Crushing of dissent in the Age of Obama
You can’t use crazed, frenzied chimps in cartoons to criticize the crazed, frenzied passage of the stimulus. (Yes, there are now protests being staged against the NYPost.)
You can’t say “Thug Thizzle” or “That One” or “Tricked Out” or wear white or put Franklin Raines in a campaign ad
And, now, you can’t make statements about abortion on your bumper that criticize His High Holiness without risking arrest:
An Oklahoma City police officer wrongly pulled over a man last week and confiscated an anti-President Barack Obama sign the man had on his vehicle.
The officer misinterpreted the sign as threatening, said Capt. Steve McCool, of the Oklahoma City Police Department, and took the sign, which read “Abort Obama, not the unborn.”
Chip Harrison said he was driving to work when a police car followed him for several miles and then signaled for him to pull over.”I pulled over, knowing I hadn’t done anything wrong,” Harrison said in a recent phone interview.
When the officer asked Harrison if he knew why he had been pulled over, Harrison said he did not.”They said, ‘It’s because of the sign in your window,’” Harrison said.
”It’s not meant to be a threat, it’s a statement about abortion,” Harrison said.
…The officers confiscated Harrison’s sign and gave him a slip of paper that stated he was part of an investigation. Harrison said he later received a call from a person who said he was a lieutenant supervisor for the Internal Investigations Department and wanted to know his location and return his sign to him. According to Harrison, the supervisor said the Secret Service had been contacted on the matter and had told them the sign was not a threat to the president.
Nation of cowards, anyone?
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And so it begins….
And so it continues…
Can I put up a simple sign that says “Obama sucks?”
Countdown to the midtern elections.
Payback’s going to be a bitch.
Hmmm. I took that article to say that you can indeed criticize Obama. One overzealous or overpartisan cop did something wrong, was smacked down for it and the man with the sticker was vindicated.
#4 – ha! Yes, I’m sure that’s exactly what you would say had a cop pulled over a Black man for having an “Abort Bush” sticker on his car. I’m sure you would be V E R Y consistent in your response.
Crying “Wolf” to the Secret Service?? Now that’s something Obama should be concerned about. Good Grief!
Better get used to it,Whitey is gonna pay and pay.
Bush was pictured as a monkey for 8 years and all of a sudden its a bad thing when its obamas turn???
Not buying it…
Well actualy its not all of a sudden if you remember the curious george T-shirt incident.
I have no idea why you would inject race into a perfectly race neutral discussion about bumper stickers and the First Amendment. I thought only libs were race mongers.
You are free to feel any way you want about what I would or would not say…as I said in another post:
For once I agree with Chap.
The part that bothers me (aside from agreeing with anything Chap says) is that a cop felt it was an issue in the first place. In eight years of BDS, not once did I hear about a lib getting pulled over for a bumper sticker that says kill Bush (or something similar). And if it happened, you can bet the media would have been all over it, unlike this instance.
EXACTLY!!! It’s only ok when THEY do it.
Dissent is patriotic is sooooo 2008.
Actually, Chap HAS been consistent in his statements. And, although he is not a White, True Republican Male (TM), I am sure that he meant what he posted…
At least, he doesn’t froth at the mouth and chant “O-B-A-M-A, O-B-A-M-A” here all the time. (I am Sure it was an accident that he voted for The One. His finger slipped on the touch screen…That will be his story to his grandkids, anyway, when Duhbama finishes trashing the Constitution of the United Stated.)
The Post’s first hed on the chimpcident in CT was
“Furious George”
funny…
Or I could go with the truth and tell them I was half-lit at the time.
AAARRRGGGHHH!
Constitution of the United States….
missing from the summary:
”The Secret Service called and said they were at my house,” Harrison said.
After talking to his attorney, Harrison went home where he met the Secret Service.
