Clear Channel Aims to Defuse Bomb Billboard Dispute -- Soviet Stalinist State of AmeriKKKa Censors Free Speech while erecting KGB-Homeland-Security-Apparatus

From: Psalm 110 (Melchizedek_at_USA.com)
Date: 07/15/04

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Date: 15 Jul 2004 12:45:53 -0700

Soviet Stalinist State of AmeriKKKa Censors Free Speech while erecting
KGB-Homeland-Security-Apparatus

The Republican-Guards Regime of the Stalinist-Style Government of
Comrade George W. Bush uses Mass Deception Propaganda, such as the
'Citizens for a Sound Economy' to subversively intervene in Oregon
Politics, with A Hilton-Marriott hotel owner on CSE's board of
directors, but disallows billboard near the One-Party-Nation
Convention... Coupled with the Tobacco-Fortune director of CSE helping
promote Corporate-Welfare $762,000,000 "buyout" to pay for the
tobacco-industry moving its very profitable growing offshore to
Brazil... The Orwellian double-speak of the Republican-Guards Regime
of the Soviet Repulican Party is illustrated by this news item...

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=5660933

Clear Channel Aims to Defuse Bomb Billboard Dispute
Tue Jul 13, 2004 06:53 PM ET

By Gail Appleson

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clear Channel Communications Inc. hopes to defuse
a dispute over a Times Square antiwar billboard picturing a lighted
bomb by finding it another spot, a lawyer for the media giant said on
Tuesday.

Clear Channel was sued on Monday by public interest group Project
Billboard, which has a $368,000 contract for the sign on the Marriott
Marquis Hotel. However, a lawyer for Clear Channel told a hearing on
Tuesday it had to reject the display because Marriott prohibits
political advertising on its billboard.

The sign was to read "Democracy is best taught by example, not by
war," accompanied by a picture of a bomb with lighted fuse decorated
in Stars and Stripes. The contract called for it to be posted from
Aug. 2 until Election Day in November, a period including the
Republican National Convention this summer.

"We do not place ads with political content on the billboard,"
Marriott spokeswoman Kathleen Duffy told Reuters.

The suit charged that Clear Channel Outdoor, a division of Clear
Channel that leases billboard space, rejected the group's plan, saying
the display was of a "political nature and includes an image that is
distasteful to the community."

Project Billboard said it had offered to substitute the image of a
dove for the bomb. Duffy said the hotel, which holds the right to
clear ads in its contract with Clear Channel, rejected the sign either
way.

Clear Channel lawyer Robert Pees said the company was confident it
could find another "big splashy billboard" to substitute for the one
at the Marquis. But he added that his client still had concerns about
the bomb image.

"Those of us who have been in New York for a while understand the
sensitivity many New Yorkers have to bombs," he said, referring to the
explosive attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

After the hearing, Project Billboard official Deborah Rappaport told
reporters the group was prepared to accept a comparable location but
still wanted to use the bomb image.

She said the suggestion of replacing the bomb with the dove was "a
last ditch effort" to avoid litigation and to meet what they thought
was a deadline for copy and art.

"We are convinced we will be able to get our message out on Times
Square," she said.

(additional reporting by Sue Zeidler)

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