Brave guy, Good for him!

Oh, man, if people have to get their news from a person standing on a street corner, what good is the MSM?

/What is it GOOD for? Absolutely NOTHIN'!

I wish he lived in CA.

"It's not that I'm anti-Islam," he said. "It's that I'm anti-anybody who says you have to do as they insist or they're going to kill you."

Amen.

I began learning about Islam when Iran kidnapped our embassy staff for 444 days. Things got bad after that.

I hope this guy has proper 'protection'.

Oops, I see he is in Texas, nevermind.

Will there be balloons for the kids?

I hope there are others like him, perhaps some wealthy person who will buy some billboard space in Detroit. Man, that would be some good seething requited with some equally reprehensible appeasing.

I like the looks of this guy.
The Dawson Marine ad is pretty neat too.

I understand that some clerics(s) have toured the ME with the cartoons published in Denmark, but supplemented by some others that were actually intended to offend.

Early and widespread publication in the western mainstream media of the Danish cartoons could have exposed this lie. An opportunity lost. PC is very costly.

OT OT OT Two Bomb blasts kill folks in Karachi, Where Pres. Bush is -- Pray for our President While in Pakistan

--[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

Oops, here's link to Paki bombs ahead of President Bush's visit minutes ago...

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

The only way the 'Roper's' are going to get a life is to go get one. But that involves realizing the one you have sucks.

Funny--Fatwa coming, Charles: the brand name of the Lane Bryant plus-sized lingerie sold on your upper right hand corner, Cacique, is a spanish word for islamic sheik! Bwahaha.

alegrias: Cacique is also the name of a tribe of indians indigenous to Venezuela, and the name of an excellent anejo rum from there.

Good night Charles & lizards,

Thank you for today's excellent reporting on moslem threats to free speech, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

#11 Alegrias

There was a tremor in the force when you posted that and I went offline completely! I was afraid I was going to have to turn on the television (shudder) or something.

Mr Caffery, I Salute You.

#14 mommy doc--very interesting, thank you! Que rico el ron. When Hugo Chavez has vamooosed, I'll visit Venezuela, and if Fidel's gone to meet his maker, I'll stop by Cuba for a Cuba Libre and some Moros y Christianos (black beans and rice, mmm). Sweet dreams everyone.

#3 Stuck in CA

I wish he lived here too!

Might I suggest a course of action we can all take? Print up smaller versions of your favorite cartoon and tape, tack, or staple it to lamp posts, college bulletin boards, and anywhere else you can think people might see it. You can probably print up 6 or 12 per page and cut them up.

If you want to add a little more mischief to the endeavor, add a little comment at the bottom such as "courtesy of the New York Times" or whatever your cowardly local newspaper (or congressman) might be.

We may not all be able to shoulder a gun and defend our freedoms overseas, but we can still do our part here on the homefront. Perhaps someone can post pictures of these acts of defending our liberty in the most unusual places (local post offices, outside your local mosque,on the doors of the NY Times, etc.). Too much handwringing and doomsaying, and not enough action. We are an army of davids - let's roll.

Right ON! Freedom of Speech is an American's birthright BECAUSE America is the first nation to formally recognize that Freedom of Thought REQUIRES Freedom of Speech, and we formally adopted guarantees of Freedom of Speech into our Constitution, our basis for all American law!

Muslim mullahs and imams FEAR and HATE America's Freedom to Think (also known as Freedom of Speech) precisely because they support an entrenched orthodoxy where THEY will THINK FOR US, and TELL US WHAT TO THINK!

I'm a Baha'i. Muslims kill my kind when they can, because the Glory of God MANDATED the 'Independent Investigation of Truth', and THEY want to continue dictating the 'truth' to us!

Stand up, America! Think free! Speak freely! Investigate reality for yourself!

#16 Swampwoman

Oh no. Hope your power/force came back. This President has a lot of courage to go to the lion's den (more like rat hole epicenter) of islamofanaticism to shore up the weakest links. Moslems can't see cartoons without going nuts but our Pres. has to see effigies of himself getting beaten & burned & sentenced to death & hell (kind of like the lefty mobs do on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House).

The Passion of the President. Mel Gibson could do another movie on our leaders' trials and tribulations at the hands of these maniacs.

Nighty night as Aussiemagpie says. Sweet dreams free of jihadis, all.

#21 Gary Gluon

I'd like to see an "Obey Giant" sort of campaign with the Mobombhead toon in lieu of Andre the Giant.

Any taggers in the house?

