag.