I woke up this morning here on the left coast to a horror show, and Halloween isn't until tomorrow.
My community paper, the one my wife refers to as 'that fascist rag' has a front page story about a woman in Redondo Beach (California) who has set up a Halloween display of Obama with his neck slashed by a cleaver and hung. Blood falls over the body and the Nobama sign.
I want to add that I was offended by the Palin display in West Hollywood. Violence in politics and displays of violent scenarios of candidates, while protected, are in appalling taste and are on the line of yelling 'fire' in a theater.
If you go to the article and picture you are hereby provided the standard parental warning, The following contains pictures of violent death.
This being my first diary I might be making mistakes but help is always appreciated.
Here the link to the Daily Breeze:
South Bay Daily Breeze
Here is the link to the article:
Obama hung in Effigy
The woman putting up this horror show says that she doesn't like Obama because:
"I disapprove of him, period," she said. "I am appalled by a man who is so close to being our president who won't put his hand on the Bible, who won't wear a flag pin."
and
Castaneda recently forwarded an anti-Obama e-mail to some neighbors, including Obama supporters.
"What does Obama prefer to read?" the message asks. "He is reading `The Post-American World.' It is Muslim's (sic) view on the fall and collapse of the United States as a Super Power. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!"
This is a Halloween display for children to see. I consider it to be beyond tasteless.
Others in the neighborhood disagree with her right to display such garbage.
"She probably thinks it's cute and funny," said another neighbor who did not want to be identified. "Hanging a black man is really distasteful. It's a free country, but your rights end where the next person's begin."
Ben Fortun, 16, of Redondo Beach and his 13-year-old brother, Joe, heard about the effigy and stopped by Wednesday evening to protest wearing Obama T-shirts. They called the effigy racist and immoral.
"We decided to come up here and quietly protest," Ben said as he carried a large American flag. "That's not right.
"We want to change America even though we can't vote."
My neighborhood has many conservatives as well but no one has gone this far. My neighbor has called me out for the Obama and Debbie Cook signs on my lawn. He talks like he read Obama Nation.