Anti-ISIS Halloween decorations on N.J. house rile some neighbors

[loveunderlaw]

Some homeowners on Cleary Avenue are finding their neighbor's Halloween display more garish than ghostly.

The decorations include a mannequin dressed as a tortured captive of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a hanged mannequin dressed as a murdered soldier and a machete-wielding mannequin wearing a mask of President Barack Obama.

The homeowner who erected the display told NJ Advance Media he didn't believe his decorations were anti-American and that his critics were trying "to stifle his freedom of speech."

"We in this house do not like ISIS," said the homeowner, who asked that he only be identified as Matt. "What greater scary man is there than the real threat among us?"

http://www.nj.com/morris/index.ssf/2015/10/anti-isis_halloween_decorations_on_nj_house_rile_s.html

So now they want to make it illegal to mock people politically ? WOW, "Free" Speech is really in it's death throes in the USA these days

[shikamaru]

There is freedom of speech and then there is good taste.
The display above is far from the latter.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences therefrom.

[ag maniac]

Ahhh....someone w/ time on their hands....money to burn.....and not a lick of sense. 25 mi NW of NYC.....probably has relatives in Hackensack