Part 2- The MTA & "The Case of the Disappearing AFDI Ads"

Originally, this follow-up post was going to focus on the parodies that have sprung up around the ridiculous "Mona E".  Mona Eltahawy's credibility as a journo is in tatters, I hope,  with her audacious "Free Speech for ME but not for THEE" ; as these posters and video so deftly reveal:

From iOwntheWorld:




And The Peoples Cube




A "John Smith" also had some fun with this musical parody proving Mona is now One Big Joke.





Even the NY Post  got in to the act:



This exposure should have been the end to the insane vandalizing committed by the rabid lib/progressive/soc/commie  free-speech opponents. However on October 2, as I conducted a follow-up on the ads….something just didn’t seem right…..There was something a foot, but what?


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Late Night Edition, Tuesday, October 2. Found in a few subway ad locations, that the ads are either grossly damaged or gone . Seems the “Thought Police” are still roaming through underground.
The ad at 23rd street and 8th Ave went from this:


The ad at 23rd street and 8th Ave went from this:



To this mess below....




Also, on Tuesday evening I noticed, two ads are gone. No where to be seen. This one at 49th street (the N/R) : GONE




The other at 34th st (the1 line) - GONE



Mona's spray painted ad was replaced




But, it was carefully vandalized again with pink signs taped on. (Thanks to TD for this catch)





 
And now, the new sign, post-Mona, has an odd glop on the ad…

The 44th street ad is right by the Transit Police station.



Perhaps that's the only reason the ad at 44th St and 8th Ave has just a few scratches.




And the FABULOUS Pamela Geller confirmed we still had an ad at 28th Street (6 line)! But, that was Tuesday. I still wanted to know why some ads were missing.






2nd Update. Wednesday-October 3, 2012. “The Case of the Disappearing Anti-Jihad Signs” continues. Made a discovery at the TWO locations I had returned to. They had been replaced, not damaged, REPLACED by two very sickly-green ads connected to the very ‘social justice’ commentariat aka: the “Methodist Church-USA”.


“The Methodists For Social Justice” pukey green signs can also be found at their Face book page,  here.

Here’s a look at how those locations look now, on Wednesday October 3.

49th st ( N/R)



34th St (1) the AFDI was covered up by the Social Justice ad



44th St ( 8th Ave)



Times Sq corridor
                                                                                                                                   


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It took AFDI a YEAR to get their ads approved by the MTA and yet, somehow, the “Social Justice” propaganda machine not only got the MTA to put up their signs, but to also cover up …to remove the AFDI signs. Co-incidence? Or, perhaps….Something is VERY rotten at the MTA!


This arrogant destruction and obstruction of Free Speech, could it actually turn the tide against these tools? We can HOPE….
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"The Attack of Mona Eltahawy on Free Speech"- Part 1

On Tuesday, September 25, 2012, the NYC Subway was the scene of the "Attack of Mona E". Vandalism /Free Speech, as long it favors Mona Eltahawy, she sees no difference. 

But, first the Ad.



The Defeat Jihad ad was created as a rebuttal to the anti-Israel campaigns that were in the NY subways during October 2011...



It took a year to get the AFDI rebuttal ad approved by the MTA. And once posted, the Defeat Jihad  ads were immediately put on a 'hit-list'. The locations of the ads were published in social media by Cyrus McGoldrick-NY CAIR



And Nancy Mansour of "Existence is Resistance", a group of hip-hop 'afficianados ' who self-identifiy as  "Fakestinians". They, too, posted the locations of the ads. NO one was shy about encouraging their members "to take action against the ads".


On Monday evening of the first day of the AFDI ad campaign,  this vandalism at 72nd st was posted on their Facebook Page



And by Thursday, the 27th, "Existence is Resistance" proudly posted a video taken while they vandalized another ad:




Tuesday afternoon, the 25th, was only the second day of the campaign. I went back to the subways looking for damaged ads, planning to interview passers- by for a reaction to the message. I began at 44th and 8th Ave. where an ad had been vandalized the night before, finding this ad had been cleaned-up quite well.




 Headed to the F Line (Fifth Ave and 57 st) where I found a poster had been vandalized.




Did my best to remove the obscene stickers.





Then went back to Times Sq. where I had seen  al-Jazeera and Donna Nevel the day before; a high-traffic location. Thought I might even catch an interview or two. Guess the NY Post had the same idea. On Monday, along with Reuters and other media, they had covered Cyrus McGoldrick's' photo-op flyering.





But, today, as I arrived, the only press I saw was the NY Post. I saw a childlike sign taped over the ad and the NY Post crew chatting with a fellow in an on-camera interview.





The Post crew then directed him to carefully remove the paper sign from the ad while they took photos. As he finished, I took the opportunity to tape a brief interview with him before he walked away.

This is my video before the "Attack Of Mona E":




 I asked the NY Post crew (there were 3 of them) did they know who taped the sign to the poster.



I got coy looks of silence for each question. "Do you know who put up the sign. Did you see who put up the sign. Did the person who put up the sign stay around to see them take pictures" And then, as I heard cries of "oh,oh,oh",  I turned to see MONA Eltahawy beginning to spray PINK PAINT over the ad.


She was a 'vision' in her loud pink coat armed with a can of spray-paint. I discovered later that Mona had posted on twitter: she was coming, in a pink coat, to vandalize the poster. Obviously determined to be noticed... and she was.

 I attempted to reason with her, "Did she think she had a right to do this". "Yes, Yes Yes" to everything as she sprayed, sprayed, sprayed.  Mona Eltahawy was hell-bent on spraying that ad. With no police to stop her, I had to take a pro-active stance... I stood between MONA and the AD.

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This is the NY Post raw video.

