Posted on 11/15/2017 2:43:30 PM PST by Joe Dallas
Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls is threatening disorderly conduct charges against the owner of a white truck bearing a large "F--- TRUMP" sticker on the back window. The truck's sticker goes on to read "AND F--- YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM," according to a photo posted Wednesday on Nehls' official Facebook page. Nehls said he's responding to calls from concerned residents in trying to identify the truck's owner. "I have received numerous calls regarding the offensive display on this truck as it is often seen along FM 359," Nehls said in his post. "If you know who owns this truck or it is yours, I would like to discuss it with you. Our Prosecutor has informed us she would accept Disorderly Conduct charges regarding it, but I feel we could come to an agreement regarding a modification to it."
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Seems like a very reasonable response from the Sherriff.
If I saw such a truck, well I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t also heavily vandalized.
Yeah we know signs like this against Obama were well tolerated. /s
"I'm glad to see out government officials are concentrating on what's important," Facebook user Antonio Herrera commented on the post.
If Antonio was trying to be sarcastic, he did a piss poor job of it. The citizens have demanded action, and the government is correctly responding. What's wrong with that?
Free speech means just that, I don’t care if you don’t like it. If that is our attitude towards Milo and Ben, then that’s our attitude towards this guy. We can be lot’s of things, but let’s try not to be hypocrites.
Hard to read those stickers when the truck has no f*****g glass left in it!
This is what has become of America in the 21st century.
A sick, depraved, disgusting, immoral, and evil people who have zero dignity or respect.
My tagline is more relevant with each passing day.
Like maybe the 1st Amendment thereto?
I may not like the message, but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and probably piss off a few fellow freepers...but I say leave the truck the hell alone and find something that affects the safety and health of the people of the County...and get out of the censorship business.
The citizens that have demanded action should be given a copy of the Constitution of the United States and be instructed to pay particular to the Bill of Rights. They should start with the first one and work forward from there.
Read the article. Free Speech is not the issue. Its Disorderly Conduct.
Nehls also posted an portion of the Texas law regarding disorderly conduct:
“Sec. 42. 01. DISORDERLY CONDUCT. (a) A person commits an offense if he or she intentionally or knowingly:
(1) uses abusive, indecent, profane, or vulgar language in a public place, and the language by its very utterance tends to incite an immediate breach of peace;
(2) makes an offensive gesture or display in a public place, and the gesture or display tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;”
"...vandalized..."
As should some posters on this very board.
The Sheriff’s job is to keep the peace and by pushing this offender and bringing him to justice, the people and the peace will be protected.
“F-— TRUMP” sticker on the back window. The truck’s sticker goes on to read “AND F-— YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM,”
Well, Sheila Jackson Lee is from the Houston area...
Man, this sheriff is setting himself up for one HELL of a lawsuit.
If I had that on my truck (only saying F*** Hillary, or Obama, of course) and *ANYONE* gave me grief about it I’d regard it as my patriotic duty and completely within my rights to use ANY level of force to make them back WAY the hell off, like out of 300 Win Mag range. Cop might get a special dispensation, but only since I WOULD sue the entity employing them for more money than they had ever even heard of.
NOT wise.
If it said F-— Obama it would have been burned to the ground and the owner jailed for a hate crime.
See post 10.
Citizens have complained. The cops are doing their job.
I have no problem with the sheriff.
If words become equated with action, then violent action becomes a response to language. You have a sign that says “I support Trump” then a leftist punches you in the face. Equating language with action, which this law does, is one of the most dangerous things happening right now, and it need to stop.
Have you seen that truck? Click the link for a pic.
It was vandalized whenever some dumb chit put that sticker up there. Smashing out the rear window would only improve the poor truck.
Before that, many more need a class in Reading Comprehension.
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