Video of the week: “It ain’t [America] no more, okay?”
I already gave out one Cone of Shame award today. Officer Wesley Cheeks just needs a Bozo the Clown mask. Watch as he tells a town hall protester in Reston, Virginia, that he can “charge [him] with whatever I want to” because the protester is holding up a sign he doesn’t like.
When the protester asks why other sign-holders aren’t being threatened with trespassing charges, the officer says it’s because the protester’s sign has a picture.
“This used to be America!” the protester exclaims.
The officer retorts: “It ain’t no more, okay?”
No. Not okay.
And yes, this guy would make a perfect candidate for Obama’s civilian defense corps.
Hat tip: Allahpundit, who mulls over the constitutional questions.
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We could probably some up with a translator that every time the text “lgm” pops up the word “moron” replaces it. I’ll get busy with that right now……
1. This guy was hardly calm.
2. This guy was hardly putting his life on the line.
3. Take his word for what? Do we not know what our first Amendment rights are and when they are being violated?
This man should be fired at a minimum, and locked up for life if he can’t win at trial. This is a clear and obvious attempt to deprive a peaceful citizen of his First Amendment rights, period.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
moron, moron, moron, moron….
Hey, it worked.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find he’s the liberal sock-puppet of one of our conservative friends who come around here. I used to do the same thing.
And I will admit … it was FUN!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Ah, did you say the same thing in the Prof Gates incident?
Youn know what amazed me about the RNC is that the Swift Boat ads of 2004 weren’t even necessary. All Bush and the RNC would have had to do is show over and over again archival footage of John Kerry in his disgrace of a uniform making his claims of atrocities, etc. before Congress in 1971…in other use words cold, hard fact… and then if John O’Neil (Kerry’s predessor) wanted to set the record straight and chime in, Kerry wouldn’t have gotten close to the number of votes that he did in 2004.
But no the RNC wasn’t smart enough to do that…
Uh…LGM….that was done by Officer Crowley w/r/t (Prof.?) Gates, and you left wingers savaged Crowley pretty good.
You said that quote in hunor, right?
HE’S RIGHT IT’S A 3RD WORLD CESSPOOL!
RWR..this is a conspiracy theory I can believe in! Guess what? I can add to that conspiracy theory…I think LGM is Ann Coulter in (left-wing) drag!
Maybe there will be a death-bed confession about it some day (who LGM really is)…
I get the feeling there won’t be an Obama Beer Summit Part Deux.
AllahPundit’s “commentary” is worthless. He doesn’t like the very effective poster, so he pretends to question whether it is constitutional.
We all know what happened: A black guy doesn’t like Obama as the “Joker.” Therefore, we lose all First Amendment rights on public property.
I live in Fairfax County. We pay for the schools with our sky high taxes. School is not in session, and this event is open to the public. Yet, if a black County employee doesn’t like Obama pictured as the Socialist Joker, we have to bend to his wishes. This is living in a dictatorship, not a democracy.
Of course, Officer “Ass-Cheeks” still has his job, right?
In California, one of, if not the most repressive state in the union, laws to protect the public from outlaw police officers, such as Cheeks, from abusing the law “under color of authority.”
This is going to be the prevalent mentality of those whose feelings of “ethnic loyalty” supercedes the law.
This type of person has no business being in a position of authority…NONE!
Things sure seem to be heading that direction. God forbid. Sad thing is…blacks don’t seem too worried about it. Vastly outnumbered and outsmarted…it would surely be a losing proposition for them. Alot of blacks live in areas where there are really no white folks around. Inner cities and such. Once they brought the violence to our neighborhoods, I think they would be setting themselves up for genocide. Again, God forbid it comes to that…but you cannot rob Peter to pay Paul for very long. Eventually Peter is going to bust-a-cap in yo a$$.
You didn’t take the same position during the Crowley – Gates incident last month.
It’s interesting that in your world the black person is always the calm professional and the white person is always the unhinged nutcase.
Three explantions:
1. you forgot to “/sarc” tag this comment
OR
2. having no concept of right and wrong, you embody the liberal’s love of situational ethics
OR
3. you’re a racist
I’ll vote for what’s behind Door # 2, but reserve the option to select Door # 3 at a later date.
Keep drinking the kool-aid, Nancy-boy. Stupid looks so becoming on you.
Unless you happen to be I-won’s good friend Skippy Gates.
