During the Jim Moran Townhall, protesters were outside gathering to go in. A citizen reporter was being harassed by a local Police officer about his Obamacare sign.
The exchange between the Officer and the citizen was about the sign, the officer asked him to take it down or he would be arrested. During the exchange, the citizen said “This is America!”, in which the officer replied “It ain’t anymore” Quite revealing.
Notes from the person that did this video:
This video was taken on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at Rep. Jim Moran’s (D-VA) Town Hall meeting on Obama Deathcare held at South Lakes High School in Reston, VA.
Many people were left outside when the school filled to capacity. School security officer Wesley Cheeks, Jr. did not like my anti-Obamacare poster which used one of the gone-viral “Joker” graphics.
When I said to Officer Cheeks, “This used to be America!” his response was: “It ain’t no more, OK?”
This needs to be reported to this man.
http://www.firstamendmentschools.org/freedoms/faq.aspx?id=12807
Does the First Amendment apply to public schools?
Yes.
The First Amendment applies to all levels of government, including public schools. Although the courts have permitted school officials to limit the rights of students under some circumstances, the courts have also recognized that students — like all citizens — are guaranteed the rights protected by the First Amendment.
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Wild Thing’s comment…….
“When I said to Officer Cheeks, “This used to be America!” his response was: “It ain’t no more, OK?”
With Obama in power he is right about this though it isn’t the America we all know and love. Not with all the chnages Obama has been making and plans to do.
This is becoming more and more offensive as things progress. At some point, the tipping point, people will have to make a conscious choice to side either with the socialists or with freedom. There won’t be a lot of middle ground.
It’s time to take back the country.
“I can charge you with whatever I want to charge you with’
Uh… I don’t think it works like that.
CLICK ON THIS LINK and scroll down the page……..you will see a lot of the protests signs from the LEFT during the GW Bush Presidency and NON of what our side has done even come close to the left’s death threats for Bush andn our troops and their officers.
….Thank you JohnE PFC U.S. Army for sending this to me.
Soldier/Generator Mechanic
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I think that poster is fine and very descriptive of what is goin on, today. This is the obama agenda. Total control of the American People. Don’t think for one minute they didn’t expect the American People rising up to try to defeat this. It would’n’t surprise me in the least if the White House had something to do with hurrying along Kennedy’s death to help facilitate this take over. McCain and his band of merry RINOS are rushing to help save Health Care for obama.
Obama’s civilian Army, starting September 11, 2009 is going to be used for just such purposes in the future. In the form of intimidation, beatings and then they will take it to the next level, even killing strong opposition leaders.
In Fegruary, 1942 the finishing touches of the “Endlösung der Judenfrage” . The Final Solution of the Jewish Question was finished at the Wannsee Conference, Berlin.
The Nazi’s are credited with the Final Solution this is only half true. Eugenics is “the study of, or belief in, the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics).”
The Nationalizing of Health Care, taking over the internet(in emergencies) and Cap and Trade would virtually give obama and his din of communist complete control over all of our lives.
It’s still surprising to me how willing those in authority are to cooperate in the goals of the tyrants.
Broad personal liberty anywhere is the historical exception, and the barrier between it and dictatorship is tissue-thin. If you know any cops, ask them what they’ll do when we have normally peaceful Americans in the streets breaking the “law” to preserve their freedoms. It’s coming, so they better decide what the policy is.
If you want to see Obama’s model, read Amity Shlaes “The Forgotten Man”…about the Roosevelt era and The Depression. It’s scary.
Good post WT.
Good comments Mark and Rhod. I posted the video and linked back here for the full post.
Obama agenda = European agenda. Read Vaclav Claus’ speech on how Neosocialism threatens Europe at http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4070
I guess we are in the same boat!
Ed
I hope that when that tipping point comes there are enough Americans ready to fight for their freedoms. obama is dividing America. He is destroying America and some people are happy with that. When push comes to shove I don’t know how many will shove back and how many will sit on the sidelines.
That the police are out of line by suppressing the 1st Amendment comes as no surprise.
The police departments made a distinctive change back in the mid 60’s when they went from being peacekeepers to law enforcers. They in a sense became the goon squad, intent on revenue rather than peace. They took an oath to serve their local master, not the public. Few if any realize the distinction. We see it in practice everyday, Daryl Gates Special Order 40 is only one instance of political correctness gone awry. Don’t bet your life, freedom or future on the benevolence of the local police department, they quit working for you a long time ago. I think of them as akin to Saddam Hussein’s ruling Baath Party guards in their loyalties. Seldom do they recognize or discriminate between right or wrong, preferring to ticket or arrest and let the lawyers and courts sort it out as enforcment agents of the courts. Prior to their change they often roughed you up, threatened you and told you not to screw up again and those lessons stuck, not so anymore.
Jack fills in the blanks on my questions about police policy. As a conservative, my instincts have been to side with the police officer, and this reflexive attitude is a hangover from the ’60’s, when police were stereotyped and besieged by leftist radicals.
On the other hand, the uniform and badge symbolize a potential conflict between a free individual and the state. You often see their arrogance and self-satisfaction on “Cops”.
I still think “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand fits in with what is going on today.
Karl Marx Communist Manifesto is alive and well in Washington DC CCCP?
Bye bye Teddy K and Mary Jo is up there WAITING for YOU!! What a GREAT weekend, eh?
What a POS that cop is, just where does he think he is living Obamaland?…(never mind). If a White cop said that to a black pro-obama protester, it would be the prominent news story of the day (or week), probably even overshadowing Shamu’s funeral. The cop would end up having to have a beer with the protester and his highness before being fired and ripped to pieces by the press. This POS cop gets a free pass. Welcome to a taste of Obama World….. I think I may need to take advantage of obama(kennedy)care, it seems for some reason lately, every time I hear the name obama, I have this uncontrollable urge to vomit!!!
Mark, I agree the sign does not cross the line.
It does not threaten like the ones against
Bush that were so common in the left’s protests.
This policeman, and I think he is a campus
police only as I called the station and they
have never heard of a policeman by that name,
So he has to be a campus police of something.
Not sure. Just very weird the whole thing.
Rhod, thank you so much. That book is so good.
I learned a lot from it.
“Amity Shlaes “The Forgotten Man”
Bob A., oh good, thank you.
Eddy, thank you for the information and the
link.
Tom, that is an important point and
I guess we won’t know till or if
something happens.
Jack, thank you for the information.
Dave 18Zulu, yes it does.
Darth, yes out with the old and criminal
and I pray in with the new in the next
election.
RAC, DITTO, and AMEN to that.
Had this been me, I would have that officer’s badge in a plexiglas case on my mantle as a trophy. We would have been in his chief’s office with the officer in question at the position of attention and the Old Retired Petty Officer would have been giving him the ass chewing he so richly deserves. And them ensuring he is relieved of his post, summarily. Articles 91, 94, 117 and 134 seem to be in order.