Posted on 05/07/2014 11:44:38 AM PDT by PaulCruz2016
A federal judge has ordered Ryan Bomberger to stop making fun of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Court effectively ruled that Bomberger and his group, The Radiance Foundation, are not very funny.
Bomberger, who founded The Radiance Foundation, created a series of ads for billboards and websites calling attention to what he sees as the support of the NAACP for abortion. In them Bomberger referred to the NAACP as the National Association for the Abortion of Colored People.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
So, they just have to add something about trademarks being owned by respective parties or whatever?
South Park does parodies all the time. The NAMBLA one comes to mind, something like the "National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes".
1st Amendment, your honor. Protects speech of all sorts, not just the stuff you like.
Not anymore.
Weren’t leftist judges the ones that said offensive speech is especially the type of speech that is protected under the 1st amendment?
You can’t. Unless you’re a member of an official victim group.
Of course the NAACP shouldn’t exist at all in our ‘colorblind’ society.
Shit. I thought this happened only in Russia. I will go ahead and say it - I hate my own communist Government more than Russia because it effects me more directly. What is happening in Ukraine may one day happen right here.
How right you are.
Guess we better not refer to the BSA as the “Boy Sodomites of America.”
After May 24th, Bomberger may never again publicly use the phrase National Association for the Abortion of Colored People.
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After May 24th , Bomberger will instead publicly use the phrase “National Advocacy for the Abortion of Colored People.”
FIXED IT ... give the lib judge another 2 years of heartburn.
If Nazis can parade in Skokie, Illinois where concentration camp survivors live, then this jackass judge should honor the first amendment. I am so sick of these liberal judges making it up on the fly.
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