Activists detained for writing parody newspaper

Freedom of speech? Not in the New York Post's hometown.

Today, a group of activists gathered outside the New York Post's office to distribute a parody of this rag. This effort was designed to call attention to climate change.

The Post - owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. - promptly called the police, even though the activists were on the public right-of-way.

Cops detained the activists and confiscated their publication.

Remember when there used to be something called a First Amendment?

The New York Post is such a self-parody anyway that I wonder how anyone knew the difference between the parody and the real thing. The Post was chosen as a target for satire because of its own climate change denial.

What's really amusing is that the Post called attention to its own political intolerance by having the folks detained. Not like this'll hurt the Post much, because the Post already had such an abysmal reputation.

(Source: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/09/21/activists-behind-ny-post-parody-detained-by-police)