#24 PIMF/Addendum

Linky

Only in Texas...

But notice that the wussy-ass website doesn't show the guy's sign, either. Just "describes" it.

And then there's another frakkin' imam: "Freedom doesn't mean you do what you want," Humayun said.

Got news for you, bitch. As long as it's legal, yes it does!

"Freedom doesn't mean you do what you want"

Then what does it mean?

OT: Has anybody ever thought of hiring Dog the Bounty Hunter to catch Osama?

So, Mr. Newspaper Editor, where's the bloody photo of the stinking cartoons on the billboard?

Well...?

Looky there! The good influence of 'Nam Grunt being his nearby neighbour has rubbed off on Mr.
Caffery!
Someone buy that man a cup of fresh brewed coffee!

A guy at work wore a "Mecca" brand t-shirt. I asked him "are you sure you aren't going to offend anyone with that?"
"I'm not a Muslim, I am not worried," he replied.
I said, "OK, just wonderin'..."

#27 Cato the Elder
Thank You!

@29 Cato the Elder

Now there's an idea, put the Dog on the scent of Usama stench.
I'd like to see that man become about 25 million dollars richer.

#29 Cato the Elder
Wouldn't that be a motherfrakker for Osama? Muslims HATE Dogs!

Notice how in an article about the very topic of newspapers being too cowardly to print the cartoons, the newspaper that ran the article -- didn't publish the cartoons!

Sproiinnggg!

That was my Hypocrisometer blowing up.

@36 zombie

Too bad we don't have the money to lease a line of HUGE billboards across the nation with just that, those stoopid cartoons for all to see.
Make busy hard working americans wonder what the hell is wrong with people in other parts of the world ragin' rapin and riotin' over stoopid cartoons!

#37 quark2
Aint it the truth, I only wish I had the money to start a News channel that dealed in the here and now, also known as The truth! But alas everone is bought and paid for!

#37 quark2 3/1/2006 09:52PM PST

@36 zombie

Too bad we don't have the money to lease a line of HUGE billboards across the nation with just that, those stoopid cartoons for all to see.

Well, I have a simpler solution, for about 1/10,000th the cost:

The Mohammed Image Archive
1 million visitors (at least) and counting, for a pocketfull of change.

Now that's cost-effective use of resources.

I do appreciate this Texan's guts, but in truth the cartoons are just a click away on the Internet -- his protest was more symbolic than effectual in terms of getting more than a couple dozen people to see the picture.

#39 zombie, well, it is being talked about on lgf. That is a good sign!

All of us who participate in the LGF blog saw the cartoons come out in September, and most of us thought it was a great idea, especially after reading the newspapers reasoning in solicitating and publishing the political cartoons of Muhammad(PBUH). After the Muslim rioting began, I was even more appreciative of the Danes for allowing the world to see for itself just how "tolerant" the Islamist supremists are and allowing the west to make our own decisions on how far our accommodation of the Islamic supremists is to be extended before western democracies historical right to free speech, critique, and debate is irreparably damaged. I have not seen any major western news organization stand up for their constitutionally derived right to free speech. Political correctness and multi-cultural ism has been the official policy for western news media for two decades, with its inherent loss of free speech and public debate because anything that offends the emotions of a protected minority is automatically suppressed by western news media at best, and at worst twisted and distorted to portray the offended group in a positive manner to the point that the published news bears no resemblance to the actual events that occurred.
It is interesting that the only political cartoon referred to by western media(Muhammad(PBUH) with a bomb in his turban) is the most aggressive or offensive cartoon out of the dozen officially published by the Jutland newspaper. The western media has also conveniently suppressed the factual reality that Danish Im ams inserted three more cartoons that were deliberately and maliciously insulting to incite violence against the west. Why doesn't the western media defend itself by debating the fact that the Danish Im ams deliberately inserted their own cartoons of Muhammad(PBUH), that were even more insulting than those published in the west, and the Im ams in question are not being vilified by the Islamists for insulting their own religion?
All of us on LGF has seen story after story in the western news media concerning Islamic violence twisted and distorted on a daily basis so that Islam is presented positively at the expense of factual evidence that instead of the west insulting Islam, Islam is expanding its culture and intolarence of western democracy. Islamic global supremacy is the game, and western media is supporting the wrong ideology in this war of words and perceptions.
I would like to extend a big F.U. to our defenders of democracy, the western news media. Journalism is changing the world, at the expense of the truth and our rights to free speech. Sorry about the long rant...

