Black Leader Panics As The Dream Comes Crashing Down
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If this isn’t a call for censorship of poltical speech I don’t know what is. Once he uses the word “dangerous”, he is exposed as an enemy of free speech. Criticizing the content of political speech as being right or wrong is one thing, but criticizing its right to be spoken by calling it dangerous and thereby comparing it to yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is another. That is clearly a call for the suspension of the artist’s First Amendment right to free speech merely for criticizing Obama as a “joker”, a villain, and a “socialist”.
And dangerous to who, and how?
But what’s most notable here is his palpable fear. It is terror, really. Terror at the thought that this message get out, that the truth be revealed.
LOS ANGELES — A poster showing President Barack Obama as Heath Ledger’s “Joker” character from “The Dark Knight” is creating a stir on the streets of Los Angeles where the image began appearing over the weekend.
The Obama-Joker poster shows President Obama with white face paint, dark eye shadow and smudged red lipstick and also has the word “socialism” printed in bold, dark letters under the image of his face.
It’s unclear who created the image and who is posting it across the city. No one has taken credit so far.
Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson is calling the depiction, politically mean spirited and dangerous.
Hutchinson is challenging the group or individual that put up the poster to have the courage and decency to publicly identify themselves.
“Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery,” says Hutchinson, “it is mean-spirited and dangerous.”
“We have issued a public challenge to the person or group that put up the poster to come forth and publicly tell why they have used this offensive depiction to ridicule President Obama.”
The poster has also gone viral online, crashing the website that first posted images of it and rising to the top of Google’s “Today’s Hot Trends” list.
Contact Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson:
Phone: 310 672-2542
Email: hutchinsonreport@aol.com
Remind him that criticizing the content of political speech as being right or wrong is one thing, but criticizing its right to be spoken by calling it dangerous and thereby comparing it to yelling “fire” in a crowded theater is another. Ask him who this poster is dangerous to, and how.
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