This reminds me of the double-standards that exist in the Amherst area. I'm from nearby Northampton, almost as bad as Amherst. On election day in 2000, I took a train home from college in NYC to vote in person, as it was the first election for which I was of voting age. Some buddies and I were standing at the busiest intersection in town with our Bush/Cheney signs. A group of lesbians came up to us and physically assaulted us (or at least our signs), ripping the sign right out of one of my buddys' hands and punching my sign. Some nearby cops looked the other way- I KNOW they saw it, they probably just didn't want to deal with the town's openly lesbian mayor who doesn't like the police department, according to a friend on the force.
If I had tried to take somebody's Nader or Gore sign that day, I'd be locked up! Likewise, if it had been one of us in Amherst and we stole their precious UN flag instead of the P.R. flag, you know darn well what would happen. And the Gazette's article would have some very different wording, I'm sure.
Flannel sheds and they'd be all day picking lint from the uniforms.
I worked in Amherst in the late '80s. Northampton is lesbo heaven. You have my sympathies.
Dude...assaulted by lesbians? Got your sign punched by lesbians?
There are quite a few humerous comments that...uhh...'spring' to mind. But in the nature of good Freeperology I will not make them....lol...:-)