Ithaca Police investigate vehicle, sign vandalism ("Bush is a Nazi" graffiti)

Ithaca Journal ^ | 6/21/02 | the Monitor

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Incident: In the 100 block of East Buffalo Street, the phrase "Bush is a Nazi" was spray-painted on a No Parking sign, and the roof of a county-owned vehicle was damaged. In the 700 block of West Buffalo Street, the phrase "G. Bush is a Nazi" was spray-painted on a privately owned vehicle.

[Teacher317]

Actually, I had a similar thought, but in the other direction... what city do the Lefties call "The City of Evil"? Where are liberal magazines, liberal ideology, and liberal causes are shouted down, in favor of radical Right-wing protest parades, Right-wing legislation, Right-wing social experiments, etc?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

How did all these nitwits get into one basket?

So post #10.

You have Cornell and Ithaca College bringing the lefty faculty and grad students to the area, and Ithaca is such a small town that they stand out more than they would in say, New York.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Actually, I had a similar thought, but in the other direction... what city do the Lefties call "The City of Evil"? Where are liberal magazines, liberal ideology, and liberal causes are shouted down, in favor of radical Right-wing protest parades, Right-wing legislation, Right-wing social experiments, etc?

A rhetorical question by chance?

[Eagle Eye]

What would you have said regrading anti-clinton grafitti? Free speech or not?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

What would you have said regrading anti-clinton grafitti? Free speech or not?

As I said approximately twenty posts ago (and I thought I had also made itclear in my initial post, oh well), I don't dispute that the content is protected. I was commenting on the fact that this person chose to disseminate his or her constitutionally protected message by vandalizing both government and private property.

Sadly, I envision some on the left, if not many on the left here in Ithaca, trying to argue that the vandalism itself, as opposed to the message, was free speech.

Geez, for a guy called "Eagle Eye," you don't read too carefully do you? ;-)

[Eagle Eye]

This was about the content, not the act or else it wouldn't have made the news and you wouldn't have posted it, hence my question. I doubt that Ithaca routinely publishes news stories about graffiti.

Now if your initial post was as clear as you thought it was you wouldn't have had to clarify it a couple of times. And, no, I didn't read all of the posts before asking my question.

But turn the clock back 4 years, would you have posted this same story about clinton?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

But turn the clock back 4 years, would you have posted this same story about clinton?

Not to illustrate that "Ithaca is the City of Evil."

[Michael2001]

Thanks for the link, simply unbelievable

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The latest issue of ISIS, the e-zine of "the fascist underground in ithaca" (as one lefty put it), carried a satirical piece on how this case will probably play out in "Ithaca, the City of Evil":

The vandal will claim that his or her acts were some form of performance art. Unless, of course, the vandal is a student at the "Alternative Community School," in which case the child will claim that it was their "Senior's thesis" (If so, the school will announce the kid is getting an "A.")....Numerous letters will appear in the Ithaca Journal, defending the vandal's right to free speech. If the vandal turns out to be even remotely connected to Cornell or Ithaca College, the letters will also trumpet the vandal's "academic freedom." IC President Williams might even weigh in....Once the case goes to trial, the [defense attorney] will pull out his "pocket constitution," call it his "Bible," and argue about the need to protect folks’ right to make graffiti wherever they want or else the U.S of A will end up being just like Nazi Germany....Faced with all of the above, the Judge will reserve decision for three weeks, and then write a thirteen page opinion dismissing the charge. So-called "free speech" activists throughout Ithaca will rejoice....The vandal will then immediately announce his or her candidacy for public office on the "Green Party" ticket ....

[Soaring Feather]

bump

"Ithaca, the City of Evil"

[ladyinred]

The liberals have managed to change the meaning of the word NAZI to someone on the right. Of course it could just be that it is the only OTHER four letter word the lefties have learned how to spell.