Posted on 10/17/2008 3:59:18 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
It might be offensive, but it isn't illegal.
That's the conclusion police reached about a campaign sign in unincorporated Kane County that contains a "racial slur" in reference to Barack Obama.
The homemade sign, posted along a well-traveled stretch of Route 47 north of Lily Lake, shows a caricature of the nation's first black presidential nominee wearing red-colored hair and a red nose modeled after Chicago's famed Bozo the Clown. There's a red circle with a line through the Illinois senator's head and two words in all capital letters: "NO BROZOS."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyherald.com ...
Free speech. Good for him.
lol Bros before Hoes- ask any PUMA!
Actually the proper descriptive is Brilliant.
Allowing the left to control the language is our great downfall. Even on FRee Republic, the language police are tyrants.
We actually live in a country that may spout Free Speech, but dare to not agree with "The Messiah" and your life will be Hell!
JOE THE PLUMBER IS A SKINHEAD!
THE NIXON BURGLERS WERE CALLED PLUMBERS. COINCIDENCE OR CONSPIRACY?
Good grief!
It’s not up to the police or the Daily Herald to decide. We either have free speech or we don’t.
I don’t remember, for example, the police getting involved when someone decided a Cross in a jar of piss was art or not, for example. The Daily Herald’s story then would have been on excessive and illegal police power.
Good sign and I like the concealed connections to the 12KVA transformer!
Notice that the McCain people did the PC thing and denounced it. Wimps. If by some miracle McCain wins, he will probably ruin the Republican party for at least a generation to come.
I agree that it is a clever play on words, good for a one time joke or something. He’s 100% free to do it, but I wouldn’t.
Well in the case of Chicago “ We’re all Bozos on this bus “.
Please note that the picture did not accompany the article. I found it on another discussion board, posted by its owner. The newspaper is wimpy, too. (Big surprise there, ey?)
Found it! (your post, I mean!) :-)
Is "brozo" a "racial slur"?
As a member of the F.R. spelling police, I agree with you, the grammar police should be hunged hanged.
What happened to free speech in AmeriKa!
It went away with Comrade Barack Hussein Obama
......hunged .....
Actually, the correct wrong word is hung.
“We hung him from the live oak.”
or “Stockings were hung by the chimney with care”
It is if you're Josh Stockinger.
It has been gone much longer than the current leftist iteration. Political correctness is foremost about control of the language. The civil rights movement is mostly about offense of speech
Wrong department. That’s the Grammar Police, not the Spelling Police. I belong to both departments and hanged is a good and proper word, if a bit archaic.
I'd love to see little barry get trounced and sent packing.
He's a punk pure and simple.
Just wait until Hussein finds out and someone is going to get a visit from his “secret service”.
NO! Clowns are uni-sexual and omni-racist.
Why, of course it’s racist. You know why? Because the sign criticized The Anointed One!!! Forget about the context, anyone who criticizes the Anointed One is automatically racist according to Obama’s defenders, because The Anointed One cannot be criticized. (smirk)
“When you put on the nose, it SHOWS!”
Barry don’t play that!
Good grief!
It’s not up to the police or the Daily Herald to decide. We either have free speech or we don’t
Really? Well guess what. YOU DON’T and have not had for many decades now.
Don’t beleive me? Write a letter to the editor of your local paper as follows.
My question to the candidates running for office is why neither is adressing the issue of all these wetbacks coming into the country.
Signed Joe Taxpayer (your name)
1. IT WILL NEVER GET PUBLISHED
2. You are likely to get a visit from the Police.
You can echange wetback for any number of other groups or peoples.
Or I copuld give you several dozen other issues that you could write about in plain english that would be rejected as not Politically correct.
The very fact that we have and acknowledge the term Politically Correct in dicates that we no longer have free speech.
Actually, the correct word for executing a person by hanging is “hanged”. The correct form for a stocking by the chimney with care is “hung”. I believe the correct form for executing a stocking by the chimney with care is “plum crazy”.
I wonder if the media is as concerned about the caricature of McCain as a KKK member chasing a caricature of Obama with a baseball bat some guy in Texas is calling a Halloween display.
If SNL and other comedy programs can poke fun at a presidential and/or VP candidate then NO ONE should get on the case of the average american exercising their right to free speech.
I hear ya! I was ridiculed unmercifully once because I typed “ballet” instead of “ballot”.
They have already said. it.
I like it because it is funny. I don’t think it’s racist, but even if it fit the liberal legal definition of something on the order of “hate speech”, I just don’t give a damn what they think anymore. To tell you the truth reading about them, listening to them or answering their outlandish claims is a waste of perfectly good time. Screw them - publish that, Herald!
Not racist at all.
I have put up signs such as:
“XXX is a clown”
It was a Democrat candidate who REALLY acted like a clown. There is nothing racist about it.
I guess some people have never heard one white guy call another white guy Bro. Sheesh
I think the guy should have to take this sign down. It is too little and the nose should light up!
You mean it's electrified??? LOL!
You know what, on 2nd look I do believe it is. The sign appears to be metal and I can see no reason for the barbed wire fence there other than the sign. I hope the guy reads FR and will at least consider my idea about the nose lighting up.
I thought use of Ebonics was advocated by the left. Part of what makes this so damn funny. It is NOT racist. Period.
Uh...actually, it’s hanged.
The owner of the sign said he had put up an earlier sign which was vandalized so he build a fence around this one. He didn’t say anything about electricity, though.
Please explain to me how this could ever be construed as racist?I can try, but you need to suspend disbelief.
Could you do something about the use of “and” instead of “an”? I see it all the time. Makes me nuts.
I must admit to doing that myself on occasion. I usually catch it and fix it but, trying to be clever, witty AND fast, I don’t always fix every typo. Sorry.
No apology needed. It’s just something I noticed a lot, this past year. Sometimes in random posts, but what really got me was an online petition that had it in it.
But, as I say sometimes, if this is the worst of life’s problems, I can surely live with it.
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