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Protesters hang Graham in effigy
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| 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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posted on
08/02/2010 5:25:44 PM PDT
by
elephant
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...
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posted on
08/02/2010 5:27:56 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
To: upchuck
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posted on
08/02/2010 5:28:12 PM PDT
by
SC Swamp Fox
(Aim small, miss small.)
To: elephant
I always thought Graham was pro-life. But I don’t live in SC
To: Nervous Tick
Just what is the problem with beating the effigy with a stick? Is it be kind to stick week or something?
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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?)
To: donhunt
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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.)
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.
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.
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posted on
08/02/2010 5:36:00 PM PDT
by
saganite
(What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
To: donhunt
Contact with Graham would be pretty harsh to inflict on an innocent stick.
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posted on
08/02/2010 5:38:00 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
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)
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.
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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)
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.
To: DLfromthedesert
He’s stated he’ll vote to confirm Kagan.
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posted on
08/02/2010 5:39:06 PM PDT
by
Chunga
(I Have Supported J.D. Since The Day He Announced)
To: elephant
And calling it a butt pirate will get you a hate crime ticket.
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posted on
08/02/2010 5:40:16 PM PDT
by
ladyvet
(WOLVERINES!!!!!)
To: elephant
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posted on
08/02/2010 5:41:07 PM PDT
by
A.Hun
(Common sense is no longer common.)
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.
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posted on
08/02/2010 5:41:53 PM PDT
by
Chunga
(I Have Supported J.D. Since The Day He Announced)
To: Chunga
Oh..Duh...I forgot about that. Thank you
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.
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posted on
08/02/2010 5:43:10 PM PDT
by
SC Swamp Fox
(Aim small, miss small.)
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?
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posted on
08/02/2010 5:43:31 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: elephant; alarm rider; Alex1977; at bay; Babsig; BILL_C; bnelson44; Clintonfatigued; ColdOne; ...
How 'bout hosing it down with Lysol?
Uber RINO Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."
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Just FReepmail me.
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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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