”When I was on my way there, the Secret Service called me and said they weren’t going to ransack my house or anything … they just wanted to (walk through the house) and make sure I wasn’t a part of any hate groups.”
http://www.newsok.com/okc-officer-pulls-man-over-for-anti-obama-sign-on-vehicle/article/3347038?custom_click=headlines_widget
The Thought Police are here. Do you hate? Let’s just search your house to make sure that you don’t.
I heard about it exactly once, in colorado, and that was because the bumper sticker said F^&K BUSH and violated the law against obsene bumper stickers.
Chap, you will be converted yet.
Or are you what some people refer to as in the closet?
Just askin’ becasue I know AG Holder would want me to be brave…
I wonder, was the “offended Officer” in Oklahoma City black or white?
Not quite true. If you read the article, there is no indication that the cop received any form of disciplinary action. And the fellow with the sign was investigated by the Secret Service.
Since we now live in a one-party state, dominated by a charismatic, cult-of-personality leader, this kind of thing is especially dangerous.
Captain McCool is a great little monicker for a cop.
And by not-quite-true, I presume that you mean not true at all.
Hey Chap, stay in (what you say does make us think) but since you did link to your other post in #9, ….cut with the GD…ok?
Man deserved a DWI–driving without indoctrination.
Whatwhy was he thinking????The new Potemkin Village Tour
Drudge reports that sod placed in front of school where Obama spoke Tuesday was removed as soon as he left.
drudgereport.com/flashosk.htm
The victim of this non-crime was also visited by the Secret Service who asked to walk through his house to make sure he wasn’t part of any “hate groups”. If he did nothing wrong or illegal than why did they want to go through his house? At a minimum this entire affair was very intimidating for a person that was doing nothing more than exercising his 1st amendment rights. This is getting very scary folks.
I guess you missed the part of the SS and the Internal Investigations Department involvement? Where in the article did it mentioned the “overzealous or overpartisan cop” was “smacked down”.
How much did this cost the tax payers?
Where will it end? I think Michelle did a thread where a person was visited by the SS for talking about the possibility of an Obama assassination. Good lord, imagine how busy the SS would be if they followed up every time someone talked about Bush being assassinated.
Chap, I like you but, that did smell of a double standard.
Hmmm. I wonder if that police officer was just following the directives of Obama’s Goon Squad—those prosecutors and police officials who formed a task force of sorts to prevent anything negative being said about The One during his campaign.
Phil – that was a joke made by some students.
Yeah, in that case he’d probably get a police escort to protect his free speech rights.
The bumper sticker on my car says:
“Washington DC: A wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda, Inc.”
I haven’t been harassed yet, but one never knows…
The victim should pursue this a little further. I would go to Federal court to claim my civil rights were being violated, especially the freedom of speech. This officer should be investigated and if he let his political views interfere with his duties, then a little suspension/firing should take place.
BTW, I come from a family of cops and have the utmost respect for those manning the thin blue line. But there are bad apples in every barrel…
Interesting convergence:
The wild chimp story, the beheading television executive story, and the porkulus story.
The underlying theme is: naive suckers trust the untrustworthy with predictable results.
Where do you make the emergency call to scream: congress just ripped my face off and now they’re eating my flesh!
Help.
It is not the first time a single Police Officer overstepped the bounds of common sense.
As for the cartoon, you can use anything you want. I just wished it had been funny.
What if the caption read, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next Republican Platform.”?
Would Michael Steele, Republican Chair, be offended? Maybe, because it isn’t funny.
What if the caption read, “They’ll have to find some else to write MM’s Blog.” How many of us would be offended? Don’t doubt it because, it isn’t funny either.
i am perfectly ok with asking if the officer was black or white? IF a black man had a sign in his car saying the exact same thing except substituting bush instead of obama, and a white officer did this, jesse, al, and the entire rent a thug off work acorn crew would be protesting in ok city right now. but i forget, blacks CAN”T be racist. my bad.
Agree completely.
HOLY CRAP!!!!
The SS did a walk through at his house? WOW? How long before our kids are encouraged to turn us in for talking about The One in a bad light? How long before we get arrested because someone accuses us of just saying something against The One?
