Thought Cartoon: an Exercise in Free Speech for Pam Geller
Picture (literally) this: The Wailing Wall seen from a distance that would represent base to height. With as normal observant Jews at that base praying and inserting prayers into cracks in the wall. At the height a depiction of the Prophet mounted on his horse immediately prior to his Ascent to Heaven (traditionally from the Dome of the Rock). Further with that horse depicted as raising his tail and defecating off the top of Temple Mount onto the prayerful below. Ya think that THIS cartoon of Mohammed would earn a $10,000 top prize from Pam’s contest in Garland Texas? After all it would still be blashemous in Muslim terms and most likely as cartoonish as any other contestant. But somehow I suspect that “First Amendment Absolutist” Pam Geller would be no more amused than was Rudy Giuliani when faced with the (in)famous “Piss Christ” installation back in the day.
Or let us take this a different direction. Back in the day Pam Geller was a prominent right leaning war-blogger who ran a blog called Atlas Shrugs. Which blog often featured pictures of the blog-mistress incidentally(?) dressed in ways that showed off her rather admirable figure. Which led certain irreverant and perhaps obnoxious lefties to refer to her site as Atlas Jugs. Which was to be sure by any standard misogynistic. But certainly protected by the same Free Speech principles that Pam claims to be motivated by today.
I just wonder whether Pam would defend our theoretical Mohammed Horse cartoon or those very real Atlas Juggs references today? If not why not?
You’re overthinking this. Pam Geller is simply a grifter seeking a piece of the Ann Coulter market. It’s all about Pam. The “free speech” riff is misdirection. For Pam, this is a business proposition.
Do you have any reason to think she’d, say, support gunning down people that said that?
http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/02/pamela-geller-watch-5-israel-should-nuke-tehran-mecca-and-medina/
Pamela Geller Watch #5: Israel Should Nuke Tehran, Mecca and Medina
Well lets say our gal Pam does not exactly take a First Amendment Absolutist line when it comes to anti-Semitic speech. And while I don’t find any calls for killing anti-Semites directly she does seem to endorse a kind of collective responsibility that would revenge an attack on Israel with nukes not just on the attacking party (presumedly Iran) but would extend that to Mecca, Medina and in a pinch Europe.
So I think it fair to ask if she would endorse the kind of cartoon I outline in the post on First Amendment grounds.
I don’t think Geller’s desire to destroy Mecca, Medina, Teheran and surely a long list of other places flows from her desire to stop speech. For her own venomous reasons, she wants to stop certain parties from being alive. The fact that dead people can’t speak is just incidental.
P.S. She isn’t the only one who goes around demanding the freedom to speak even as she would deny it to others. You get that kind of thing on the left and the right.
But let’s be honest: mostly from the right.
MAD!
Israel is close to achieving ICBM “capacity”.
While it has diesel subs capable of firing nuclear armed cruise missiles.