Court rules MTA’s BAN ON FREE SPEECH Ads on Subway is Legal BUT Muslim Ads are OK to Run

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An appeals court judge has upheld a previous ruling that the MTA’s policy of refusing all political and religious ads in the transit system is legal, meaning the agency can continue to reject controversial posters by firebrand Pamela Geller and the anti-Muslim American Freedom law Center– for now.

But Islamic supremacists who sued to run an ad, “The Muslims are Coming! The Muslims are Coming!” (no, its not referring to the Muslim invasion of Europe) will be allowed to run.

That is sharia. We were running ads with DIRECT quotes from Muslim groups. That was considered “hate speech.” When they say it, we are told to respect it. When we repeat it, it’s hate speech.

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This is exactly what the Founding Fathers wanted to avoid when they wrote the First Amendment. The freedom of speech amendment was meant to protect all speech, not just the speech the elites and their running dogs in the media liked. The MTA issued a ban that appears increasingly to only apply to AFDI. The Muslim supremacist ad and a Nazi ad can run. But not our pro-freedom ads.

This is exactly why the First Amendment was enshrined in our Constitution — because who would decide what’s good and what’s forbidden? Sharia-compliant, leftist judges?

Shame on this court. These quislings did not want to really handle this appeal in a serious way. They issued their opinion per curiam (anonymous agreement) — no one just wanted to put his/her name on this opinion. Cowards.

They just cite to the general rule that the appellate court only reverses trial court’s decision to dissolve injunction if that decision was “clearly erroneous.” But First Amendment cases are the exception, and there the review must start from the beginning. The appellate court did not even hint that the free amendment might affect the level of review. This is plainly wrong and goes against prior Second Circuit case law. For all those pleased with this ruling, don’t rub your hooves in glee. This kind of abuse of our rights enshrined in the Constitution will come back to bite you.

You’ll note this major NY newspaper calls my legal team “anti-Muslim.” Defending freedom of speech is now categorically labeled “anti-Muslim.”

Of course we will continue to fight on, but just look at how stacked the deck is. And considering Donald Trump’s anti-free speech declarations, I don’t see much changing.

“MTA’s ban anti-Muslim ads on subway is legal, court rules,” By Emily Saul and Danielle Furfaro, NY Post, March 3, 2016:

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An appeals court judge has upheld a previous ruling that the MTA’s policy of refusing all political and religious ads in the transit system is legal, meaning the agency can continue to reject controversial posters by firebrand Pamela Geller and the anti-Muslim American Freedom law Center– for now.

Geller’s attorney had appealed Manhattan Federal judge John Koeltl’s ruling last June, in which he said “No law requires public transit agencies to accept political advertisements as a matter of course.”

But the appeals court says that, given that the MTA had changed it policy disallowing all political ads in the midst the legal battle, Geller and the AFLC’s initial arguments are now “moot.”

“AFDI is, of course, free to challenge the MTA’s new advertising standards, but it must do so through an amended complaint,” the ruling reads.

Oh we will.

The case began in 2014, when Geller’s AFDI filed suit against the MTA for blocking it from purchasing Islam-bashing ads on city buses.

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MTA officials said they are happy that the court took the agency’s side.

“The MTA is pleased by the Second Circuit’s decision, which reiterated that we have acted in good faith when balancing enforcement of our advertising regulations with respect for the First Amendment,” said MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg.

What respect for the first amendment? You shredded it, Lisberg. Wait until you need it.

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atl slayer
atl slayer
8 years ago

Freedom of spee_________________________________…………….. … .. . . .

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
8 years ago
Reply to  atl slayer

It’s the democrat, not the American way.

imwithstoopid
imwithstoopid
8 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Thanks for using the word “democrat” and not “democratic” to indicate the “Democrat” party in spite of the party being a Democratic entity (?).

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
8 years ago
Reply to  imwithstoopid

Yes, I have caught myself a few times trying to use the grammatically correct tense which skews the meaning completely, identical to democrat autocrats.

