U.S. Lawmaker: Boycott Subway Over Anti-Jihad Ad

Arutz Sheva ^ | 11/10/12 | Elad Benari

[Eleutheria5]

A U.S. lawmaker called Wednesday for a boycott of public transit systems in Washington and other cities running a pro-Israel advertisement that denounces "the savage" in Muslim countries, AFP reported.

The advertisements, which have also run on trains in New York and buses in San Francisco, went up this week at four stations in the U.S. capital area after a federal judge ruled that the group enjoyed a right to free speech.

Citing security concerns, the operator of the Metro had sought to delay the billboards, which read, "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."

Representative Mike Honda, a Democrat from California, said he supported the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of free speech and understood the court order for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to run the advertisements.

But "the right to not support hate speech is also a right, which is why I encourage people to boycott, if possible, WMATA" and public transit in the other places where the ad is running until the ad buys are finished, Honda said in a statement.

"We do not have to support hate speech," he added, according to AFP.

Honda, who as a child was interned at a camp due to his Japanese ancestry, said he took the issue "very personally" because he remembered the "hateful billboards and caricatures that equated Japanese Americans to savages" during World War II.

"We learn from history that hate speech and hysteria have dire consequences, the result of societal complacency, failed political leadership and the lack of courage to stand up and speak out against hate," he said.

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[Eleutheria5]

Boycott the subway. You can always ride a limousine to work like I do.

It's hate speech to call someone a savage just because they pass out candy to celebrate the murder of an infant in her bed, or consider people heroes who do things like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9QiYTZ5vvQ

[decal]

“Boycott Subway Over Anti-Jihad Ad”

OK, I'll eat there after hitting Chick-fil-A...

[Olog-hai]

Representative Mike Honda, a Democrat from California …

What a surprise. DNC antisemitism strikes again!

[Hardraade]

These people are offensive and need a good beheading.

[P-Marlowe]

When the Islamonazis finally take over, useful idiots like Mike Honda will be among the first to have their heads separated from their bodies.

[Eleutheria5]

He didn’t use it, so he won’t need it.

[Eleutheria5]

He didn’t use it, so he won’t need it.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Mikey sounds like a dumbass commie ‘RAT when he “equates” Japanese Americans during World War II to murdering Islamofascist terrorists. That’s what he is doing here. The boy really needs to think about what he’s saying before he opens his big mouth and says it.

[j. earl carter]

Count me in. I’m not just boycotting the DC subway, I’m boycotting the entire cesspool of a city.

[dennisw]

In wikipedia it says this limo-riding genius was an edumactor and skool principal before he wormed his way into Congress. So of course he’s a big lib who BTW supports immigration for same sex partners......as if we don’t have enough homos in America. Not to mention Congressional staff, heavily gay & lesbian, as is the entire Federale bureaucracy in the DC region

[svcw]

I do not get what’s hate about the poster.
Yea, these people who get drivers and limos......yea they probably don’t even know what a subway is.

[piytar]

When the Islamonazis finally take over, useful idiots like Mike Honda will be among the first to have their heads separated from their bodies.

And if by some miracle I am still alive at that point, hearing that the monsters they constantly enable have butchered them will probably be one of my few moments of respite. Of course, they'll probably still be very confused about what is happening to them. Oh well...

[VeniVidiVici]

Honda, who as a child was interned at a camp due to his Japanese ancestry, said he took the issue "very personally" because he remembered the "hateful billboards and caricatures that equated Japanese Americans to savages" during World War II.

I wonder how differently this would have turned out had Japanese immigrants carried out commando attacks and spouted anti-US propaganda on US soil during WWII?

[Roccus]

I do not get what’s hate about the poster.

Ya see, it ain't the poster.....it's the thought behind the poster. To this guy, thoughts = hate and must be controlled by the government. But I guess it would be wrong to be hatin' on this turd for hatin' on the hate poster.

[300winmag]

It's hate speech to call someone a savage just because they pass out candy to celebrate the murder of an infant in her bed, or consider people heroes who do things like this:

If I was Subway, I'd cruise their web sites for fast food sites in the islamic world, and get good translations of the text. Then I'd run a side-by-side ad of "Our advertising, and our competitor's advertising". Then include their original ad, and the translation.

Aside from giving away free jihadi advertising on Subway's own dime, they can also see how long it takes the head-hackers complain about telling the truth. My guess: they'd copyright in the US every bit of their own advertising they could, and then threaten to sue Subway for copyright violation by infidels, as opposed to "hate speech" or false advertising.

[Eleutheria5]

Not Subway fast food. Subway trains. Honda wants commuters to boycott the trains.

[TigerClaws]

Isn’t Jarod from Subway an Arab?

[Eleutheria5]

Mustn’t be a Muslim, since they use a lot of cured ham.

[Grams A]

Not Subway fast food. Subway trains.”

But we don’t have subways in Texas so how could I boycott them even if I wanted to? I did quit buying at Subway’s in our part of the state though - got tired of being the only Caucasian there, even though it is one of the few fast food places where you can watch and make sure the preparers don’t put anything “strange” on your sandwich.