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Seattle Takes Down Those Despicable Anti-Israel Bus Ads
In Fairness, Credit Goes to Pamela Geller and David Horowitz
For the
record, it should be noted that Seattle made the bus-ads decision today only
after Pamela Geller’s “American
Freedom Defense Initiative”
bought 25 bus ads (twice as many as the anti-Israel ones) with an equally
confrontational message showing bloody victims from Hamas terror bus-bombings
with the header: “Hamas Terror: Your Tax Dollars at Work,” and then David
Horowitz entered to buy yet another several-thousand-dollars-worth of
confrontational bus ads titled: “Palestinian War Crimes: Your Tax Dollars at
Work.”
Today, Pam Geller’s advertising
representative first got a phone call that the Kings Metro system had decided to
refuse her ads, then received a letter from Sharon Shinbo, in Seattle Metro’s
Sales and Customer Services department, advising her that the Geller ads were
being denied under rules pertaining to running ads that are “so
objectionable under contemporary community standards as to be reasonably
foreseeable that it will result in harm to, disruption of, or interference with
the transportation system” and that are “so insulting, degrading or offensive as
to be reasonably foreseeable that it will incite or produce imminent lawless
action in the form of retaliation, vandalism or other breach of public safety,
peace and order.” Therefore: “The content of the advertisements and the
unprecedented response that the County has received to another recently proposed
ad of a similar nature show that the American Freedom Defense Initiative ads do
not meet the standards set forth in these sections, including among other
things, that they pose an unacceptable risk of harm, disruption and interference
with the transportation system and other breaches of the public safety, peace
and order.”
It is my humble opinion that
the efforts of the Jewish community of
Truth is an important weapon. It is
important for us to know and to acknowledge that the real turning point came
when Geller and Horowitz each used their respective organizations to buy a large
number of equally confrontational ads. Those ad-buys guaranteed that the real
goal would be obtained: not that Geller’s and Horowitz’s ads would run, but
instead that no ads on the subject would run.
Geller and Horowitz deserve the thanks that
few will give them, while the local Jewish groups will take the credit next
week.
That’s how these liberals work.
Free Speech for everyone. Free Speech for everyone. Bash
Until the target is not