But..umm...not racist. If I punched a guy in the face who was wearing a President Obama mask, would the Secret Service visit me? No, they would not. No one was joking about harming the president. They were joking about harming the guy in a mask that resembles the president. Huge difference.
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > Joking about harming the president is a felony BTW... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:16 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: I don't get why this is such a big deal.... > > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > > > What racist comments? That article does not mention any racial > > comments made by the rodeo clown. > > Yeah I don't get that from the article either. Unless there is something > more to this, the article basically says the problem is that it's > unacceptable "in a public event, disrespect, taunt and joke about harming > the president of our great nation". > > The article seems to claim that this should not be protected free speech > because it's about the president, not because he's black. > > -Cameron > > ... > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:366397 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
