Anti-Obama sticker leads to terrorist threat.

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Calvin, from the cartoon strip Calvin and Hobbes pisses on EVERYTHING nowadays.

Never mind Obama, just imagine someone follows you home and starts threatening you over ANY bumper sticker. What would you do?

Ms. Gragg is extremely lucky she didn't run into a Joe Horn type and blow her away is accordance with Texas law.

Obama is not the messiah, and criticism of him is not racist.

Consider all the threats anti-war protestors got during the lead up to junior's splendid little war. The quaker church and plowshares for peace offices here in my neck of the woods recieved bombing and death threats every day in early 2003 and later.

It doesn't matter who is doing it, the right or the left... it is still wrong, and at its very core, unpatriotic.

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Absolutely.

One of the things that makes this country so great is the freedom to support who you want and oppose who you want.

Who cares if you disagree with someones bumper sticker? Just move on and forget about it.

There are always those who will have different views and opinions than you.

Learn to embrace them, not threaten them.

Even though I clash with RR all the time I am going to give his a star for this posting.

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As have I. (although we don't usually disagree)

It's an interesting topic to debate....even without the politics.

[edit on 24-7-2008 by nyk537]

When I read the story I couldn't help but snicker. Getting into a hissy fit over a bumper sticker is unbelievably stupid. Granted, the owners of said sticker were deliberately trying to cause a reaction, I don't think they were expecting anyone to follow them home and threaten them.

If the woman didn't like the sticker, she should have just moved right along instead of causing a confrontation. Now she has a criminal record, and for what -- not liking a bumper sticker?!

I say take it to the polls! Election time will be here before we know it. Just do your part and vote.

I have to go along with the majority on this one. The sticker was completely tasteless but not illegal and protected by the first amendment (freedom of speech). The owners of the sticker might actually be racist, but it would be a stretch to assume the sticker itself is a hate crime, especially in an election year when disgusting and socially unacceptable things are said and/or portrayed against all candidates.

why would anyone assume the owners of the bumper sticker are racist? so just because u have not been mesmerized and hypnotized by obama speeches you are now a racist?

RR I actually agree with you on this one. The fact is like you said Calvin has pretty much pissed on everything so you might as well add Obama to the list. This cop is just another example of our government run police state gone a muck. Keep voting Dem and Repub and nothing with change.

I have metioned it in other posts...so here I go again...this is the same crowd that feels their election was stolen from them 2 times now..not black or white, not rich or poor...but rabidly liberal.

I'm not one given to "the sky is falling" opinions...but if Obama doesn't win, I fully expect trouble , BIG trouble out his supporters.

Funny (yeah right), we very well might have already seen the last peaceful transition of power...something we have always stood proudly on here in the states...

my2cents

wish the cop pulled me over.
because i had a piss on obama sticker.

id whipped ole snakey out and pissed on the obama cultist cop...for starting crap lol

then id felt better


ps i say if oboma loose's we are going to have a riot ..the like no man has every seen yet....it's almost like obama is god to them...or a minimum messiah.

ive said that the second obama follower's started the say anything about obama....your a rasisct.

so many thing's smell like a rigged election...we are set up for something really really bad folk's..

obama cultist's im telling ya !!!!!

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What foolish bullhooey.... there won't be any riots and Obama is not a messiah to anyone.

Have there been any updates to this story? I'm curious how it will turn out. I don't understand why she wasn't charged with a hate crime since she immediately starting calling them racists, and made threats of bodily harm? Her anger was apparently racially motivated to some extent.

I can only imagine what the charges would have been had the roles been reversed..