Posted on 02/23/2017 5:15:47 AM PST by csvset
Jenny Heinz, a longtime Metropolitan Opera and New York Philharmonic subscriber, calculates that over the past 60 years, she has been to hundreds of performances at Lincoln Center. But when she showed up this month at David Geffen Hall to see the Budapest Festival Orchestra, she was barred from attending when she refused to remove an 8-by-11-inch sign affixed to the back of her jacket.
It read: “NO! In the name of humanity we refuse to accept a fascist America.”
Ms. Heinz, 72, said she had been wearing the sign since she attended a protest outside Trump Tower in November. Though she had been looking forward to seeing the orchestra, partly because one of its cellists was almost stopped from entering the United States by President Trump’s travel ban, she said that, given a choice between the performance and the sign, she chose the sign.
“At what point does one draw the line?” she said recently by phone. “We’re talking about freedom of expression.”
Officials at Lincoln Center refunded Ms. Heinz’s ticket, but this week they declined to discuss why she had been blocked from the performance. Ms. Heinz, though, said in an interview that during a later meeting she had with center officials — arranged by the civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel — the institution’s vice president for concert halls and operations, Peter Flamm, told her that signs were not allowed inside the performance halls or on the plaza outside.
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Apparently, it's drawn at 'no signs.' Simple enough really.
This kind of rhetorical question is a favorite of the left. They ask about drawing lines when their aim is no lines at all.
And the NYet Times thinks this is newsworthy because....???
Oh, they want to give her protest a megaphone and broadcast it to a wider audience than just those at the theater that night.
Ms. Heinz sounds suspiciously like a very lonely, bitter, cat lady.
Even with out a photo it is not hard to understand why “Ms.” Heinz is a Ms..
Being a dried up ole JAP doesn’t help much either
Would’ve been more ironic had the performance been at the David H. Koch Theater. (Yes, that’s one of *those* Kochs.)
It still infuriates me that The State and the Philharmonic have been named after louses like Avery Fisher, David Geffan and Koch.
Meanwhile, China expands their military presence in the South China Sea and Russia is nuking up.
Ugh. Can you imagine having this self-righteous old hag as your wife or mother? She'll probably want them to put the sign on her in her casket.
Time for the ice floe, she's eating more than she's producing. It would be okay to just let her be if she weren't standing in the way of us saving our American way of life.
Stick her on an ice floe and push her out to sea, she's outlived her usefulness... and her welcome. She's sick, and a toxic danger to the rest of us.
She’d be the perfect mother-in-law from hell.Her most memorable,best day would be her funeral.
At that point just engrave her sign on her gravestone,nobody will ever be there to read it anyway.
But, but, but liberal elites are above the law... right?
So, those protesters were not allowed inside or or onto the plaza, and she uses that as an example of why she should have been allowed in? By the example she used, she should have been confined to a barricaded area.
Consequences finally. Typical liberals.
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