What the hell country are we living in when The One puts terrorists rights ahead of Americans?
Thanks stupid voters. Enjoy your freedoms.
Vindicated?! How and in what way?
All he got, after being publicly humiliated by the side road, was his personal property returned.
Supposing the guy’s boss or a co-worker happened to be driving by at the time and saw the man pulled over with the police car’s lights flashing – what were they to think? This could have cost that man his job and/or reputation.
The cop/dept owes this guy a public apology.
9:58 am, Michelle Malkin said:
And so it continues…
OH MY GOD!!!!!
Stalin would be PROUD.
Alinsky IS proud.
You might have a case if Obama had written the Porkulus Bill. But, he didn’t. It was written by legislative primates Peloser, Dingey Harry Reid, and a couple accomplices.
And the follow-up: Those same naive suckers then expect; and –thanks to the Corrupt-O-Crats in power, receive — open-ended subsidies from the non-naive to bail them out of their self-induced stupidity.
The ridiculous arrest by this pathetic excuse for a peace officer was right along the same lines as that ridiculous woman in Ohio who abused her position to fulfilll her Obama fantasies by investigating Joe the P.’s taxes….Obamazealots crave nothing more than punishing someone who offends their idol…
If the majority says the Earth is flat, does this make the Earth flat?
Tyranny of the Majority. One of the big things the founders were really concerned with. It’s what elected Hugo Chavez for lifetime dictator of Venezuela just recently.
We should be gravely concerned with this, right now.
I don’t want to diss the Secret Service on this…they are doing the due diligence based upon a report they got from a police agency. The problem is why they were notified in the first place. If the officer cannot recognize a legitimate threat, maybe he shouldn’t be in law enforcement.
You mean the Internal Investigations Department that called the guy, told him he did nothing wrong and gave him back his sign? Yeah, I picked up on that. As for the SS involvement, the link to the article about the SS’s greater involvement wasn’t posted until later. I did read it. I don’t know what to say. I have no idea as to what the internal procedures are for these types of things. Maybe they are required to follow up whenever law enforcement, rightly or wrongly, calls in a “threat.” But it sounds like the SS handled it expeditiously and courteusly and it bears repeating that the guy has been vindicated.
He was certainly one of the two to think that “Abort Obama” was a credible threat. I extrapolated the “smacked down” part from the fact that Internal Investigations, you know…they guys that investigate cop’s bad behavior… got involved.
He should have never let the SS in his house. That’s what the Fourth Amendment is for.
Where’s the ACLU?
http://www.zombietime.com/ captured loads of photos of folks w/much worse statements on placards etc…it shouldn’t take the Bureau long to find those folks, right? (See his ‘Hall of Shame’).
How long did it take them to ‘talk to & walk through’ w/the woman in Florida who shouted something about Jews & ovens? She’s not part of a hate group is she? And she’s on video.
I am afraid to put any bumper stickers on my car lest it get keyed. Too many moonbat kooks out there who can’t deal with anyone disagreeing with them, and of course, they use violence to “voice” their opinions. I value my car too much to take a chance. Even an innocent “McCain for President” could get your car destroyed. That is what we are dealing with, folks.
Agreed.
With no warrant some parts of the countrymay think that is what the 2nd Amendment is for.
Hunter:
Heh heh.
There’s nothing in the article to indicate the cop was smacked down in any way. Just admit your error.
I feel bad that the Secret Service are forced to become the SS under Obama. No big leap to assume Michelle Obama treats them worse then Hillary ever did. Funny that abortion isn’t murder to these leftist goons until you mention in connection with one of them. This guy should sue for a boatload of cash from OKC and the SS.
If the driver had only added the appropriate accessories to the Obama sign, he would’ve been given a pass.
And what are the appropriate accessories you ask? Behold, the short list:
- “Coexist” sticker with all the religious symbols
- “Bush is not my president”
- “Nobody died when Clinton lied”
- Darwin fish with feet
…or basically anything on the back of this vehicle.
