And WWL reported tonight that the two guys who put it up took responsibility AND WERE ARRESTED. Meanwhile, the guy in Cali who hung Palin in effigy in his front yard sits back and laughs about it, along with the liberal media.
They were arrested for burglary, the stole stuff from a frat house and the frat members snitched them out. if you are going to post something, post the entire truth of the story. Not something that you want to mislead people on. I'll show you how to do it:thumb: After following leads and conducting interviews, investigators determined that Fischer and Bush had asked members of a University of Kentucky fraternity for items to make the effigy but did not tell the fraternity members why they wanted them, Monroe said. Fischer and Bush were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, burglary and theft by unlawful taking, police said. The burglary and theft charges involve allegedly removing items from a room in the fraternity house. "We had a pre-established dialogue with this fraternity, and they spoke to us very openly and freely," Monroe http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/30/obama.effigy/index.html you cant arrest someone for doing it at their home, just like the man in ohio who did it at his home, but you can arrest someone for doing this on a public campus.
Can you arrest someone for burning an American flag on a public campus or is that freedom of expression?
It depends on the proximity to the building and the open flame laws. Usually you can get away with burning a thing as expression, and a flag is just a symbolic thing. This effigy stuff has gone to far. Unless there is actual intent behind it it is all immature and petty. My favorite thing is watching the two teams gripe about how unfair it all is.
There is nothing in the Constitution offering citizens any protection from having their feelings hurt. Hanging a noose on a black man's porch is a threat which we are protected against. Halloween effigies on one's own porch cannot be construed as threats by any reasonable person.
OK, I was listening to the radio in my car, and didn't hear anything about theft or burglary charges. Just a quick blurb -- the two students who hung an image of Obama turned themselves in and were arrested. Nothing about a burglary. My bad, or was it WWL's?
How about putting one on your vehicle? Remember the two guys who got arrested in Alexandria for driving past a crowd of black people with one the night of the Jena rally? There are legal precedents that show rights of self-protection we have in our homes can be extended to our cars. Does that work for freedom of speech as well?
