Obama effigy found hanging from tree

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  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    inmytree wrote:
    I guess if I come to your house and take a shit on your front porch you'd be supportive of such action...I'm just practicing freedom of action and free speech...right..?

    Would I be supportive? No. But if it weren't against the law, do you think there would be grounds to throw you out of school or fire you from your job?
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  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    know1 wrote:
    I'm not condoning the effigy, but it's amazing how many people will whine and complain for free speech or other freedoms or actions that supposedly don't affect anybody else, yet when you use their same talking points back to them they get all bent out of shape.

    Like I said, apparently actions or speech are only permissable if you agree with them to this bunch.


    So i can burn a cross in my yard without fear of consequences?

    Under your ideal of freedom of speech without consequence i can tell you "i am going to kill you and your family" and face no consequence?


    go ahead and scream "FIRE" in a crowded theater and tell me how your argument works out for you in court the next day ;)
  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    this is sad. that's the only word i can think of to describe this. just sad.
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  • whitepants
    whitepants Posts: 729
    know1 wrote:
    So much for freedom of speech. You can't just allow speech that only you agree with.

    A very assholish comment.

    This was a racist and cowardly act, and such actions cannot be tolerated in a civilized society of "free speech". People like you just see black and white, and that's irrational and immature.

    I have no intentions of voting for Obama or McCain, but I know a hateful act of 'freedom of speech in the cover of darkness' when I see it. This election race has brought out the worst in everyone!
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  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    know1 wrote:
    Would I be supportive? No. But if it weren't against the law, do you think there would be grounds to throw you out of school or fire you from your job?

    as a manager, I would not welcome an employee who is a porchshitter....and would find a way to help them out the door....

    and if the shitting took place on school grounds...yes, kick me out...

    honestly, I really don't see you anyone can justify the actions of those who conducted this fake hanging...
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    inmytree wrote:
    honestly, I really don't see you anyone can justify the actions of those who conducted this fake hanging...

    I'm not justifying their actions. I think their actions are wrong. My initial comment about free speech was in response to a specific comment that was made. I did not justify the act...which I think is deplorable.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

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  • Piper At The Gates
    Piper At The Gates Posts: 460
    Strange Fruit

    Lewis allen

    Southern trees bear strange fruit,
    Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
    Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
    Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

    Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
    The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
    Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
    Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

    Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
    For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
    For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
    Here is a strange and bitter crop.

    This song is all I can think of when I hear about this. The actions of the cowards who did this in Oregon are reprehensible and criminal. This is 2008.
    Anyone who can defend these actions in any way shape or form has a lot of soul searching to do.

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