I would not have let the SS in my house unless they had a written warrent. Not because it is unconstitutional (which it is), but because my house is a mess! I would need at least a couple day’s notice so I could clean it. Seriously, it wasn’t too long ago that I thought, “I don’t care if anywone wants to tap my phone or search my house because I know I haven’t done anything wrong.” Now I know that you can get in trouble for just being a conservative!
I don’t know if the Department actually used the words “we apologize” but they did everything else.
I don’t know how much more vindication you could expect.
Except for the fact that Internal Affairs was involved. And the fact that the Department has publicly said the officer was wrong.
but other than that…
Your assumption being that they have changed their internal policies at the insistence of the new President? Your proof of this is what exactly?
Who is being investigated? It did not say they were investigating the cop but following up the report to the SS.
Chap, you are better than this. You have been the anti-”I extrapolated” smack down guy on this site and now, you are using the tactic you are fond of pointing out in others?
Second that post.
I saw the CHIMP cartoon, I understood it at once… Reminded me of the old one, something like, one million chimps, with one million typewriters, you will end up with SHAKESPEARE… Remember that one??? I feel that the way the “STIMULUS” was put together, between CONGRESS and the POTUS, it could very well have been done by a bunch of CHIMPS, or is that CHUMPS???
When can we charge the Obama criminal enterprise under the RICO statutes?
You just proved my last post.
Ha.. I read that yesterday and knew some paranoid liberal Dem would think it was racist in nature. They completely missed the point.
Excuse me while I go purchase an “Abort Obama, not unborn children” sign for my car…
What else does IA do? Why would IA involve themselves?
But whatever. This is a small, insignificant point.
So, where is the smackdown?
I want to know more about the cop. He might just be oversensitive because he doesn’t want someone to call him a racist for ignoring the sign. It’s possible there was a car full of people pointing the sign out to him.
If Holder is so worried about us all being cowards about race, he’ll start by making a statement in support of the New York Post for a completely innocent cartoon. Then he’ll verbally smack down Al and Jesse every time they point out alleged acts of racism that prove false.
I’ll be happy to talk publicly about race when I know I won’t be called a racist for disagreeing with Al or Jesse.
We responsible taxpayers and bill-payers that keep society going are the chumps.
From all appearances, it would seem the citizen whose free speech rights were violated suffered far more consequences than the “overzealous” “over-partisan” cop.
Chap,
A lot of us respect your opinions. That is why it is hard to see you blow it on all of your points no matter how small and insignificant they are.
This guys rights were violated across the board. If you can’t see that – well…
So, which war will we be fighting next? Class war? Race war? War with Mexico? All brought to us courtesy of the U.S. Government’s flawed policies.
I did not mention Obama, Pelosi, or Reid in my post.
And, the point is, I would have been offended if the caption had made reference to M. Steele and/or MM, because it, the cartoon, would suggest that they be shot.
http://www.resistnet.com/
I found a place that is pretty edgy, most people are just fed up and trying to organize to do anything to save this country. I have read only one comment that concerned me, it was a little too non-vague in how to fix the problem.
I seriously have to wonder if I can get in trouble just for reading there? I still will, of course, because some of us are going to have to take risks. But if an anti-abortion sticker is enough to bring the feds, then we all better watch our backs.
I never said they weren’t. In fact, I agree they were. I don’t know where you got the impression that I was justifying the cop’s behavior.
And if you really think that a cop who did something that got Internal Affairs involved (again think about what IA’s job is) and caused a huge public embarassment for the Police Department, such that the PD went on record saying their guy was wrong (how often does that happen?) didn’t get smacked down maybe we are just arguing semantics.
Did’t Oblahblah tell us to get in each others’ faces? Well, sir, here we come.
Did the government send the SS to look over the cop’s home? Did the cop get interviewed by the SS? Did he even get a verbal reprimand?
Not much of a smackdown.
Radio program says the cop was indeed African-American. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Good thing he can’t be racist.
I am appalled that something as mundane as a sign is cause to have the government walking around in your house.
