Your calendar may indicate 2016 but we are living in 1984
Posted on 06/17/2016 2:44:31 AM PDT by raybbr
West Hartford, CT — A 71-year-old West Hartford man was arrested after making a homophobic slur to a Home Depot cashier and referencing the Orlando, Florida, nightclub shooting on Wednesday, according to police.
West Hartford Police responded to the Home Depot on New Park Avenue around 11:30 a.m. to speak with an employee regarding a report of a hostile customer.
The employee told police he was talking to the customer about why he was wearing gloves at the register before it “quickly evolved into a harassing discussion about the employee's sexuality,” according to the police report.
The employee told police that the customer called him a “faggot” and referenced the Orlando, Florida, nightclub shooting. The comments were overheard by another employee, police said.
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Wow. Arrested for words.
I want to see the video.
Just wait, they won't be happy till they can arrest us for THINKING. It's coming.
Your calendar may indicate 2016 but we are living in 1984
Uh huh...yeah I’d like to see that video too because I’m getting a strange feeling of deja vu ...something about some waitresses who cried wolf...
This Home Depot is in a high crime rate area—so while the cops were arresting this guy there probably were a variety of other minor crimes in progress (car break-ins in the parking lot, customer thefts from the store) that were ignored.
That would be as traumatic for the Home Depot employee as firing an AR-15. A slur like that must have sounded like a bazooka and left bruises.
Why couldn’t they just page the manager or security and ask the man to leave? He’s obviously a jerk.
But did he actually threaten the cashier? We need more info here.
Is it really a case of life imitating art or does the culture just make it look like that?
Maybe arrested for refusing to leave, trespass sort of thing. I wonder if he used the name “Homo Depot.”
Human nature and all societies are prone to swings in political-extremism, violence, collectivism and tyranny. The beauty of America was that besides clearly expressed notions on the natural rights of man, in simple, practical terms, we also had a limited and dispersed government. Tyranny/fascism/thought-control simply couldn’t muster enough power through the few channels of government to do much damage.
That’s no longer true. America’s empire has a huge bureaucratic apparatus increasingly regulating and corrupting every facet of daily life (and funded by printed money and debt). The framework is all in place, and the ideology is coming together. It will be no big thing to slip into a very nasty tyranny
1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment. None as important.
Now I can understand if those words led to fisticuffs which eventually led to some sort of police interdiction. Or if the offended party took the other guy to court for libel. (Though 19 states have criminal libel laws that haven’t been declared unconstitutional by the SCOTUS )
I certainly would have been arrested for all the names I called my buddies and vice versa.
I shop there only when I can find the material nowhere else.
I don't know if they are union, but they act like they're fresh off the picket line.
Now imagine a world were everyone ( even in CT which is now as bad if not worse than MA ) was open carry and each of these people were sporting 911’s on their hips. Ya think they would be addressing each or as Sir and Mam and perhaps behaving as if just attended a school for etiquette? You know how people behave in the South, Yes I said it, I love Vac-caying their were people have manners, their is nothing wrong with Southern Culture Mr Obama, Kim Jung Shrill and all your Minions! Back to reality....
>>I don’t know if they are union, but they act like they’re fresh off the picket line.
Actually, it’s the opposite. HD got a new CEO a while back who turned the company into pure hell for store employees and the company began to have serious problems because he destroyed their can-do attitude. A culture was created and frozen in place. He was replaced and now his successor is having to find ways to create the change necessary to bring the company back in line with the image they want to portray to the customer.
It’s a well-cited case in recent business textbooks to demonstrate how a good business decision, numbers-wise, can be disastrous and how much it costs to effect change to recover from that kind of bean counter management.
Time was the ACLU would defend this guy. I do not see how it’s Constitutional to have any charge based on what one might have said, absent inciting a riot.
Thanks for that, I knew something was wrong, but not the cause, so I stuck with the effects.
Oh, they generally seem pleasant enough to me.
I can never find one except for the surley blacks sporting Obamas sows scowl at the register.
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