Rechter: Anti-jihad-reclame moet op bussen New York

[Wizdom]

Rechter: Anti-jihad-reclame moet op bussen New York

zaterdag 21 juli 2012 11:21

De Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), de instantie die het openbaar vervoer in New York City verzorgt, mag een actiegroep uit Californië niet verbieden anti-jihad-reclames te plaatsen op bussen in de stad.

New York mag geen anti-jihad-reclames weigeren, aldus de rechter

Dat heeft een federale rechter in New York bepaald, melden Amerikaanse media. Volgens de magistraat is het vanwege de inhoud weigeren van advertenties in strijd met de vrijheid van meningsuiting.

Discriminatie
De MTA had de posters geweigerd omdat jihadisten erin worden vergeleken met 'wilden'. Op de advertenties staat: 'In elke oorlog tussen de beschaafde mens en de wilde, steun de beschaafde mens. Steun Israël, versla jihad.'

Door onderscheid te maken tussen groepen die wel en niet mogen adverteren op een bus, discrimineert de MTA op basis van inhoud, aldus de rechter, die er tevens op wijst dat juist politieke uitlatingen recht hebben op de 'grootst mogelijke bescherming' van de grondwet.

De groep achter de posters, het American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), noemt de uitspraak 'een grote overwinning voor de vrijheid van meningsuiting'. Het AFDI staat onder leiding van Pamela Geller, een vriendin van PVV-leider Geert Wilders.

[Wizdom]

The United States is slipping into dictatorship as it is spending gigantic amount of money for wars instead of internal issues, a civil rights activist tells Press TV.


“The country is being run by the military industrial complex. This country is slipping into dictatorship. The people of the world have got to be made aware that it is dangerous. It is armed and dangerous,” said Sherwood Ross, who is also a reporter for OPED News.

“They [US authorities] are spending 700 billion dollars for war. They are spending by contrast half a billion dollars for the Peace Corp. Those figures have got to be turned around,” he added.

He made the comments after a young American killed several people and injured dozens others during a shooting spree in a movie theater in Colorado early Friday.


“Why don’t we hear about shootings in Glencoe, Winnetka and Wilmette, Illinois, and in the well-to-do suburbs? That’s because there’s no poverty in those suburbs. That’s because people aren’t struggling with other people for the basic necessities of life,” Ross argued.

He also noted that Aristotle’s quotation saying "poverty is the parent of crime and revolution" is true.

The activist also criticized US President Barack Obama and his predecessors for not meeting demands of American people in inner cities.

“We do not have a president and we have not had presidents who will address the problems of the inner cities,” Ross said.

“Unless we have a president who will do something for people of color in our country, who will improve the schools, who will improve the job opportunities, who will improve the housing, who will give people a reason to live with dignity and respect, we are not going to have an end to the gun culture even if we were to pass 100 laws banning guns. It would not end. We need a more fundamental change than that,” he concluded.