A friend sent me a link to a story about an Oklahoma City police officer pulling a motorist over for having an "Abort Obama Not the Unborn" sign on his car. The sign was confiscated and the Secret Service investigated. [More]
Many of you are aware that there is a vocal effort being waged challenging Obama's "natural born citizen" credentials. While supporters predictably dismiss this as sour grapes by right wing kooks, the issue is divisive enough that we as Americans deserve to see it unequivocally resolved without partisan rhetoric from either side.
The thought strikes--while the sign was eventually returned, motorist Chip Harrison's First Amendment right was temporarily abridged. He ought to have legal recourse for that.
Since the alleged violation he committed involved a threat against the president, wouldn't determining if the person he was accused of threatening actually was the president be admissible?
Perhaps if Harrison does not have standing, anyone currently charged with making a threat against the president ought to have their attorney explore this further...
Many of you are aware that there is a vocal effort being waged challenging Obama's "natural born citizen" credentials. While supporters predictably dismiss this as sour grapes by right wing kooks, the issue is divisive enough that we as Americans deserve to see it unequivocally resolved without partisan rhetoric from either side.
The thought strikes--while the sign was eventually returned, motorist Chip Harrison's First Amendment right was temporarily abridged. He ought to have legal recourse for that.
Since the alleged violation he committed involved a threat against the president, wouldn't determining if the person he was accused of threatening actually was the president be admissible?
Perhaps if Harrison does not have standing, anyone currently charged with making a threat against the president ought to have their attorney explore this further...