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In reply to the discussion: CNN has the Texas shootings on now [View all]Raine1967
(11,589 posts)49. CNN was reporting this as a *Free Speech* event. Horse shit… It was a HATE EVENT. LINK:
It was a hate event organized by Pamela Geller.
Pamela Geller, president of the AFDI, told the AP before Sunday's event that she planned the contest to make a stand for free speech in response to outcries and violence over drawings of Muhammad. Though it remained unclear several hours after the shooting whether it was related to event, she said Sunday night that the shooting showed how "needed our event really was."
http://news.yahoo.com/officer-shooting-muhammad-cartoon-contest-texas-005227724.html
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Whatever fantasies are held about Christians reacting violently to a hypothetical bible-burning,
razorman
May 2015
#105
I said IF it happened on the same scale. Some of the crowd that showed up at Bundy Ranch
blm
May 2015
#98
I wouldn't cross the street to piss on Gellar if she were on fire, but this isn't incitement. n/t
X_Digger
May 2015
#21
Not even close to incitment. See Brandenburg v. Ohio (link below) for the definition of incitment.
kelly1mm
May 2015
#32
Oh bullshit on that. This is America where you can make fun of stupid shit like religion
seveneyes
May 2015
#77
You are speculating. I repeat. The identities of the gunmen are NOT known.
ScreamingMeemie
May 2015
#47
I gave you CBS because I figured you would say that about a Fox affiliate
ScreamingMeemie
May 2015
#55
I'm looking at one of your posts now... where inaccurate info wasn't corrected.
ScreamingMeemie
May 2015
#64
You've posted so much inaccurate information you should really delete this thread.
tammywammy
May 2015
#50
Now Pamela Geller will have a higher profile and probably more supporters. Ugh. Geller is
okaawhatever
May 2015
#8
Your facts are incorrect. One officer was injured. The two gunmen are dead.
ScreamingMeemie
May 2015
#14
That's a good point. Everyone has their breaking point on what they consider acceptable and what's
liberal_at_heart
May 2015
#31
I would point out that religious groups and persons regularly denigrate LGBT people and the fact
Bluenorthwest
May 2015
#91
There may have been a report of a threat of violence directed at this event. eom.
GGJohn
May 2015
#26
Although it's being "reported" here differently, none of the actual facts of the case
ScreamingMeemie
May 2015
#48
CNN was reporting this as a *Free Speech* event. Horse shit… It was a HATE EVENT. LINK:
Raine1967
May 2015
#49
No - the hate is what Jihadists did killing Theo Van Gogh and threatening Molly Norris
Algernon Moncrieff
May 2015
#60
People who have attempted to exercise their free speech and free press rights sometimes end up dead
Algernon Moncrieff
May 2015
#62
Horrible, to be sure, but were either of them drawing pictures of a prophet?
Algernon Moncrieff
May 2015
#87
No, they were murdered by people offended by the fact that these men existed.
Scootaloo
May 2015
#88
So your theory is that minority groups that are subjected to denigrating speech should respond with
Bluenorthwest
May 2015
#92