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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Well thanks to the likes of Glenn Beck, it’s gonna be again, and there ain’t nothin’ Wesley Cheeks, Jr. can do about it!
Long live the Constitution!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Sounds like this guy is trying to get a position high up in obama’s “civilian” army.
They’ll make him a general, at least.
P.I.G.
Love these video cameras!
Completely unacceptable. Turn in your badge and your gun Officer Cheeks, your fired.
“I’m a doctor and I know”. No, you are not. “Well, I’m a doctor and I know”. No, you don’t. “I admire Castro”. Oh, really. “This ain’t America no more”. Kiss my —!
I wonder if he’s related to that butthead Depity sherf who stopped me the other night. Same last name…..
Wesley Cheeks is a moron defending a Moran.
I don’t trust our government anymore.
Why do I have this feeling that the ACLU will not touch this one ?
A right out violation of the First Amendment committed by a so called law enforcement officer and it’s all caught on tape. An open and shut case. One has to wonder if the ACLU is associated with the SPLC ?
A walking testimony to the principle, “You get what you pay for.”
I bet if he covered up the picture of His Royal Odopeyness with a Donut ole Cheeky would have liked it.
What an absolute bonehaead…that Wesley Cheeks.
That guy is way to stupid to be a cop. That town needs to rethink its hiring policy.
I hope the guy with the sign gets a good constitutional lawyer and nails Cheeks where it hurts..(You know, right behind his a$$, his wallet).
What an absolute
bonehaeadbutthead…that Wesley Cheeks.Hmmmm… carry a printer and laptop in your car, snap a pic of the officer and put that over Obama and say “This sign is illegal according to Officer Cheeks”
Maybe Cheeks will be the new Sign Czar.
Why is it when I hear “Wesley Cheeks”, I think of Wesley Clark?
What we need to do is sue this guy and the city he works for and anyone else we can remotely think of.
We need to raise money to fund the legal team and go after these people in court.
Two words: Official Oppression
Shouldn’t he know that he isn’t supposed to admit to that kind of thinking? Doesn’t Organizing for America know how to send out memos?
and so it begins….
No worries Odopey will come out and say the Police acted “Stupidly”
I’d bet good money that this cop, Weasley Cheeks, wouldn’t have had a problem with it if it had been a picture of Bu$Hitler on that sign. But, Obama-as-Joker? To Officer Cheeks,that’s a “racist” sign, and that sign has got to go! Protesting against “The One” is “trespassing.”
The FBI should be contacted about this officer for two violations:
One being a “color of law” abuse:
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/civilrights/color.htm
This officer should be investigated & prosecuted under the following Federal Statute:
Title 18, U.S.C., Section 241
Conspiracy Against Rights
This statute makes it unlawful for two or more persons to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person of any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the United States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same).
It further makes it unlawful for two or more persons to go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another with the intent to prevent or hinder his/her free exercise or enjoyment of any rights so secured.
Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to ten years, or both; and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years, or for life, or may be sentenced to death.
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/civilrights/statutes.htm#section241
This idiot has no business being a cop. None!
He and the city he works for should be a LOT poorer, and real soon.
Not a real cop according to this site:
http://concealedcarryforum.com/forum/post.asp?method=ReplyQuote&REPLY_ID=171144&TOPIC_ID=16260&FORUM_ID=66
It includes contact information.
rofl.
Reston, VA and its HOA, is not America.
Will be interested though to see if any of the local news stations pick up on thisd
As a private security guard, Wesley’s job is to protect the rights of the property owner. In this case, the property owner is the taxpayers. Since this occurred on public property, Wesley can’t legally pick and choose which protests signs he will allow, unless the sign in question is in violation of state law. Since the protesters were not violating state law, Wesley should have shut up and sucked it up. Had he been stupid enough to detain the protester for trespass, he would have put his company at risk for a wrongful arrest lawsuit and he would have lost his guard license.
Complaints regarding Wesley should be made to the Department of Criminal Justice Services: http://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/pss/
This is the division that licenses and monitors the private security industry in Virgina.
He may not be a REAL Policeman as it were but as an officer of the school authority he is more than JUST a security guard–he certainly has the appearance of authority. His actions are wrong and abusive; what a blessing video cameras are.
But the villainess in this case is Senator Claire McCaskill (D) Missouri. This Imperial Senate and Congress with it’s “How dare you peasants question OUR Imperial Importance” is exactly what our Constitutional Founders warned us about.
Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. is a dumbo-Senator Claire McCaskill (D) Missouri is a threat to Constitutional government. Hopefully the good people of Missouri, but not the Liberals of course, see the light and send her packing.
Nor should we ever trust our government–that is why we have the Constitution we do; MEN are but servants of the law-when they become the law there is tyranny and that is the reason for our eternal vigilance.
Unfortunately, this may be the point where we have to have the courage to take things to next level – Passive Resistance.
You put the sign back up and tell the school cop to just go ahead and make his little trespass arrest. Doing this was EXACTLY the main tactic used by anti Vietnam War protesters 40 years ago.
Either he’s going to be stupid enough to do it or not – but you win either way.
Talking about your rights is one thing; standing up for them for yourself and others is something else.
Just imagine if this video included an arrest? It would be viral and there would be an arraignment date for the charge: “being on school grounds with an inappropriate picture of Obama”.
And if you do stand up to get arrested, always remember to be wearing your Sunday brunch best Brooks Brothers outfit.
I guess Wesley Cheeks spoke and acted ‘Stupidly’.
AzN – Very well said!!!
Sorry. My first post came from the department of redundancy department.
BTW, where can I get me one of those signs?
I wouldn’t do that some states have laws against taking or using a persons picture without permission.
I cannot imagine that any such laws, (not that I’ve ever seen one), would apply to government workers filmed in the course of performing their government jobs, (excluding our military), or to elected officials while acting in their representative capacity, (giving a speech in a public park versus using a public restroom).
Wow. Here’s some friendly advice for Officer Cheeks – better get yourself a good P.R. man, because this is the type of police misconduct and abuse of authoritarian power that liberal activists have been waiting to catch on videotape ever since that night Rodney Glen King took LA police on an 80-100 mph, .19 alcohol-induced car chase for eight miles through a residential neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.
Looks like there were more of them … we surround them, never forget.
Regardless of whether he is a police officer or security for a school, etc., he is in some kind of position of authority enforcing some kind of rules and regulations. No matter what the exact position is I’m pretty sure his job description does not allow him to abuse his position to enforce his political views.
Me thinks he will be having to explain himself and just maybe in some kind of trouble.
If its a school with a school board the local folks can complain up a storm AND those folks are generally elected.
Okay, I will say it: “Butt” Cheeks reeks of gestapo tactics.
I guess overt racism and selective (and creative) application of the law permeates the Reston, VA police department.
Now just imagine if “Butt” Cheeks was white….
Boy, I just can’t wait to see Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman express their outrage. (chirp chirp…)
If the Republicans/RNC/ORGs can’t come up with some good clips for opposing current legislation as well and 2010 and 2012 campaigns, they are even dumber than stumps.
Talk about being handed something on a silver platter! Priceless!
Fire Officer Cheeks now.
the man needs to go.
This is what happens when, Yes, The Government Can:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0&feature=player_embedded
Good Greif!
This is nothing new. This is how the Police treat people. Yes, not every Police Officer, but enough Police Officers do it to make it not a surprise.
pictures of bush as hitler o.k.
pictures of bush being assassinated, o.k.
pictures of obama as the joker, illegal.
welcome to stalinist russia. or kim jong ill’s north korea. you may not criticise the messiah or you will go to the gullags.
But of course, it was perfectly alright to hang President Bush in effigy, publish pictures of Bush with a gun pointing to his head, and put hitler mustaches on him and parade around with those kinds of signs. That was just fine! We have a lot to be thankful for…and video cameras is one of them. We have so much proof of what these weasels are trying to do to stomp all over our civil rights and the Constitution. Of course, now we need an Attorney General in DC who will actually do something about this kind of thuggery. We had a video of the panthers intimidating voters, found guilty, and then exonerated by our illustrious AG. I can’t wait to see Holder in jail for treason and corruption. The tide is changing and these people will be called to account…very very soon.
As a retired Detroit Police Officer I can explain the problem with this Officer………Affirmative action. yes you can call me racist even if I am not I don’t care.
Wow.
Whenever liberals come here and praise Obama, remember this.
This is how they feel about our rights and freedoms.
“It ain’t America no more.” Har.
Over my dead body.
You are not a racist…you are right!! And you are one lucky person to have survived to retire from policing Detroit!!
