Posted on 11/16/2016 5:39:17 PM PST by markomalley
The artistic genius behind the highly acclaimed conservative satirical site The People's Cube has been arrested and released on $8,000 bail for putting up pro-Israel posters to combat a pro-Islamist conference at George Mason University. He now faces the prospect of five years in prison for allegedly committing a "class 6 felony."
Beloved satirist Oleg Atbashian (who has contributed to PJ Media) has gotten in trouble for defying authorities before: "Back in my Soviet dissident days, when I was collecting signatures in defense of Andrei Sakharov, I was screamed at, threatened, and lectured by the KGB and Communist functionaries," Oleg says. "What I never imagined was that in the United States, the land of the free, I would not only be subjected to similar treatment, but go to jail."
As Daniel Greenfield of FrontPageMagazine noted, Atbashian has been a thorn in the side of the American left for over a decade, exposing political correctness through his hysterical cartoons and political commentary.
Oleg's mixture of art and satire took off with Communists for Kerry. He's the mastermind behind The People's Cube and his tweaking of the radical left and its alliance with Islamic terrorists allowed him to continue the same fight he had pursued in the days of the Soviet Union. But as the US comes to resemble the USSR, political satire and activism carries a serious price.
This is what happened to Oleg when he put up some of his Freedom Center posters challenging the anti-Semitic environment created by the left's alliance with Islamic terrorists on campus.
This was supposed to be a two-day poster campaign, to counteract the George Mason University hosting an official national conference for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which is an anti-Semitic organization with well-documented ties to Hamas - a terrorist group whose stated goal is to exterminate the Jews. The GMU poster campaign was conceived by the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Oleg says "progressivism and its main tool, political correctness, are absurd and dehumanizing not just in theory; its physical implementation is also rather dreadful and painful, as I personally experienced yesterday, being turned from an activist artist into inmate #2076524 in Fairfax County jail, with aching bruises on my wrists from excessively tight handcuffs, and the prospect of spending five years in prison as a convicted felon."
Is that kind of like Spinal Tap’s “11” on the volume knob of the amplifier?
A little hard to do that, as I believe that he’s Jewish.
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Ping to markomalley’s and carthago delenda est’s posts!
Putting up posters gets the poster a felony charge, possible 5 years in jail...
I’m p!$$3d off beyond belief !!!!
lol
Prez cannot pardon state offense
This asshole Bunting needs to be looking for a new job. Yesterday. In a new line of work. There have to be ditches needing dug somewhere. A shovel is a wonderful way to give a person a lot of real time to sort things out. Some people just get confused in the hectic pace of modern life.
This fascist BS is the reason Donald Trump got elected.
Wow, unbelievable, thanks for the links Wild Highlander 57. Hopefully a good defense attorney will volunteer to take his case pro bono. Fairfax county VA, must be liberal land.....
Since when do we have “key PILLARS” of our society? Sounds a bot like Islam-speak to me :(
Can he pull Federal dollars for their viewpoint discrimination?
Can he pull Federal dollars for their viewpoint discrimination?
Any update on this? Luv People’s Cube. I hope Oleg can find some way to get this ridiculous charge dropped.
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