Man arrested for wearing McCain/Palin t-shirt at post election party
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80405
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94N1TkuLWss
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McCain T-shirt gets man cuffed, stuffed
'Don't tell him no more, lock him up,' police say
Posted: November 08, 2008
12:40 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
A man wearing a McCain-Palin T-shirt during a Philadelphia celebration on election night was arrested, cuffed and stuffed into a police
cruiser, and supporters said it was for no more than wearing the endorsement of the GOP nominees for president and vice-president.
Although the man protested that he didn't want to cause any trouble, officers manhandled him and arrested him, the video posted on YouTube shows.
Philadelphia Police Sgt. Ray Evers told WND the man, whose name was not released, was arrested for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.
"He was causing large crowds to form around him," Evers said, adding that he also "was not listening to police commands."
"He was asked several times to leave the area," the sergeant said. "He refused several commands from police to leave the area."
The tape opens explaining that the man was wearing a McCain T-shirt at a street celebration in honor of president-elect Barack Obama's election victory.
The audio says police told the man to leave the area and he declined. At that point, the video picks up.
Officers are holding the man's chest as he says, "I'm not trying to cause any trouble."
The officers then shove the man as the Obama crowd jeers.
"You know what. Don't tell him no more. Don't tell him no more. Just lock him up," an officer states.
While the man is standing off to the side of the celebration, two officers grab him and shake him up, twist his arm behind his back and cuff him.
The crown circles the man, chanting, "Oh-Bah-Mah! Oh-Bah-Mah!"
"This man was arrested for going into a crowd of Obama supporters post-election wearing a John McCain-Sarah Palin T-shirt," the audio explains. "The officers asked him to leave, he refused … then he was assaulted by officers. Now he's being put into a patrol car.
"This is what we can expect, no freedom of speech," the narrator adds.
WND has reported on law enforcement crackdowns on opponents of Obama, including a Kansas case in which a man wrote to a woman he met at his church about his opposition and within 15 minutes found police on his doorstep.
WND also reported when prosecutors in Missouri announced plans to crack down on any campaign ads they viewed as wrong about Obama. The prosecutors claimed someone had to set the record straight and they were going to do it.
Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt responded by characterizing the public officials' formation of Obama "truth squads" as nothing short of "police state tactics."
"St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign," said Blunt. "What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment."
A crackdown on free speech has been forecast by some for the upcoming Obama administration, fueled by Democrats stated desire to re-adopt the so-called "Fairness Doctrine" that would effectively restrict or eliminate opinion on the broadcast airwaves from radio talk icons like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
And a hypothetical letter from a "Christian from 2012" released by evangelical leader James Dobson's political activist group Focus on the Family Action warns of an attack on public free speech.
The letter, called "Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America," "looks back" on how "the Bible can no longer be freely preached over radio or television stations when the subject matter includes such 'offensive' doctrines as criticizing homosexual behavior. The Supreme Court agreed that these could be kept off the air as prohibited 'hate speech' that is likely to incite violence and discrimination."
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...join the precinct leader programme with the Campaign for Liberty. We need to start waking people up, one at a time. It needs to come from the bottom up - Obama's support, though at its fervent height right now, is going to dwindle as they realise he's a pro-war, pro-police state, Constitution bashing socialist. Many will stand by him blindly, of course, but a LOT of people who actually expect him to deliver Change will realise their profound error and start to back away.
That's because his hysteria is top down - he's appealing to the masses with shiny lights and empty rhetoric, but though that's quickly and powerfully stirred up it's also short lived. People cheering hysterically for someone's first amendment rights being trampled? Though deeply chilling, it's an emotional response, not a rational one, and it won't last.
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Was it private property?
The somewhat unedited video showing the guys sword
the sword that was not mentioned in the wnd story, and was edited out of the clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vynzd9cpQRQ&eurl=http://www.h...
I'm not defending police taking our rights in any way, but dang should they just let this guy get killed or kill someone else. Can't tell if it is a real sword or not, but I don't think the messiahs crowd would really care.
Thank you Dr. Paul for making me act on what I already knew was right.
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9 weeks, 1 day? Get the hell out of here.
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can't tell if it's real?
haha. that was obviously a plastic sword. probably left over from halloween and brought along as a joke to fight off the hysterical obama supporters.
The police clearly screwed up
They didn't handle the pressure very well. Anyone who thinks their actions was justified needs therapy. I mean since when did arresting somebody become synonymous with "protection." Gee, it's a good thing I got arrested and put in jail where it's safe. Escorting me away from the group clearly would have been too dangerous.
With that aside. What do you guys make of the hysteria? What is this really about? A lifetime of racism and supression lifted off their shoulders? A feeling of vindication for African Americans? I heard reports that Washington DC (voted for Obama 93%) was shutdown completely. They fenced up the white-house in advance.