Obama the great uniter needs to make a public statement condemning the security officer’s statement.
What, is that my alarm. Damn, I must’ve been dreaming……
When I first read the story, I assumed the officer was black. That I indulged in such stereotyping is a sad commentary on what our country has become.
The longer Obama is in office the truth of the racism behind him and those who support him keeps becoming more visible and undeniable. It is I guess a good thing in the long run. But in the short run it is fixing it, addressing it, is not going to be pretty.
Wow. Just wow.
Barney Fife was comedy, Wesley Cheeks is scary. This is only the beginning.
River Rat, you’re right on the money.
This is absolutely correct. We have to A) quit this endless whining — I see and hear it everywhere — if a Republican had done this, etc. Half the posts to the NRO are that way. To hell with it. Nobody cares. Nobody will ever care.
And B) as Dances says, take it to the next level and start planning for when they take it to the next as well. A revolutionary government cannot be defeated by nice guys being civil and polite. Even Rush Limbaugh is saying now that some form of KopechneCare is going to pass. No. This must be stopped.
We need to speak up this RACE CARD thing works both ways Officer……..
You never should have in the first place, lest you forget the words of Thomas Paine:
“Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
It is our responsibility as the people of this country to ensure that the limits imposed on government by the Constitution be followed.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
The officer should not have picked a fight. Perhaps the officer and the protester should go the the Black House and have a teaching moment.
Sue, baby, sue.
If we let the rent-a-cops take away our free speech, it won’t be any trouble at all for anyone else with more power and money.
School grounds have ‘rights’?
Apparently more rights then citizens.
Also, if this is a school District Employee (as opposed to a real Police Officer) isn’t he impersonating a police officer? At least when he claims to have the power to arrest people for trespassing?
This is one of those things caught on tape that will force the matter into the public’s attention. That is precisely what Obama and the left does not want. They do not want any information out there that reveals accurately what the real intentions are.
You see it with the health care debate. They are looking for a way to make their real intentions more palatable, not change their goals. Their “message” didn’t get out correctly OR the conservative lunatic media “warped” everything so shut the conservative media down, etc.
This video is the kind of thing that will polarize this country with a clear majority against this dude’s and the left’s mindset and squash them at the polls. You can’t not argue with them nor convince them they are wrong. Won’t happen due to their mindset. We can make sure that folks like the security guard and those who think like him do not have power. They are dangerous when in power.
I heard the officer say that he can charge the protester with anything he wants to charge the protester with. If that is true, then the officer can charge the protester with murder, rape, assaulting a police officer, disturbing the peace, inciting to violence, public ludeness, disorderly conduct, assault with a deadly weapon, brandishing a weapon, hate crime, racist statements, resisting arrest, disobeying the order of a police officer, corrupting the morals of a minor (Something homosexuals are NEVER charged with, even when they parade around groping one another virtually naked on parade floats during “Gay Pride Parades,” and elsewhere, such as when proselytizing homosexuality during public school time, etc.) harassment, vandalism, assault and battery, filing a false statement, public intoxication, grand theft auto, larceny, robbery, arson, and on and on and on.
If the officer truly CAN charge a person with “anything I want” then are we truly free and do police truly work to “protect and serve” or is this police officer a rogue officer who should lose his badge and his job, and be relegated to Rattle Snake Wrangler in Arizona?
Was the guy a police officer or a campus security guard?
Is he and his fellow officers, and the community itself, a bastion of Obamaism? If so could any protester truly expect justice there?
“You can’t not argue with them…”
My English prof just rolled in his grave…..
You can not argue with them….
It is remarkable that the person with the badge making the threats, which I could possibly be considered terroristic threats against the protester exercising his first amendment rights, claimed that the protester could be charged with trespassing due to the sigh he carried while others on campus also carried signs were not considered being charged with trespassing.
Either the protester was trespassing or he was not.
Since the protester was already on the property he was already trespassing, if, in fact, there was a crime of trespassing being committed.
The possession of a sign does not change his right to be on campus without being charged with trespassing to being a crime of trespassing.
So, which is it?
Was the guy with the sign trespassing or not? Or, was he only trespassing if he displayed his sign?
If that is the case, then what about the others who had signs?
Does that make this a selective issue, in which the message one displays on their sign makes them a trespasser, while if your sign displays a favorable message from the perspective of the security guard or police officer then you are not trespassing and your freedom of speech is then a protected right?