Dr. Doomsday
Dr. Doomsday
8 years ago

Sharia. Rhymes with Gonorrhea and Diarrhea.

SCREW SOCIALISM
SCREW SOCIALISM
8 years ago
Reply to  Dr. Doomsday

Sharhea.

Salami, Salami, Baloney.

SCREW SOCIALISM
SCREW SOCIALISM
8 years ago
IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
8 years ago

I’ll see your Salami, Salami Baloney and raise you one Mekka Lekka Hi, Mekka heine ho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN5kVvR8VQI

Malsikcuf
Malsikcuf
8 years ago
Reply to  Dr. Doomsday

Gonosharia

malsikcuf
malsikcuf
8 years ago
Reply to  Malsikcuf

Diasharia

wilypagan
wilypagan
8 years ago

Attention Cruz supporters: Unless you wish for Hillary to appoint the next Supreme Court justice and impose hate crime laws, gun confiscation, etc. you had better get behind Trump:

https://twitter.com/StatesPoll

RalphB
RalphB
8 years ago
Reply to  wilypagan

The Trump who will protect your 2nd Amendment rights is a figment of your wishful thinking.

“I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons
and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun. With
today’s Internet technology we should be able to tell within 72 hours if
a potential gun owner has a record.” — Donald Trump in his book The America We Deserve (2000).

If his current revised view were based on his now adopting genuine principles such as faithfully applying the explicit restriction placed on government by the Constitution, I might buy his transformed view. But it’s based on hot air reasoning such as this:

“The government has no business dictating what types of firearms good, honest people are allowed to own.”

Why not, Donald? Just because you say so? The man has policies not principles, policies that change as the direction the wind is blowing changes.

We won’t be fooled again.

wilypagan
wilypagan
8 years ago
Reply to  RalphB

If you prefer Hillary, so be it. Neither Rubio or Cruz are electable.
See if she protects your gun rights. In a law and order Trump society, we can leave our guns at home.

Trevor Fortune
Trevor Fortune
8 years ago
Reply to  RalphB

Well your choice will be Hillary in an orange jump suit campaigning from behind bars, or mad dog Sanders wanting to add $17 trillion more to the national debt, or perhaps they will ship in Laughing Uncle Joe at the last minute because if the stories circulating today are true that Ben Carson is about to pull out and endorse Trump and hand him his delegates it is all over for Cruz and Rubio.

Reagan40
Reagan40
8 years ago
Reply to  RalphB

You’re wasting your time here with your warped convoluted logic. Who are you talking to? Your CV?

SPECIAL FORCES VET
SPECIAL FORCES VET
8 years ago
Reply to  RalphB

You are out of your mind with regards to banning assault rifles. First of all the name Assault Rifle is a Liberal name given to rifles with a certain look during the Clinton administration and it can refer to any semi automatic weapon. My Glock pistol is a semi auto weapon and under your definition is an assault weapon. The reason Trump is right about the 2nd amendment is in the 2nd amendment Shall not infringe.The Liberals in your state and across the nation believe you can change the 2nd amendment by just changing rules as to what you can own and that is unconstitutional again Shall Not Infringe. The only way to change the 2nd amendment is to pass the 28th amendment repealing the 2nd amendment and then sending this new amendment to the states to be ratified by at least 38 states before it repeals the 2nd amendment. so try again to justify you unconstitutional argument because that dog don’t hunt boy. You can be against Trump all you want but you better do a better job of researching your topic before opening your mouth. It is better to remain silent and appear stupid and open your mouth and remove all doubts.

RalphB
RalphB
8 years ago

This kind of reply shows us why we are in big trouble. Special Forces Vet either cannot read or cannot think. I never defined “assault weapon” — I know what a semi-automatic is. It was Trump who wanted to ban so-called “assault weapons — you didn’t see the quote marks and the citation to where he said it???

Trump is a “negotiator”, a “deal maker” — he has no interest in the absolute restrictions on the power of government required by the Constitution. He has no interest in you. He is going to strike a balance between left and right, so he can get elected with the help of Democrats and stay in power the same way. He has the “policies” he thinks will get him the nomination. He’s just as bad as most of the Republican establishment, but without their dignity..

