Posted on 10/29/2008 2:43:16 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Morrisette and his partner, Mito Aviles, both 28, defended the display.
"If it's a political statement, it's that their politics is scary to us," Morrisette said of the McCain-Palin campaign. "This is our palette and this is our venue of expression.
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Hell has frozen over.
Morrisette and his partner, Mito
oooooooooooooooooooo they sound so cute !
Its a hate crime. Where is the FBI? The world wants to know.
Actually they're using some political sense. They know this thing is dynamite if it gets too much play in the press. Can you say backlash? Can you say angry undecided women? Can you say double-standard? (Obama effigy found in Kentucky causing an uproar)
These two gay guys are really showing their “tolerance”.
Would he understand if someone wanted to use his face as a palette of sorts?
So if a bunch of white people hanged a Barack Obama in effigy and lit it on fire, could they say, “If it’s a political statement, it’s that their politics is scary to us” and get away with it?
“West Hollywooder’s actually using some taste:
“Actually they’re using some political sense. They know this thing is dynamite if it gets too much play in the press. Can you say backlash? Can you say angry undecided women? Can you say double-standard? (Obama effigy found in Kentucky causing an uproar)”
Nailed it, Scott. These two nuts are yet another example of how the Left is deranged. Normal people don’t even THINK of doing something like this. Their Hollyweird neighbors just have more political sense, not better taste.
“Hell has frozen over.”
Even Olbermann is claiming to find it offensive. Shovel on some more brimstone, and pass the parkas.
Even Olbermann is claiming to find it offensive. Shovel on some more brimstone, and pass the parkas.
Next time, maybe think before you act then. Hanging a doll of someone in a noose is a pretty sure-fire way to make enemies of that persons friends. If they're too chicken to stand up for their display, they should have kept it in their living-room.
I do not see this as a hate crime, just as I would not see hanging Obama in effigy as a hate crime. In order for there to be a hate crime, there first, must be a crime, and it would seem what they are doing is lawful.
What we have here is a few Homorons lashing out at a “breeder” and proving to the World just how tolerant they are. Let them continue in their folly and may those in California voting on Prop 8 vote accordingly.
You would think they would have fixed her hair better. They are going to give homosexuals a bad name.
Racism!
Honestly- whenever you see unhinged arabs burning an effigy of Bush, you think: “what a bunch of stupid, impotent psychos.”
What’s different about this?
and more importantly her children about a horribly vicious, ugly and incredibly hateful scene like that representing their very own MOTHER,,,
DO NOT MATTER?
Bingo.
How would you like to explain to her young children why their mother is hanging in a noose?
Their hate-endorsing approval certainly casts "bad light."
Vanessa Suwatipanich, who lives next door to Feindt, said she thought it was within her neighbors' rights to use Halloween to make a political statement. "They're expressing their distaste in an artful expression," she said.
What would Vanessa's reaction be to someone's death-endorsing "artful" depiction of herself??
I hate double standards and this is the ultimate double standard. If the sheriff has a back bone he would shut this down.
Now lynch it outside anywhere in West Hollywood.
Sit back and see what happens.
he would demand that something this ugly be shutdown immediately.
Of course, he has NONE of the above--therefore, his silence is deafening.
“I’ll be Frank with you Mito,...No, you were Frank last time Morrisette, I want to be Frank! No, you sniff my b*tt Mito, then I’ll sniff yours!!”
I think you hit the nail on the head.
Sure, it’s hate speech. No, it doesn’t need to be illegal, since it’s going to hurt their reputations far more than it hurts anyone else.
Vanessa’s photo in on Google images.
I heard on the radio today that it actually happened at some college campus (I missed which one) and that it was high enough up in the tree to need the fire department (or some such) to get at it with a bucket or ladder in order to cut it down.
The report did not say that anyone had claimed it was "political free speech" or the like, but you know that if they find who did it they will not be afforded the same degree of "free speech" as a couple of San Francisco queers.
Okay, they were from West Hollywood, not San Fran. (just to be clear).
“if someone wanted to use his face as a palette of sorts”
Um. This may not be the best phrase to use when talking about a couple of poofters.
For those that don’t know, West Hollywood was incorporated in the mid 80’s by and for gays in the old Sherman district of unincorporated LA bordering Hollywood.
In the euphoria, or “after glow”, of the Olympics, the measure to incorporate passed in a landslide, and hardly anyone outside the area noticed it. I lived in Los Feliz at the time, and railed it and voted against it. I sold my place shortly after that.
The LA Sheriff’s Dept. recruits gays specifically for this area, and those that are selected to patrol it are like gay heroes.
I’d bet my retirement that if I were to hang an effigy of two men kissing...LOL...well you can guess the rest.
“ts a hate crime. Where is the FBI? The world wants to know.”
Hang one of Obama and it’s a hate crime.
How ‘bout Biden? If I was in this neighborhood, that’s what I’d do.
and
"The students were suspended for up to a year, he said."...and
A spokeswoman for the FBI in Oregon said her office was still investigating whether the civil rights of other students had been infringed by the effigy.
Whether the "civil rights of other students had been infringed by the effigy...". Fascinating. I could say I saw it and and that I felt "infringed". Would this be like feeling "disenfranchised" at the voting booth and that's why I didn't go vote? Or that I didn't apply for a job at company X because I felt they'd discriminate against me no matter what -- kind of "disenfranchisement"? California has had a few of these latter cases, class action lawsuits, and the plaintiffs won.
Or, "I didn't actually in non-cyber "real time" see the Palin effigy; but "my brain is compulsively-obsessed with thinking about it"... Hmmm.....
have you seen the Charles Manson one?
this is the problem with so many people who arent from LA living here....the whole area has no “institutional memory” as they say...
http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/10/which_halloween_tableau_i.php
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