I'm disgusted. Reliving 9-11 by watching a passing bus

[erodriguez]

From The Huffington Post:

NEW YORK — New York City's transit agency has approved a bus advertisement that depicts a plane flying toward the World Trade Center's towers as they burn along with a rendering of a proposed mosque near ground zero.

The ad was paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, an organization that opposes radical Islamic influence in the United States. The group's executive director says she doesn't find the ad offensive.

The group sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to demand it accept the ad, which was approved Monday.

As a member of a 9-11 family, I am disgusted. I would not like to be reminded of that horrific day by a passing bus. To use the image of such an act of hatred in defense of blatent racism and xenophobia, infuriates me.

These people at the AFDI do not represent my views or that of my family. They are hatemongers.

Also shame on the MTA for approving ths nonsense.

[WinkyDink]

1. But it is in the realm of "history" now. We had movies about Pearl Harbor.

[erodriguez]

4. 50 years later

The wounds are still very fresh in the minds of all New Yorkers who witnessed that horror.

And to use those images of real people about to die as fodder for some racist idealogy is sickening.

[WinkyDink]

7. Do you think Ben Affleck was in the first PH movie?! They were made DURING the war!

"December 7, 1941”
John Ford won an Academy Award© for his movie “December 7, 1941,” which was first released in 1943, in a 30 minute version, cut down from it’s original 84 minutes by the military because of its critique of the military's lack of preparation. The movie consist of original clips from the actual attack.


Pearl Harbor movies:

"Secret Agent of Japan," Twentieth Century Fox, 1942

"Little Tokyo, USA," Twentieth Century Fox, 1942

"Across The Pacific," Warner Bros., 1942

"Remember Pearl Harbor," Republic, 1942

"Submarine Raider," Columbia Pictures, 1942

"December 7, 1941," U.S. Navy, 1943

"Air Force," Warner Bros., 1943

"Blood on the Sun," United Artists, 1945

"From Here to Eternity," Columbia Pictures, 1953

"Hell's Half Acre," Republic Pictures, 1954

"The Revolt of Mamie Stover," Twentieth Century Fox, 1956

"Jungle Heat," United Artists, 1957

"I Bombed Pearl Harbor," (Taiheiyo no Arashi) Parade Releasing/Toho Company, 1961

"In Harms Way," Paramount Pictures, 1965

"Admiral Yamamoto," Toho Company, 1968

"TORA! TORA! TORA!," Twentieth Century Fox, 1970

"Midway," Universal Pictures, 1976

"Pearl," ABC, 1978-1979, TV Mini-series

"From Here to Eternity," NBC, 1979, TV Version

"The Final Countdown," United Artists, 1980

"Imperial Navy," Toho Company, 1980

"The Winds of War," ABC, 1983, 18-hour TV Series about WWII

"War and Remembrance," ABC, 1988, Sequel to "The Winds of War."

"Pearl Harbor," Buena Vista, 2001

[Blue Owl]

2. Let's remind them of the mosque in the Pentagon itself

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8913696&mesg_id=8913696

[Martin Eden]

3. "American Freedom Defense Initiative" denies religious freedom

Downright Orwellian.

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. Where the fuck is that goddamn Likud wackjob Pamela Geller getting that kind of money to spam buses?

Who is funding that psychotic traitorous loon?

[starroute]

14. I've been wondering the same thing myself

A number of possibilities come to mind, but there's really no way of finding out.

[Erose999]

6. Is Giulaini on the transit commission, perchance? nt

[JohnnyBoots]

8. That's pretty messed up. I think your average New Yorker would

find that offensive, let alone a 9-11 family. Talk about tearing the scab off just in time for the 10th anniversary. Messed up indeed.

[GSLevel9]

9. propaganda anyone? Goebbels would be proud. nt

[6000eliot]

10. It's disgusting to use dead people to justify your prejudices.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

11. Bracks were shat.

[Scurrilous]

12. K & R

:thumbsup:

[mwb970]

13. The bigotry seen here is astounding.

In earlier days, people would have been ashamed to harbor this level of prejudice, even in private. Now it is trumpeted to the skies. And conservatives say we are destroying the country.

:eyes:

[Maru Kitteh]

15. CNN said it was directly linked to a Republican organization - as in with the word Republican

in the name.