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cali

(114,904 posts)
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 05:17 PM Jul 2012

Puke: Judge backs Pamela (Hater) Geller's "right" to post anti-Islam bus ads

Judge backs blogger over anti-Islam NYC bus ads



NEW YORK (AP) -- An anti-Islam activist has won a preliminary round in her First Amendment fight to place New York City bus ads calling enemies of Israel "savages."

Federal Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan says he agrees with blogger Pamela Geller. He says the Metropolitan Transportation Authority should not have rejected Geller's ad.

Geller is the executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative. She publishes a blog called Atlas Shrugged that warns of growing "Islamization."

The MTA rejected the group's bus ad. Its standard says ads should not demean individuals or groups based on race, religion or other protected categories.

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ANTI_ISLAM_AD?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-20-15-55-37

This decision will be reversed, I believe, but this Judge is a fucking asshole and a disgrace.

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Puke: Judge backs Pamela (Hater) Geller's "right" to post anti-Islam bus ads (Original Post) cali Jul 2012 OP
So by this logic a neo-Nazi group could pay for an ad on a city bus too bluestateguy Jul 2012 #1
I'm just gobsmacked by this decision. Gotta read it for myself. cali Jul 2012 #2

bluestateguy

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1. So by this logic a neo-Nazi group could pay for an ad on a city bus too
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 05:20 PM
Jul 2012

It might just be better to throw out the baby with the bathwater here and have the MTA bar all political ads; at least then there would not likely be a constitutional problem.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
2. I'm just gobsmacked by this decision. Gotta read it for myself.
Fri Jul 20, 2012, 05:21 PM
Jul 2012

As I said, I can't believe it won't be reversed.

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