#21 Gary: a person wouldn't have to print them on a regular sheet of printer paper and cut them up. Someone could easily print them out on sheets of printer address labels. Or, larger computer-printer labels, like those used to print name tags, or the ones they used to use to print labels for computer floppies. (I'm not recomending this, mind you-- I'm merely speculating as to how someone could print up lots of Mo cartoon labels quickly & easily- with the adhesive already on them. IF someone wanted to do this-- personally, I'm against doing it :-)

#41 Lo Flyer, is that not what I said, with a lot fewer words?

#42Kristina: good idea, but it might be unsuitable for many locations - I wouldn't want to place one where it's hard to remove and one could get in trouble for defacing private property. Taping or stapling makes it easier to tear down, but the point will have been made.

#44- Good point-- sticky labels would deface property . Probably better to make copies on regular paper...distribute widely (laundromats, bulletin boards in universities, bookstores, etc :-)

Raidergirl, yes, but it takes me a while to write a long rant and I get to vent my view of western media which has been abusing its priviledge of free and open debate.

"Freedom doesn't mean you do what you want," Humayun said. "What is the point of putting up something that hurts?"

I want to bitch slap people like this so bad. Ring their bells. Box their ears. Open up their skullcaps and shine a bright light into their dark, diseased brains. Anything to eradicate their blindness, their ignorance, their obtuseness, their stupidity.

Hey Humayan ... if Muslims weren't hurting people all over the world by BLOWING THEM UP and CUTTING OFF THEIR HEADS, it would probably occur to no one to print a picture of mohammed. I mean, here in the decadent West we have lots of better things to do to pass the time.

Now, Humayan, how 'bouts you tell me "What's the point" of state-run newspapers in the Middle East regularly publishing filthy cartoons that vilify Jews? You think that doesn't "hurt?"

And oh, by the way ... freedom of speech is ALL ABOUT being able to publish things that might hurt someone's feelings. Stick that in your hash pipe and smoke it!

Over in malaysia a blogger gets into trouble with the police over cartoons:

Drop all police action against Jeff Ooi
Time & Date: February 25, 2006 @ 12: 24.21
Categories: Human Rights

New Straits Times today under the heading “Police to probe blogger Jeff Ooi” reported that the Jeff Ooi’s blog Screenshots “has come under police scrutiny for allegedly inciting racial disharmony over a cartoon strip published in the New Straits Times”. [Link: blog.limkitsiang.com...]

Police to probe blogger Jeff Ooi
[Link: www.nst.com.my...]

#45 kristina37, print the cartoons on business cards. I've been doing that with my anti-islamic web site cards. Business cards are EASY to leave anywhere! Spread the anti-jihad Lizards!j

"It's cowardly for (a) newspaper giving in to the pressure from the Muslims for these so-called offending cartoons, Caffery said.

And as he's quoted saying this, the newspaper in which the article appears does not show any of the Danish editorial artwork, or even show Caffery's sign for free speech.

They pulled a NY Times, and decided things were "so easy to describe in words":

The sign is four feet by eight feet, according to Caffery's estimation, and was made as "large as it feasibly" could be made, he said. A cartoon of Muhammad's head shaped like a lit bomb is depicted to the left and a statement on the right reads "For This Cartoon In Danish and Nowegian Newspapers Muslems Worldwide Have Rioted, and Killed and Now Offer $11 Million Reward to Kill The Cartoonist."

At the beginning of the statement, an arrow points to the cartoon.

Show the picture of his sign, media cowards!
 

#330
So, Mr. Newspaper Editor, where's the bloody photo of the stinking cartoons on the billboard?

Well...?

Bet they report on his demise, if it happens, and still don't show the billboard.

John Caffery, you are awesome!

MORE PLEASE! ALL OVER THE COUNTRY!

/shoot, I'd put one up in my yard, but nobody would see it seeing as how I prety much live in the woods :D

Another cartoonist makes fun of the whole Mohammed cartoon thing - with a dig at the newspapers that won't print them:

Prickly City

#53 Kosh's Shadow

Heh. Sad isn't it?

way to go Beaumont, will have to drive by and read it.

MSM "editors" name change? Censor.

Publish "Koran Gets Flushed" (never mind HOW!) Lots of Abu Gharib photos - not for conscientious purposes ... but because sex $ell$ newspapers .. and for guilt-wallowers ... sadistic sex sells even more papers .. hence the NY Times rush to print Abu Gharib images.