Is this the “two Americas” that Jon “Silky Pony” Edwards kept harping on?
So much for equal justice under law. Those poor excuses for law enforcement officers (rent-a-cop or not) would have had to arrest me – and then I’d let the lawyers make hash out of them.
Oh, come on EQ. You had to throw common sense and logic into the equation. How do you expect lgm to respond to that?
My question is how does a security guard have the power to arrest. Wouldn’t he have to call a real policeman to do that? Or I guess as I previously pointed out, like Barney Fife, he could make a
citizen’sBrownshirt arrest.LOL – though I think you got it right the first time.
Seriously, how can you not want to argue with such utter ignorance and stupidity?
Unfortunately there are thousands of local laws/regulations that place restrictions on first amendment rights. Especially on public school propery. Schools are getting ready to open, so get ready to see stories about kids being sent home for wearing t-shirts with politcal messages.
PUBLIC schools are on PUBLIC property and paid for by taxpayers, but we’ve allowed local school boards to become a power unto themselves. Cheeks IS a bozo, but I fear he was right about the sign not being allowed. Every day Northern Virginia get’s more like SanFran and less like the home of our 1st president.
Some of these people, if Pol Pot was black, they would vote for him. Wesley Cheeks thinks it’s great that his own civil liberties and freedoms are threatened. This guy is a good example of the “useful idiot” and probably thinks he’ll be someone “special” in the new order of things.
BE AFRAID, very afraid of people and cops like that.
That was as fascist and communistic dictator-like as you can get in America.
Stop the meesage and stop the messengers at ALL costs against the constitution.
We don’t like your …YOUR Picture of DEAR LEADER, it MUST GO and YOU WITH IT.
This cop better be fired by Monday noon. PERIOD.
STAND UP TO THEM. Do NOT tread on me.
It has begun.
“I fear he was right about the sign not being allowed.”
Could be but that is not the point nor the source of the concern we have about this affair. The point is two fold. One is his response, his explanation, his “no more, okay?” as a security officer. Two is the abuse of power and threat of power his own words reveal.
One can make a matter-of-fact statement about what is and what is not allowed. He did not do so. He moved from the facts of the thing to enforcing his view and threatening an individual with arrest to force compliance. A total abuse of his position.
If he isn’t fired for both of those issues this thing will escalate beyond the control of the local authorites.
Tough crap.
The people of this country are not obligated to obey regulations passed in violation of guaranteed constitutional rights.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
“want to”
Want to and it will make a difference are two different things.
My experience is folks on the left are not interesting in changing their minds. A discussion that assumes that examining the facts may bring a person to a different conclusion IF you are having that discussion with the typcial leftist is a false assumption. It is not unusal for us on the right to weigh the facts, reach a different conclusion, adjust the conclusion we have, etc., as we explore if we are wrong or right.
The left does not think that way nor dialog that way. As can be witnessed with the health care debate. For the left the details of their health care reform at almost meaningless. You can argue all day about the details of the bill. It will get you no where. What matters to them is the appearance of reform and that “something getting passed” is somehow progress.
So we on the right assume that when we dialog with the left that they are participating in the dialog in the same way we are. And that is to our own demise.
You can not dialog with the left, introduce new facts, and see them change their minds. Won’t happen cause they don’t think that way.
The only way we can manage their ideas is to make sure they are not in power to bring their ideas into our world.
There will always be people who think like lgm, think like the bozo that praises Castro and Cuba. The only thing we can do to make sure they don’t harm our country is to not allow them to have power.
We will not convince Obama that socialized medicine is a good idea. He will not ever change his mind. We can only stop him, we can not change him.
Arguing with the left is like trying to convince a child that you get to be the parent and getting the child to agree that you get to be the parent before you actually act like the parent. Some times you just have to be the parent.
My experience is despite a lot of noise, the child gets over it.
As will lgm.
Dang, my moron replacement filter isn’t working…
There will always be people who think like moron, think like the bozo
As will moron
___________
Its working again….
The rights given to schools to monitor speech pertain to their ability to guarantee that the educational environment is not disrupted. This meeting was not taking place in a “school” setting. It was simply a public building housing a public forum. Non violent Free speech is guaranteed there! Schools house churches on the weekend, but we have a seperation of church and state. They can do so because school, and its educational environment, are not in session. The “officer” was 100% wrong!
Boy my “nots” are giving me problems today.
