Cops busted a lone protester -- angry with subway ads equating enemies of Israel as "savages" -- as she spray-painted over one of the controversial signs today.<br /><br />A Post camera crew captured the bizarre conflict between suspect Mona Eltahawy, 45, and a woman defending the ads.<br /><br />"Mona, do you think you have the right to do this?" said Pamela Hall, holding a mounted camera as she tried to block the barrage of spray paint.<br /><br />"I do actually," Eltahawy calmly responded. "I think this is freedom of expression, just as this is freedom of expression."<br /><br />Hall then thrusts herself between Eltahawy's spray paint and the poster.<br /><br />Eltahawy -- an activist who has appeared on MSNBC and CNN -- engaged her in an odd cat-and-mouse dance, spraying pink every time she had an opening.<br /><br />"What right do you have to violate free speech," Hall pleaded.<br /><br />"I'm not violating it. I'm making an expression on free speech," an increasingly agitated Eltahawy shot back.<br /><br />"You do not have the right!" Hall said.<br /><br />"I do actually and I'm doing it right now and you should get out of the way! Do you want paint on yourself," Eltahawy shot ack<br /><br />As the poster defender bobbed and weaved to get in the paint's way, Eltahawy mocked: "That's right, defend racism."<br /><br />Finally an MTA police officer and an NYPD cop came to scene and arrested Eltahawy.<br /><br />"This is non-violent protest, see this America!" she said as cops cuffed her. "I'm an Egyptian-American and I refuse hate."<br /><br />The MTA was forced to install the controversial ad campaign by court order.<br /><br />The 46- by 30-inch ads are plastered in 10 Manhattan stations, including busy Grand Central and Times Square Stations.<br /><br />The American Freedom Defense Initiative, a pro-Israel group spearheaded by activist Pamela Geller, paid $6,000 for the ad space.<br /><br />[ Source : http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/video_exclusive_woman_defaces_anti_3xZ5mGVAGc1b6KUMFKGseK ]
