Statement from the Law Offices of David Yerushalmi, P.C.:
The complaint against the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has now been filed. It alleges violation of the American Freedom Defense Initiative’s (and Pam Geller’s and Robert Spencer’s) Free Speech rights under the First & Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
In essence, and it is laid out clearly in the complaint (attached above) with clear illustrations in the exhibits, the MTA decided that it was going to accept the “viewpoint” of Imam Rauf and his Islamist co-conspirators – to wit, that their plan to develop the Ground Zero Mosque has nothing to do with marking the “victory” of the destruction of human life and property on 9-11. Literally, the MTA made it its business to decide which of many viewpoints it would deem politically correct speech for advertisements on its buses. In so doing, the MTA refused to run a bus ad critical of the Ground Zero Mosque literally because the ad did not accept Rauf’s deceipt that this obscenity is “brotherly” and “interfaith outreach.” The only outreach our clients see is a slap in the face of the 9-11 families and those New Yorkers whose memories remained charred.
What makes this jihad against free speech so egregious is that the MTA has run any number of controversial religious and political ads without batting an eyelid. But as soon as the Shariah-faithful cowed Mayor Bloomberg and the MTA into dhimmi-like submission, the First Amendment to the Constitution gave way to Shariah’s blasphemy laws. How long before the Mayor’s office begins issuing fatwas against those who dare counter the “noble and peaceful outreach” narrative?
Mr. Mayor and your colleagues at the MTA and the Landmark Commission: New Yorkers will not forget 9-11 and we will not be cowed into submission or silence. You might not want to hear our voices, but the federal courts will require you to listen. You claim the mantle of the Constitution as a basis for supporting a Shariah-Islamist mosque at Ground Zero, yet the MTA—a government agency of the City—cavalierly denies “infidels” freedom of speech. Enough is enough.
David Yerushalmi, Esq.
Law Offices of David Yerushalmi, P.C.
Update 8-8-10: Our clients just issued this press release.
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