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I know the fact that this billboard is coming down has been posted, but this is new info. The mother of the girl used in the photo wants an apology (and probably money, IMHO).

Of course she shouldn't get an apology. This just further illustrates that people are focusing on the wrong issues here. Boggles the mind.

Some interesting comments under the story at the link.

1 posted on 02/25/2011 5:59:31 AM PST by thefactor
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To: Steelfish; Mrs. Frogjerk

New info regarding the story you posted on yesterday. Get a load of this.


2 posted on 02/25/2011 6:01:27 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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Do I dare ask:

What does the girl’s FATHER think about it?


3 posted on 02/25/2011 6:02:25 AM PST by rfreedom4u ("A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.")
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The Inconvenient Truth.
4 posted on 02/25/2011 6:02:37 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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6 posted on 02/25/2011 6:05:03 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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Truth hurts don’t it babe!


7 posted on 02/25/2011 6:05:34 AM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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Did the folks who posted the billboard have the rights to the girl's picture, and her (or her mother's, since she's a minor) permission to use it?

If anybody plastered my kid's face on billboards all over town without my permission, there'd be Hell to pay.

8 posted on 02/25/2011 6:07:18 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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'I want an apology'

Hey Tricia, how's it feel to 'want'?

9 posted on 02/25/2011 6:07:54 AM PST by Roccus (Who knows?........Who cares?........Why bother?)
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"Of course she shouldn't get an apology."
If a picture of a minor was used without the legal guardians permission, she should not only get an apology, but a very large financial settlement...I do not care what the subject of the billboard was, they violated the law by using a picture of a minor without authorization.......
10 posted on 02/25/2011 6:09:40 AM PST by joe fonebone (The House has oversight of the Judiciary...why are the rogue judges not being impeached?)
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Once you sign over the rights, tough noogies. The image was probably from a stock photography site.


15 posted on 02/25/2011 6:15:55 AM PST by kimmie7 (I do not think BO is the antichrist, but he may very well be 665.)
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Truth is over rated, so tear it down.


16 posted on 02/25/2011 6:16:16 AM PST by MaxMax
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I thought the girl looked cute. Having her face up there longer might have expanded the chance that she would see additional opportunities down the road.

ML/NJ

20 posted on 02/25/2011 6:18:30 AM PST by ml/nj
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If the mother legally signed away the rights to her daughter’s image, and the image was used legally, then perhaps she should be on the receiving end of a lawsuit.


29 posted on 02/25/2011 6:26:42 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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A few thoughts:

The comment by the liberal calling himself RenHoek is exactly what political discourse is supposed to be about.

The hysteria here is interesting. To those criticizing this in the article, this is not in bad taste or even merely racist, it’s an atrocity and dangerous.

Another interesting aspect is that I’m not aware of any article about this mentioning the reason for the ad’s tagline: It’s the truth. Abortion kills more black people than the next 7 causes of death combined. It’s killed approximately 7 times as many as were killed by the slave trade. But Reverend Al says don’t talk about it during Black History Month, so...

I have three questions for the moron quoted in the article who is a professor of social work:

1. If you (absurdly) think this billboard is dangerous because of the message it sends to African-American children, how do you think kids feel when they realize their entire country has decided they are disposable?

2. Do you think drunk driving ads imply that every person who drives is a drunk driver? Do you believe the illustrated warning on the side of 5 gallon plastic buckets warning parents not to let their child play around it (because they could fall in and drown) send the message to children that Mommy wants to drown them in a bucket?

3. You refer to neighborhood children as “little people of color.” Yet, wouldn’t you be offended if a white person poined at a group of black children and described them as colored people?


30 posted on 02/25/2011 6:29:12 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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"This is an atrocity," said Darcey Merritt, 42, who is African-American and a professor of social work at New York University.

In the leftist mindset millions of black children killed is perfectly fine (just so long as they don't have to eat ramen noodles), but one picture on a politically discomforting billboard is an atrocity. What a screwed up value system.

"If a little person of color walks buy and sees this, what message does that give about his or her mother, about other black people and their worth?" Merritt said. "This is dangerous."

A better question would be "What does the existence of Margret Sanger's followers at Planned Infanticide have to say about their opinion on the worth of black people?" If anything this picture says to the mother "Good job for having your child rather than killing her."

31 posted on 02/25/2011 6:30:27 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
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She’s just seeing more dollar signs.


34 posted on 02/25/2011 6:33:30 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Imagine if that image were for a pro-Planned Parenthood campaign, suggesting we don’t need any more of “them.” I saw a young woman whom I know post a message to that effect as her response to those wretched Republicans trying to withhold PP funding!

As it is, the sponsoring group has gotten FAR more ink than had those who oppose it just shut up. Things have a way of working out.


35 posted on 02/25/2011 6:34:19 AM PST by EDINVA
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I can only shake my head at the sight of someone aiding the genocide of her own race.


36 posted on 02/25/2011 6:37:32 AM PST by Seruzawa (What's Democrat's legacy? Almost 1/2 million dead US soldiers and collapsed cities.)
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Others have said this already. But it bears repeating.

The truth hurts.
Killing millions of Black babies is “ok” in the leftist mind, but reminding people of it is an “atrocity.” What screwed-up value systems liberals have.


37 posted on 02/25/2011 6:37:48 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Liberalism is against human nature. Practicing liberalism is detrimental to your mental stability.)
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"I want an apology,"(..and Damages!!!) Fraser, 36, told the Daily News.
44 posted on 02/25/2011 7:18:50 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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Picture it, Manhattan, 1986. I’m sitting in a waiting room at a modeling agency, because so many people have said I should be there. Grim young moms and other perfect children are all around. My mom has already made up her supermind about it, but agreed to come, to oblige a friend who is certain I’m the next Brooke Shields. Mommy: You don’t need the money, the attention, or the consequences. Why jump on the meat wagon?
But I insisted. Then she read the contract, and my career was nipped in the bud.
No regrets.


45 posted on 02/25/2011 7:26:40 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (BYOST -- bring your own sark tag. Thank you.)
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