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by Colin Kalmbacher | 10:43 am, October 6th, 2018
The sign in question was homemade and didnt offer support for any particular candidate. Rather, the signhand-painted in red, white and bluefeatured an elephant with its trunk up a womans skirt. The woman in the painting had word bubble with the word Help. The sign was captioned, Your vote matters.
Other signs in the same yard promoted Democrats running for state and local offices, including gubernatorial candidate Lupe Valdez, agricultural commission candidate Kim Olson, U.S. House candidate Julie Oliver and U.S. Senate candidate Beto ORourke.
Current Texas Agricultural Commission Sid Miller took note of the sign and posted about it on Facebook. In a post, Miller made an unsubstantiated allegation that the sign was an attempt to depict the daughter of Supreme Court nominee and alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh.
After Millers Facebook post drew attention to the sign, Republicans called for Stanfords arrest.
Local police then visited Stanfords home. No arrest occurred but the sign was taken by police. Police told me to remove the sign or they would take it and would arrest me, Stanford said. So I let them take the sign.
https://lawandcrime.com/first-amendment/texas-cops-confiscate-anti-republican-yard-sign-after-threatening-property-owner/#disqus_thread
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Cops threatening citizens with arrest for their political speech???? WTF!?
The republicans are destroying the First amendment!
The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. It forbids Congress from both promoting one religion over others and also restricting an individuals religious practices. It guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely. It also guarantees the right of citizens to assemble peaceably and to petition their government.
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MagickMuffin
(15,950 posts)The authorities had no legal reason to take it from YOUR OWN yard.
Snowflakes republicons ❄️
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)This is clearly a violation of the 1st Amendment and I hope that the owner files suit and that the ACLU will join in with it's resources.
struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,879 posts)and contact the ACLU.
Fla Dem
(23,731 posts)They have a nerve after all the obnoxious Hillary Clinton and Obama signs.
eleny
(46,166 posts)moondust
(20,002 posts)Arrested?
yowzayowzayowza
(7,018 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)It'll never happen, of course, but that's so against the law, it would be grounds for locking up the lot of them if our laws were meant to be applied evenly.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)Butthurt nitwit complains someone is being mean, demands their rights be violated. Police, forgetting their oath, comply