Great Story.
BTTP
Keep you truck rolling, guys.
If we can have large trucks driving around in every major city with turds and vomit on their sides, why not allow this?
No sympathy. If I saw this obscenity torched I wouldn’t breathe a word. Disgusting driving this crap around where children can see it.
This is NOT how to win hearts and minds.
What happened in to or with the Georgia town that threatened them with arrest or something.
Whether I agree with the tactic or not, even the dumbest cop in the entire country has to know that this is protected free speech. At the very least, it should be unpaid leave, with the forfeited pay going to Mr. Brock as compensation for his inconvenience.
They may retrain the officer, but they can't increase his intelligence.
I am mixed on this type of approach. On one hand society should know this is not the clean and neat removal of tissue, some would believe. On the other hand, the commercial with the seed, plants and babies was likely the most powerful anti-abortion message I have ever seen.
Free Speech wins!
Sgt. David Haldeman can hardly be faulted for telling the guy to get the truck out of town. It is so over-the-top and in your face, his seems a normal reaction.
I don’t care if you are against abortion, this is not the way to go showing gorry pictures.
“At times, the line between what is protected free speech and what may be considered obscene can be difficult to distinguish, ...”
So if murder was in private that would be okay......
This is the reason for the first Amendment.
Transcript of recorded conversation with Olathe Police and Truth Truck driver Ron Brock
7:36 pm Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Sergeant David Haldeman Badge # 751: … Leave our city, cover it up, or be charged, and if you are charged we are probably going to impound the vehicle. So those are your three choices, but leaving this lot is not going isn’t going to be sufficient in the city of Olathe.
Brock: Ok.
Sergeant David Haldeman Badge # 751: If I catch you driving up and down Santa Fe twenty minutes from now you are going to be charged.
Brock: OK, I just got through leaving the courthouse and I didn’t have any trouble with the police there. They found it to be completely legal.
Sergeant David Haldeman Badge # 751: Well, now you do. The county has different ordinances than we do. I am just simply telling you…
Brock: I’ll be charged with…
Sergeant David Haldeman Badge # 751: Promoting obscenity
Brock: Promoting obscenity?
Sergeant David Haldeman Badge # 751: Yup? Ok? Got that one clear?
Brock: Yes. I am talking with Sergeant?
Sergeant David Haldeman Badge # 751: You are talking with Sergeant Haldeman. You understand where we are at now?
Brock: OK, now, I’ve got to leave the city or I’ll be charged with obscenity because of the pictures of abortion on here…
Sergeant David Haldeman Badge # 751: Yes.
Brock: OK, you consider pictures of aborted babies…
Sergeant David Haldeman Badge # 751: I told you, I told you once that I am not going to debate this issue.
Brock: OK
Sergeant David Haldeman Badge # 751: Those are your choices. You make them; you live with the results, OK?
Brock: OK.
Sergeant David Haldeman Badge # 751: Good enough.
End of call.
There’s been a similar truck driving around the industrial park where I work, in Overland Park, KS, (Corporate Woods) but it’s not the same truck.
Something that’s very annoying about it (besides the photos) is that the driver rarely uses turn signals.
Mark
If he had images of dead Iraqi insurgents killed by our troops - he would have been given an escort.
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I am pro-life and I think this is a horrible way to get out any sort of message, unless the message is “I’m a crazy whackjob just like the liberals say I am.” I just cannot imagine how anyone could do this- no thought that children will see this?