March 3, 2018

Taylon Tiamoyo Harris

THARRIS @NJADVANCE MEDIA.com

MS. Harris,

I remember when your employer was known as the Newark Star Ledger but that was a long time ago, wasn’t it?

I read your article about the horror, the horror of someone putting a sign on a post office in Flemington saying “March is national stop blaming White people month”.

The Supreme Court has ruled that people can go to a veteran’s funeral and say that “God hates fags”. The vote was unanimous.

Your article says that Flemington Councilwoman Betsy Driver “chastized the sign”. How did she become the arbiter of speech, particularly political speech? Isn’t this the time that journalists begin chanting “slippery slope” followed quickly by “chilling effect”?

If I were to post a magnificent sentence, the one that starts with “Congress shall make no law” would she “chastise” me for that? If were to suggest that she should “get to a nunnery” as Hamlet told Ophelia would I be sent to Gehenna with Harvey Weinstein?

Martin Luther posted a sign on a public building. Thank God Councilwoman Driver wasn’t around to “chastise” him

You’re a reporter. Wake up.

Kevin Smith

PS – If I can see “Piss Christ” and “Corpus Cristi”, both of which have received Federal subsidies, why can’t I see the Mohammed cartoons? It takes a skilled hand to combine both bestiality and paedophilia.