Posted on 05/06/2015 2:29:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is the essence of the “fighting words” logic that Chris Cuomo got ripped for defending this morning, no? Geller picked a fight. She, not just the degenerates who attacked the event, is responsible for creating the threat insofar as a breach of the peace was foreseeable. It’s a logical next step from there to saying, “And therefore we should stop her from picking these sorts of fights, as they put innocent people at risk.”
Even in Texas:
Mayor Douglas Athas said he wished Ms. Geller, co-founder and president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, hadn’t picked Garland as the site for Sunday’s event, the Dallas Morning News reported.
“Certainly in hindsight, we as a community would be better off if she hadn’t,” he told the paper. “Her actions put my police officers, my citizens and others at risk. Her program invited an incendiary reaction. She picked my community, which does not support in any shape, passion or form, her ideology.
“But at the end of the day, we did our jobs,” he added. “We protected her freedoms and her life.”
Her actions were the dangerous ones, huh? You would think this guy, if only in the spirit of solidarity with a fellow citizen who’s now been marked for death by ISIS, would insist on some moral distinction between drawing irreverent cartoons and trying to bomb a community center, but that’s hard to do conceptually if you don’t assign jihadis their own moral agency. To some segment of the population, Islamist nuts are almost part of the weather, not people who consciously undertake to do harm to others. And in a sense, that’s true: If it wasn’t Geller’s cartoon event that got the two Garland savages excited, it would have been something else. Lightning’s going to strike somewhere, whether or not you put your lightning rod out. And you don’t blame lightning for doing what lightning does.
By the way, this makes twice today that I’ve seen someone suggest that Geller’s real crime was organizing an event that required security. Larry Wilmore made the same point last night on his “Daily Show” knockoff, calling it “horrific” that Geller was “intentionally putting innocent, unarmed security guards in danger so you can make some bullshit free speech argument.” Why her free-speech argument is “bullshit” is unclear except that it serves the purpose of a show like his to delegitimize a right-wing villain they might otherwise feel obliged to side with. The security argument is interesting, though, and familiar: It’s basically the same line Martin Dempsey used when he dialed up Terry Jones a few years ago and asked him not to burn the Koran. Is it any worse, I wonder, to put armed security guards in danger? I’m sure it wasn’t Geller’s fault, after all, that the guard in Garland outside the event wasn’t packing, and even if he had been, he was still at risk of being murdered by having to protect the event. Same goes for armed cops, some of whom have been in danger at times after being deployed at anti-police protests in Ferguson and elsewhere over the past year. Presumably it’s okay to put cops at risk of being murdered for a legitimate free-speech matter, but once the demonstration crosses the magical line into “bullshit,” you’re on the hook morally for whatever happens. You trust the left not to abuse a “hate speech” legal regime once that’s been foisted on America, don’t you?
Richard Prior once visited a prison to interview black inmates. One inmate he interviewed was there for murder. The thug broke into a house to steal the TV. During the robbery the owner came home so the black thug killed the home owner. Prior asked him; you killed somebody over a TV?? This black thug’s excuse: he shouldn’t have come home while I was there. Sounds like this Garland TX mayor fits the mental description of that black thug.
Heck, if you just took the following out of New York state, we would do better:
Queens
Bronx
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Albany
Buffalo
Rochester
The Five was just jumping on the “Blame Pamela” bandwagon.
They are absolutely disgusting and lack the balls to call out evil for what it is - satanism!
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In Texas, certain venues are off limits to CCW holders ... schools for example, and IIRC, this was one of them.
I’m glad there were police there for that event.
So, are they going to let everyone ever convicted because of a drug sting out of jail?
The Mayor is a dhimmi.
Add Ithaca to that list and it's a good start. As I understand things (albeit from afar), places like Amherst, a Buffalo suburb, are good Conservative communities. Year after year, I see that Amherst makes the top 10 list of safest cities. QED, it must be a Conservative place.
ME NEITHER.
If this is his take on things, and it must be, I can’t argue with you.
This is the same Garland, Texas that accommodated a “Stand up for the Prophet” day in January, in the aftermath of the Paris massacres.
Dhimmitude is all the rage, ain’t it?
Of course it does, Silly Mayor Person. It's Texas, the state that tends to do what others are AFRAID to do. Including you.
That's why FReeper Patriot rightly calls it Faux News. I give her credit for coming up with that clever term which I now use when that channel gets out of line, which occurs far too frequently.
Gosh, so because Charlie Chaplin made fun of Der Fuehrer in The Great Dictator, the Jews had it coming in the Holocaust?
My what ethical people we have in political power.
The Victim is always wrong.
“But they gave her permission to have this contest. ...”
Hmm, what’s up with that?
Who exactly gave permission?
Then the mayor squeals in outrage when two dirt bags try to shoot up the place and get plugged for their efforts?
Town needs a new mayor...
Garland rented this same site to a bunch of Islamists promoting sharia law just a few months ago. It was swarming with Garland cops and I’ll bet the tax payers footed the entire bill. What a hypocrite.
I lived in Garland for years and am so happy I’m outta there.
I live in Garland. Doug Athas ran as a Republican but said, “I am really a Libertarian, not a a Republican.” He wrote a column saying, “Illegals are going to come to Texas, so we need to make sure we (the city of Garland) get our fair share.” I live in an area with a failed golf course/country club that he wants to turn into high density housing. The residents are trying to fight it, but city councilmen have told them in private that they don’t want the housing, but the mayor won’t hear a word against the plan. It feels very Obamaesque: what I want, I get, and the voters be damned.
Nah...they don't give a damn about their Nazi Moon God....it's the precious pedophile prophet they get all drove-up about. (he was just a man, and not a good one at that)
I’m glad they were there, too, but I would imagine the hired security would have handled it. Many of them are former police officers and of military background. I wouldn’t mess with anybody in Texas.:)
So sad. Why do our great cities attract the most awful people? These cities must have been wonderful 80-100 years ago.
Wow. You live in the great state of Texas but you might as well live in NJ...
Fight to change it, if you can.
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