Below are the vicious anti-Israel ads that the MBTA restored
Posted on 12/05/2013 1:50:23 PM PST by Nachum
It's not lost on me that I find myself just a stone's throw from Boston Harbor where the greatest of wars -- the fight for freedom and individual rights -- broke out here in 1774. Nowhere, at no time, has there been a more righteous of cause in the history of humankind.
Then, as today, an out-of-control government took outrageous and egregious actions against our most basic individual rights -- and in this case, the most precious of all freedoms, the freedom of speech.
Today Robert Spencer and I went to court in Boston. David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise represented AFDI in our lawsuit against the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA). We were joined by our local counsel Bob Snyder.
Such abusive violations of our freedoms have become catalysts for historical resistance and actions in the defense of freedom. You can see it coming.
Our message is truth. Truth is hate speech in the wreckage of what is left of America in the wake of the left's decades-long war on Americanism and individual rights.
Our message is that any war on innocent civilians is savagery. 9/11 was savagery. 7/7 in London. March 11th in Madrid. The jihad against the Jews is savagery.
The MBTA said that our ad was "disparaging and demeaning." To whom? Savages? Any war targeting innocent civilians is savagery. And the war on the Jewish people is a war on innocent civilians. Whether it's targeting schools with missiles from Gaza or the bloody wholesale slaughter of a Jewish family in the middle of the night, the Fogel family, it's savagery. Jihad is savage. The murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens was savage. The relentless 60-year campaign of terror against the Jewish people is savage. The torture of hostage Gilad Shalit was savage
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The expression "Banned In Boston" rings true, doesn't it?
They would probably allow ads that said “Death to Israel”
If they allow political ads extolling candidates and the aforementioned pro Palestinian ads, its hard to see how a government agency can make such a judgement.
Our message is that any war on innocent civilians is savagery. 9/11 was savagery. 7/7 in London. March 11th in Madrid. The jihad against the Jews is savagery. The MBTA said that our ad was "disparaging and demeaning." To whom? Savages? Any war targeting innocent civilians is savagery. And the war on the Jewish people is a war on innocent civilians. Whether it's targeting schools with missiles from Gaza or the bloody wholesale slaughter of a Jewish family in the middle of the night, the Fogel family, it's savagery. Jihad is savage. The murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens was savage. The relentless 60-year campaign of terror against the Jewish people is savage. The torture of hostage Gilad Shalit was savage.Thanks Nachum. Looks like the Boston Marathon Bomb had its desired effect.
In Boston?
Pam Geller and Robert Spencer are not only fighting to preserve our freedom of speech, they work 24/7 to bring the truth about the enemy we face to all who will listen. Please join me in supporting their efforts!
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UPDATE FROM PAMELA GELLER:
Awaiting word .............
Boston Transit's “rejection of [AFDI’s] advertisement is not only viewpoint based, but it also fails to pass muster under the ‘reasonableness’ analysis”
The judge is expected to rule shortly ......
We went to court Tuesday to argue our temporary restraining order/preliminary injunction went to court in Boston. The American Freedom Law Center represented AFDI in our lawsuit against the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA). Joining us was by our local counsel Robert Snider.
Abusive violations of our freedoms such as that perpetrated by the MBTA have become catalysts for historical resistance and actions in the defense of freedom.
Truth is hate speech in the wreckage of what is left of America in the wake of the left’s decades-long war on Americanism and individual rights.
Our message is that any war on innocent civilians is savagery. 9/11 was savagery. 7/7 in London. March 11th in Madrid. The jihad against the Jews is savagery.
The Boston Marathon bombings were savagery.
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2013/12/03/pro-israel-ban-mbta-ads/
Watch this FOX News video: Dr Matt Sienkiewicz of Boston College discusses the case in this news segment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyMugCxNa8U
Lawyers for the MBTA railed against the demeaning nature of our ad, while poo-pooing the demeaning and disparaging content of the anti-Israel ad that it ran, which it took down after public outrage against its disparaging and demeaning nature — only to restore it.
Pinging Massachusettes Freepers here.
In 1973, my intelligence was no better than that of the Israeli government and the Yom Kippur War found me westbound aboard the QE2, committed to a two-week lecture tour of the US. By the time I got back to Israel, general [Ariel] Sharon was on the west side of the Suez Canal with the Egyptian Third Army in his power. I sent him an urgent message asking him to call. An hour later I was still waiting when I had to leave to have dinner in a Palestinian fish restaurant in Jaffa with General Motti Hod, commander of the air force in ’67. I briefed the switchboard operators at the Tel Aviv Hilton to forward any call to the restaurant.Halfway through dinner “mein host,” the Palestinian, called me to the phone. I went behind the bar and took the phone off the hook. A booming voice came on, causing me to hold the phone at arm’s length: ‘Winston, this is Arik!’ adding with overtones of Scipio Africanus ‘Arik from Africa! Winston, we have peace! A piece of Egypt, a piece of Lebanon, a piece of Syria and a piece of Jordan!’
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