U.D. Police Now Taking Down Fliers

Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood was bicycling around town the other day when he spotted the now-infamous (at least on KYW 1060) racist fliers that quote Family Guy.

And then, NBC 10 tells us, he decided the police should take down speech he didn’t like. He had his officers remove 268 of these stupid fliers originally put up by the Keystone State Skinheads. There were even different posters this time that said “North Philly coming to your town” up along with the other ones that said “Guns don’t kill people — dangerous minorities do.”

Uh, yes: The police took down speech the police chief didn’t like. Even though it was put up by annoying racist fucks who apparently think parodies on Family Guy are meant to be taken literally… really? If I put up anti-war on drugs posters in Upper Darby, will Mike Chitwood send the cops out to take them all down?

But enough of that near-seriousness. The NBC 10 report also contains perhaps my favorite sentence in a news report, ever:

The NBC 10 Investigators have been trying to contact the Keystone State Skin Heads to find out why they are posting the flyers.

Gee! What could the skinheads be possibly putting up racist fliers for?

Police: Racist Flyers Blanket Suburban Neighborhood [NBC 10]

KYW Apparently Pushing Jail For Fliers

KYW 1060 has yet another story on those race-baiting fliers and once again I am going to write about it. Apparently, the radio station is just extremely pissed off that we can’t go out and arrest those stupid skinheads who put them up and defamed Family Guy. Aargh, why can’t we just lock up people who say things with disagree with?

This latest story talks to Mayor Nutter and is headlined “Nutter Acknowledges Difficulty of Prosecuting Those Who Distributed Race-Baiting Fliers,” making me wonder if Nutter just wishes he could actually prosecute those who put up the fliers.

Fortunately, Mix Master Mike says nothing of the sort! “Much as we don’t like some things, we can’t always chase after people legally for things we don’t like,” he says, which sounds fine to me, I guess. And it certainly sounds better than notifying the authorities when you’ve been offended.

Sigh. Isn’t there somebody at KYW or the Human Rights Commission we can lock up for saying this stupid shit? Erhm.

Nutter Acknowledges Difficulty of Prosecuting Those Who Distributed Race-Baiting Fliers [KYW 1060]
Earlier today: It’s Apparently Legal To Be Offensive

It’s Apparently Legal To Be Offensive

Hey, the city’s Human Rights Commission had been investigating those stupid Family Guy-quoting white power posters, probably made by people who didn’t realize the line from Family Guy was a parody.

Anyway, the HRC did some looking into it and found — in a shocker — speech is apparently legal in this country. Oh, and if you see somebody putting up stupid fliers, you’re apparently not supposed to confront them.

Nick Taliaferro, the Commission’s executive director, says if someone is posting or passing out offensive material, call police if need be, but usually don’t start a confrontation yourself: “But if you just see them on the street, the best thing to do, most times, is to go to an agency that has an organized instruction manner of confronting them and dealing with them and addressing them and then to talk to people who share your concerns and to find ways to positively counter-act what you’re seeing in their literature.”

Yes, call police if need be if you see someone passing out offensive material. How dare someone do something offensive here in America. And after you call the cops, be sure to go to the appropriate agency to report your offense.

HR Commission Says Race-Baiting Flyers Were Legal
Tuesday: Speech Police Investigate Posters
May 12: Family Guy-Quoting Racists!

Speech Police Investigate Posters

Remember those Family Guy-quoting racist posters noted a little bit ago?

Well, it appears they’ve spread outside of our little Internet circle? The city’s official speech police, the Human Rights Commission, has launched an investigation into those posters!

KYW 1060 reports:

Nick Taliaferro, executive director of the Human Relations Commission, says its response is more like outreach than investigation: “We are not policemen. We don’t go out and try to arrest people. What we do is try to proactively engage the community in ways that will resist that type of poisonous engagement of an otherwise very decent community. You won’t find better people than you will find at Shiller and Almond Street.” Taliaferro says the commission will look to see if the law was broken and if the poster had any effect beyond creating upset.

They are not policemen, yet they will look and see if the law was broken. Clearly, these posters aren’t sanctioned city billboards — someone has to pay with some time in jail.

Phila. Human Relations Commission Probes Racist Fliers [KYW 1060]

Family Guy-Quoting Racists!

Hey, look, there are racist posters everywhere! I guess. The above shot is from Cottman and Frankford; it was posted at Domelights (the thread later turns into posters arguing that few black officers go to benefits for slain white officers). It’s also, uhm, a freaking joke from Family Guy.

And, hey: A poster at Young Philly Politics found a different one (uh, I guess) after regaling us with a story of buying a new belt at the Gap outlet and realizing some people might not like Barack Obama because he’s black.