Don't Censor My Commute

New York Times ^ | June 1, 2015 | Betsy McCaughey

[OddLane]

SUBWAY platforms and bus shelters have become the newest targets of political correctness.

The mass transit agencies in Washington, New York and Philadelphia have all moved to ban political advertising, in response to the American Freedom Defense Initiative, a group known for criticizing Islam.

In Philadelphia, a federal judge in March ordered the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority to accept a bus ad from the group that shows a 1941 meeting of Adolf Hitler and a Palestinian Arab nationalist leader, Haj Amin al-Husseini, with the line: “Islamic Jew-Hatred: It’s in the Quran.” On Thursday, after the ads came down, the agency banned future advertising “expressing or advocating an opinion, position or viewpoint about economic, political, religious, historical or social issues.”

That same day, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority suspended all “issue-oriented” advertising through the end of the year, after the anti-Islam group tried to place an ad attacking the Prophet Muhammad.

[Scrambler Bob]

Oops, I thought Betsy was concerned about crackdown on ManSpreading.

[publius911]

I do hope that the issue works its way up to the Supreme Court.

These are the very topics that the Bill of Rights was written to address.

THE BILL OF RIGHTS IS NOT SUBJECT TO AMENDMENT OR MODIFICATION!

One would think that a nationally elected politician would be more aware of that than the average moron...

[OddLane]

I would love to see the argument for a government agency explicitly censoring political speech. Remember in 2002, SCOTUS upheld the constitutionality of McCain-Feingold.

McConnell v. FEC