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Opinion : Palin effigy a hate crime – Frontiersman

Palin effigy a hate crime

Published on Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:06 PM AKDT
This in reference to an effigy of Gov. Sarah Palin hanging from a rope in California.

This is a traversity and a hate crime against our governor, Sarah Palin. This is not a Halloween joke. If it were, this West Hollywood, Calif., homeowner wouldn’t be scared of the broken windows and riots in California. Instead, he chose Governor Palin to mock because no one will do anything about it. Well over 2,000 people blogged on the Fox News website saying it was terrible and wrong. Where are the Alaskans? How would they like it if it were their mother, sister or other female relative? Are Alaskans going to stand by and do nothing?

And where is the coverage? Shouldn’t we be demanding it be taken down?

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Cheryl Brooks

Wasilla

Sarah Palin will drink the blood of your children, after she uses it to paint a foreign country she can see from her back porch

These are the comments on the letter as of Saturday Morning. It would appear not everyone in Wasilla loves Sarah Palin.

Comments
29 comment(s)

jp wrote on Oct 31, 2008 11:07 PM:
” when i was a kid, we hung a manequin from a tree, dressed up like a field worker, some woman driving saw it, and went off the road, we were blamed for the accident, my parents were terribly upset.
i learned an important lesson!

never admit to anything!!! ”

Really Curious wrote on Oct 31, 2008 9:31 PM:
” Cheryl Wrote

To Curious

“Your ignorance over shadows your common sense. Stick your Obama remarks to yourself. Watching and reading expands your intelligence. Try it some time. ”

HUH? Curious and Just Curiuos didn’t make any statement concerning Obama. Rather asked questions and made statement about ..well freedom of expression.. in this case the flag.

So what are you talking about Cherrrrrrrryl? ”

TO Rah RahCheryl wrote on Oct 31, 2008 8:45 PM:
” TRAVESTY!!

OMG, I LMAO when I saw that.

But far from being mortified as you want me to be, I know how I made my mistake in spelling. I must of been thinking ahead to how I would be misspelling it as Cheryl had

IWould you care to comment on anything else besides my spelling? Like your First Amendment Rights that Cheryl wants to put the kabosh on? ”

Cheryl wrote on Oct 31, 2008 8:41 PM:
” To Curious
Your ignorance over shadows your common sense. Stick your Obama remarks to yourself. Watching and reading expands your intelligence. Try it some time. ”

Oops wrote on Oct 31, 2008 8:19 PM:
” The only crime I see is Palin on the ticket! any ticket. ”

AK Voter wrote on Oct 31, 2008 8:13 PM:
” Let’s see Palin’s medical records and Trig’s birth certificate. ”

To Ingi Dons wrote on Oct 31, 2008 6:56 PM:
” Where is your canidates birth certificate? Oh I know, he had the governor of Hawii seal it until after he has been sworn in if he wins. Remember to Vote early and vote often. ”

Curious wrote on Oct 31, 2008 6:52 PM:
” We allow our flag to be burned, worn in any manner and even draped over a toilet as art and this is a right to express. The Palin dummy is what it is a dummy with lipstick. ”

RahRah wrote on Oct 31, 2008 6:48 PM:
” TO Cheryl – poor dear. IT’S TRAVESTY – NOT TRAVISTY! you’re the dumb one. Don’t correct with ignorance. ”

Ingi Dons wrote on Oct 31, 2008 5:33 PM:
” Wher is your Governor’s medical records to the people of the Unite States of America? ”

Just Curious wrote on Oct 31, 2008 5:04 PM:
” No fuss over over Fox airing target practice of Obama likeness?

I mean if you like Fox Cheryl, and that’s where you go to get informed.. I wonder what bloggers have to say about that that..its a little hard to miss..the implications…doncha think?

Just curious about your thoughts on this? Right/Wrong? ”

Outsider with a question wrote on Oct 31, 2008 1:51 PM:
” Is everyone in Wasila as ignorant and backwards as Palin? ”

To Proud AK American wrote on Oct 31, 2008 1:44 PM:
” Sounds like “kill him to me.. ”

TO Cheryl wrote on Oct 31, 2008 1:27 PM:
” Lol, it’s TRAVISTY ..not traversity Cheryl. I can almost see you frothing at the mouth in your quest an all out assualt on the Democrats for justice.

Calm down poor girl. I mean after all, you want your right to call Obama a terrorist don’t you? To spin your hateful rhetoric on to the Democrats? To get downrigbht giddy when watching Faux News, and come straight here to post more new found outrage?

