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judge: Louisiana woman can flip finger in holiday lights
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| December 21, 2012
Posted on 12/21/2012 4:54:53 PM PST by BBell
NEW ORLEANS – A Louisiana woman ran afoul of police when she gave her neighbors an unusual holiday greeting, hanging Christmas lights in the shape of a middle finger.
Sarah Childs was in a dispute with some of her neighbors in Denham Springs, just east of Baton Rouge, so she decided to send a message with her decorations. Neighbors complained and police threatened to arrest her, so she and the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana sued the city.
A judge ruled in her favor Thursday.
"I imagine it will be back up before too long," ACLU of Louisiana executive director Marjorie Esman said of the display.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: christmaslights; denhamsprings; flipthebird; sourcetitlenoturl
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The Christmas Season always seems to bring out the best in people. And the worse.
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posted on
12/21/2012 4:54:58 PM PST
by
BBell
To: BBell
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posted on
12/21/2012 4:57:23 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: BBell
Since that sort of vulgarity is protected, the plaintiffs should have all stood up and flipped off the judge.
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posted on
12/21/2012 4:58:44 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(How about a waiting period for putting crazies out on the streets, say a million years or so.)
To: BBell
To: BBell
Sometimes the concept of “Karma” comes in very handy. What goes around, comes around.
To: BBell
License is not liberty. The judge was wrong to deny the community its just power to promote virtue.
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posted on
12/21/2012 5:05:30 PM PST
by
Jacquerie
("How few were left who had seen the republic!" - Tacitus, The Annals)
To: gorush
I hate neighbors.So move to where you don't have any.
She's allowed to be an obnoxious ass. It's why we're still free.
/johnny
To: BBell
Nothing a brick through the window won’t fix...
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posted on
12/21/2012 5:10:38 PM PST
by
TheDon
(Criminalizing self defense contributed to the Sandy Hook massacre.)
To: TheDon
Exactly. This nation wasn’t founded on the courts.
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posted on
12/21/2012 5:12:02 PM PST
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
To: JRandomFreeper
She's allowed to be an obnoxious ass. It's why we're still free.And we are allowed to be obnoxious right back ar her. Unless she's a part of the "protected" class.
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posted on
12/21/2012 5:12:13 PM PST
by
BBell
(And Now for Something Completely Different)
To: BBell
hanging Christmas lights in the shape of a middle finger. It's just her way of saying Louisiana is number one, bad choice of fingers, but what the hey :)
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posted on
12/21/2012 5:12:27 PM PST
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
To: JRandomFreeper
"So move to where you don't have any." I always have.
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posted on
12/21/2012 5:13:41 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: BBell
And we are allowed to be obnoxious right back at her. I'm sure the local teenagers will find her to be an approved outlet for prankish behaviors.
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posted on
12/21/2012 5:18:16 PM PST
by
eldoradude
(Let's water the tree of liberty with THEIR blood...)
To: BBell
And we are allowed to be obnoxious right back ar her. Right up to the point of sending armed representatives of the government, which happened.
/johnny
To: Jacquerie
License is not liberty. The judge was wrong to deny the community its just power to promote virtue.I agree.
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posted on
12/21/2012 5:19:50 PM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: BBell
The woman is a pea brain.
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posted on
12/21/2012 5:25:38 PM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: Flycatcher
yup, and society is also allowed to determine local decency standards as well.
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posted on
12/21/2012 5:27:44 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: DoughtyOne
seems like the judge would have to allow it. we’re all living under the same law, right?
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posted on
12/21/2012 5:29:18 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: BBell
I normally don’t care for the “holiday” subsitution for Christmas but in this case an exception is warranted.
Nothing Christ-like about such a display.
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posted on
12/21/2012 5:30:05 PM PST
by
lightman
(If the Patriarchate of the East held a state like the Vatican I would apply for political asylum.)
To: Jacquerie
At least you called it a power. That's what it is, raw use of power.
BTW, look up promotion of virtue and prevention of vice.
That's currently a big thing in parts of the world.
Women should remain covered from head to toe, and not allowed outside or to speak.
/johnny
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