Pamela Geller Accused of Hate Speech by Paypal
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Photo of Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs
Pamela Geller has been reporting since yesterday, June 12th, 2010, that Paypal has sent her a request to remove their buttons from her site or they will close her paypal account. As many of us already know, Geller has taken a hard line stance against the many issues relating to the Jihad attacks against America, Christianity, and Israel.
Pamela and Atlas Shrugs relies on Paypal contributions, by readers, to help pay for bus ads, rallies, and live coverage. She feels that Paypal has picked her out as spewing “Hate Speech” when they (Paypal) were permitting others to display Paypal buttons (which has since been removed) and continue to use their services for real inciters to violence, Jewish genocide, and Revolution Muslim on sites like http://www.revolutionmuslim.com/. And then you have an ebay seller who is selling dvd’s of imam Anwar al-Awlaki’s incitement — his racist, violent jihad screeds (at least was at the time of this post) and using Paypal for people to purchase them.
I have no problem with any company making decisions they feel to be in their best interests. The problem lies in their choice to address a freedom of speech issue with one individual, or group of individuals, while not being consistent across the board. As much as I hate the idea of it, I even believe so much in Freedom of Speech that I believe the hateful American flag burners should have that right (even though I’d just assume give them a one way ticket to get the hell out of our country if they hate it that much).
I, and others, believe the reason Pamela has been directly attacked is because of her recent protests against the Mosque that is to be built near ground zero. If this is indeed the case, Paypal has taken the wrong approach and supported the wrong group of people on this issue, as you can easily see with the amount of support Geller is getting in the Paypal blogs (Let’s see how long it is before they remove the comments).
An example of Pam’s stance can be found in her recent CNN interview (seen below, as long as it doesn’t get removed) in a segment about the Muslim Mosque to be built near ground zero.
A long list of bloggers have joined in with Pam on this fight for our Freedom of Speech:
Pajamas Media – Image of Paypal button on Revolution Muslim site
… And many others with more to come. Go Get’em Pam!
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