[ April 30, 2024 ]
AFDI submitted our "Defeat Jihad and Support Israel" campaign to Chicago Transit last month. Needless to say, they have been dragging their heels — not answering, procrastinating and essentially not running our ads.
Who do these faceless, nameless gutless wonders think they are imposing sharia on our free society? These knaves are working for the Muslim Brotherhood and they don't even know it.
We submitted a multi-ad campaign. After several weeks of non-response our unrivaled legal team, the dynamic duo David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise fired off this billet doux. Chicago responded immediately, and the Chicago TA WILL be running our ads (scroll for the series that will hit Chicago bus tails in the next couple of weeks).
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Dear Ms. Seimetz and Messrs. Goldsmith and Wolinsky:
My
law firm represents Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and the American
Freedom Defense Initiative. On September 29, 2012, Ms. Geller contacted
Mr. Wolinsky of Titan360, the advertising agent for the Chicago Transit
Authority, to place an advertisement on "bus tails" of the CTA's buses.Mr.
Wolinsky, as the account executive of Titan360 in charge of this
account, has on several occasions indicated that Mr. Goldsmith would
review the ad buy and respond directly to my clients. Mr. Goldsmith has
not responded to my clients ad buy and Mr. Wolinsky has failed to
approve the ad or explain why it has not been approved.As you know, the advertising space on CTA buses is a designated public forum. Planned Parenthood Ass’n/Chicago Area v. Chicago Transit Auth.,
767 F.2d 1225 (7th Cir. 1985) (concluding that the advertising space on
a bus system became a public forum where the transit authority
permitted advertising on “a wide variety of commercial, public-service,
public-issue, and political ads”); see also Entm't Software Ass'n v. Chi. Transit Auth.,
696 F. Supp. 2d 934 (N.D. Ill. 2010) (finding that CTA advertisement
space retains its public forum designation). Indeed, not long ago CTA
once again opened up its advertisement space to an overtly political
message which many understood to be anti-Israel (http://mondoweiss.net/2010/11/end-military-aid-to-israel-message-reaches-thousands-of-chicago-commuters.html).CTA's
failure, through its advertising agent, to approve our clients'
advertisement is a violation of our clients' right to free speech. This
cannot and will not be tolerated.As
you no doubt know, we have successfully litigated this issue on behalf
of our clients against the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional
Transportation in Detroit (SMART), against the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority of NY (MTA), and just recently against
Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority of DC (WMATA).If
I do not receive a definitive and affirmative response to my clients'
ad buy by close of business tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012), this firm
will initiate federal litigation and we will, as we have in the past,
seek temporary and preliminary injunctive relief, and upon the
successful conclusion of the litigation, we will seek, and we will
recover, as we have in the past, attorney's fees and costs. The choice
is yours.David Yerushalmi*
American Freedom Law Center℠
Washington, D.C., Michigan, New York, California & Arizona
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14 Comments
11 years ago
Congratulations Pamela. You have got a top notch team there. Another victory for our free speech rights thanks to you.
Our congressmen, senators, “leaders”, will not do for us half of what you have done.
I am glad that America has you to defend our freedom. You make the world a better place.
11 years ago
would it be ok to post ads which read “defeat zionism, support palestine”? would it be “free speech” to deface them? extremists have more in common w each other than the center, regardless of the society.
11 years ago
Orrin “palestine” does not exist. It never did. It never will. It is a fictional place that exists only of the sick minds of scumbags like Arafat.
11 years ago
Good works, Guys.
Excellent.
11 years ago
Well done.
11 years ago
Being Chicago, they must think you guys are all Republicans. Outcome was inevitable though.
11 years ago
This AFDI inititive has proved one thing to the American people and Pamela, the mind numbing restrictive anti- human doctrine of PC has taken root in the New World as easily as it has in the old. It will also be just as hard to eradicate. The key is respectful humble leadership from the top that dispences power to the people rather than hording it for the center.
One common theme in the people of America and Europe is the lack of belief in a better richer more powerfull tomorrow. This feeling of doubt leads to a lack of confidence which is exploited by the left to weaken self-reliance and stifle free expression.
Freedom to succeed or fail by the dint of ones own efforts or lack of them, is the product and fruit of the freedom to speak out about what is wrong and what needs doing. Without the latter, the former cannot come to pass. Thats what is being offered this fall, the stifling bear hug of state collectivism or the exciting uncertainty that comes with freedom of choice, free expression and progress.
11 years ago
Wonderful job! 🙂
11 years ago
I think that they got that last part — “we will recover, as he have in the past, attorney’s fees and costs”.
And it’ll cost you has a powerful liberating effect.
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11 years ago
“…we will seek, and we will recover, as we have in the past, attorney’s fees and costs. The choice is yours.” Why not punitive damages? These scumbags are trying to deny you the right to free speech and/or freedom of expression on/at a public venue.
11 years ago
Thank you, AGAIN, Pamela and team.
Cheryl Jacobs Lewin
Chicago Chairperson
AMERICANS FOR A SAFE ISRAEL / AFSI
http://www.afsi.org
11 years ago
Chicago is the home of the Sinister minister Screwy Louie FarraKLAN.
The Charmer Louis Farrakhan Is She Is or Is She Ain’t Christine Jorgenson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s2hW2PUVtU
Hey Louie, your bowtie is too tight and cutting off the blood to your pea brain.
