Call me when there’s similar shit every fucking week for eight years, Rick.
I won’t wait up.
–Cliffy
The Okie cops were wrong.
Period.
I hate Bush.
I support Obama.
The driver was born with flying monkeys coming out of his ass.
I suspect Bricker of blowing the rent money and his baby’s college fund on whiskey, hookers, lottery tickets & *used *ball gags from a secondhand bondage gear store.
But the cops were wrong.
It appears that by the tenor of most of the posts preceding this one, your question has been answered. I hope you’re as shocked as I am.
Oh, my, I do dee-clare! I’m sure you’re getting the vapors right now! :rolleyes:
For all the adherence so many GOPers and Right apologists have for the Bible, they never seem to remember Matthew 7:3. And since the two most relevant and salient points on the matter have been conveniently consolidated in Post #53, it would be refreshing to see Bricker not skip over them for a change…
This.
(Well, except for that phase/faze thing.)
Well, you shouldn’t make them go look it up just because they can’t remember!
*Verily, therefore, gather ye not the seed of the tamarind
For thy sister is so ugly, her nakedness is an abomination to the Lord
*
There. Glad to help.
Actually, we’ll never know whether Bricker’s question has been answered, unless and until Bricker deigns to inform us whom his question was directed to, and what exactly he was talking about.
Certainly, none of the rest of us in this thread so far see any cause to feel abashed about whatever our reactions may have been to whatever vaguely designated but not explicitly identified events Bricker was cloudily intending to reference that may or may not have occurred during the Bush administration.
No, it isn’t. It’s now being discussed on the SDMB in the Pit. And I think you are not fully aware of that your OP launches numerous innuendos that perhaps you did not intend. The behavior is outrageous. Police should not pull people over for political bumper stickers.
Frankly, Bricker - and having not read the thread yet, probably a mistake - this is not the seizure of an opposing sign at a political rally, or the relegating of a sign carrier to a free speech zone, both of which I’ll happily oppose no matter who does it.
What it is, it is a police office misunderstanding or misinterpreting the law on threats to a president, even given that it occurred in that known Obama bastion of Oklahoma.
If you can cite a liberal poster criticizing the police confiscation (and the same day return) of a sign reading, “Abort Bush”, and being silent on the current issue, I’ll likely agree with you that that poster should be abashed. Nevertheless, that poster is not me.
I would have no problem with a suit, but it’s not your place to tell the judge how to resolve it. “Push for” this or that, ask the judge for $1 plus the cop has to sit in a corner and no gold star today? Gimme a break. If a civil rights violation is found to have occurred then let it be resolved the way civil rights violations are resolved in our legal system, not the way they’re resolved in Oakminster’s fantasies.
I was standing in a public place (a grammar school) knowing that Bush was going to pass by. I was there first. The Secret Service demanded on pain of arrest (by local cops) that I move and when I did, other people (who happened to be Bush supporters) were ready to occupy the space I was standing. The Secret Service declined to answer under what law they were operating, or whether there was some kind of exclusive use permit or anything like that. This was in 2000 while he was the party nominee and before he was President.
Are you sure you weren’t in violation of SWW ordinances (Standing While Weird)?
That’s pretty much what lawyers do, dumbass. I tell the Court why I should win. Defense counsel tells the Court why they should win. Court decides.
Two different proceedings. One would be an administrative disciplinary proceeding for the cop, initiated by a citizen’s complaint and internal investigation. I know how those work, because I have defended police officers in similar proceedings in the past. The officer can be exonerated, reprimanded, suspended with or without pay, retrained, or fired.
The other action would be the lawsuit, and it is perfectly appropriate to request whatever lawful relief Plaintiff chooses to seek.
Now, kindly go fuck yourself. You may speak to me again when you have a clue what you’re talking about.
:rolleyes:
In case my first response was too sarcastic for you, Rick, my point was that “abort Obama” is as silly as “butthurt much?” when it comes to viewing them as actual threats that A-could get the SS on your ass* or B-get you into a knife fight.
IOW, a waste of time, resources and just plain dumb – never mind “perfectly reasonable.”
Think about it for a sec, how the fuck do you threaten to abort a 47 year old man?
*unintended stupid-ass pun. Just like this one. :smack:
Is it just me or was that Mr. Holland sucking on a helium balloon?
Got a mirror?
Really? What specific Bush-era “similar event” to the story described in the OP are you accusing elucidator of having overreacted to?
Please be explicit and detailed. We don’t need more whiny conservatives coming in here just to luxuriate in a pout-fest about how some nebulously identified bunch of liberals overreacted in some unspecified ways to some vaguely characterized situation under the Bush administration and now refuse to admit it, the smug old meanies. Bricker’s managing the pout-fest just fine all by himself, with a little help from magellan01.
Yeah, thanks for reminding me! Mmmm, lookin’ good!
Yes, I guess it has.
I thought, when I posted this, that everyone would agree it was a harmless mistake of no great significance. But instead, there are people here who see this as an outrage. So my ability to judge reactions to this story was obviously way off.