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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

A free marketplace of ideas (except . . . )

By Rob Vischer

Clyde Haberman is troubled by the quick removal of the anti-abortion billboard in NYC. 

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People who objected to the billboard had a right to express their opinion. Al Sharpton had a right to organize a protest. The advertising company removed the billboard based on what appears to be an unverified claim that workers in the building below the billboard were being harassed. There was no censorship or abridgment of the right to free speech here. Life Always surely knew the billboard would be controversial. It was. But those who objected to the billboard did not censor it. They criticized it. In my opinion, they did not criticize it enough. The message of Life Always, while not explicitly stated on the billboard, is an invitation to racial hatred. If a group were to try to make a point against conservatives in New York City, and underlying those allegations were charges of genocide, you can believe conservatives would object just as strenuously as liberals.