“We will not convince Obama that socialized medicine is a good idea.”
We will not convince Obama that socialized medicine is NOT a good idea.
Too dumb to know how dumb you are is not limitied to civilians.
I emailed a complaint to what was being reported as Officer Cheeks department. Here is Lieutenant Rogers’ professional and courteous reply:
Wesley Cheeks is NOT a Fairfax County police officer, he is a security
officer employed by the Fairfax County Public Schools. You may go to
http://www.fcps.edu to contact the School’s Department of Communication
and Community Outreach concerning this matter. They may also be reached
by phone at 571-423-1200.
Please accept my apologies for the impersonal reply; however I am trying
to give the several hundred respondents the courtesy of a timely answer.
Lieutenant Thomas J. Rogers
Asst Commander, Reston District Station
—–Original Message—–
From: (me)
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 4:29 PM
To: RESCAPT
Subject: Officer Cheek’s behavior
I just saw the video. I’m sure that you know what to do. In following
this story, I found a great website http://oathkeepers.org/oath/ that
your officers may wish to join.
Regards and God bless…
“I am trying to give the several hundred respondents the courtesy of a timely answer.”
Good for him and I bet that is an understatement. I mean really, that is a proper response showing respect, etc., to the public. Kudos to him.
THE alternative? What makes you think you only have ONE alternative?
Aww, crap. lgm, I didn’t think you did weekends. Come on and give us a break. Why don’t you get pencil and paper and go solve a few differential equations. They’re really fun, you know. Don’t forget your erasers, you’ll probably need them.
I knew what you were saying; call it a poor attempt at humor on my part.
You are right that it’s like banging your head against a brick wall trying to get some people to see reason – or even the simple truth.
But sometimes I hope (foolishly, perhaps) that there’s a chink in that wall that will allow a glimmer of light through. There are moments when I’m a little like Nellie Forbush (ref. lyrics to A Cockeyed Optimist).
He’s not a real professional police officer, he’s a cheap imitation. Actually, just to say that would be an insult. He has none of the attributes of a professional peace officer.
“that there’s a chink in that wall”
I dare say about the only way they come out of it is something happens that they on their own come to realize that whatever that one thing has been they believed, it isn’t true. That untruth of that one thing grows on its own on their insides and lo and behold, the house of cards they have believed in topples.
Barring that kind of experience, any one on the outside will not get through their way of thinking.
“Very cult like it is,” said Yoda.
That’s one reason why I wish we did not have pay roll deductions but made folks send the money to all level of governments themselves. If they could see and feel what it really costs to be a liberal, maybe that would be the one thing that gets through and starts the eventual collapse of liberal idealogy.
It is an interesting reflection on the left however to see how a black man and a white police officer meant the white police office was wrong but a black security officer and a white protestor means the white guy is a lunatic.
Very interesting…..
And I’d sure like to have a percent of the profit going to be made selling Obama joker posters now! Man, where do I invest?
Although I seldom if ever join the “crowd” when it comes to trends as it were, the Poster of Our Lord, Savior, and Master, Barrack Hussein Obama (Peace be unto Him, Praise His Holy Name. Let every head and knee bow in worship and adoration. Prostrate yourself at His feet in total submission and surrender. Devote yourself to Him at every moment with every thought, word, and deed. Help spread His message of Change. /sarcasm off) as the Joker from the movie “The Dark Night” does depict our Master, Dear Leader as He appears to be more and more in “real life.”
Did anyone arrest any of those rabid, hate filled leftists who displayed images of President George W. Bush as “Hitter,” or “Bush-Hitler,” or being assassinated? I don’t remember a single news report that showed such action taken by any law enforcement or government service, yet the opposition to Dear Leader is met with an entirely different set of responses, restrictive, bullying, in-your-face, threatening responses.
There has definitely been a double standard enacted by Obama’s and the left’s government and cronies, and the media toward Conservatives – animosity, aggression, censorship, harassment, compared to the Conservatives’ tolerance and respect for other points of view.
He wont be fired. This is the People’s Republic of Northern Virginia we’re talking about where you’re fortunate to find anybody who speaks English. And he’s right – It aint America no more.
“There has definitely been a double standard”
Of course. But with the internet attention, conservative radio, the grass roots nature of this thing, whatever poster the protestor was holding, that poster is going to be all over the place now in every protest. In other words, fire up the printers we got work to do and money to make…..
“He wont be fired.”
