Posted on 10/10/2012 10:28:50 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
A U.S. lawmaker called Wednesday for a boycott of public transit systems in Washington and other cities running a pro-Israel advertisement that denounces "the savage" in Muslim countries, AFP reported.
The advertisements, which have also run on trains in New York and buses in San Francisco, went up this week at four stations in the U.S. capital area after a federal judge ruled that the group enjoyed a right to free speech.
Citing security concerns, the operator of the Metro had sought to delay the billboards, which read, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."
Representative Mike Honda, a Democrat from California, said he supported the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of free speech and understood the court order for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to run the advertisements.
But "the right to not support hate speech is also a right, which is why I encourage people to boycott, if possible, WMATA" and public transit in the other places where the ad is running until the ad buys are finished, Honda said in a statement.
"We do not have to support hate speech," he added, according to AFP.
Honda, who as a child was interned at a camp due to his Japanese ancestry, said he took the issue "very personally" because he remembered the "hateful billboards and caricatures that equated Japanese Americans to savages" during World War II.
"We learn from history that hate speech and hysteria have dire consequences, the result of societal complacency, failed political leadership and the lack of courage to stand up and speak out against hate," he said.
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“When the Islamonazis finally take over, useful idiots like Mike Honda will be among the first to have their heads separated from their bodies.
And if by some miracle I am still alive at that point, hearing that the monsters they constantly enable have butchered them will probably be one of my few moments of respite. Of course, they’ll probably still be very confused about what is happening to them. Oh well...”
The nauseating pronouncements of the self-hating father of beheaded Nick Berg is an example of as insane a cognitive dissonance as one can imagine. The father of beheaded journalist Daniel Pearl is not far behind.
Liberal, secular 'infidels' must be prosecuted, says Brotherhood preacher
“But we don’t have subways in Texas so how could I boycott them even if I wanted to?”
You’ll just have to write to Mr. Honda asking to be excused, until such time as there’s a subway in El Paso with a sign on it saying to side with civilized people. Broadly hint that a little funding sent your way would help build it, so you could boycott it like he wants. If you do get a large check from the federal government, deposit it, withdraw a few hundred, and then go on down to your local Subway with a bunch of your Caucasian friends, and take up all the seats as you order your hearts out. Tip generously.
i’ll have a $5 foot long w/ bacon and a side of burning koran, please
You get Innocence of Muslims on a CD with that order. Just bring along a copy of some freep posts.
Flyers on the subway, buttons, t shirts, bumper stickers.
Depends how motivated messengers are. this is a battle that they cannot win.
Subway/Chick-fil-A
Resturants - -
L O L!
That’s the way I read it, too!
“Citing security concerns, the operator of the Metro had sought to delay the billboards”
and thereby vindicated the message of the billboards.
Japanese were savages during world war 2.
Get over it Honda.
I had to read more carefully. First thought this was about Subway, the worst sub sandwich maker.
Around here they are all owned/staffed by M.E . types. Got into a verbal fight w/ one over a dollar bill w/ one corner torn off.
Saw one [mideast/hindu type]just rag on a new employee who was a young black kid.Was hoping he’d stuff the sandwich he was trying to make in her face.lol
The Jews were put in internment camps in Egypt in 1967. Every male from age 7 to 70. Afterwards they were all forcibly expelled, a community that dated back to King Solomon. But with whom does Honda sympathize?
Must be vicarious, retroactive Stockholm Syndrome.
If jihad isn’t hateful, what is?
Anti-jihad speech opposes hate, ergo Honda is supporting hate speech when he opposes the ad by condoning jihad.
Mike Honda is just pushing Islamic Hate. Most Muslim countries would handle him worse than any US internment camp would.
Yeah, Rep, that’s really going to work.
Now, I’ll have to eat at Subway for lunch today.
Imagine a lawmaker calling for a boycott of anti-Nazi businesses in 1942.
Idiots. I mean the folks who voted for this person.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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I’ll take a Harley over a Honda any day of the week.
Oh, and BTW, Pam Geller is a wonderful person. I have met her and talked with her at length.
That being said, I will be very happy if veiled, bomb toting, TP eschewing muzzies boycott the subway.
This policy would also be welcome in Israel, as it would make the buses much more pleasant and safe for riders.
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