“That’s a political statement. They can call it whatever they want, a threat or whatever,” said Ken Germana, who installed the sign on his property off Golden Gate Road in southwestern Bonner County………
…..The Palin effigy was erected in Los Angeles and the Obama effigy was put up at the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington. Both incidents made headlines in the run-up to the general election, but Germana maintains they were treated differently by authorities and the press.
In Germana’s view, nothing was done to the creators of the Palin effigy, while those who were involved with the Obama effigy were arrested.
“If other people can make political statements, so can I. Just because I don’t live in California doesn’t mean I don’t have my rights, too,” he said.
Germana calls any insinuation that there is a racial tone to his sign malarkey, emphasizing that its message is clearly equal opportunity.
“If these Katzenjammer cops want to pursue it, God bless ‘em. But I’ve got my rights just like everybody else does,” he said.
So is this political free speech protected under the First Amendment?
My thoughts on this are simple…the noose to me represents a most horrific image of innocent blacks being murdered..murdered because of the color of their skin and the low IQ of the executioners…There are better and more productive ways to make a political statement….
Germana should call it “art”, then everything’s okay and in fact he might be able to apply for NEA funding! After all, Palin hung in effigy was “art”, and crucifixes upside down in urine, and portraits of Mary smeared with feces are “art” and were funded by the NEA. So the precedent is well established…
Would I do that? No way. Am I comfortable with that? No way. But fact is the Left has set the precedent, and they can’t have it both ways. If they get enough of their own medicine, perhaps some of them may be jarred out of their mental illness and realize what they have done.
kenny is a dumb ass cracker racist idot……need I say more?
Why yes, just the fact that he is criticizing Pelosi and Obama alone makes him an ignorant, racist, sexist cracker! That’s because Pelosi and Obama, other Leftists leaders, why they’re all so much smarter than the commoners!
Now I’m sure you are for free speech too, Skippy, but what conbstitutes free speech is really the issue. Anything that disagrees with the Leftist/liberal mantra is of course by definition racist hate speech and cannot be tolerated. ‘Bout sum it up Skippy?