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New hanging effigy: Bush lied, I died: California residence becomes ground zero for protests
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Monday, February 14, 2005

Posted on 02/14/2005 12:43:30 AM PST by JohnHuang2

Monday, February 14, 2005



ON THE HOME FRONT
New hanging effigy: Bush lied, I died
California residence becomes ground zero for protests


Posted: February 14, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com


New message posted above Iraqi flag at Sacramento home

A California couple who created a national uproar last week by hanging in effigy a U.S. soldier on its home with the message "Your Tax Dollars at Work" now has a new message with the hanging uniform: "Bush Lied. I Died."

In reaction to the latest message, Move America Forward, the national organization that supports American troops and the war against terrorism, has announced it will hold a candlelight vigil tomorrow night at the Sacramento home of Steve and Virginia Pearcy.

The three-hour vigil, slated to begin at 7 p.m., is designed to show support for U.S. troops and "register our opposition and disgust with the hateful 'soldier hanged in effigy' display."

"Move America Forward supports the right of free speech," a statement from the group said. "However, the right to speak freely does not mean all words or sentiments should be warmly embraced. The hateful messages that undermine our troops should be treated the same as the hate that spews from the likes of KKK members – we must step forward and make it clear that these voices of hate do not speak for our greater community, and that we will reject them through peaceful assemblies of the community."

Iraqi and Palestinian flags are also being displayed in the windows of the home.

The Pearcy family released a statement to the media in connection with its original effigy, which eventually was torn down by an individual who scaled a tree on the property.

"There will always be people who are offended by political speech, and the most important forum of all ... is one's own residence," the statement said. "The First Amendment is meaningless unless dissent is allowed."

The display has been a source of contention among neighbors who live on Marty Way.

"I'm outraged," neighbor Marque Cohen told the Sacramento Bee. "We have our men and women in uniform that are dying to protect our rights and I think it's a disgrace that somebody would be allowed to hang a U.S. soldier in effigy in front of their house."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freespeech; ofendtheneighbors
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1 posted on 02/14/2005 12:43:31 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2

Subhuman leftist garbage filth. This needs more publicity, for Middle America - the red states where our troops come from - to see what these lowlifes are doing.


2 posted on 02/14/2005 1:47:59 AM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: JohnHuang2
It's California. The time to influence this sort of behavior was three decades ago, maybe four.

How about "Bush tried and Kusay and Uday died" ?

3 posted on 02/14/2005 1:57:56 AM PST by muir_redwoods
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To: JohnHuang2

What is it with these idiots? They got a death wish or something?


4 posted on 02/14/2005 2:05:28 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel ("Senator, we can have this discussion in any way that you would like.")
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To: JohnHuang2

Two Words:

Community Standards


5 posted on 02/14/2005 2:37:00 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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To: 7.62 x 51mm

Somone in that town needs to put a huge photo of an abortion on their house - this will force the issue of wheather the community really supports free speech and is tolerant of messages they might not agree with.


6 posted on 02/14/2005 3:26:37 AM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: 7.62 x 51mm

Somone in that town needs to put a huge photo of an abortion on their house - this will force the issue of whether the community really supports free speech and is tolerant of messages they might not agree with.


7 posted on 02/14/2005 3:26:46 AM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: JohnHuang2
Liberals. They can't be happy for our troops except when they're in harm's way. I don't know how any one in America could think like that. Apparently quite a few people do.

Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

8 posted on 02/14/2005 3:28:36 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: JohnHuang2

These people don't even live in the house. According to an earlier press report, the pearcy's main address is, surprise, Berkeley.


9 posted on 02/14/2005 3:29:24 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: JohnHuang2

Is there a homeowners association? After all this is supposed to be California.


10 posted on 02/14/2005 3:34:10 AM PST by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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To: JohnHuang2
In reaction to the latest message, Move America Forward, the national organization that supports American troops and the war against terrorism

I love how liberals 'support' the troops by hanging a dead troop outside their house.

11 posted on 02/14/2005 4:18:33 AM PST by Always Right
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To: JohnHuang2
I'm outraged, neighbor Marque Cohen told the Sacramento Bee

OK....Prove it!

I appreciate that you spoke up and was quoted in the newspaper, but if this is your neighbor, for goodness sakes, organize a neighborhood group and tear down this affront to our troops!!!!

12 posted on 02/14/2005 4:24:28 AM PST by Guenevere (Sola Gratia)
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To: JohnHuang2
"The First Amendment is meaningless unless dissent is allowed.

Anybody got a list of Conservatives or Republicans who were punished for speaking their mind?

13 posted on 02/14/2005 4:35:46 AM PST by Musket
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To: Notwithstanding

They'd never get away with that crap here in York, Penna; we'd have ripped that effigy down and run the garbage out of town on day one.


14 posted on 02/14/2005 5:09:54 AM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• veni • vidi • vino • visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: WestVirginiaRebel
What is it with these idiots? They got a death wish or something?

They hate freedom.

Kind of like the terrorists.

15 posted on 02/14/2005 5:15:24 AM PST by Allegra ("They Just Love to Walk in the Middle of the Road!")
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To: JohnHuang2

What's really sad is that there are idiots on THIS site who have posted on previous threads (and will undoubtedly post on this thread as well) who actually support "free speech" to the point of allowing this kind of filth.

They are wrong, of course - although they don't think so. They're the same kind of "grey area" doves who cause problems like this. They do not comprehend the concept of right and wrong.

Some things are simply wrong - and should NOT be tolerated.

This is an example.


16 posted on 02/14/2005 5:34:33 AM PST by Don Simmons (Annoy a liberal: Work hard; Prosper; Be Happy.)
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To: Don Simmons
What's really sad is that there are idiots on THIS site who have posted on previous threads (and will undoubtedly post on this thread as well) who actually support "free speech" to the point of allowing this kind of filth.

While I totally disagree with their effigy, I also fully understand the Constitution. It doesn't make any distinction over CONTENT! Voltaire is often quoted, - "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ..."

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

...and for another opinion-

First: the opinion which it is attempted to suppress by authority may possibly be true. Those who desire to suppress it, of course deny its truth; but they are not infallible. They have no authority to decide the question for all mankind, and exclude every other person from the means of judging. To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its condemnation may be allowed to rest on this common argument, not the worse for being common.... -John Stuart Mill (1806–1873). On Liberty. 1869.

http://www.bartleby.com/130/2.html

That being said, I hope the house gets hit by lightning!

17 posted on 02/14/2005 5:53:04 AM PST by pageonetoo (you'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: JohnHuang2

Yet last October, a couple's yard and home was vandalized, as police stood by & protected the vandals, because the local 'professional victims' were 'racially offended' by a Halloween display that included a Frankenstein monster hanging in the yard. It 'pained them' because it reminded them of lynchings. The white folk were 'insensitive', blah, blah, blah.

Never said Libs were logical or consistent, let alone logically consistent.


18 posted on 02/14/2005 7:39:22 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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To: JohnHuang2
I work with the group Move America Forward.

These are three of the photographs we took of the house this weekend:


Everyone has a Palestinian flag hanging in their window, right???

19 posted on 02/14/2005 9:20:40 AM PST by Impeach98
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To: JohnHuang2

gee, I hope their house doesn't burn down or have it's windows bricked or anything...


20 posted on 02/14/2005 10:13:25 AM PST by martin gibson
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