Students Confess To Hanging Obama in Effigy

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Your hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Ah, yes, don't let the FACTS cloud your opinions, TB.

Who does her image actually threaten? The image may be offensive, but is only seen either by people who google her or are already familiar with her, or when people like you spread the image. Without you, I'd have had no better chance of seeing that than the message on campus had it not made the news.

Try all you want, it's not the same thing and you know it.

I've never heard of this artist, but thanks to Kiwon, i'm purchasing this print.

(in best will farrell voice) It is GLORIOUS!!

Congratulations....you just put yourself on par with tex.

Congrats...you have missed sarcasm.

[HowardRoark]

the Court's job is to apply the law according to the Constitution

QFT.....

EDIT: on second thought, this is not true, it's the Executive Branch's job to apply the law, the Judicial branch interprets laws and makes sure they are Constitutional.

I guess I was giving you credit for at least not saying that the Court's job is to make laws.

[th87]

These "perpetrators" will land on their feet. Having this little expression of free speech on their resumes will help them in a lot of venues.

Gee, if I didn't know better I'd almost think you were relishing that possibility.

What makes you think you know better?

If these perps are not merely pranksters, then these guys are PATRIOTS--making a POLITICAL STATEMENT, as, of course, is their Constitutional Right--just like when the American-haters of your side, Hoosier, do things like burning flags.

Expressing disrespect for a disrespecter of America, in my book, is a good and patriotic thing to do. I'm sure you see that differently, though, don't you, Hoosier? Disrespect for America is good; Hanging effiegies of those trying to bring America down, that's a bad thing--if you're a sick leftist, anyway.

Uh huh. Simulating lynching a Black guy makes them patriots, huh?

If they did anything else to deface Obama's cutout, fine. But the intent was clearly to remind us of those racist atrocities against Black people specifically. That's where they crossed the line.

No surprise that you'd defend that, of course.

[th87]

Re: Students Confess To Hanging Obama in Effigy

..conservative..evangelical..Christian..white.

The absolute bane of society....right, OPF?

When they start hanging representations of public figures from trees in a manner that suggests historical lynching, maybe...

But noted photographer Jill Greenberg's work is just fine, right?

Are you really going to conflate an artist's work with what they did? LOL

They are gonna have to invent new latin phrases for the ridiculous arguments you make.

No, I'm not. Jill Greenberg's stunt is much worse.

Her work is permanently archived by her (and proudly so) on the Internet as a propaganda tool for her ideology. She's using her considerable artistic talents to very calculatedly influence opinions. More importantly, her portrait HAS ALREADY been seen by millions of people around the world.

What about the prank at the 3,500-student college? Four students in the dead of night take a cutout, attach fishing line along with a stupid note, and suspend it off the ground by tying it to a tree.

Campus grounds workers removed it the next morning by 7 am.

Wow, it was seen by what, maybe 10 people? Any photos, any Internet posting? Nope.

And talk about conflation. You miss that in the original story it never specifically mentions that the fishing line was fashioned into a hangman's noose around the neck of the cutout. All it said was that the cutout was found "hanging." It's a cutout for crying out loud. It could have been attached anywhere on the cardboard.

The writer cleverly mentions another past incident elsewhere in Oregon featuring a noose and hanging effigy thereby implicitly linking one to the other as she then gets to her main point - Christians are dangerous psychos.

YOU want to compare the two?

The students CONFESSED to their prank. Jill Greenberg BRAGS about her bigotry. So who are the bigger threats to others? Jill Greenberg is the true dangerous psycho.

This sets a career high in idiocy. Wow.

[th87]

The case was brought about by Brown's father (among others--you see, all those perfectly satisfied negroes had been filing class action suits against the Topeka schools trying to overturn the fallacy that was separate but equal) who wanted an educational opportunity for his daughter. They won in a UNANIMOUS decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. This is not a bunch of hicks, hacks but the Warren Court (a Republican I might add).

What happened subsequent is not the fault of what preceded it and there is nothing in the history to suggest that had the Civil Rights movement not taken the course it did and under the guidance of MLK that there wouldn't have been a violent upheaval from the periphery that you're tunnel vision does not permit you to see. It was coming, one way or another. They just got it done the legal way--through the United States Constitution. (Segregation and holding down of a group of people based on race is unconstitutional--by unanimous decision).

The HUGE percentage of blacks were happy and content until stirred up by liberal troublemakers. Violent upheaval? No way.

"What happened subsequent is not the fault of what preceded it", is that your way of dismissing the whole destruction and devolution of black culture that resulted from the civil rights movement? Come on!

And you would hold up Earl Warren as a shining example of a Republican? Yeah, I suppose to liberals he was. I guess you never saw all those "Impeach Earl Warren" billboards and bumper stickers. Oh wait, I guess you weren't born yet then.

I'm sure Rosa Parks in her heart of hearts wanted to stand up for the White guy.

[th87]

Try all you want, a stupid act by four students (who have since apologized) doesn't justify bigotry against Christianity.

I don't think she said it did. That's a strawman. It does justify disdain for those kids though.

[mraynrand]

Uh huh. Simulating lynching a Black guy makes them patriots, huh?

