Posted on 01/25/2005 6:13:24 AM PST by BulletBobCo
DENVER (AP) - A police sergeant is being investigated for allegedly threatening a woman with arrest for displaying a profane President Bush bumper sticker.
The ''F--- Bush'' bumper sticker on 26-year-old Shasta Bates' pickup truck offended a shopping center patron who saw it Monday on Bate's parked vehicle and flagged down Sgt. Michael Karasek, who was patrolling the area.
''He (Karasek) told her that this was a warning and that the next time he saw her truck, she was going to be arrested if she didn't remove the sticker,'' said 25-year-old Alinna Figueroa, assistant manager of a store at the shopping center where the officer confronted Bates.
''I couldn't believe it,'' she said.
Police Chief Gerry Whitman said the incident was under investigation. He did not elaborate.
City Attorney Cole Finnegan said there were no city ordinances against displaying a profane bumper sticker.
Bates said she put the sticker on her truck because she disagrees with Bush's stance on homosexuality and other issues.
''I get some older men who pull up at the side of me and start yelling and cussing,'' she said, adding she's had only a few complaints since placing it on her truck in August.
Same Shasta: http://www.recreation.du.edu/fitness/massage.html
I was right. My gaydar works good she is a dyke.
Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."
That's a girl?
You are good!
So she's on staff with the University of Denver..... Interesting. It'll be interesting to see if this incident affects her job somehow.
How about "If you see Kay Bush!"
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Technically, I think that would be obscene, not profane.
She looks lesbian. If you are a chick, she might take you up on it.
From what I've seen and read so far, we think that F**k Bush means something else to her.
Well there you go. No law was broken. Besides, it identifies the idiots.
How about lesbians against bush??
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I think she needs a dose of our freedom of speech.
They might have a rule regarding profanity.
Someone was offended by the bumper sticker. Liberals are always whining and crying that something offends them and must be stopped. Shouldn't the fact that someone was offended by Ms. Bates' sicker settle the matter?
If there is a law against this type of display, there is no story.
Further, if there is such a law, this bimbo is fortunate she got off with a warning.
Investigate the officer?
Do you think she'd mind if someone had a ''F--- Shasta Bates" bumper sticker to protest her bumper sticker?''
You could probably make it past tense and it could be a statement of fact for every bartender in Denver.
I am offended by a bumper sticker that says "F**K BUSH." I would be equally offended by a bumper sticker that said "F**K KERRY" or "F**K CLINTON."
I shouldn't have to explain to my young children what that means, or why a word that is not acceptable in civil discourse belongs on the vehicle of an ostensible grown-up.
I like this. In fact, I hope this woman (or is it womyn?) goes around town with a roof-top sign like pizza delivery people screaming "F*CK BUSH!" at the top of her lungs. The more obscene and offensive the Left's slogans, the happier I will be. Spray the landscape with scatological language. Drench your fellow drivers with juicy Anglo-Saxon-isms. I absolutely love the Left for spewing their bowels all over the American landscape and want them to do so to their complete satisfaction. Hurray for free speech!
Of course, most of America will hate their guts for it, but hey, that's beside the point. ;)
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