The YELLOW wall is in HOUSTON and must abide by HOUSTON laws.
The video says the man posted the nObama posters in his neighborhood, Kingwood. Kingwood is not Houston. But I agree with you that inner city Houston is pretty darn liberal.
I thought about this subject late into the evening and I thought of another possible reason for the perceived “unequal” application of the laws.
According to the TX penal code, misdemeanor offenses (offenses that usually result in a ticket) can only be enforced if committed in the presence of a peace officer. For instance, you can only get a speeding ticket if a cop sees you speeding. He can’t give you a ticket, after the fact, just because your neighbor told the cop you were speeding when the cop didn’t see it himself. Likewise, the cop can’t give a ticket to someone posting illegal signs unless the person is actually seen by the cop posting the signs. This guy might have just gotten caught.
This protester admitted that he was posting the anti-obama signs as a counter-protest to the pro-obama signs. If he did not do it covertly and got caught, that would be why he received the ticket. It is possible that the pro-obama people, if they violated the law also (which we don’t know for sure yet), simply were not seen by the cops so the cops can’t, under TX law, give them a ticket after the fact.
Also, since Houston PD and code enforcement are severely understaffed, I doubt they will spend the money or manpower fingerprinting the posters in order to hunt down the culprits and I doubt the pro-obama people were kind enough to leave their contact information on the posters. Even if the cops found them, it is doubtful the culprits could be prosecuted because it is a misdemeanor offense and the violation was not committed within the presence of law enforcement.
Also ,much of inner-city Houston contains liberal minorities. Cops don’t like to go to those areas of town unless necessary due to gangs. If the cops see posters in those areas they certainly won’t stop to take them down. I really doubt they would stop in any part of Houston because they have more urgent matters to deal with.
I’m sure this explanation won’t cover all of the “vandalism” concerns, but it might shed light on some of the enforcement issues, if there actually has been a violation of the law.
Now I can’t speak to the “slamming” on the hood of the car because I don’t know if it did or did not happen. The protester says it did happen, but so far nothing has backed that up. We’ll just have to wait and see.