This pisses me off
Oct. 30th, 2004 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceebeegeeFrom the Washington Post LTTE page:
My photograph was featured on the Oct. 17 front page of The Post. I was shown with the yard sign I had made, which read, "In 2000 they stole the election and now they stole my Kerry sign." My sign was a response to the distressing theft of many signs in favor of Democratic candidates in my neighborhood.
Unfortunately, what followed has been even more disturbing.
At 6:30 a.m. Oct. 19 I was awakened by my daughter's screams. She had found quarts of blood, dozens of turkey feet and an array of innards at our front door. And our homemade sign was gone.
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This goes beyond partisanship. We are witnessing an alarming level of intolerance for divergent views. Democracy does not exist without free speech. Whatever our politics, we all must stand for our right to fully express ourselves...
What the Fuck?? What fucking kind of country are we if we can't tolerate a damn sign in a yard? And just to see the other side, back in the '90s when that puppy-faced prick Oliver North was running for the Senate, a couple of friends of mine wanted to steal those signs from someone's yard--I told them, don't do it, you can't interfere with someone's freedom of expression, especially not on their own lawn. (North got smoked in the election anyway. Especially when John Warner, another Republican, venerated in Virginia, blasted him. Good times.) Jesus Christ. I mean, this isn't something like a KKK banner, or Aryan nation--these are signs for the two main political parties in this country! It just pisses me off. If you can't hold your dick, put it in a holster.
(And if I were that person, I'd electrify the Kerry signs. That would teach those Brownshirts not to trespass. Hee. Fuckers.)
My photograph was featured on the Oct. 17 front page of The Post. I was shown with the yard sign I had made, which read, "In 2000 they stole the election and now they stole my Kerry sign." My sign was a response to the distressing theft of many signs in favor of Democratic candidates in my neighborhood.
Unfortunately, what followed has been even more disturbing.
At 6:30 a.m. Oct. 19 I was awakened by my daughter's screams. She had found quarts of blood, dozens of turkey feet and an array of innards at our front door. And our homemade sign was gone.
...
This goes beyond partisanship. We are witnessing an alarming level of intolerance for divergent views. Democracy does not exist without free speech. Whatever our politics, we all must stand for our right to fully express ourselves...
What the Fuck?? What fucking kind of country are we if we can't tolerate a damn sign in a yard? And just to see the other side, back in the '90s when that puppy-faced prick Oliver North was running for the Senate, a couple of friends of mine wanted to steal those signs from someone's yard--I told them, don't do it, you can't interfere with someone's freedom of expression, especially not on their own lawn. (North got smoked in the election anyway. Especially when John Warner, another Republican, venerated in Virginia, blasted him. Good times.) Jesus Christ. I mean, this isn't something like a KKK banner, or Aryan nation--these are signs for the two main political parties in this country! It just pisses me off. If you can't hold your dick, put it in a holster.
(And if I were that person, I'd electrify the Kerry signs. That would teach those Brownshirts not to trespass. Hee. Fuckers.)
