Posted on 11/04/2008 3:40:19 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
I just got home about 25 minutes ago from a frustrating afternoon to say the least. Long story short...my wife and I were leaving a restaurant late this afternoon after voting and as we were pulling out I noticed a very tall male between the ages of 18-20 yrs of age spray painting the huge McCain/Palin signs that were in front of the mall...he was putting the word "DON'T" in yellow spray paint with a nazi symbol on the bottom.
He was doing this in broad daylight on a public road...so I turned my truck around and hauled it down the side of the road this was going on. I got out and immediately confronted this punk who proceeded to tell me to get away from him that it was "his right to campaign however he wanted to", then looked at my truck and saw McCain/Palin stickers on the back window and went with his can to spray my truck saying "You are one of them...you bastards are going down", I then paced down the sidewalk with him in a full on shouting match of him telling me the McCain sign was taxpayer dollars and he could do whatever he wanted to do...and yelling that he was 16 years old and I couldn't touch him or he would have me in jail and that he could hit me in self defense. He then swung at me screaming he was gonna kill me but did not connect the punch and the chase ensued. There was no way this punk was 16 yrs of age. He looked 18-19 yrs of age and was about 6 foot 5 inches tall.
He then took off as I was dialing 9-1-1 and started running in the mall parking lot all the while spraying cars as he was running across the lot.
The cops arrived within 2 mins but the punk vanished into one of the stores so they kept 3 squad cars in the mall and said they were going to wait it out and wait for him to come out and be sighted by mall security.
In the meantime...2 punks on the other end of the lot spray painted an Obama symbol and keyed approx 7 cars that had McCain/Palin stickers on their car.
The area this took place in Melbourne,Fla.
The police are still there and they took reports from witnesses.
I worked with the local campaign for nearly 2.5 months...I worked on putting those signs up...I'd be damned if I didn't do something about this. Unfortunately the police said all he would get is a night in Juvie Hall and a slap on the wrist by a judge (if he was really 16), they were praying he was older for the punch he threw and the multiple cars he damaged.
Glad you and your wife are okay. What a world we live in.
Elections past things like this were unheard of. Hope the police caught him.
Liberal thugs. They scream that “Bush tramples on the Constitution with the Patriot Act.” Yet they feel freeto do things like that. Did anyone see the video at the polling place in Philly (I think)? They had a couple big dudes from the Black panthers standing at the polling place entrance to intimidate whites from voting. One even had a nightstick that he had at the ready. WOW! We are really moving backwards.
Like hell you can’t. If somebody is wielding a metal object toward your head you DO NOT HAVE A DUTY TO STAND THERE AND BE KNOCKED OUT AND POSSIBLY KILLED OR RENDERED BRAIN-DAMAGED FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
HA! Like the ‘droogs’ in ‘A Clockwork Orange’.
I’m totally jealous.
Tell ya what, I live in a pretty rural area and don’t expect any problems.
But if I lived in a neighborhood that had alot of “diversity”, and it started to look like McCain’s going to win, I’d seriously hightail it outa Dodge for a couple days.
Next time stay in the truck lf the punk comes in pop him Florida is a no retreat state.
No surprise. Think about where Ayers works. He's maybe one of the more famous and extreme of the 60s radicals/domestic terrorists, but far from the only believer working at a university indoctrinating as many students as possible. There is a lot of work that needs to be done if there is to be a sustained conservative movement. The libs have been at it for years.
In other words the little punk was a young skull full of mush.
You are exactly correct. No one has wanted to face the truth, because if they ignore it they can believe everything’s fine. And you are doubly correct that some blacks have been waiting a long time for “payback” to whitey (I guess for all the dollars that have gone to the “entitlement” programs from which they benefit most, percentage-wise).
Of course you can. You shoot the b@st@rd and then claim it was self-defense, as you thought he was pulling out a gun.
So what if there wasn’t one... it’s all based on your perception at the time. Besides, if you make sure that you kill the snot, he’s ain’t gunna be testifying against you, now will he?
:-P
Well, I guess that means we can “unleash the dogs of war”.
I’m in Connecticut. I can’t believe we used to be Puritans.
Folks, please!
I for one, am *not* gonna pop some punk for defacing a sign.
“Castle Doctrine?”, yeah, it’s a right, to be exercised with appropriate discretion and judgment.
Nor am I gonna pop somebody’s son or daughter for a lapse of judgment, nor for a familiar political passion, for his view of the future and past.
“Swung at me, missed, and ran off?” Cool, I would have stayed in the car, called the LEOs, and observed.
The loose, gunho encouragement of fratricide for our fellow Americans, during a difficult and increasingly hostile political situation, is not appropriate for the FR, it’s founder, it’s reason for being, and it’s constituency.
Am I armed and dangerous, prepared for trouble if it comes, “you betcha.” But lets not provoke, confront,
or attack. These are very emotional times. If there
were a politically acceptable (to conservatives) black candidate with a chance to seize the gold ring his success would go a long way toward resolving the lingering racism on both sides of the color divide and heal the national psyche, as regards our historical treatment of our fellow citizens.
Rise above the inclination to retaliate for a perceived
injustice. It’s just politics. In the grand scheme of things our relationship to our fellow citizens is, has been, a rocky road. Obama is the “great black hope” for many people. They have invested their despair, their rage, their hope, in the man and I cannot fault them for that.
Too dang bad Conde couldn’t be *the one.*
....and you’d come back to a shambles, possibly a smoking ruin. Better to stand your ground. Study up on how to make munitions.
That lecture has worn thin and I’m sick of it.
Get a pair.
“Get a pair”
You apparently can’t have a civil discourse so insult is your response?
You’re right. That wasn’t a nice comment. I’m sorry.
Let me rephrase by suggesting that you grow a spine instead of a pair.
Is that better?
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