Did say he would or wouldn’t. Said if he isn’t, the thing will escalate.
By Wednesday it will either be a national story and a rallying cry for conservative and anti-Obama protestors OR it will quietly go away and the guy will be working a different job having been fired or disciplined for violating some policy.
Ummm, I wonder if fat boy has been in a BLT church for 20 years. Perhaps, his friends are Black panthers.
that racist pig can’t be fired, that would be racism…the new America huh.
I WILL NOT SUBMIT!!
On August 29th, 2009 at 12:46 am, ajmontana said:
No worries Odopey will come out and say the Police acted “Stupidly”
The longer the story lingers, the more it fuels anti-Obama sentiments, the stronger the tie is between his statements and Obama.
The more we sell Obama as the jokster posters!
…along with posters asking:
“Hey Obama, did Officer Weeks act stupidly”.
RACIST!!!!
“chink”
Man am I off my game today. I totally missed that!
Good catch full….
“along with posters asking:”
See how we profit motivated conservatives are. Totally money grubbing racist. Gotta love us hey?
Malarkey! “The freedom of speech” in the Constitution is not an absolute right, nor was it ever. A school building is a public building. When it’s being used as a school, different rules apply as to what is allowable free speech. When the building is used for a town hall meeting, the rules change according to the lawful purpose of the event.
As is mentioned on the tape other people were displaying political signs and placards. Why would one kind be forbidden while other kinds are OK???
Much better at making the point than some smarmy poster mass produced and provided by an SEIU thug.
I wonder how many astroturf SEIU inspired protesters could even spell the words on their posters?
Normally I don’t care for shyster lawyers but, the guy should have said, so arrest me then, but be aware I will file a suit against you and your employer for violating my rights…particularly since I have much of it recorded.
Uh, you may want to check with your supervisor first.
I doubt he would have believed the guy though if he said the ACLU would step right up and represent him in his suit.
“smarmy poster mass produced”
So I should have the printer leave spaces for people to write their own slogans over the jokster picture?
I’d like to see the guy with the sign take it to the limit through the courts. I can’t imagine the Mr. Cheeky-cheeks would have a leg to stand on.
Course, if this is the new America, then I’m wrong and we’re screwed.
It might be a good idea….just the joker poster and let people fill in what they want. Covers socialized health care, crap and tax, stimulus, etc.
My point was that you see the mass produced posters from the other side, and it’s obvious they are being led like sheep.
He’s a professional poser. Does Virginia even have standards for security guards, such as state accredited classes that provide certificates of competence? Some states don’t. If they do, his certification should be pulled, post haste!
Like Obama, he doesn’t really care about the law.
First of all, school boards across the country were neutered by trial lawyers and liberal judges long ago. Second, when children are in school they are MINORS and under the care of the state which gives the state the authority as guardian to tell them what they are allowed or not allowed to do – including pictures and text on clothing.
So while this school cop is likely well within his authority to send some little kid home for wearing a provactive T shirt during school hours – he has ZERO authority to say or do anything about an adult wearing one outside of school hours.
He was wrong, abusing his police power and should be fired.
He needs to watch this video:
here
“Cheeks”
Appropriate.
Keep voting people. It has worked to get us Comrade Obama.
rightwingrocker said (#86):
So you would disrespect US soldiers whenever they’re not in battle?
shooter said (#104):
The guy was calm. He had a pot belly. He was an officer of the law. Are you also afraid, VERY AFRAID, of mice?
No, that would be actually arresting protesters outside a political convention. I was in New York City in the most recent Republican convention there. That’s what happened. Our sign guy was not arrested. Professor Gates was — in his own home, for giving lip to the police officer. Our whacko with the sign was giving lip, but did not get arrested. Maybe this officer is more professional than the officer who arrested Gates?
If this afternoon scene which ended peacefully is as close to fascism as we can be, we’re pretty safe from fascism.
Lucifer Jones said (#118):
You know this how?
He is right…this “ain’t” the America I remember anymore. It’s a rather cheap imitation; a press that North Korea would be proud of, a Marxist president complete with communist advisors, a fat-azz lazy citizenry that has their hands out, etc etc.
“You know this how?”
What he is has been well established. Its not up for debate nor is it a secret. Rent a cop security guard for the public school system.
“Professor Gates was — in his own home, for giving lip to the police officer”
And it was Bush’s fault too.
