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Protesters hang Graham in effigy
Congress.org ^ | Ambreen Ali

Posted on 08/02/2010 5:25:42 PM PDT by elephant

The Capitol Police are fairly jaded about protests, but they get a bit more careful when it comes to pretending to hang a member of Congress.

As anti-abortion protesters gathered outside the Senate Thursday, a dozen police officers stood poised to make arrests if the activists went too far.

Pasting a photograph of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) onto a human-looking figure and putting a noose around its neck was OK, police told protesters. But beating it with a stick they had brought with them was not.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: effigy; graham; protesters
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1 posted on 08/02/2010 5:25:44 PM PDT by elephant
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To: elephant

>> .. beating [Lindsay Graham proxy] with a stick they had brought with them was not [OK]...

How about sharpening the stick and poking the effigy in the eye? Would that be OK?

That’s what the @#$%^&* SOB does to US...


2 posted on 08/02/2010 5:27:56 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: upchuck

Ping.


3 posted on 08/02/2010 5:28:12 PM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Aim small, miss small.)
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To: elephant

I always thought Graham was pro-life. But I don’t live in SC


4 posted on 08/02/2010 5:30:56 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: Nervous Tick

Just what is the problem with beating the effigy with a stick? Is it be kind to stick week or something?


5 posted on 08/02/2010 5:32:39 PM PDT by donhunt (Where does this totalitarian ashwipe get off telling me I can't chose for myself?)
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To: donhunt

lol


6 posted on 08/02/2010 5:34:29 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: elephant

Conservatives shouldn’t burn anyone in effigy - that’s what left wing nut jobs do. Come on people, keep things on the up and up.


7 posted on 08/02/2010 5:35:36 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: elephant

“beating it with a stick they had brought with them was not.”

Spitting on it would be a hate crime. 20 years in the slammer probably.


8 posted on 08/02/2010 5:36:00 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: donhunt

Contact with Graham would be pretty harsh to inflict on an innocent stick.


9 posted on 08/02/2010 5:38:00 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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To: donhunt

They could say they’re anti abortion illegal aliens with a Lindsay pinata. Then it would be OK.


10 posted on 08/02/2010 5:38:05 PM PDT by bleach (Sarah, Wake me in 2012)
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To: elephant
Uh, whatever happened to free speech? If the left can burn Bush in effigy, then what is wrong with the right burning someone else in effigy?

Oh I forgot the right has no rights in this country.

11 posted on 08/02/2010 5:38:36 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: elephant

“Pasting a photograph of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) onto a human-looking figure and putting a noose around its neck was OK, police told protesters.”

I think I could sell those as lawn ornaments around the neighborhood.


12 posted on 08/02/2010 5:38:59 PM PDT by MontaniSemperLiberi
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To: DLfromthedesert

He’s stated he’ll vote to confirm Kagan.


13 posted on 08/02/2010 5:39:06 PM PDT by Chunga (I Have Supported J.D. Since The Day He Announced)
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To: elephant

And calling it a butt pirate will get you a hate crime ticket.


14 posted on 08/02/2010 5:40:16 PM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: elephant

Why would anti abortion protesters be targeting Goober?

http://www.ontheissues.org/social/Lindsey_Graham_Abortion.htm

Maybe they should have burned a Democrat in effigy....anyone of them would deserved it.


15 posted on 08/02/2010 5:41:07 PM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: MontaniSemperLiberi
“Pasting a photograph of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) onto a human-looking figure and putting a noose around its neck was OK, police told protesters.”

Strange Fruit indeed.

16 posted on 08/02/2010 5:41:53 PM PDT by Chunga (I Have Supported J.D. Since The Day He Announced)
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To: Chunga

Oh..Duh...I forgot about that. Thank you


17 posted on 08/02/2010 5:42:08 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: elephant
I just read the whole thing, the author ticks off multiple examples of protesters hanging an effigy, but oddly enough only one of the examples was conservative, Sarah Palin. In the same sentence she mentions Obama, but I can't recall a single image of that. If true I would expect it to be "in the loop" on ABCNNBCBS.

No mention of GW Bush ever being hung in effigy.

18 posted on 08/02/2010 5:43:10 PM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Aim small, miss small.)
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To: elephant

Agent provocateurs sent to make the right look like frothing-at-the-mouth kooks? Who exactly was this group? Who bussed them in?


19 posted on 08/02/2010 5:43:31 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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How 'bout hosing it down with Lysol?

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20 posted on 08/02/2010 5:44:25 PM PDT by upchuck (Our margin of victory this November MUST ALWAYS BE greater than their margin of fraud.)
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