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Pro-Israel Artist Threatened With 5 Years In Jail For Anti-Terror Posters
FrontPageMag | November 14, 2016 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 11/15/2016 8:55:44 AM PST by OddLane

It's not a story out of the Soviet Union though Oleg Atbashian, an artist, activist and commentator, had gotten in trouble for defying the authorities there too.

"Back in my Soviet dissident days, when I was collecting signatures in defense of Andrei Sakharov, I was screamed at, threatened, and lectured by the KGB and Communist funcionaries. What I never imagined was that in the United States, the land of the free, I would not only be subjected to similar treatment, but go to jail," Oleg writes.

But that's exactly what happened to him...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freespeech; islam; israel

1 posted on 11/15/2016 8:55:44 AM PST by OddLane
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Sorry, here's the link.
2 posted on 11/15/2016 8:56:36 AM PST by OddLane
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To: Yehuda; SJackson

ping


3 posted on 11/15/2016 8:59:57 AM PST by OddLane
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To: OddLane

Love Oleg.


4 posted on 11/15/2016 9:04:55 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance****)
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To: OddLane
Obama's America...


5 posted on 11/15/2016 9:16:05 AM PST by yoe (I am getting my country back! Hooray!)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

He’s the best!


6 posted on 11/15/2016 9:40:25 AM PST by OddLane
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear; yoe
Additional notes on Oleg's arrest.
7 posted on 11/15/2016 12:01:26 PM PST by OddLane
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To: OddLane

The campus police Nazis need to be arrested by the county sheriff for restricting the artist’s 1st amendment rights.


8 posted on 11/15/2016 4:27:18 PM PST by sergeantdave (Trump will give us 80% of what we want, while hillary will take 100% of what we have)
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I can't imagine he committed a felony, but if the school doesn't want posters on their signs or walls, seems like that's their prerogative. This doesn't appear to be about the content of posters. Or 1st amendment rights.

9 posted on 11/16/2016 4:02:11 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: SJackson

If I was the university groundskeeper (or whatever it’s called) I would be pissed off about a poster being glued to the university entrance sign, whether it was anti-terrorist or pro-”black lives matter”.

Although, in the latter case, it might not be safe for me to complain.


10 posted on 11/16/2016 4:10:31 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PapaBear3625

In the latter case there’d be no charges.


11 posted on 11/16/2016 4:28:19 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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