“It might be a good idea….just the joker poster and let people fill in what they want. Covers socialized health care, crap and tax, stimulus, etc.”
Makes them much more marketable and allows for that customization option. Great idea.
Jeezuz H Keerist on a rubber raft! I’ve always thought that the friggin’ Fairfax County Police were Northern Virginia’s answer to the Nazi Party, and now that a**hole Cheeks has proven my correct.
77 Rocketman
One reason English has so many homonyms is that we have
stolenborrowed so many words from other languages. The serial numbers may have been ground off, but the part numbers are still there.Yes, I thought of that when I typed it, but what the heck; those who are ignorant enough to take offense (not you guys – I know you’re just funnin’) are ignorant enough to ignore.
Ergo, unlike Christopher Hitchins, I refuse to be niggardly with the riches of the English language.
…because too many gays are in the media.
Well said, JS.
Run this by me again…which cheek was he speaking from?
Let’s be very clear:
Officer Cheeks is NOT a member of the Fairfax County Police, nor of the Sheriff. He derives his enforcement power from the school district, but is a recognized law enforcement officer in the state of Virginia.
That said, comparing this event with the Gates event is like comparing apples to a ball of titanium. Gates was called in as a potential breaking and entering. The police had a duty to investigate, as you would want them to if someone saw a person breaking in to your house.
This man was not violating any law. The freedom of expression, especially on public lands like our school grounds that are being temporarily converted for political purposes, are Constitutionally guaranteed. Accordingly, the school officer has criminally violated his oath as an officer, and should be prosecuted for such.
Rightly so! Otherwise, we would have continual disruption of our school’s classrooms when anti-whatever protesters could come on school grounds during school hours and scream, march, and indoctrinate.
But in this case, and elected official (Jim “Moron” Moran) and the DNC declared the location a political gathering point, and the school board allowed that change.
Perhaps next time, we should show up with props instead of pictures. Do you think they understand what Tar and Feathers are for? How about a Liberty Pole?
Thanks DWD, but watching the actions of many of the local school boards, even after being neutered, like my neighbors dog, the boards still have the urge to “dominate”. Perhaps the resulting legal settlements are part of the reason why the cost per child is so high and the actual education is so poor.
No one disrespected this turd. We RESPONDED to HIS disrespect of someone’s God-given right to free speech.
Apple – meet orange.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Right, right…like on election day when the candidates’ supporters are carrying signs (with pictures) and handing out flyers on school grounds.
crashemt said (#156):
How do you know this? I couldn’t read the insignia on his uniform.
rightwingrocker said (#158):
If I respected you, I would have thought this was a joke, rather than conservative dumma$$ity.
“How do you know this?”
You either pretend that the information about who this guy is and who he works for is unavailable OR you haven’t bothered to check any of the many sources that have identified who he is and who he works for.
The idea that your mantra, “How do you know this?” means something beyond making some kind of statement about you is absurd.
lgm, did you do any research? Was this officer correct or not?
jsmiddleton4 said (#161):
I’m looking for the original source for this. The oath keepers site (message #36) says it’s from townhall, but they didn’t give a link & I couldn’t find it with the townhall search feature. But you guys are so sure, you must know where this information comes from. Please let me know, with a link. Thanks.
Thank you, lgm, but I never wanted your respect anyway. In fact, your disrespect is welcome. After all, being disrespected by somenoe so foolish is quite an honor.
Truth be told, no one disrespected this a$$wipe rent-a-cop, just as I said. It was he who was disrespectful in openly violating this person’s First Amendment rights.
Of course, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights never did mean anything to you libs.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
I showed this to my mother over the weekend–she was appalled. She is 68 years old and she can’t believe this is happening in the USA.
I speak English in Northern Virginia. It’s not as bad as it seems, just too many decent people believing the Washington Post.
You want a rock-solid conservative who was RE-ELECTED in Fairfax County look at Ken Cuccinelli, currently running for state AG.
We’ll swing it back red starting this November.
Boy, this story sounds really familiar…because it is:
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/90700/
I do not agree with the police in either case, btw.
But your protestations would hold more credibility if this site had even one mention of the widely-reported incident I linked to above.
It doesn’t…I searched.
Three cheers for selective outrage!
“It ain’t America no more, okay.”
Then I don’t have to play by the rules and be nice no more.
Koo-oo-oo-oo-ool!
Look out libtards, praise the lord I am free at last.