What kind of divide are we going to see?
Will Obama play the race card like Hillary played the sex card?
I voted Baldwin
and am regretting not writing in Ron Paul...
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Me too. I feel robbed.
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They
Probably saved that idiots life, or at least kept him from getting his butt kicked. There is a fine line between taking a stand and being an idiot, and in so much as he was wearing a McCain shirt, and wearing it in the middle of an Obama street party, that is two clues he may just be an idiot.
In this instance I think they did "serve and protect".
Thank you Dr. Paul for making me act on what I already knew was right.
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Dude, seriously, get the hell out of here.
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IDIOT! if the man was being
IDIOT!
if the man was being threatened by someone then the police need to arrest the aggressor not the victim.
by the way..."serve and protect" does not mean serve and protect the people it means serve and protect the gov't
You're right I'm wrong
It would have made much more sense to allow him to stay and to attempt to pacify the large crowd that was out celebrating their messiahs win, by explaining to them that they were infringing upon that guys right to be there (which they were) and that if they didn't stop taunting him that they were all subject to arrests, that would have definitely diffused the situation.
That way everyone could have gotten along just fine. It was apparent that that was a reasonable gathering of folks that would have not caused any trouble, had that guy been allowed to stay. He should have not been hassled in any way by the police, and should have been allowed to discuss the election results in a peaceable manner with all the people assembled there.
Thank you Dr. Paul for making me act on what I already knew was right.
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That's dumb. Under that
That's dumb.
Under that rational, I was an 'idiot' for wearing Ron Paul gear to GOP events and county/state Conventions.
No, you weren't an idiot
There is a very distinct difference between a GOP event and a county and state convention, and a bunch of folks yelling and jumping up and down in the streets, some of them there in true celebration, but a good chance a lot more there looking for mischief. That appears to be what this guy was looking for, to me it looks more like a justified case of protecting him and adverting a possibly bad situation.
When you went to the GOP events and the county and state conventions I assume it was with the intent to peacefully state your case and support your candidate, not to insert your self into a situation looking to start trouble for troubles sake.
Do we have freedom of speech? Constitutionally yes (practically a lot of the times no), Just as you can't go into a crowded theater and yell FIRE!! when there is no fire, you also must think before you act and see if your actions or speech will help your cause or hinder it. Him going into that crowd and starting something in no way helps his cause. And his very presence whether he opened his mouth or not in that place at that time was enough of a catalyst to endanger himself and those around him.
Is it his right to get his butt beat? Yes it is. Is it his right to endanger those around him by being stupid? We must pick our battles. Also, you weren't clued in to his lack of mental prowess by the very fact he was wearing a McCain shirt? He has the right to wear it, but I have the right to draw conclusions from it.
Thank you Dr. Paul for making me act on what I already knew was right.
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So if McCain had won
should someone who was wearing a Ron Paul t-shirt at a McCain celebration be arrested?
Jus sayin'
I doubt seriourly many Ron Paul folks would be stupid
enough to walk into the middle of an area where there was a better than 50% chance of getting your butt beat for no practical reason, and trying to "debate" a bunch of folks that were more concerned over the skin color of the candidate than the content of his character. Just judging from the clip I watched I am happy that they got the guy out of there.
Just as common sense dictates not standing in the middle of fire place wearing lighter fluid underwear, it also dictates not to be a lone white boy, wearing a McCain shirt, in the middle of an Obama rally, in Philadelphia, at night, the evening of the election. It appeared he was more intent in starting something than displaying any sort of constructive contribution.
I hate to generalize, but I have to form this opinion from the short clip that was there, and also that the news story came from WND.com, which sometimes has some decent stories, but in the last year or so, has really gone down hill, in what they chose to cover.
Thank you Dr. Paul for making me act on what I already knew was right.
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If the guy did nothing other
If the guy did nothing other then wear a shirt,his right to be there should have been protected.Was that area declared BO land from here out?This wasn't a gathering in a building.It's in a public place.
In this case the police were lazy and didn't want to protect him from the obamba mob.It's obvious there's alot of BO supporters that are willing to violate others rights.
Would that same man be ostracized at a Ron Paul gathering?
I doubt it,RP supporters know about liberty and rights.
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They did protect him, they got him out of there
Thank you Dr. Paul for making me act on what I already knew was right.
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Not sure who was right here,
Not sure who was right here, but they surely saved is butt and their own. If the crowd had turned ugly, the cops would have been in serious jeopardy too. I would say they should have just left him to his fate, and wouldn't have a big problem with that, but if he had started a riot, there would have been more people injured and a lot of property damage. They should have just driven him home though, no charges, unless there is a law against stupidity in that town.
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