Makes no sense to me.
Beer summit at the WH in 3….2….1
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It looks like the 1960′s era BULL CONNERS POLICE MENTALITY is back in this man’s mind. The “deep South” police thought it was O.K. to violate Black People’s rights.
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This policeman seems to think it’s O.K. as long as it is directed against the Messiah’s opponents.
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Most police are good people who respect people’s constitutional rights. Time for some “sensitivity training” for the Black security guard. What part of the First Amendment doesn’t he understand?
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John Bibb
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Is he related to Sandy? j/k. Yeah, the officer finally realized he didn’t have any reason to arrest anyone and since the protester wasn’t being intimitdated, Cheeks decided to walk away.
Responding to “Bulldogger’s” comment from August 29th, 2009 at 11:37 am in post # 9 above,
Bulldogger,
Well said.
When the authorities take it upon themselves to make up the law or not support the constitution then the WRITING IS ON THE WALL FOLKS. Personal liberties are fading folks right in front of out eyes.. WAKE UP AMERICANS we are being invaded by communists. I would have filed rights violations against that officer. Its time to step outside of the box. We are going to wait to long then we wont be able to stand up anymore.
Race war is coming….be ready. Obama has widened the race gap by his decisions and his use of terminology and by his ignorant followers who think he is the messiah. White folks are going to be at the bottomof the food chain by design.
I can see the senario developing now. Its all gonna take place during the 2010 election because of white people protesting and raising hell. Obama will issue marshall law and appoint new or keep politicians in congress. You watch and see. Laws of this country that white people abid by and fall back on for right will just be sweep away because Obama has the power to do what he wants. If it all shakes out after Obama, all that were loyal to him should be tried for treason.
The police officer says, in the beginning of the clip, that he explained why the guy could not hold up the sign. I prefer to take the word of a calm professional officer who puts his life on the line for his fellow citizens. Especially if the alternative is to take the word of a clearly unhinged nutcase.
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HI THETOYSURGEON #75–good comment.
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However–English usage problem–same sounds, different spellings and meanings.
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Marshal=Federal police official–or in old West–police official in a territory.
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Martial Law=Military law suspending some constitutional rights in an emergency.
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In Spanish the King eliminated a lot of redundant and same sound / different spelling / different meaning words. English still has a lot of them left–no cleanup ever occured.
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John Bibb
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“thetoysurgeon,”
Something similar could possibly happen, but I do not think it will be limited to, or directed only at “white people.”
Asians, including Indian, Chinese, Thai, Korean, etc., and Arabs are, and have been targets of black racism, subjected to harassment, violence, jokes, etc.
I can see a scenario like that which you put forth taking place in some manner but directed at dissenters, including many black citizens who disagree with the Messiah.
The Messiah Himself does not have to put forth the decree, or even be credited with the decree, the masses are already out there, ready to do His bidding, or do their own demented bidding in His Name.
Do you remember the mobs in the streets in Philadelphia on election night and the police officers arresting the white male who wore a McCain-Palin T-Shirt, or the woman who was excited because the Savior, Barrack Hussein Obama (Peace be Unto Him. Praise His Holy Name. Let every head and knee bow in adoration and worship of our Lord, Savior, and Messiah, Mister Hope and Change, The One, Mister “Yes,We Can.” /sarcasm off) would take care of all his loyal devotees, feed them, pay for their home, pay for their car, pay for their education, and everything else?
Sad commentary.
Does anyone remember this?
Is it any wonder that behavior like that of the “officer” depicted in the video clip opening this thread above is more and more common these days?
Ignorant people support Obama, praise Ted Kennedy, and demonize conservatives.
“Race war is coming….be ready.”
Quite possible. Which is why I have to wonder just what impact to the birthers think they’d have IF they even came close to something that said Obama had to be removed against the voter’s wishes.
lgm #76, there are so many things wrong with your justification of what this video represents. We could start with the moron in the background stating 1st amendment rights are different on school grounds (Yes, if your talking about the ability of a school administration to manage its mission of delivering education, not a public meeting being held there). As well as the officer clearly has absolutely no right to interefere with peaceful free speech! You my friend are a Moron!
You do know that answering lgm is a waste of time right? He posts not for some kind of dialog but just to tweak your shorts……
Yep js, but I have not used the word moron in a while so I figured what better person to use it on.
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.