Here’s the best summary I could find of Trump’s so-called “principles and values”.

http://ontheissues.org/Celeb/Donald_Trump_Principles_+_Values.htm

Read it and weep. If you know of a better summary, post the link. Not a principle in sight, nothing but policies. No statement of devotion to the Constitution as written, nothing about individual rights, about the function of government being to protect rights. We know that a person’s life-long principles are generally formed before they are 25. Trump was 25 in 1971. The collection of “principles and values” I cited goes to 2008. If he couldn’t articulate a principle by the time he was 62, it’s obvious that the man will never have one. He will compromise away roughly half of whatever liberty you still have left. Don’t be fooled again.

“In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can
win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can
profit.” – Ayn Rand

heidi granchelli
heidi granchelli
8 years ago
Reply to  RalphB

Trump has stated very clearly that he was wrong about a ban on assault weapons, and like everyone else is entitled to learn from mistakes and continue to adjust views accordingly

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
8 years ago

Loosing a battle does not mean losing the campaign. There are other hills to climb. The election is going to have lots of opportunities for the democrats and their running dogs to explain themselves.

William
William
8 years ago

You have faith in the Supreme Court. I don’t. They are a bunch of corrupt elites like the rest.

Charlie
Charlie
8 years ago
Reply to  William

It’s the same as the Supreme Court in Canada. Unelected and unaccountable.

spacearcadian
spacearcadian
8 years ago

freedom of speech doesn`t mean insulting other people`s beliefs. why the need of provoking muslims? no, it`s wrong and people who do it, should be fined and jailed; just like people who insult gays. people must find ways of understanding with muslims. restaurants get halal certification and muslims don`t atack them with machetes, just an example. the american flag has many stars, what about adding a crescent moon

Andy_Lewis
Andy_Lewis
8 years ago
Reply to  spacearcadian

Seek help.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
8 years ago
Reply to  spacearcadian

Then why are muslims allowed to openly threaten non muslims, assault people on the street, with impunity, get special considerations at work, in jail, in school, in public buildings, everywhere they go? Are not all Americans equal? Or muslims more equal than others?

Charlie
Charlie
8 years ago
Reply to  spacearcadian

So is that why Bill Clinton didn’t address the brutal oppression and prosecution of Christians in Nigeria when he visited there in August, 2000? He didn’t want to insult them regarding their major Human rights violations? Hundreds of thousands of Christians were murdered under Idi Admin’s barbaric regime. Even though only 6% of the population of Uganda was Muslims, Idi Admin declared Islam the official religion.

Then one year later, on September 7, 2001, during Friday afternoon prayers, a Muslim mob beat a Christian woman to death. They claimed she walked past them while they were bowed in prayer, outside the Mosque. In rage they got up from their prayer mats and savagely beat her, killing both the woman and her pre-born child.

So people should be jailed for telling what’s going on?

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
8 years ago
Reply to  Charlie

“Hundreds of thousands of Christians were murdered under Idi Amin’s regime”. I didn’t know that, but it explains why Soddy Barbaria provided Idi Amin safe haven (i.e. from being charged w/crimes against humanity), an annual stipend and his own mansion to live in at state expense.

Reagan40
Reagan40
8 years ago
Reply to  spacearcadian

What about people who insult non muslims by calling them infidels? What about people who call jews descendents of apes and pigs? What about mosques that preach from the hate book called the koran? What about…? How about muslims finding ways to understand people not the other way round? How about halal certification, are you nuts? What about adding a peaceful cross to the deadly sword on the flag of Saudi Arabia? You’re not anly a dimwit, you’re mentally retarded like all followers of the immoral Bedouin prophet.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
8 years ago
Reply to  spacearcadian

Yes freedom of speech does mean insulting other people’s beliefs muslum. If you don’t like the concept of freedom of speech you can always move back to whatever sh!ttystan spawned you.

thisguy
thisguy
8 years ago
Reply to  spacearcadian

muslims insult all none muslims, the koran says to strike terror into the none believers, to kill gays, to kill jews and christians, in the first hundred years of islam they are responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people including children, and raping women, those responsible were muhammeds own family members who knew muhammed. islam is evil since it’s creation, islam must be banned and contained not spread or tolerated.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
8 years ago

The US Constitution is tissue paper. … And largely has been since FDR.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
8 years ago

Double-standards: If not for double-standards, Leftists would have no standards at all. Put another way: Rules are for the serfs and peasants.

