Guy With Obama-as-Hitler Sign Attacked

[Silcc69]

(Newser) – A man and his anti-Obama sign were attacked Monday morning in a San Francisco neighborhood, CBS San Francisco reports. The 29-year-old man had set up a table with political literature, and witnesses say he had an "Impeach Obama" sign showing President Obama sporting a Hitler mustache. A man and woman approached him around 11:30am, reportedly shook the table and tore the sign, then kicked the man in the hand and fled.
An amusingly obtuse SFPD captain says he doesn't know whether the victim supports or opposes Obama. A witness claims the victim supports left-wing activist Lyndon LaRouche, who opposes Obama, and last week SF Weekly had pictures of LaRouche supporters with a mustachioed Obama sign. The attackers are described as an Asian man with long black hair and a white woman with curly brown hair who made "no mention of a political affiliation," the captain says; they had dogs with them and fled the scene.

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I had to give onmyknees a freebie.

[Faldur]

This can't be true, the people of San Francisco are peace loving all inclusive progressives.

[Dino Velvet]

I attacked a guy that had a Hitler-as-Obama sign the other day myself.

[TJ347]

Freedom of speech, just make sure you say what I want to hear.

[Ineeda SM]

Lyndon LaRouche is NOT a left wing activist. He is a fucking communist. Left wingers and liberals nationwide hate that mother fucker. GEEE a communist that hates Obama. How can that be possible if Obama IS a communist, as the GOP claims?

There is nothing wrong with freedom of speech until it becomes slander. I always thought slander was illegal in America. But I must be in error.

Freedom of speech, just make sure you say what I want to hear.

A very strict FoxGOP channel policy.

[TJ347]

Bernie Sanders is a what and sits with adn votes with what party overwhelmingly? Well, well, well...

And you're certainly wrong about slander, or a number of people posting in Politics & Religion would stay in court, yourself likely included. Does Lyndon LaRouche claim to be a communist? If not, some would say you slandered him in your last post.

[Ineeda SM]

Bernie Sanders is a what and sits with adn votes with what party overwhelmingly? Well, well, well...

And you're certainly wrong about slander, or a number of people posting in Politics & Religion would stay in court, yourself likely included. Does Lyndon LaRouche claim to be a communist? If not, some would say you slandered him in your last post.

slan·der   /ˈslændər/ Source Random House Legal Dictionary
[slan-der]

–noun
1. defamation; calumny: rumors full of slander.
2. a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report: a slander against his good name.
3. Law . defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing, pictures, etc.
–verb (used with object)
4. to utter slander against; defame.
–verb (used without object)
5. to utter or circulate slander.

What people say in a forum like this one, are just argued opinions and falls under freedom of speech. We can call each other assholes, and it is not slander. But if I said you were a drug dealer and I have proof, you could take me to court and force me to give evidence or be charged with slander.

But a public accusation about a public person is considered a statement about the character of that person. If you make a false claim in public that defames the character of a person so that their public image is ruined or altered against them, it is slander. Making a person such as Obama to appear he is hitleresque in his belief and policies, defames their character enough to sway the public that they just might be another Hitler. This can hurt their position of authority.

The republicans and teabaggers did this constantly during the last presidential elections. They lied about Obama every day. Called him a Nazi, communist, socialist........Doing so made stupid people believe he was those things. That is defamation of character, or better known as SLANDER. But nobody seems to give a shit or do anything about it.

YES LaRouche is a communist. He has never admitted directly to being a Commie, but in interviews, he openly praised the teachings of Lenin and Marx, as a blueprint for his policies. His policies directly reflect a communist socialism form of government. He says that government should take control of all transportation and media to re-educate the people about being a nation of good followers. He says that search warrents should be outlawed to make it easier for the law to enter homes and find criminals. He says he would change the law to read, a person is guilty until determined innocent.....etc.. You have to be an idiot to not accept that as being a commie.

[hippifried]

The LaRouchies are teabaggers. Constantly complaining as loud as possible, with no earthly clue what it really is that they want. Check them out. The rhetoric is word for word the same.

[Stavros]

Isn't there a law in the US to cover this kind of thing? I once saw a lad aged about 25 or maybe a little older, in a supermarket in my town with a t-shirt, on the back of which was the legend, in white 'Jesus is a Cunt'-I don't know, if challenged he would have claimed it referred to a Mexican taxi driver called Jesus, it is actually the use of the word 'cunt' which is illegal under Section 5 of the Public Order Act -that part which argues the use of anti-social behaviour (which would include rude words on public display) could lead to a fight, disorder and so on.

I don't know if hitler moustaches work, but there are laws in most countries about these things.

[TJ347]

What people say in a forum like this one, are just argued opinions and falls under freedom of speech. We can call each other assholes, and it is not slander. But if I said you were a drug dealer and I have proof, you could take me to court and force me to give evidence or be charged with slander.

But a public accusation about a public person is considered a statement about the character of that person. If you make a false claim in public that defames the character of a person so that their public image is ruined or altered against them, it is slander. Making a person such as Obama to appear he is hitleresque in his belief and policies, defames their character enough to sway the public that they just might be another Hitler. This can hurt their position of authority.

The republicans and teabaggers did this constantly during the last presidential elections. They lied about Obama every day. Called him a Nazi, communist, socialist........Doing so made stupid people believe he was those things. That is defamation of character, or better known as SLANDER. But nobody seems to give a shit or do anything about it..

Maybe nobody gives a shit because you, and those like you, are such hypocrites. Here you are calling a man a Communist who has not himself identified as such, while simultaneously crying about Obama being called a socialist. Besides which, much of what you claim LaRouche supports is fascist in origin, yet you're so desperate to SLANDER him that anyone who disagrees with you has "to be an idiot to not accept that as being a commie", your inability to identify the difference between communism and fascism be damned.