Now, THIS should be prosecuted!
On Oct 19, 10:41 am, wncs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BOCA RATON, FL -- On Northwest 6th Street, in the heart of Boca > Raton, several show their support for John McCain. Miriam Pearson- > Martinez is the only one on her street with a sign for Barack Obama in > her front yard. Even in this beautiful neighborhood, something > happened that she says, was just plain ugly. > Thursday morning she found her sign supporting Obama had been burned > and melted to her driveway. > > “It reminded me of a cross burning in the front yard. Especially with > an African American on the ticket.” Pearson-Martinez said. > > Liz Rockwell, who also lives in the neighborhood, having lived through > an era of hate, had the same memories come flooding back when she saw > the remnants of the sign. > > “It made me very sad. It made me very frightened, too. Shades of the > 60’s,” she said. > > For Pearson-Martinez, the most difficult part was explaining to her 9- > year-old son why someone would do something like this. > > She responded, by putting up a new Obama sign with a home-made sign > underneath that reads, “You can burn my sign, but you won’t stop my > vote.” > > She says she intends to fight back, without violence or destruction of > others’ property. > > “I’m going to one, vote and then I’m going to get everyone else I know > to vote and I don’t care who you vote for, as long as you vote. I’m > going to keep my signs up in my front yard and even if I have to put > them on my roof to keep them safe, I will,” she said. > > Boca Raton Police say this happens every year and they’ve had reports > of Obama and McCain signs taken. They say Pearson-Martinez’s is the > only one they know of that’s been > burned.Nowhttp://www.wptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=17ab9e8d-63fd-48... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
