Maybe we should remind the city that Obama approves of political posters in public places.
Posted on 08/19/2009 7:07:10 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Edited on 08/19/2009 7:09:44 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A Florida teenager could face felony vandalism charges for allegedly gluing posters depicting President Obama as the Joker onto public property, FOXNews.com has learned.
Clermont, Fla., Police Capt. Eric Jensen said the state attorney will review evidence to determine whether to charge the unidentified teenager with gluing "dozens" of the posters last week to the city's light poles, public and private buildings, bridge overpasses, road signs and a mailbox.
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In a perfect world, all vandalism would be punished.
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Is it vanfalism or political speech?
Let’s leave the private property signs to the side (as we can both agree nobody has a right to post something on private property) and just deal with public property.
The signs clearly are political speech.
Is a sign a “less protected” form of political speech?
Are laws that prohibit the posting of signs on public property an infringement off free speech (if the man was standing on public property saying “Obama is the Joker” everyone would agree it is protected political speech)?
ah yes- a kid pulls a prank on the annointed one, and gets slapped with felony charges, but a Jon Cardin uses TAXPAYER MONEY to ‘cause a ruckus’ so that he can propose to his girlfriend during hte ruckus, and he’s forgiven because he’s a democrat, and the papers barely mention it- This Cardin STOLE MONEY FROM THE PUBLIC!
it might be a number of words thing, a special agreement... :)
From reading the Fox New account, it seems the authorities are the ones who damaged the mailboxes. If they’d used a chemical adhesive remover instead of a pocketknife, they could have removed the glue without damage, probably.
It has the appearance of selective prosecution, but the kid did put the posters on mailboxes, and that’s a stupid thing to do, IMO.
“It’s ONLY a crime if the poster is AGAINST a Democrat”
Replace democrat with marxist and that statement will be 100% accurate.
They cant arrest us all... EVERYONE needs to get busy sticking these signs up. Everywhere... And any time they go after someone for it, we need to make sure we redouble the amount of posters already out there.
Maybe we should remind the city that Obama approves of political posters in public places.
NBC Chicago
Obama’s “Joker” Poster: Who Has the Last Laugh?
Obama’s biggest headaches may be coming from the left as much as they are from the right
By ROBERT A. GEORGE
Updated 7:30 AM CDT, Wed, Aug 19, 2009
Posters mysteriously appeared on the streets of Los Angeles and Chicago depicting Obama as the white-faced Joker from Batman. At least we now know who created the image.
Getty Images
Increasingly, it’s looking like President Obama’s biggest headaches may be coming from the left as much as they are from the right. That’s clearly seen in the revolt among progressives in the House over the White House’s apparent dumping of the public option in health care.
It’s now somewhat obvious in the revelation of who was behind the now-famous Obama-as-Heath Ledger/Joker poster caricature that has swept the Internet in recent weeks. The charge has been put forward — most strongly in a lengthy Washington Post article — that the image is essentially racist.
Of course, it’s not just the design that has gotten many people upset. It’s the marriage of the design with the stark “SOCIALISM” word below the picture. But the designer, Firas Alktaheeb, is actually a Chicagoan — yep, the president’s own homeboy — whose criticisms of Obama are hardly hard-core right-wing:
“After Obama was elected, you had all of these people who basically saw him as the second coming of Christ,” Alkhateeb said. “From my perspective, there wasn’t much substance to him.”
“I abstained from voting in November,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Living in Illinois, my vote means close to nothing as there was no chance Obama would not win the state.” If he had to choose a politician to support, Alkhateeb said, it would be Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich.
That would be the same Kucinich who was a founding member of the House Out of Iraq Caucus and who ran an ill-fated presidential campaign as the farthest left candidate in the race. Actually, the only area where Alkhateeb gives Obama high marks is in his handling of foreign policy.
It’s not exactly fair to stereotype, but perhaps the overly creative nature of the design — initially a rather ornate Photoshop melding of a Time magazine cover of Obama with a made-up Heath Ledger — should have been a strong clue to its ideological origins. It’s not to say that conservatives don’t indulge in electronic graffiti of this nature. Some do. But this type of strike against the dominant cultural theme usually comes from the left — regardless of who is in power.
After all, “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” was not a chant crafted by conservative middle-class kids in the heartland.
Once again, for another Democratic president, if he doesn’t take care to keep an eye on his left, the joke will be on him.
New York writer Robert A. George blogs at Ragged Thots.
Find this article at:
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/The-Jokes-On-Whom-53680617.html
Room 101 is different for each person, but yes, if things keep going this way, it does.
For those not familiar with Orwell, one goal of a statist is to make nothing - or equivalently everything - illegal, and to instead punish the thoughts behind actions instead of the actions. See, for examples, politically motivated selective prosecution (this case) or “hate crimes.” And the worse crime? Failing to love Big Brother (Obama)...
Then they better go after all the folks putting up garage sale signs and lost kitty pictures and benefit posters for terminally ill children.
There were no felony prosecutions of the Obamunists in 2008. There was no felony prosecution of those who painted "BUSH" under the word STOP on stop signs.
Either this has become "acceptable" discourse or it hasn't. Selective enforcement (especially when leftists are posting their handiwork online boasting of it) is itself "criminal".
Those who speak out against the Socialist ideals of Barack Obama are now enemies of the Party and enemies of the Statists.
They will receive the same treatment as Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin.
Of course, why would Jesus drink Bud if He could whip himself up a batch of the good stuff?
People in his town should start putting the poster in their yards and business windows as support for him if this case goes over the line. There’s some law about mail boxes being the property of the USPS but funny that I bought mine with my own money and it’s on my private property but whatever. If I can decorate my mailbox for Christmas, I can certainly put a joker poster on it.
The artist who did this was in town at a high profile event and “high fiving” those in his circle of influence afterwards. It got reported on the news but there was no suspect named and I doubt there was ever any prosecution.
Yet it is hate speech. Funny thing is, he was hating on Jesus twice by mocking him with the original “insult” (the crown of thorns was put on the one known as King Of The Jews).
Why not throw some more Christians to the lions?
This world has not changed much in 2000 years.
The thing is the kid is a frothing at the mouth moonbat lib!
bwahahaha
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