Imagine a similar billboard (see below for an example of censorship) being displayed in the U.S.
Hitler/abortion billboard up in Poland – Jill Stanek
I reported February 12 that the Polish arm of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform was pursuing an opportunity to display a huge 74 ft x 32 ft billboard alerting some and reminding others that it was Adolf Hitler who brought abortion to Poland.
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Polish pro-lifers erected the Hitler billboard to coincide with the March 8 celebration of International Women’s Day, when Polish feminists organize marches and demand abortion without limits. This billboard will certainly stymie that hoopla.Translation: "Abortion for Polish women introduced by Hitler on March 9, 1943."
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I can’t imagine such a billboard going up in America, where MSM consistently censors the truth about abortion. In fact, a pro-family group in Chicago, where the 2nd largest Polish metropolitan population resides next to Warsaw, has thus far been unable to locate a billboard company willing to run an English version.
Gee I guess the Chicago area bill board companies don’t want to get on the wrong side of ‘Baby Killers INC.” OKA Planned Parenthood.
Emphasis hers.
H/T brooksbayne
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I entirely share your sentiments on this with one exception: If there are no billboard companies willing to display this ad, that’s not a freedom of expression issue. Billboard companies are private enterprises that are, and should be, free to display or not display whatever they feel meets their moral or financial standards or needs. A person must be just as free to *not* express things as others are to express them.
Of course, there’s probably little question that one consideration an otherwise morally ambivilent billboard owner would have to consider would be the incredible pressure they would receive from the left and the NAGs if they did display a billboard like this.
Not sure what point you are trying to make. The article never mentions anything about a freedom of expression issue. Living in the U.S. most of us automatically take that as a given.
The only presumption made in the article is that of fear being a likely motivating factor….something that you chose to regurtitate in your second paragraph. The point of this fear & pressure is that it acts to nullify the freedom of speech, expression or any other God given right recognized by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. This is the real issue.
Point taken. I was thinking something along the same lines when I went over the post again this morning.
Thanks,
-VH
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