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.
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.
Sorry dr lew, it wasn't his job to decide what signs can say. In a peaceful demonstration, it is not up to the goon squad to decide what can be on signs. He should be fired immediately.