Black pro-life leader sues the NAACP for intimidation
Little did TooManyAborted.com founder Ryan Bomberger know just how much the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People would disdain his satirical but accurate edit of its acronym, NAACP. Click to enlarge…
On January 16, Ryan, pictured right, wrote a scathing piece entitled, “NAACP: National Association for the Abortion of Colored People,” published at LifeNews.com, in conjunction with the NAACP’s upcoming 44th Annual Image Awards.
In response, NAACP attorneys Gordon Feinblatt, LLC, zipped off a letter to both Ryan and Steven Ertelt of Life News, threatening to sue both for copyright infringement, including punitive damages, unless they cease and desist within seven days.
On February 1 Ryan, with the help of legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, filed a lawsuit against the NAACP, accusing the group of intimidation.
Ryan stated he had been using the term, “National Association for the Abortion of Colored People,” since 2011 and had the legal right to do so under “fair use” trademark law, which allows “parodying, criticizing, and/or commenting upon the defendant and its services.”
Ryan’s lawsuit added that NAACP attorneys certainly knew about “fair use” law and were just trying to frighten him. Therefore, Ryan requested that the court award him “relief as may be just and proper.” I hope the court takes a big dent out of bully NAACP’s pocketbook.
In his press statement announcing NAACP’ threat Ryan doubled down by including a graphic reiterating the disputed title. Click to enlarge…
ADF Senior Counsel Steven Aden gave me this statement via email:
Every American should know the truth that abortion has decimated the African-American community. Ryan Bomberger and the Radiance Foundation are performing a public service by exposing the carnage being carried out by Planned Parenthood and its abortion industry comrades.
If the targeting of inner city communities by Big Abortion, leading to death of 16 million black babies isn’t something we can all unite against, what can bring us together? The fact that the NAACP would threaten Ryan rather than coming along side of him to end this undercover genocide shows that politics trumps saving lives and saving communities for these would-be censors.
NAACP’s intimidation tactics did not stop here.
On January 31 the National Black ProLife Coalition announced the NAACP had successfully pressured Twitter to suspend its @NAACP-WATCHDOGS account. The group’s last tweet was:
Racist elitists no longer need the Ku Klux Klan to control blacks; they have Planned Parenthood. And Planned Parenthood has the NAACP on a leash.
Five minutes later Twitter suspended the account.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
The NAACP has a long and honorable history. They were very active and effective during the civil rights era, but now . . . I have a friend who was being intimidated by racist neighbors. He contacted his local chapter and they said they couldn’t help him. To be honest, I’m not sure what they do do anymore!
You have to admire the bulldog-like tenacity of the ADF!
Somebody needs to get on the ball and create a version of Facebook and Twitter that will be fair, not beholden to liberal, anti-Christian, pro-abortion views, and not censor the truth.
The NAACP could’ve taken the high road and welcomed Ryan’s message to support and treasure black human life – instead they acted like a bunch of boneheads.
And Cecil Richards holds the leash.
I remember watching a scene in Four Little Girls.
I think it was seven year old Cinthia McNair’s Father who took a picture of her holding a white little girl baby doll. Even at that young age she was trying to make a point about loving every body.
You have to wonder, how could the NAACP do such a thing?
But then, how can the Church stay so divided and silent on the issue, and even at this time when they are about to be torn down for not protecting those vulnerable to sexual exploitation. When I see that the Black organizations won’t even protect their own, it makes sense the Catholic’s don’t either.
There’s so many within both organizations that are working against their own people in favor of the Obama Nation’s destructive policy against them. We can’t show abortion pictures in our church, but we can show Christ on the Cross?
What is the difference? The pictures don’t offend children. They offend the offenders.
They offend Arch Bishops like the retired Mahoney who wouldn’t let any pro-life groups of consequence form, but allowed child porn addicts to stay safe in the confines of the Church.
They offend people who would ‘rather not talk about it.’ or who ‘don’t have the time’
The billboards don’t offend African American’s, they offend the sell-outs in the NAACP.
there’s a word for that in greek:Ephialtes
This just proves that the pro-life movement needs to keep the dream alive, and continue to so, we can look to the brave mothers, (like Ryan Bombergers, and Justin Bieber’s) who, against all odds, have chosen to believe in miracles.
Jen
http://prolifebook.com/
Bam.
My “favorite” part about this whole thing is that the NAACP didn’t sue them for libel. They aren’t at all claiming that they don’t support the killing of black babies. No, they’re suing over logo infringement. Classy bunch.
They offend Arch Bishops like the retired Mahoney who wouldn’t let any pro-life groups of consequence form, but allowed child porn addicts to stay safe in the confines of the Church.
I have a friend, strongly prolife and a devout Catholic, who told me that they have to stand a certain amount of feet from the church in order to pass out prolife literature. What the . . .? I don’t understand this.
How does Twitter justify shutting down anyone’s message?
After the Newtown shooting, there were several parody Twitter accounts of the shooter, posting horrible, disgusting things, and Twitter left them alone for days.
There’s a parody account of a prolifer I know who posts nothing but harrassing (and graphically vulgar) things to the real account’s followers. He’s been going strong for well over a year now. Twitter closed his account for about 3 days, and then reactivated him. He’s still going.
Then one account criticises the NAACP and abortion, and they get shut down in 5 minutes?
Twitter, what gives?
“Twitter, what gives?”
A lot of the social networking sites do that. I don’t get it. Facebook does the same thing, someone posts a pro-life graphic image that gets their account suspended for days, while others can make fake profiles of people, harass people and steal pictures of their children and never get shut down.
@Jack — as one famous prolifer said “free speech ends where prolife begins.”
Ryan is a major present and future leader in the pro-life movement (and maybe more). This young man is brilliant!