"Free Speech be Damned" and my person be damned, as well, Mona never stopped spraying.

 She sprayed my back, my bags, my gear and managed to get spray paint on my eye glasses because she kept spraying beside my face and my eyes every time I turned my head.



Once the police arrived, they were great; calm and polite considering how RIDICULOUSLY Mona was behaving. As they took her paint-can and cuffed her, she whined, pouted and insisted she had done nothing wrong.


Here's my video, with an" inside view" of the assault".





The crowd watching the "Attack of Mona" found her foolish, particularly the black lady in white who is laughing at Mona as she was taken away by the officers. Sweet...

Mona was kept in a holding a cell over-night for vandalizing city property (the walls) as a well as the  ad. She still insists she did nothing wrong. Ask any tagger, Mona, "Spray-paint is so NOT legal!"



Perhaps next time, Mona might decide to hand-out flyers or speak to passersby, instead of destroying an opposing point-of-view like a brown-shirted thug. Shutting down the free-speech rights of others is NOT her right.


However, Mona Eltahawy, Cyrus McGoldrick and Nancy Mansour are just three of the players in a nasty movement  to control and censor all criticism of Islam. It's called : Sharia Law. Islam (Sharia)  is creeping, inching forward, threatening violence as it deconstructs our legal system.


I'd like to thank Mona for her audacious law-breaking vandalism where she so eloquently exposed her lack of respect for American Law and for giving us this opportunity to fight back against bullies and thugs like herself, Cyrus and Nancy.... Seize The Day. (We are now) Fighting For Our Freedoms with a whole new bus ad campaign!



"...this is a global war and islamic terrorism isn't a response to our foreign policy or support for Israel as so many leftist and paulbot ignoramuses believe."  This is a Global War.







For more on the new anti-jihad ad campaign GO HERE

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Al Jazeera, the MTA Ads, Donna Nevel and….me….

On the road again, wending my way thru the underground of NYC looking for the new MTA ads that has the Leftists shaking in "mock horror" at the word "savage'



I started with the A,C,E train at 42nd St and 8th Ave.



From the 8th avenue subway, I headed thru the cross over to the 7/ 1,2,3 / NR at 42nd and 7th. BINGO! the main catch of the day!

Al Jazeera and the hateful Donna Nevel were just getting together in front of the ad



This was in the cross over corridor between the A/C/E and the 1/2/3.



In this above picture, from 2009, Donna Nevel was protesting against Israel, in support of "Fakestine', with one of her hate-groups, "Jews Say No"

There is no anti-America,anti-Israel cause that she doesn't support and she has one bad -ass demeanor to go with it. So it gave me great pleasure to see Nevel blow a gasket cause I had spoken to al-Jazeera.

She jumped between the camera-man and me, glowering intensely.



Keeping her back to me as she 'warned him to stay away from me'.



She made the reporter looked like a foolish wimp. Who was in-charge?



It seemed to be Donna. Still I asked him again, "Was he interested in hearing from both sides? Thought he should take advantage of having two points-of-view for his story." He hesitated because Donna didn't agree. She was not going to permit me to speak.( I figure she was giving the cameraman his orders)



And then.... the reporter agreed. (go figure)



When I asked was this going to be a lets-pretend-interview neither he nor the camera-man responded so I just plowed ahead. But first I took a picture of the credentials. (The reporter didn't like that at all.)





So sorry I forgot to tape the 'interview'. Unfortunately, I thought of taping too late .... while we were talking.


Wish I had a tape, but what I remember clearly is his pro-forma need to get me to admit these ads were going to inflame the situation. In spite of what I thought to be a perfectly good answer to the inflame-prod,

"The situation already is inflamed. Innocent people are being murdered in their beds, in pizza parlors and as they leave their churches;  ALL because they are Christians and Jews. These are acts of savagery committed by savages. The ads are a plea for peace."

He paused and then REPEATED the question! (Do they even hear themselves?) So, I repeated the basics.

His other jab was,"Why do we want to slander an entire people?" I replied, "We aren't. If you commit an act of savagery, you are a savage. That is not an entire people."

Next the woman she intended  to be interviewed arrived . I don't know who she is, looking forward to her being named.



 Donna stepped in at least three tines, off camera, to correct or add information before the interview ended, leaving no doubt: she was definitely 'in-charge'.

Finally, as  she and the woman left the subway, the camera took a shot of them in front of the ad.



AND then filmed them as they walked 'bravely' away.



Donna Nevel's hit-piece is supposed to appear on Arab al-Jazeera tonight with sub-titles but  NOT expecting al-Jazeera to show two sides of this issue. No way.

But there was more to do. More ads to find. So I wandered the subways for a couple hours. (It was rush hour insanity) I did find three more ( 5 total) Didn't go to 4 (#1 Rector, #1 72nd St, #F-57th & 5 ave nor the #6 at 28th st) I went to Grand Central, but in spite of looking high and low at the cavernous terminal I did NOT find anything at Grand Central - 4,5,6/7.

I did find these:

YES - 8th Ave C/E -23rd st


YES - N/R 49th St


YES  (1 line) 34th St


BTW- Re vandalism of the ads. It has begun. Crazy Nancy Monsour, of Existence is Resistance, a violent anti-Israel group of Hip-Hop "artists" has proudly announced the vandalizing of the ad at 72nd st. (thanks T.D.) Probably so emboldened  because the police have been told  "hands-off"



As noted before, the only attack on free speech comes from the Leftists. As this slide show from October 2011 also reveals:

 


They ANNOUNCE their misdeeds. The media AND the law ignores them. Do they support them? Or just hope to appease them? Thinking they will avoid more violence... Not good. Not good at all.

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