Crazed Bush hater [Liberal "Man" Attacks Woman]

The Washington Times, INSIDE POLITICS ^ | 3/11/05 | Greg Pierce

[Doctor Raoul]

A man apparently enraged by a Bush-Cheney sticker on a woman's sport utility vehicle chased her for miles and tried to run her off the road while holding up an anti-Bush sign, said police in Tampa, Fla.

"He told our officers that he just got mad at her, so he went after her," said police spokesman Joe Durkin.

[Guillermo]

You have to be a paying member to use the search function...

Not surprised the blame was placed on the woman and they also probably said "this stuff happens to Dems all the time, but the Corporate Right Wing media ignores it."

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I agree that what this man did was beyond the pale. However, the middle finger is inciteful. I once gave it to a woman who beeped at me on I-95 near Fredericksburg, VA, and she tried to avenge herself by pulling in front of me and slamming on the brakes.

[GOP_Proud]

#1 She admitted she raised her finger AFTER he began harassing her

#2 So what? We are supposed to respond to a raised finger by trying to run someone off the road?

[Texas_Jarhead]

again I say, this is a political hate crime

[Recon Dad]

This asshole would not have done this if there was a guy in the car and there was a Marine sticker next to the Bush sign. So he's a coward, period. They have a conceal and carry law in Florida too bad she wasn't packing.

[Doctor Raoul]

Roger that.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Probably would have had a much different outcome had this happened in, say, Texas.

[festus]

Impossible I've read the statutes and they all explicitly say politicial hate crimes can only be committed by republicans.

[thoughtomator]

Let's ditch the words "hate crime". A crime is a crime, period. That said, politically-motivated violence deserves the maximum penalty that the law can provide - this nation more than any other cannot tolerate violent political intimidation, it goes against everything this country stands for.

Looks like DU will be short a poster for a few years.

[Spruce]

With a name like Norman Winkler; one can't help being a p*ssy.

[John Lenin]

Nathan Alan Winkler, 31, lives at home with Dad. That figures."

Lives in daddys basement with his black light room where he blows his mind out with all kinds of drugs and than goes out and attacks women with children in the car. Liberalism =Mental Illness.

[Hot Tabasco]

In all fairness, in the article I read, it appears that Ms. Fernandez might have given this sad sack the finger

yea, same thing happened to me, a Bush fan. A Kerry sticker sportin SUV babe flipped me the bird so I followed her and terrorized her beyond belief. All is fair........ /sarcasm Sheesh!

[Red Sea Swimmer]

Stickers on the backs of cars can really send people over the edge it seems. It might be better to be travel stickerless.

[230FMJ]

Look at the eyes. Liberalism is a mental illness.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Let's ditch the words "hate crime""

I will do no such thing.

"That said, politically-motivated violence deserves the maximum penalty that the law can provide - this nation more than any other cannot tolerate violent political intimidation, it goes against everything this country stands for."

Exactly. Liberals have deployed the construct and I will use it against them directly or to illustrate is absurdity whenever possible.

[Texas_Jarhead]

JMHO of course...

[Brilliant]

"I know that he's very anti-Bush. But I don't see him doing anything like that. He's the least aggressive person I know."

I guess his dad knows a lot of aggressive people.

[John Lenin]

When he smokes pot he is harmless, dad can't even get him to go out and look for a job cause all he wants to do is look at porn on the internet and eat dorritos ...

[JOAT]

At one point the man pulled his car in front of Fernandez's, got out and started running toward her, Fernandez told police.

AT that point, he's extremely fortunate that Ms. Fernandez did not use the 1-2 ton weapon she was sitting inside of and run his pathetic hiney over.

[thoughtomator]

I'm just enunciating the principle that a just society cannot criminalize thought, only action. Using the term "hate crime", even as a foil, concedes the possibility that it is legitimate to criminalize thought. If you concede that, they will follow by criminalizing our thoughts, as they have tried before and will most certainly try again. Don't give them grounds to stand on.

The place to take motivation into account is in sentencing, not in the definition of a crime.