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
8 years ago

another harvard indoctrinated “judge” appointed by clinton….what else did you expect from the fascists? elections have consequences (and stenches like this fool) that last for decades

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
8 years ago

The more lies islam advertises, the more they contradict even the limp reporting of the lame stream media, the less credibility islam will have. A bit of strategic pressure, the right words in the right place will start an avalanche of muslim lies that will carry it back to the gutters it was spawned in.

Zaba
Zaba
8 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

the less credibility islam will have.

islam has zero credibility now.
Here’s the problem:

Lack of education about islam is the biggest problem we have in the West.
islam is in second place.

politicalislam.com

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
8 years ago
Reply to  Zaba

Civilization has its work cut out for it.

Zaba
Zaba
8 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

First step: identify the enemy.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
8 years ago
Reply to  Zaba

The enemy identifies itself, any and every muslim. The enablers and collaborators are not too hard to identify either.

Zaba
Zaba
8 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

No doubt you know I wasn’t referring to you and me.

Kristi17
Kristi17
8 years ago

The evil sharia law is UNCONSTITUTIONAL in our Judeo-Christian Nation United States of America!!

“NO FOREIGN LAWS SHALL BE ADDED TO OUR BELOVED CONSTITUTION.”!!

Please PRAY for our Judeo-Christian Nation United States of America and Israel-Yisrael Everyday Everyone!! “Pray Without Ceasing.” ( 1 Thessalonians 5:17 KJV )!!

Love Always and Shalom Everyone,

Kristi

Charlie
Charlie
8 years ago
Reply to  Kristi17

George Washington also warned, “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter”.

Reagan40
Reagan40
8 years ago

The future does not belong to islamic fascism and those that censor free speech.

Zaba
Zaba
8 years ago
Reply to  Reagan40

Just as soon as we identify the enemy…

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
8 years ago

Anti-muslim, anti-nazi what’s the difference?

charlie baker
charlie baker
8 years ago

Of course, the whole idea behind Hate Speech and Hate Crime in general is to favor some “protected” class of people. The idea is devisive by its very nature. It is political correctness gone mad, and for that there is a heavy price, as we are seeing in the European countries who are allowing the Muslim savages in the door by the thousands. And they, I mean the governments of these countries, don’t really seem to be learning anything from the experience. And for that they will most probably perish.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
8 years ago

What we are witnessing is the politicized courts beginning to play fast and loose with the Constitution on the heels of the untimely passing of Justice Scalia. This accentuates the importance of not allowing Obhammud to pick his replacement by clamor.

______________
______________
8 years ago

What we are witnessing is liberal treason – by giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Liberal treason running the courts.

Michael
Michael
8 years ago

Anyone check that judge’s bank account lately? If MUSLIM SLIME can have ads like that on a frigging bus so should the MTA!! I guess we are now in a country that has no FIRST AMMENDMENT-welcome to OSLIMA LAND!!

Timmy John
Timmy John
8 years ago

Muslims bullying Pamela, I protest against that. An article Aginst Muslims bullying Pamela
http://aneyeonnews.blogspot.ie/2016/03/typicalmuslim-behaviourbullying-pamela.html

Sr
Sr
8 years ago

Who is that hot woman holding the banner?

stephen powell
stephen powell
8 years ago

The issue is not Islam. Islam has been locked in intellectual and moral stasis for a thousand years. The issue is the collapse of governance in Western democracies.

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