[TornadoAlley3]

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[ought-six]

Oh, for crying out loud! It’s Halloween!

[sure_fine]

damaged sensibility ping

[Flintlock]

Yo sweetie!

Whatcha doin’ with that big black pot in the backyard?

[kb2614]

You don’t hang witches. First you throw her into a pond. If she floats, she’s a witch, proceed to burn her. If she drowns, then she isn’t a witch.

This is a public service announcment.

[exile]

I saw this on Fox News the other day. It looks like the witch dummy has on a Hillary Rotten Clinton mask.

[metesky]

This is the inevitable result when one caves to the every whim of every crackpot, crank, loon, cuckoo, ding-a-ling, dingbat, kook, nut, screwball and weirdo who claims to have a distinct “philosophy” or makes up a “religion”.

Lady, empty the kitty-litter!

[johnny7]

...a modern day sorceress in Massachusetts

I just call'em lesbians.

[BuffaloJack]

Allegations of “Hate Crime” are the toold of the Political Correctionists who replaced the Commies after the defeat of communism. Same group of people, same agendas, same tactics.
This is Halloween not the invasion fromHell.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

So witches are the new protected specially-privileged class?

[NonValueAdded]

Well, if she really was a witch, couldn’t she just cast a spell and turn the homeowner into a newt or something?

[Jonah Hex]

I though witches were supposed to worry about pricks?

[TheBattman]

OK - how about a better alternative - a hanging Islamic terrorist?

[sportutegrl]

She looks sort of like Hillary.

[popdonnelly]

An excellent example of too much government. Now someone hanging a seasonal decoration outside their home can be accused of a “hate crime”. Now we can all sit and watch the fun being taken out of life by hypersensitive people who have been indoctrinated into believing that everything is persecution.

“Government isn’t the solution. It’s the problem.” - Ronald Reagan

[puroresu]

How about hanging a taxpayer? That would be okay in Massachusetts, wouldn’t it?

[raccoonradio]

>>a witch hanging from a noose

in Salem 29 people were accused of being witches...19 were hanged and one was pressed to death for refusal to enter a plea...I was watching a documentary on all this on my cable system here in Beverly, MA. It talked about how local authorities conducted examinations of these "witches"-- and perhaps those accused were suffering hallucinations, etc.

One of the reasons the hysteria died down was that minister John Hale's wife was accused of being a witch (he lived down the street from me) and, well, maybe this was all too much over-reacting, he figured...

Wikipedia:
>>John Hale, minister in Beverly and present at many of the proceedings, completed his book, "A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft" in 1697, but it wasn't published until 1702, after his death. Expressing regret over the actions taken, he admitted, "Such was the darkness of that day, the tortures and lamentations of the afflicted, and the power of former presidents, that we walked in the clouds, and could not see our way."

Result? Salem is now a huge tourist destination in October and there's a statue devoted to a fictional witch from a certain 1960s TV series. "The Witch City" has witches on its city seal and the Salem News still has it on its masthead. Billboards promoting the city proclaimed, "We're Wicked Good" (in the Boston area, "wicked" has been used as a modifier meaning "very") and "Come By For A Spell."

Local "witch" Laurie Cabot was proclaimed "Official Witch of Salem" by then Gov. Michael Dukakis.

These days the curse is on local residents who have to put up with horrible traffic jams this month. But it brings in the money, oh does it bring in the money.

[Calpernia]

>>>a neighbor’s Halloween decoration depicting a witch hanging from a noose

Hillary, is that you?

[DBrow]

Citizens of the USA are free to have and practice whatever religion they want.

Followers of many religions complain whenever their chosen religion is shown any disrespect, or has traditional areas infringed upon. Why make fun of this woman for standing up for her own religion?

Is this a hate crime? I don’t think so. I don’t think that a family that puts up a witch mannequin sets out to deliberately denigrate witches or Wicca or whatever, it’s just a common part of Christian culture to do so and has been that way for a long time.

Thoughtless, and maybe insensitive, but not a “hate crime”.

[kalee]

Next she’ll be demanding reparations.