Do they know this in Berkeley?
That is how you see it? The man ends up with the Secret Service at his door to determine if he is part of a Hate Group? What was their probable cause? A political statement the “overpartisan cop” and Secret Service did not like. That Mr. chapoutier IS Fascism, abuse of power and stifling of Free Expression. One slick trick at a time. So let me repeat: Conservatives will regret the day so many of them supported the Patriot Act with it’s secret courts, self written warrants and unaccountability.
It all plays into Eric Holder and Brobama’s game plan nicely. If BroBama does get his Civilian Security Services the William Ayres Camps become a little closer to reality.
Rule by Law not men IS being replaced by Rule by men which is indeed fascism. Of course that makes me part of a Hate Group and I must admit I do hate them, I hate what they are doing to my country and I hate that my people are allowing it to happen. Hate is not all bad.
—
ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
Should be a convenience store
NOT a Government Agency
God Bless America except for the blue states.
You’ll take my bumper stickers when you pry them from my cold dead fingers
Before anyone goes off thinking Obama has made the SS into his own little personal…well…SS, maybe read:
this
this
this
The Secret Service has had to look into a lot of stupid “threats” over the years. But only now do you see it as some sort of grand maniacal scheme?
I assume not. Why would they?
On February 19th, 2009 at 11:08 am, TXGator said:
Radio program says the cop was indeed African-American. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Good thing he can’t be racist.
I’m shocked…
Hate crime? I mean, the cop may be the one with the hate issue. Since hate is now a reason for a visit from the SS…
I wonder, given the fact that this guy has been visited by the SS for suspicious behavior, if he’s now on government watch lists?
Is he going to get special treatment by the TSA every time he flies?
Can he legally purchase a fire arm?
Will he be barred from any job that requires a security clearance?
I don’t think this issue is closed as Chap would like to believe.
No it isn’t. Threats, wrongly percieved or otherwise, against those under its protection are.
RTater #30
Doesn’t matter. The point is the same. This latest Obama Hosanna Tour is showing all of the markings of a well-choreographed Potemkin Village tour. It will be very interesting to see how many times we will see him on tour once “Obama overload” sets in. By many accounts, he has not handled the few adversarial questions directed his way in private very well so far. Is he or is he not arrogant? He sure seems to be.
Is he also as delusional as Catherine the Great was? Not likely but his rise has been a dramatic Cinderella story. He might at some point buy into his own “greatness” and react badly to adversity. I believe that he needs the strokes and will be looking for them more and more, maybe even demanding them, as time goes on. He seems to thrive on the public adulation. Very dangerous for a president.
I’m confused…Abortion is a perceived threat against Obama but not against a child (unborn or about to be born, I guess)?
I’d like to know if these officers ever pulled anyone over in the last 8 years and instigated investigations on people for having threatening Bush bumper stickers. (I’d seen so many of those I lost count. In fact, I remember seeing stickers that said KILL BUSH.)
Or, were those perfectly acceptable “expressions” of free speech?
This just gets more naziesque by the day.
So here’s a question:
Did the woman parading in front of the White House with an image of a beheaded George W. Bush get pulled over by police?
Did the Secret Service pay her a visit at home?
If not, that’s a glaring double standard.
When Obama officially becomes a god, we can just ask him when life begins and act accordingly concerning abortion.
There is a back story to this obviously. That officer did not make up the investigation. I wonder if some sort of memo has gone out that has made all law enforcement hyper vigilant about Obama slights?
Very disturbing story, MM. I can’t wait to see what’s next. Are they going to pull people over with old W or McCain stickers on their bumpers? The Obamaniacs just keep setting new standards for outrageous.
Good point! But remember, liberals do not consider an unborn child a person. So killing the child is not murder. Obama, on the other hand, has already been born. So I guess killing him would be murder. Or, it could be considered self defense. You be the judge.
Yah, right… if he has his way, Andrea Yates will be considered to have done nothing more than committing delayed abortions on herself.
Oh wait… she’s walking free right now, ain’t she?