(Submitted by Granny Boo [High Praise!])
Oleg Atbashian, of The People’s Cube, was arrested for putting up anti-terrorism posters on campus at George Mason University.
Whole story at American Thinker.
Now the hard part.
I like People’s Cube, but I read the article closely and Oleg wasn’t arrested for protesting terrorism, he was arrested for gluing posters, without permission, to property he didn’t own.
I’m sympathetic to his opinions (I’ve mocked Hamas plenty myself), but I’m not sympathetic to vandalism. His argument that he was willing to remove the posters himself doesn’t absolve him of the fact that he didn’t have a right to hang them in the first place.
He could have glued them to his own front door, his car, or even his forehead, and been perfectly right. He made a different choice. One with consequences.
I wish him better luck (and better choices) next time.
As a child of the ’60s I am really disappointed in today’s young people. If he had set fire to the Dean’s office, organized a sit in at the entrance to the emergency room or disrupted classes (does anyone go to class any more?) for a week he would have been just fine.
I’m a little conflicted about the vandalism aspect, too, but the irony that someone who fled the Soviets has been arrested for hanging posters in these United States really galls me.
But thanks for the Badge of Honor 🙂
Someone should go glue some anti-Trump posters and see what happens…….
When the phone don’t ring….
If every Lefty was arrested for putting up their leftist rants without “Permission” wouldn’t be anybody on campus.
Why is it our side is constantly going for the liberal excuse for every outrage committed by liberals? Vandalism? We’ve been through five decades of self-declared “Graffiti Artists” defacing private property throughout America with the result that they are lionized by the left; yet when an obvious and egregious violation of the right of free speech takes place against a former Soviet dissident, we focus on the trumped up charge. FIVE YEARS IN JAIL? For using wheat paste? This is as transparently ridiculous as throwing a film maker in jail for a year for using a computer on a trumped up “parole violation.”
Could we perhaps focus on the issues of TERRORISM and FREE SPEECH before we let campus cops put real freedom fighter in jail? No wonder the bloody muck of socialism is seeping back into the world.
Part of me says “amen”; part of me cherishes property rights too much to say it out loud.