Jilted ex-boyfriend puts up abortion billboard

[LynneSin]

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/jilted-ex-boyfriend-puts-abortion-billboard-194142831.html

Jilted ex-boyfriend puts up abortion billboard

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man's decision to lash out with a billboard ad saying his ex-girlfriend had an abortion against his wishes has touched off a legal debate over free speech and privacy rights.

The sign on Alamogordo's main thoroughfare shows 35-year-old Greg Fultz holding the outline of an infant. The text reads, "This Would Have Been A Picture Of My 2-Month Old Baby If The Mother Had Decided To Not KILL Our Child!"

Fultz's ex-girlfriend has taken him to court for harassment and violation of privacy. A domestic court official has recommended the billboard be removed.

But Fultz's attorney argues the order violates his client's free speech rights. "As distasteful and offensive as the sign may be to some, for over 200 years in this country the First Amendment protects distasteful and offensive speech," Todd Holmes said.


The woman's friends say she had a miscarriage, not an abortion, according to a report in the Albuquerque Journal.

What a jackass. Hopefully this man will never be allowed to reproduce!

[LiberalLoner]

1. My thoughts exactly. n/t K&R

[mzteris]

2. if that last line is true

then she can sue him for libel.

[LynneSin]

3. Even if it's not true I think she could sue him for harassment

The man is a selfish prick who doesn't deserve to have children.

[ejpoeta]

4. there's a difference between distasteful speech and libelous and also

divulging information that is protected under privacy. If he put up a billboard saying this woman was conniving and a bad person in his opinion, he would have every right to do that, but putting up a billboard saying she had an abortion, even if true is wrong. imagine if he had aids and she put up a billboard saying he had AIDS. I would bet it would be pulled down in a heartbeat because it is protected and privileged private information. If he didn't have aids and she put a billboard up saying he did what would happen?

[KansDem]

5. This sounds like a Glenn Beck ploy...

The animosity between Beck and Kelly continued to deepen. When Beck and Hattrick produced a local version of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" for Halloween -- a recurring motif in Beck's life and career -- Kelly told a local reporter that the bit was a stupid rip-off of a syndicated gag. The slight outraged Beck, who got his revenge with what may rank as one of the cruelest bits in the history of morning radio. "A couple days after Kelly's wife, Terry, had a miscarriage, Beck called her live on the air and says, 'We hear you had a miscarriage,' " remembers Brad Miller, a former Y95 DJ and Clear Channel programmer. "When Terry said, 'Yes,' Beck proceeded to joke about how Bruce <Kelly> apparently can't do anything right -- about he can't even have a baby."

"It was low class," says Miller, now president of Open Stream Broadcasting. "There are certain places you just don't go."

"Beck turned Y95 into a guerrilla station," says Kelly. "It was an example of the zoo thing getting out of control. It became just about pissing people off, part of the culture shift that gave us 'Jackass.'" Among those who were appalled by Beck's prank call was Beck's own wife, Claire, who had been friends with Kelly's wife since the two worked together at WPGC.

Their friendship soured, Beck continued with the stunts, some of which won the competition's begrudging admiration. The most elaborate and successful of these neatly throws a double-spotlight on both the juvenile nature of morning radio competition and the culture of pop cheese in which Beck marinated for 20 years.

Salon