Posted on 05/06/2015 2:29:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is the essence of the “fighting words” logic that Chris Cuomo got ripped for defending this morning, no? Geller picked a fight. She, not just the degenerates who attacked the event, is responsible for creating the threat insofar as a breach of the peace was foreseeable. It’s a logical next step from there to saying, “And therefore we should stop her from picking these sorts of fights, as they put innocent people at risk.”
Even in Texas:
Mayor Douglas Athas said he wished Ms. Geller, co-founder and president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, hadn’t picked Garland as the site for Sunday’s event, the Dallas Morning News reported.
“Certainly in hindsight, we as a community would be better off if she hadn’t,” he told the paper. “Her actions put my police officers, my citizens and others at risk. Her program invited an incendiary reaction. She picked my community, which does not support in any shape, passion or form, her ideology.
“But at the end of the day, we did our jobs,” he added. “We protected her freedoms and her life.”
Her actions were the dangerous ones, huh? You would think this guy, if only in the spirit of solidarity with a fellow citizen who’s now been marked for death by ISIS, would insist on some moral distinction between drawing irreverent cartoons and trying to bomb a community center, but that’s hard to do conceptually if you don’t assign jihadis their own moral agency. To some segment of the population, Islamist nuts are almost part of the weather, not people who consciously undertake to do harm to others. And in a sense, that’s true: If it wasn’t Geller’s cartoon event that got the two Garland savages excited, it would have been something else. Lightning’s going to strike somewhere, whether or not you put your lightning rod out. And you don’t blame lightning for doing what lightning does.
By the way, this makes twice today that I’ve seen someone suggest that Geller’s real crime was organizing an event that required security. Larry Wilmore made the same point last night on his “Daily Show” knockoff, calling it “horrific” that Geller was “intentionally putting innocent, unarmed security guards in danger so you can make some bullshit free speech argument.” Why her free-speech argument is “bullshit” is unclear except that it serves the purpose of a show like his to delegitimize a right-wing villain they might otherwise feel obliged to side with. The security argument is interesting, though, and familiar: It’s basically the same line Martin Dempsey used when he dialed up Terry Jones a few years ago and asked him not to burn the Koran. Is it any worse, I wonder, to put armed security guards in danger? I’m sure it wasn’t Geller’s fault, after all, that the guard in Garland outside the event wasn’t packing, and even if he had been, he was still at risk of being murdered by having to protect the event. Same goes for armed cops, some of whom have been in danger at times after being deployed at anti-police protests in Ferguson and elsewhere over the past year. Presumably it’s okay to put cops at risk of being murdered for a legitimate free-speech matter, but once the demonstration crosses the magical line into “bullshit,” you’re on the hook morally for whatever happens. You trust the left not to abuse a “hate speech” legal regime once that’s been foisted on America, don’t you?
This “mayor” needs to be recalled as he is not supporting the Constitution he is sworn to uphold, protect and defend.
Does this mean we can start killing people?
Also smoked out a bunch of enablers and sympathizers.
She’s been a marked woman for years. She has been banned from England and has bodyguards 24 hours. She has just reached national prominence with this but we NYers know her very well.
Texas as a whole is great! But Dallas County (where Garland is located) is a third-world, socialist cesspool. It's like Sweden but with ultra-hot summers. Get 50 miles away from Dallas and you're in a veritable paradise populated by pro-God, pro-life, pro-gun and anti-sodomy Patriots.
Incendiary events, huh?
You mean like rap concerts, or many other concerts that attract a druggy crowd? You could probably say the same of many towns with bars and clubs on a Friday/Saturday night. You might say that of many fairs. Maybe world cup soccer and its European fans are too incendiary? What about the guy who was beaten at the Dodgers game? Perhaps those fans are too incendiary? What about the Chuckie Cheese in Brookfield, WI or the one in Cincinnati; they illicit more police calls than any together establishment in those towns. Perhaps they should be shut down as too incendiary?
I love her! Her columns are always excellent.
This is America. We are a nation of free people. We are not going to change that for you simply because you came here from the old world with a set of beliefs that are incompatible with our way of life. We reject that way of life. You are an affront to our sensibilities. You do not belong here. You are not welcome here. We are not going to stop.
Churches, gays and women not wearing the burka provoke muslims to violence too.
Oh well islam is peace and tolerance which is why non-muslims can visit mecca...oh wait!
But they gave her permission to have this contest. I’m very disappointed in this foolish mayor - who will squeal like a pig when the muzzies come for him.
I understand that both Dallas and Austin are different from the rest of that great state.
“I am afraid Pam Geller is from now on, a MARKED woman.”
And so would the mayor if he stood with her like a man.
Unfortunately the yellow spineless coward is in absolute
fear that they might even consider taking his worthless
hide out. Athas is less a man than a woman.
If that’s the way they gonna paint it, ok! Now, how bout those LBGTABCDEF Nazi’s provoking Christian bakers & photographers?
She’s great. I’ve been to some of her NY events and not only is she a strong lady but she serves great lunches. She always shouts out in Jewish mother mode: “Eat up! I don’t serve the junk you usually get at events like this!” And she’s so pretty in person. (Am I shallow? Of course I am!)
I think that the mayor should turn in his man card right now and hand his testicles over to somebody who would actually use them.
Texas would be even better if all of these socialist cities were summarily kicked out:
RE: I think that the mayor should turn in his man card right now and hand his testicles over to somebody who would actually use them.
Bruce Jenner could definitely use a companion. :)
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