“Pamela Geller tested the First Amendment and America failed”

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“Pamela Geller’s War On Radical Islam And Everybody Else”
By Jack Engelhard, Israel National News, May 5, 2015

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Have you hugged a Jihadist today? Everybody else has.
Have you trashed Pamela Geller this morning?
Welcome to the club.

Pamela Geller made a mistake. She tested the First Amendment and the First Amendment lost.

This fighter for Israel, this battler against Radical Islam can seem to find no friends after what she did.

From all across the Liberal dials, plus The New York Times, came blasts of outrage against Geller for being “provocative” and “asking for trouble.”

But Conservatives? They too piled on. Donald Trump, Bill O’Reilly, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League, Don Imus – all those and others want her scalp.

Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum was especially harsh during this morning’s interview with Geller.

Better, they allege, if Geller would hush up and forget the First Amendment. Safer, they suggest, if we submit and become a nation of wimps.

Seems that we have trained ourselves to be compliant, passive, easily cowed and entirely too close to being cowards.

If freedom of speech is not worth fighting for – what will we give up next?

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/16883#.VUk1pVL3bCS

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[DCPatriot]

Sadly, that's about it, Mr. Close.   

[GourmetDan]

 
America didn't fail.

These are merely paid shills who were just doing their job of tearing America down.

Take note of who they are and don't forget.

No matter what label they adorn themselves with...

[Luis Gonzalez]

Pamela Geller made a mistake. She tested the First Amendment and the First Amendment lost.

Yet another ignorant statement.

She fully discharged her First Amendment rights, and can do so again tomorrow.

In fact, law enforcement was there to make sure that no harm came to her or anyone at the exhibition, and none did.

Where does this beliefs that the First Amendment safeguards people from criticism come from if not ignorance?

Criticism of one person's discharge of their First Amendment rights is simply further exercise of the First Amendment.

Ignorance passing for journalism.