Cops like Officer Cheeks allow their personal feelings to enter into their work. This is harassment and typical of the attitude the left would have towards a ‘teabagger.’
‘America’ to people like Officer Cheeks means something different than what it means to us. To them, they see it a place of Greed and Racism, hence they despise any notions that go along with that when it doesn’t suit them. They don’t hesitate to claim their own constitutional rights are being violated when dissent is given, but are hypocrites because it is they who work to silence the dissent.
Their opinion is the only thing that matters and, in their eyes, the only thing that should be spoken.
It is dangerous that there are MILLIONS of Americans that think this way. This is what we are up against. These people are angry, hateful, vindictive and right now, feel emboldened. They are destroying our nation from within.
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I am willing to defend “Officer Cheeks” to some degree. He thought that the picture was offensive and inflammatory, and was disallowing it on those grounds. He was trying to keep things in bounds.
His remark that “It ain’t no more, OK?” was a result of having been rhetorically outmanouvered by the protester. It was a very loaded remark, tantamount to Obama’s “We won, OK?”, and I think what he meant was that this is no longer YOUR America. We won and we are calling the shots now. Of course, this is damning enough.
Still, I don’t think his disallowal of the sign is in itself outrageous. It’s certainly not unprecedented. I recall that a group of alderman marched into a museum and removed a work of art that happened to depict then-mayor Harold Washington wearing women’s underwear. This made a minor news splash, but no one really made an issue of it.