If they did anything else to deface Obama's cutout, fine. But the intent was clearly to remind us of those racist atrocities against Black people specifically. That's where they crossed the line.

No surprise that you'd defend that, of course.

Are you sure about what you wrote?

[texaspackerbacker]

Uh huh. Simulating lynching a Black guy makes them patriots, huh?

If they did anything else to deface Obama's cutout, fine. But the intent was clearly to remind us of those racist atrocities against Black people specifically. That's where they crossed the line.

No surprise that you'd defend that, of course.

Are you sure about what you wrote?

Perfect Response, aynrand.

The leftists range from LEAPING TO THIS CONCLUSION WITHOUT EVIDENCE to INTENTIONALLY DEMAGOGUING THE WHOLE THING TO EVOKE SYMPATHY FOR OBAMA--who, of course, is EMINENTLY HATEABLE.

And, TH87, while I clearly am NOT a racist in the hatred sense of the word, I don't shy away from the word either. Give me a choice between somebody with wonderful pro-American, pro-Christian, pro-free enterprise views who happens to be racist and some America-hating leftist who pisses on the majority religion in this country and espouses socialism, and I will choose the racist any day.

And no, TH87, that wasn't you I was describing. Obama? Yeah, I'd say so.

[bobblehead]

These "perpetrators" will land on their feet. Having this little expression of free speech on their resumes will help them in a lot of venues.

Gee, if I didn't know better I'd almost think you were relishing that possibility.

What makes you think you know better?

If these perps are not merely pranksters, then these guys are PATRIOTS--making a POLITICAL STATEMENT, as, of course, is their Constitutional Right--just like when the American-haters of your side, Hoosier, do things like burning flags.

Expressing disrespect for a disrespecter of America, in my book, is a good and patriotic thing to do. I'm sure you see that differently, though, don't you, Hoosier? Disrespect for America is good; Hanging effiegies of those trying to bring America down, that's a bad thing--if you're a sick leftist, anyway.

Uh huh. Simulating lynching a Black guy makes them patriots, huh?

If they did anything else to deface Obama's cutout, fine. But the intent was clearly to remind us of those racist atrocities against Black people specifically. That's where they crossed the line.

No surprise that you'd defend that, of course.

So if I burn an obama doll in effigy thats cool then right??

[Zool]

So if I burn an obama doll in effigy thats cool then right??

No but if you put him in a diorama wearing overalls in a cotton field, or chained to a large wooden boat, thats apparently fine.

[texaspackerbacker]

So if I burn an obama doll in effigy thats cool then right??

No but if you put him in a diorama wearing overalls in a cotton field, or chained to a large wooden boat, thats apparently fine.

I don't give a damn WHERE you put him as long as it ain't the White House--although I suppose he could work out serving at those fancy dinners being as "articulate and clean" as Biden described him and all.

[Zool]

So if I burn an obama doll in effigy thats cool then right??

No but if you put him in a diorama wearing overalls in a cotton field, or chained to a large wooden boat, thats apparently fine.

I don't give a damn WHERE you put him as long as it ain't the White House--although I suppose he could work out serving at those fancy dinners being as "articulate and clean" as Biden described him and all.

I will actually agree with you there Tex ya lunatic. Liberals all like to refer to an intelligent black man as articulate or well spoken. If a black man doesn't speak as a white man does, he's apparently not intelligent.

Those college students were definitely making reference to racial hangings though.

[mraynrand]

Those college students were definitely making reference to racial hangings though.

They were? I'm a little skeptical on this, but I could have missed it. Was it obvious or are people jumping to conclusions?

[bobblehead]

So if I burn an obama doll in effigy thats cool then right??

No but if you put him in a diorama wearing overalls in a cotton field, or chained to a large wooden boat, thats apparently fine.

I don't give a damn WHERE you put him as long as it ain't the White House--although I suppose he could work out serving at those fancy dinners being as "articulate and clean" as Biden described him and all.

Doesn't count....conservatives aren't allowed to be nice to an old guy at his hundredth b-day without playing 6 degrees to rascism, but libs can imply that most african americans are sloppy and dirty and gets the VP slot. I'm actually almost getting used to it sad as that is.

By the way, I remember John McCain saying mars is a red planet...GO, you have 1 minute and 6 degrees to label mccain a rascist.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

These "perpetrators" will land on their feet. Having this little expression of free speech on their resumes will help them in a lot of venues.

Gee, if I didn't know better I'd almost think you were relishing that possibility.

What makes you think you know better?

If these perps are not merely pranksters, then these guys are PATRIOTS--making a POLITICAL STATEMENT, as, of course, is their Constitutional Right--just like when the American-haters of your side, Hoosier, do things like burning flags.

Expressing disrespect for a disrespecter of America, in my book, is a good and patriotic thing to do. I'm sure you see that differently, though, don't you, Hoosier? Disrespect for America is good; Hanging effiegies of those trying to bring America down, that's a bad thing--if you're a sick leftist, anyway.

Uh huh. Simulating lynching a Black guy makes them patriots, huh?

If they did anything else to deface Obama's cutout, fine. But the intent was clearly to remind us of those racist atrocities against Black people specifically. That's where they crossed the line.

No surprise that you'd defend that, of course.

So if I burn an obama doll in effigy thats cool then right??

I would be cool with that.