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1
sure!

no problem.

we can devote limited resources to tracking these bums down.

that should cost 10-20X the amount of revenue the stupid ads generated.

just what we need in the current budgetary enviroment....

obviously, the biggest asses in the state work at ACLU.
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It doesn't speak well of the character of Metro Transit passengers that it's expected of them to create violence in response to a bus ad. Steal someone's iPhone or iPod, punch a pregnant woman, follow passengers off the bus and assault them, slap a blind woman, these are all things Metro Transit passengers have done, presumably without the stimulus of a bus ad.

I'm infuriated by typos on online ads -- they shouldn't happen, it takes just a few seconds to glance at the text but people with online ads jobs either don't know enough, or the jobs pay so little that people who can read won't take them -- but I've learned to stay away from and block ads. Why can't other people do likewise?
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"Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its subsistence is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
--Justice Jackson, West Virginia vs. Barnette
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Dow fail, man.
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It's true. My "Police Officers Are Doing A Great Job!" rally was issued permits without any hassle whatsoever. One of the officers assigned to the parade route gave me a hug.
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I doubt this will go very far. The ACLU is taking a public forum argument beyond its limits. Although Metro is a public transit authority, the state will easily be able to argue that restrictions to the content of their advertisements are valid because there are time, place, and manner caveats to any public forum.

I think Metro (stupidly) put themselves in a bad position by accepting the ad and processing the payment. Transfer of assets creates a liability and an ad hoc contract between the organizations regardless of whether anything formal was written.

Metro really needs a set of legal and appropriate standards for their advertising which appears to be missing from the equation since the ACLU could easily cite other controversial issues which were advertised on buses. Instead of going from the frying pan to the fire, why not just stay out of the kitchen in the first place?

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