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Staying stagnant happens when fear sets in. Tell the mean girl (and unsupportive people) in your brain that you CAN be what you want, you CAN do what you want, you CAN achieve what you want and YOU are ENOUGH. Keep it moving. Onward & Upward!! #ucor

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Don't stop enemies from making mistakes

The nicest non-theist group in the country announced that they are going to sue an Arkansas bus ad company and the bus system. These are the guys with the wimpiest billboards of any non-theist group, the "Good without God? Millions are." billboard. They released all the stuff they filed with the court online.

Hemant has a nice quick summary of the case, and I won't be rehashing it here. But let's have some quotes from the exhibit, shall we?

Just a quick primer:

UCoR United Coalition of Reason - buys billboard ads for nontheist organizations)

OTMA On The Move Advertising - buys ad space froM CATA and sells it

CATA Central Arkansas Transit Authority - the government agency in charge of buses

Please be advised, further analysis will not be a one or two day process, as it will involve [...] an analysis of OTMA's insurance policies to see if they would cover the replacement of one or more CATA buses and resulting personal injuries and death, which could occur from someone possibly committing a terroristic act, such as tossing a Molotov Cocktail at the UCOR advertisement on the side of a CATA bus loaded with passengers.

So, when you put an ad out, you need to pay for the possibility that a hater would throw a molotov cocktail at the bus. They have such faith in their fellow Christians.

Subject: Ransom Offer in Response to United Coalition of Reason's Terroristic Demands

As a result of the threats from UCoR, as contained in your e-mail received last Friday afternoon, I rearranged my schedule in a valiant effort to comply with UCoR's demands and defend my client against the probability of a crushing onslaught of legal bills, financial ruin and almost certain corporate death brought about by UCoR's well coordinated threat of an impending attack if my client does not immediately satisfy UCoR's demands.

I am a SUPER-LAWYER ready to do battle, even if I have to shuffle my appointments! Even if it takes my secretary all lunch-break. Even though no matter what I do, the terrorists win!

And here is my selections from a 5-page-long passive-aggressive letter in which the rest of OTMA's bargaining power is crushed into a fine powder:

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Or, does UCoR just want OTMA to figuratively run scared for its corporate life until it succumbs to the forces of UCoR's terroristic tactics, thereby becoming a minion used to carry out various aspects of UCoR's campaign? 

Quite honestly, I believe UCoR just needs to get over itself, quit looking for ways it thinks it is being "picked on," and quit acting like a three (3) year old child who threatens to "cause a scene, if it does not get its way." By threatening litigation every time UCoR's commercially unreasonable demands are not met or UCoR does not get advertising space on exactly the business terms it demands, UCoR is behaving childishly, irrationally and to a large degree in a terroristic manner. 

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UCoR's actions and demands have effectively given OTMA only two choices: One, resist UCoR's demands and be killed by litigation costs; or two, agree to UCoR's demands and be killed by the financial burden of repairing damages to CATA's property incited by UCoR's advertising. UCoR's despicable conduct has placed OTMA in a conundrum in which the only way out is through incursion of commercially unreasonable risk and almost certain corporate death. 

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I previously speculated UCoR's intent here was not to actually obtain paid advertising, but rather to obtain free publicity by filing a lawsuit against CATA and OTMA. I now possess a firmly held belief that UCoR's actions have shown my previous speculation to now be reality. Further, just as I do not understand the tactics of other terrorist organizations, I do not know exactly what UCoR hopes to gain by killing OTMA other than the satisfaction of killing a "manufactured foe" or lending increased credibility to UCoR's future threats of corporate death for larger prey with more financial resources.

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If OTMA must face its death either way, then OTMA chooses to die fighting a bully and resisting the wholly unreasonable terms sought to be imposed upon it by UCoR.

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Although my client is now prepared to die at the hands of UCoR and its army of publicists, picketers and lawyers, I have included herewith a standard sub-lease agreement for UCoR's requested advertising, as a last ditch effort to spare my client's life and appease UCoR.

Seriously, the nicest group promoting non-theism (atheism) out there...with the most weak-tea milquetoast of the bunch. American Atheists or the FFRF needs to join in on this and submit ads for the fun of it. Solidarity!