but but... FREE SPEECH!!!
Prince Of Dorkness
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There are times that you just haven't to hang your head in shame at how dumb some people are.
While hordes of those "free speech" supporters lined up to show their support for "a company expressing their free speech" while partaking in the very bold political statement of buying lunch at a Fast Food restaurant, they seem to be too busy this week to line up to buy boxes of Cheerios.
But one brave um... well...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/0 ... 47736.html
OK, for the people who got all incensed that the Graffiti artist tagged a ChikFilA in Torrance and called for his arrest and incarceration for "terrorism" and "destruction of Property," I'm wondering what they think of the real life Fire Marshal Bill here. :fp:
While hordes of those "free speech" supporters lined up to show their support for "a company expressing their free speech" while partaking in the very bold political statement of buying lunch at a Fast Food restaurant, they seem to be too busy this week to line up to buy boxes of Cheerios.
But one brave um... well...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/0 ... 47736.html
OK, for the people who got all incensed that the Graffiti artist tagged a ChikFilA in Torrance and called for his arrest and incarceration for "terrorism" and "destruction of Property," I'm wondering what they think of the real life Fire Marshal Bill here. :fp:
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Then again , in the tagging case , that guy knew how to use it!!
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
(btw, I actually had a bowl of Lucky Charms for dinner last night. That doesn't make me anti-gay...does it?!)
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
The guy in the video is upset about the rainbow oreo ad posted on Facebook.
(doesn't change my view of the original asshat though)
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY PUT IN CHEERIOS THESE DAYS??? I mean, are Kerosene Flavored Cherrios that popular?
Hail, Hail!!!
accidents don't happen they're caused and anybody dumb enuff to do that needs to rethink
their plan.
Godfather.
Rainbow Oreo's!!?? Awesome!
:( their not really going to make them i heard
Damn!
Godfather.
Not only do we need training and tests for gun ownership, we may as well add blowtorches to the list.
I think it's the next shape in Lucky Charms. They're magically delicious, I hear.
Godfather.
Blue moons, yellow stars, green clovers and purple penises.
They're always trying to get a hold of me Lucky Charms.
Hail, Hail!!!
This morning... I scored a pair of tickets to the Green Day Secret Show at the little Echoplex for tonight. Thinking about bailing from work early. Me so happy.
Hail, Hail!!!
But....the OP isn't really an accurate assessment of why people were showing support. They were showing support because people - I think it was a few mayors in Boston and Chicago - we're trying to do economic harm to the company for expressing free speech.
There really isn't a correlation to the Cheerio thing because nobody with any power is trying to do economic harm to Cheerios for it.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Again, we agree.
It was the politicians (Mayors) that did their politician bullshit that threw gasoline on a little squabble of a fire.
That is WHY the ACLU got involved... because it ain't right to levy restrictions on a legal business, simply based upon the business owner's opinion. Let the buying public make the call.
I agree.
The moral of the story is: 'Politicians is assholes'.
Hail, Hail!!!
Oh please. When the lesbian nature retreat was denied a license to operate in Virginia or when the town council blocked the privately-owned movie theater from showing Brokeback Mountain in Missouri, none of those people lined up to buy chicken. And when the people in line were interviewed, none of them mentioned a couple of grandstanding politicians who jumped in head first. They all ranted about Jesus and how the gays were attacking marriage.
And again... It wasn't about "free speech," it was about millions of dollars donated to anti-gay hate groups and political action committees hell-bent on attacking our families.
So don't wrap yourself in the flag and claim this was about "free speech."
We all know that if a Mayor in Alabama tried to block a Starbucks for their pro-equality stance, not a single one of those people would be lining up for a Mocha-choka-latte-yaya.
You didn't use those examples in the OP.
But..I agree it wasn't about free speech. It was about government officials over-stepping their bounds.
All I was really saying is there wasn't a true correlation between Chick Fil-A and your example.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
I wasn't trying to make one between this and the company ChilFilA.
I was talking about the Graffiti artist who had tagged one of the restaurants with spray paint and how conservatives were calling for his arrest and prosecution under "intimidation" and "suppressing free speech" when those same people were totally ignoring the guy who made a similarly dumb-ass protest by lighting fire to the lawn of General Mills and running away.
While I don't support the graffiti artist (who later admitted this was just a publicity stunt to promote his art show), I find it odd how he was branded a "domestic terrorist" but the obvious arsonist was shrugged off as "an idiot."
That makes a little more sense, then. I didn't know anything about the grafiti artist so I wasn't familiar with the story. The first part of your post seemed to be trying to equate the support of Chick Fil-A to the flaming Cheerio guy but I guess I misunderstood.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.