Even Palin wants her first amendments rights, however clueless she seems to be as to what those actually are.. ”

Proud AlaskanAmerican wrote on Oct 31, 2008 12:47 PM:
” There was no shouting of “kill him” anywhere,at no rallies this was confirmed by the FBI. The fact it is WRONG, to anyone, what makes me mad is that it’s not okay to do it to Obama a black man, racist they say, but it’s okay to do it to a WOMAN! NO! its not right. NO REASON, NO EXCUSE! ”

MAXKATT from NY wrote on Oct 31, 2008 12:16 PM:
” Ben…I do agree with you, & was 3rd post on here saying so. I doubt you’ll get any from Obama side endorsing it. You’ll probably get more like me, saying we’re w/ Obama, and don’t support this. …I have to say, I would have liked to have seen more of this type of concern from Right for inappropriate behavior a couple weeks ago when people were shouting “terrorist” & “kill him.” ”

To Jim from Boston wrote on Oct 31, 2008 11:59 AM:
” No whining here, just the facts. Stealing a mans horse used to get you hung in this country and race had nothing to do with it. So blog your “progressive” drivel in your own newspaper, and remember to “Vote Early and Vote Often”! ”

hottr7 wrote on Oct 31, 2008 11:42 AM:
” its hardly a hate crime. its been hanging up there for 3 weeks before anyone said a thing about it ”

Not So Fast wrote on Oct 31, 2008 11:34 AM:
” Freedom of speech was taken too far here IMO, but McCain and Palin are responsible for much of this climate of division because of the way they have campaigned.

The “hanging” of Palin was a political statement. John McCain “going up in flames” while the elephants (Republicans) hang Palin with the blame.

It could be argued that the statement is for her rather than against her.

Obama IS “hung “in the front yard of a man in Ohio ”

Jim from Boston wrote on Oct 31, 2008 11:00 AM:
” despicable behavior, I’m going to go slow.

Yes, the effigy hanging of Palin was vulgar. No it was not a hate crime because it was an effigy hanging of an individual, Sarah Palin, who has made a few enemies among progressives in the U.S.

Now, it is more difficult in the case of Obam to determine if the effigies are representative of a wider racial hat. Given the history of lynching in the U.S. you can understand that they may be directed towards blacks in general.

Now, please stop the Republican whining. ”

Ben wrote on Oct 31, 2008 10:19 AM:
” I don’t care if it’s Palin, Biden, McCain or Obama….offensive is offensive and this type of behavior is disgusting. I am a McCain supporter who would, in a heartbeat, be the first to remove an effigy of Obama or any other person strung up as an effigy. I would like to think that I would see a similar mentality from those in the other camp as well. At least on an issue such as this, I’d like to think that we all agree that this type of behavior is beneath us all. ”

Dispicable behavior wrote on Oct 31, 2008 9:25 AM:
” unfortunately is what this amounts to. It doesn’t become a hate crime until you bring race into it. It’s acceptable to hang a white person in this country, so it seems. ”

Dear Ms. Brooks wrote on Oct 31, 2008 9:15 AM:
” I agree the Palin effigy was offensive, as was the one I saw the other day on tv which depicted Obama and a star of David. We should all express our outrage when things like this happen, no matter the perpetrator or subject. Likewise, we should not ignore racism or hate speech when we see or hear it around town in Wasilla, and need to send letters to our local electric cooperative to tell them members will not tolerate racism there, either. ”

Eric wrote on Oct 31, 2008 8:59 AM:
” No effigy of a living person should ever been hung up whether as a joke or not. The article on the men in Kentucky is being painted as a racist act yet Obama is just as white and he is black. If the mainstream media had been fair and balanced, they would not have been propping Obama up and putting down his opponents- I’m not a Hillary fan but she was clearly cheated during this election by the Press. ”

Jim from Boston wrote on Oct 31, 2008 7:00 AM:
” Where was the coverage? If there was no coverage how did you find out about it?

It was everywhere. Probably received more coverage than those two fine sons of the south who were arrested for planning a killing spree ending in the assassination of President Obama.
The effigy didn’t get as much coverage as the right wing bimbette who claimed a big nasty black man supporting Obama carved a “B” in her cheek, true, but it wasn’t as interesting.

Stop reminding us that right wingers are serious whiners. ”

Guess it depends on who you are wrote on Oct 31, 2008 6:49 AM:
” “Two men suspected of hanging a life-sized likeness of Barack Obama from a tree on the campus of the University of Kentucky were arrested Thursday.” How does it work that our Gov. is strung up and no one does anything but when it happens to Obama it becames cause for arrest? McCain/Palin 08!!! ”

MAXKATT from NY wrote on Oct 31, 2008 6:29 AM:
” Guy that did it is calling it decoration and an artistic statement. Probably would run into 1st amendment issues if you tried to challenge it. If they haven’t, I do think someone from Obama campagin should phone or visit, explain it’s not helpful, not what we’re about, and request it be taken down. ”

Dan Bielefeld wrote on Oct 31, 2008 5:16 AM:
” This is sad. There is a lot of hate and disrespect in so many places. These are the times when we should be uniting not igniting. I agree, this is uncalled for. ”

op wrote on Oct 31, 2008 4:30 AM:
” I’ll comment.
I think this person should be made to take this down and arrested. This is one of the wrongest of wrongs.
I am NOT voting for McCain or Palin but this hanging is nothing but a hate crime.
Obama-Biden 2008 “