Posted on 08/14/2009 6:23:13 AM PDT by NMEwithin
CLERMONT - Clermont police have interviewed one suspect who is admitting to putting up the dozens of posters pasted around the city depicting President Obama as the Joker character from the Batman film The Dark Knight, city officials confirmed.
Assistant City Manager Darren Gray said city officials have an individual "admitting to putting up 500" of the posters.
Clermont Police Capt. Eric Jensen said the male individual has admitted to putting up some signs, but investigators suspect others were involved and their investigation is continuing.
"We have talked to an individual," Jensen said. "He only admitted to some of it...We're still tracking down leads and talking to folks. We have not arrested anybody."
At this point officials are not sure how much damage was caused by the signs or the dollar amount associated with the clean-up.
Dozens of the posters were pasted around the city earlier this week. A pair of the posters were pasted to a Clermont Post Office collection box. They prompted the postmaster to contact the Postal Inspector's office, which is looking at potential federal crimes for defacing federal property.
City officials, meanwhile, are trying to determine what local crimes might be associated with the posting of the images on public and private properties. They've also been busy ripping down the sticky signs because they're a violation of city ordinance regarding illegal signs.
Jensen said he doesn't have a good count on the number of posters put up because, he said, "People are going out and tearing them down."
In a press release put out late today, Jensen said the suspect "also asked if he could video tape the encounter with the officers." Clermont Police declined that request....
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good job guy...keep them flying...
Sieg heil.
Did they ever ‘interview’ the libs who went around with those ‘kill Bush’ posters?
Remember, dissent is patriotic!
Horrors! Putting up posters.
He should be doing something legal, like joining ACORN and registering Roy Rogers (1000 times) as a new voter.
Or, he could be an ACORN census crook - er, “worker”.
Unless he posted them illegally I fail to see the problem. Political free speech.
Saw them on I-70 in Ohio this week.
Good work Buckeyes!
Of course not. They called out the local media to do special reports on the posters about how the posters showed that “ordinary” Americans were justifiably outraged at Bush’s agenda.
supression of free speach
And just exactly what law did he break???
How much do you wanna bet there are anti-Bush posters scattered about the same area that the city never bothered to take down?
For what, exactly?
Jensen said he doesn't have a good count on the number of posters put up because, he said, "People are going out and tearing them down."
Well they would not be doing that if people were not "going out" and PUTTING THEM UP!
Taping them to a postal mail box, federal offense.
Who sent the Clermont police out to “interview suspects” before they even figured out what crime was committed?
Disrespect of obama hasn’t been defined as crime - yet.
Just sayin'....
Now, it could well be that there are super glues available today that I am unaware of that make it harder to get a poster off than the little trick I'm about to impart, but I'll guarantee that if there is, it isn't as cheap as this:Meet the street propagandist's best friend.
Yes, dear friends, it is a can of Pet Milk. Oh, any brand of condensed milk will do in a pinch, but I have a fondness in my heart for Pet. Many are the evil communist posters I put up with Pet Milk in my mis-spent youth, my Benedict Arnold period as I now call it. And fifteen years later, while cruising the University district in Columbus, Ohio with my present (and last) wife, I was able to point out some of them to Rosey; weathered, faded but still legible. "30 Hours Work for 40 Hours Pay! -- Worker's Action Movement" read one of them.
Here's how you do it.
Ingredients: One gallon zip lock bag. One clean cotton washcloth. (Or sponge.) One can of pet milk, poured into the bag as needed. (Remember to have several cans in the car. I remember one fine, soft night we went through hundreds of posters and a couple cases of Pet.) Also, if the modern cans still require it, the ever popular church key to open them.
OK, you put the Pet Milk and the cloth in the zip lock, and the zip lock in a purse, gym bag, whatever, but it needs to be slung over your shoulder and, if possible, attached to your belt so it doesn't go swinging -- very messy. Your partner (this always works best with two poster commandos -- one with the posters, the other with milk -- and at least one lookout) carries the posters individually rolled in a larger gym bag so they can be rapidly pulled without fumbling. (Once we had some monster posters to put up and we used a long baseball player's bat bag.)
Lookout gives the go ahead. You open the zip lock and pull out your soaked washcloth, as the commando with the poster whips it out and places it up against the surface to be postered, front side down. The wiper takes his soaked rag and saturates the back of the poster, making sure to completely cover it. The guy who has been holding the poster against the surface now reverses it, image side up and you both smooth it with your hands. The wiper then gives another coat of Pet Milk to the front, again making sure the entire surface is covered.
With practice it can be done in seconds.
You are now done, and you both walk away casually. Using boy-girl teams for this is not a bad idea, as they appear to be interested in each other rather than the appearance of a couple of manly men who, at first glance of a cop, are probably up to something.
Do not be furtive or act nervous or guilty. Casual. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
When this miraculous stuff dries, that poster will have to sandblasted off. Forget scraping. It will never come off to mere gentle persuasion and elbow grease, no matter how abrasive.
Pet Milk. Very dangerous stuff. Use it wisely.
someone needs to buy him a billboard across the street from city hall
“Currently we are still conducting interviews of victims, witnesses, and other suspects who were placing the Obama Joker Poster throughout our city,” Jensen said in the statement.”
VICTIMS? ROTFLOL!!
Who exactly is the ‘victim’ in this excercise of free speech?
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