Remember all the sympathetic and empathetic reactions to the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris where the statement “Je suis Charlie” popped up in various artistic renderings?

I do.

I even did my own cartoon.

I would have to say that that was a civilized and respectful reaction.

Who remembers this reaction?

Pamela Geller had a “Draw the Prophet” event in Garland, Texas in the same location where a Muslim group had previously held a “Stand with the Prophet” conference. She wants it to be an annual event.

She was doing this because she believes that Muslims are trying to impose restrictions on free speech.

“The media can smear us and the President can stand with them. We the people are not having it. If there is any proof of that, it’s today. We dwarfed them.”

“If the Western media ran the Danish cartoons back when this Islamic supremacist movement first started gaining steam, the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo would be alive today,” Geller stated in response to an inquiry from Breitbart Texas. “That said, the European press ran the Hebdo cartoons in the wake of that jihad slaughter. But the American press would not. The beacon of freedom, the shining light on a hill, is running scared. Well, that’s not who we are. The elites do not represent the people.”

“Enough is enough.They’re just cartoons. We’re holding this exhibit and cartoon contest to show how insane the world has become — with people in the free world tiptoeing in terror around supremacist thugs who actually commit murder over cartoons. If we can’t stand up for the freedom of speech, we will lose it — and with it, free society.”

The contest took submissions online, and the winner received a $10,000 prize.

She also explained that

“Of course, this event will require massive security. But this exhibit has to be staged. If we don’t show the jihadis that they will not frighten us into silence, the jihad against freedom will only grow more virulent.”

Not surprisingly Geller and her New York-based American Freedom Defense Initiative, got what they wanted, their self fulfilling prophecy, when Two gunmen were killed after opening fire on a security officer outside the venue for the cartoon contest and a bomb squad was called in to destroy their vehicle as a precaution.

It was a situation where the cause was excused while the effect was condemned.

Basically she proved that if you go out of your way to piss people off, someone just might react the way you hope they will.

Those Muslims.

They do not respect the American pillar of freedom of speech and expression that is so American, and that is, of course, why we don’t want them here.

Just ask Donald Trump.

A Los Angeles artist might be sued for painting a nude portrait of the Donald with a tiny Trump Tower titled “Make America Great Again.”
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The artist, Illma Gore, says Trump’s legal team has threatened a lawsuit over her depiction of GOP presidential front-runner.

“I don’t believe I did anything wrong,” she told the Daily News.“It’s my work and I’ll stand by it no matter what.”

She had written this artist’s statement for it:

“Because no matter what is in your pants, you can still be a big prick.”

The painting was done in February before Trump defended his endowment at that famous school yard, name calling GOP debate, and as a viral sensation bids for the work have reached over $141,770 at the Maddox Gallery in Mayfair, London this month.

And now Trump has also pledged if elected president he would

“open up our libel laws, so when [newspapers] write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. When The New York Times writes a hit piece which is a total disgrace or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they’re totally protected.

We’re going to open up libel laws, and we’re going to have people sue you like you’ve never got sued before.”

Because nothing says First Amendment better than suing people for exercising the right to freedom of speech.

In 1964 the Supreme Court made a unanimous decision In New York Times v Sullivan that held that any public figure suing for libel must prove that a defamatory statement was made with actual malice, “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not”.

Under New York Times v Sullivan, a plaintiff must show actual malice.

Then, twenty years later the Supreme Court ruled in Hustler Magazine v Falwell that reasonable people would not have interpreted a parody to contain factual claims, leading to a reversal of the jury verdict in favor of Falwell, who had previously been awarded $150,000 in damages by a lower court because of a satirical ad that Hustler had published.

Now this man, who is angry at the press, and artists, who express their negative opinions of a man who loves to be in the spotlight, and wants to curtail First Amendment protections, has urged violence against protesters at his rallies, claiming that those protesters have violated his own First Amendment rights.

Both he and the jihadists oppose the First Amendment, it is just their methodology that differs.

Regardless which is used, the result is the attempt to freeze self expression.

Here’s what I would like to propose, although I have neither the means nor the ability to get it done myself.

Just as with Gellar and her group defending the First Amendment by holding a very in your face Mohammed art contest, artists organize and have the same type of event for Trump.

The purpose of the contest would be to have artists produce the funniest, most insulting (while tasteful) interpretations of Donald Trump and his policies and attitudes toward his targeted groups, and see if he is better than the Muslims he condemns, or if he is actually just like them when it comes to restricting the First Amendment.

Since it will be art with the expressed purpose of defending the First Amendment, it would obviously not be malicious, but educational.

And it could be very funny