#21

Gary Gluon ... Gary, Like your idea and will consider .. Here's my practice .. I make a point of writing to the newspeople and editors/publishers (I can no longer bring myself to call them 'reporters' since that's not what they do ... mainly they follow orders) but anyway, I write to all concerned .. basically conveying thanks (or no thanks) .. My little bit.

Now if only we had an image of the sign .. I'd have John Caffery's e-mail for a thank you note! Any ideas anyone?

#55 Bingo Bunny ..

Oh good .. will you also write Mr. Caffery's e-mail down for us lgf's?

#48 hutchrun

",, allegedly inciting racial disharmony.. "

"Racial Disharmony" - such a nice soft moonbatty ring to it, don't you think? And if the Moonbats have their way - a foreshadowing of events to take place right here in the USA .. with 'hate-crimes' having paved the way.

Many people hang fluttery flags with bunnies, flowers, etc. on their houses in neighborhoods where that's allowed. Why not hang Motoons, wear them as face paint tattoos, or as funny hats like the one worn by the Cat-in-the-Hat/Dr. Seuss character--a fleece turban with fake bomb? It would take a tough person to pull this off, put that's what we are.

I want the decorative broche version of Motoons to wear on my label.

Just heard from F.A. Krift from the Beaumont Enterprise who says,

"Unfortunately the article when posted online omitted the photo of Mr. Caffery's sign. Why, I don't know."

This seems to imply that the original article did have an image of the sign .. anyway, I've written back to ask for the e-mail posted on the sign .. and hope I get an answer. If so, I'll post Mr. C's e-mail address for lgf lizards to do with as they will ...

Try doing that in the northeast. I am told that you know the economy is in trouble when people are selling food on the street. Apparently this is a new low for the news media when people have to get their news from some guy on the street.

Okay Lizards .. Mr. Caffery's contact info .. not from F A Krift but from PRCS over at Jihad Watch.

When I write to Mr. Caffery .. I'll ask him to take a look in on lgf .. so let's express our gratitude in a way that a Texan can appreciate: Largely !

His # 409-866-5566

&

jcaffery@remax.net

Free Speech is our Birthright.

Then why to LGF yo-yos like Rayra (and Charles) want to jail people for sedition?

#63 Gordon

Sedition is not our birthright.

#63 Gordon

Excuse me .. Sedition is not our birthright. It's a crime. Free Speech is our birthright.

My favourite comment:

Imam Muhammad Humayun, a spiritual leader of Beaumont's Islamic Society of the Triplex:

"Freedom doesn't mean you do what you want"

these people are retarded.

#62

Re; my own post! Different info from F A Krift, the writer of the article concerning Mr. C's address.

Here it is:
His e-mail is jcaffery@sbcglobal.net

PRCS (@ Jihad Watch) said:

phone# 409-866-5566

&

jcaffery@remax.net

I've sent an e-mail to remax.net and it's not bounced back ...

Good. We need more people like this.

The print edition of the Beaumont Enterprise had a photo of the sign. Unfortunately they chickened out and placed a "jogger" in front of the cartoon. You can only see the turban bomb, the face is effectively blocked out. If anyone wants a copy of the photo send me an email.

Oh, I forgot to add, I have to go into Beaumont this weekend to get parts and do a little (very little) work. I’m planning on driving by and taking some pictures of the sign. So, if anyone wants a color shot of the sign send me an email.

#55 BingoBunny
#70 Bordm

The guy's house is about 2 miles from mine, I drove by tonight with my wife after leaving the gym (only a few blocks from there) and didn't see the sign. I had planned to take a few pictures :/ I guess his wife or the freedom-loving imam asked real nice-like for him to take it down :p

It's rare that I read the local paper anymore, so I missed it :(

I'll go by during the day tomorow and just see if I missed it in the dark, but there weren't any 4x8 signs within a block of the 2 streets mentioned, just a lot of small election signs :smash:

#13 alegrias

Cacique is also the name of some very smooth and sippable Venezuelan rum. Good stuff...

update: He did take them down after meeting with 3 local muslims (including the imam):

Imam, sign owner have sitdown about putdown

"We have respect for your stand, but for the respect of a peaceful community, please take it down," Humayun, the imam for the Islamic Society of the Triplex, said.

Sounds like a not-so-veiled warning about possible violent backlash.

Sounds like a not-so-veiled warning about possible violent backlash.

Yes is does. Mr Caffery probably feared legal repercussions if the violent backlash was answered with a good game of "cowboys and muslims".