Liberal Lunatic of the Day

Liberal Lunacy ^ | 3/10/2005 | Beckwith

[Beckwith]

Nathan Alan Winkler was arrested by police at his home in Tampa, FL, within an hour of his attempt to drive a woman and her two small children off the road.

On Tuesday evening, Michelle Fernandez was driving in South Tampa with her son, 10, and daughter, 3, when another driver tried to run her off the road. The man had a sign over his passenger window that said 'Never forget Bush's illegal oil war murdered thousands in Iraq.'

Fernandez has a Bush/Cheney bumper sticker on her car. Fernandez called police from her cell phone when the driver began yelling, blowing his horn, and following her. A partial transcript of the 911 clearly hears the woman in distress:

9-1-1 Dispatch: “Where are you on Kennedy?”

Fernandez: “Right now I'm on Kennedy and Arrawana. Look, he just pulled over next to me, he's stopping the car. It's ridiculous this man! Look he's running after my car. Oh my goodness, he's a fanatic, he's in the middle of the street! He's trying to hurt us. Look at this, what a moron,"

For nine minutes Fernandez stayed on the phone with dispatchers, turning on busy streets, hoping to lose the other driver.

She ended up going to a Little League ball park where she met the police and filed a report. The police arrested Nathan Alan Winkler at his home, where they found the sign, about the size of a business letter, in the car.

"I guess this was a disgruntled Democrat," Tampa Police spokesman Joe Durkin said. "Maybe he has that sign with him so he's prepared any time he comes up against a Republican. This could have been tragic, for her and her children and for other people on the road as this was going on," Durkin said. "But she did all the right things. She showed remarkable poise, she didn't engage him. She called us."

After finding the antiwar sign in Winkler’s car, they booked him into the county jail on one count of aggravated stalking/road rage, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison, Durkin said. He posted his $2,000 bond and was released early Wednesday, jail records show. This was Winkler's first arrest in Florida, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Records show Winkler, a web designer and contractor for AT&T, has been registered as a Democrat since 1996. His father was quoted as saying, “I know that he is very anti-Bush”

"I respect him for having his beliefs and feeling so strongly," Michelle Fernandez, who is also a registered Democrat, said Wednesday night, her nerves still frayed. "But here he is protesting the war and lost lives, and he is going to put me and my children in danger? This man has a serious problem."

link: http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/10/Hillsborough/Bumper_sticker_evokes.shtml

[Beckwith]

I thought liberals were for "peace" and "nonviolence"?

Liberalism is based on a double standard. They have one set of rules for themselves and another set of rules for everybody else.

They also assign to themselves the right to change the rules whenever it suits them.

[SendShaqtoIraq]

Unfortunately thanks to Ronald Reagan we can no longer institutionalize the mentally ill without their permission.

[John Lenin]

You should start a daily thread. Liberal Lunatic of the Day, or maybe a website.

[whereasandsoforth]

I didn't say we'd have to institutionalize them after the roundup. There are other ways of nutralizing their threat.:)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Don't let brownshirts get behind the wheel.

[Beckwith]

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[PGalt]

Nathan Alan Winkler. A John F'n Kerry or William Jefferson Criminal type without the nuance.

[Conservative Goddess]

Very well said.