Posted on 08/30/2009 10:59:15 PM PDT by Phree Non-Phixion
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Yes, It is coming Sir.
I am willing to defend “Officer Cheeks” to some degree. He thought that the picture was offensive and inflammatory, and was disallowing it on those grounds. He was trying to keep things in bounds.
His remark that “It ain’t no more, OK?” was a result of having been rhetorically outmanouvered by the protester. It was a very loaded remark, tantamount to Obama’s “We won, OK?”, and I think what he meant was that this is no longer YOUR America. We won and we are calling the shots now. Of course, this is damning enough.
Still, I don’t think his disallowal of the sign is in itself outrageous. It’s certainly not unprecedented. I recall that a group of alderman marched into a museum and removed a work of art that happened to depict then-mayor Harold Washington wearing women’s underwear. This made a minor news splash, but no one really made an issue of it.
The trouble I see is that people like Cheeks are reaching some type of ‘critical mass’ at least in their own eyes. When leftist demogogues from our own Congress go on TV and call us Nazis because we happen to be ‘teagbagging’, something has changed in the land of the free and it ain’t good.
Their arrogance will eventually get the best of them. As one poster said in another thread, there are still too many Americans in America to allow it not to be America anymore.
Take care.
Glad you like it. I borrowed it from another Freeper, can’t remember who that was, though. I would certainly like to know if anyone can remember.
By Bob Parks Friday, August 28, 2009
I’ve shown you what happens when liberals protest Republicans. Despite their use of obscene language in public, their signs weren’t confiscated or destroyed. Although we may find that speech objectionable, we recognize their right to verbalize and express that speech.
The very same leftists who won’t debate, who shout down, while professing to embrace free speech, have yet again shown the world just who has spat on the First Amendment on their road to fascism.
This video was taken on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at Rep. Jim Moran’s (D-VA) Town Hall meeting on Obama Deathcare (Howie Dean was there too) held at South Lakes High School in Reston, VA.
Many people were left outside when the school filled to capacity. School security officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr. did not like my anti-Obamacare poster which used one of the gone-viral “Joker” graphics.
When I said to Officer Cheeks, “This used to be America!” his response was: “It ain’t no more, OK?”
No, it’s not.
Well ... it is! The whole thing is posted on Youtube! Everybody is discussing it openly! I'm not saying everything is hunky dory and no different than ever. I am saying this is still America.
Will he be in trouble for impersonating an officer? (Re:oath he swore to uphold et al)
(/sarc)
Yes; it is still America. You’re right; we couldn’t be discussing this openly otherwise.
However, there are many efforts underway to “change” America into to a state of tyranny which few of us would recognize. With upcoming Internet legislation and Mark Lloyd’s plans for talk radio ... our time is limited ... unless we continue without pause to boldly make our non-representing representatives start listening to the overwhelming will of the people.
This is a really good article. Maybe that cop should read it. Doubt if he could understand.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/another_failed_presidency.html
I have to object. No way was this guy an "Obama Goon", or a goon of any sort. He was performing his duty as he understood it, and I don't think he was very far out of line, if at all, in telling the guy to put the sign down.
"Try to keep things straight." - E. B. White
They should go back with the same signs and call the police if that happens again. Repeat as necessary.
Where are you getting your information that says this rent a cop or anyone for that matter has the right to prohibit a citizen from displaying a sign on public property?
And just WHAT does your claim the rent a cop was not “very far out of line” mean? You either are or are not out of line.
Thanks for the post - good job!
I agree, but we are not organized. We'll be easy to pick off one at a time unless we get organized like they are... e.g. ACORN, Organizing for America, etc.
He was clearly and indefensibly wrong.
Wesley Cheeks, Jr. is a racist because he believes a black person is above criticism because he is black.
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