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?
What did that Oaklahoma woman who got beheaded at her workplace did to provoke the Muslim?
So cartons are hate speech, but the assassin’s veto isn’t.
Pam has been a marked women for years now. Brave lady!
Yeah, he's probably against bear bating and fishing too.
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‘What would the Mayor’s reaction been if two Christians had been killed attacking an Atheist group?
Hypocrites and Frauds AKA “politicians” or “journalists” . Once again they exposes that it is about their political ideology, not “Objectivity”
Just goes to show that there are leftwing cowards and pussies every where.
Hey, idiot. Get a clue. These are not just "her" freedoms. We all enjoy these freedoms via the Constitution. She was exercising her freedom of speech, as were the rest of the people who attended and participated in this cartoon contest. Her security detail protected and defended your freedoms too. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to spout off like you're doing now in bad-mouthing her.
Instead, you should be thanking her for not buckling under to the violent threats of these radical Islamic jihadists and going about exercising her freedoms as an American.
When the liberal media types and the Left in this country start twisting their logic so that they end up attacking the Pam Gellers of the world and not attacking the violent crazies of radical Islamic terrorists, we are in real trouble trying to sustain our freedoms in America.
What I heard was the jihadists blaming their victim for getting beheaded because they wore that ugly, orange jumpsuit.
He’s getting quite a bit of flack on his FB page.
We must appease the perpetually outraged at all costs.
For cartoons. CARTOONS! Incredible.
The results suggest hunting over bait...
Attendees weren't allowed to carry their weapons into the venue. They were asked to leave them in their cars.
Good. I’d like to hope valuable terror cell data is being collected with this event, even if it rots on some server somewhere until Judicial Watch sends an FOIA for it.
Like the dykes that went into Sweet Cakes bakery weren’t there trying to provoke a reaction.......
Geller attacked Muslims with guns who were threatening to kill Jews?
Her actions put my police officers, my citizens and others at risk.
No, Mr. Mayor, embracing and welcoming savages into your community is what put everyone at risk. And they’re still at risk.
And what’s it with this ‘MY’ crap? Why was he OK with the Sharia Law Conference held in the exact same room a few months ago? Does he mean ‘put MY local Muslims at risk?’
She did the country a great service.
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