I caught this story over at protein wisdom last night, but, quite frankly, after the dumpster dive at Crooks and Liars (previous post), I felt too dirty to continue using the laptop. And, it is a doozy!
Moving to nip in the bud some potential bad press, White House hopeful Barack Obama’s campaign persuaded a delegate to step down after she was ticketed for calling her neighbor’s African-American children “monkeys.“
Ticketed? What?
On Saturday, two neighbor children were playing in the tree next-door to her house.
Ramirez-Sliwinski “came outside and told the children to quit playing in the tree like monkeys. The tree was not on Ramirez-Sliwinski’s property,” Carpentersville Police Commander Michael Kilbourne said.
But, of course, the mother of the children felt it was racist, because the kids are Black (I refuse to use African-American. I ain’t that PC). I mean, jeez, all little kids are like monkeys when around trees, no matter what their color. But, here’s where it gets good
Ramirez-Sliwinski’s $75 ticket was for “disorderly conduct,” which Kilbourne defined as, “when a person does something that alarms or disturbs another.”
For calling two kids playing in a tree monkeys? That is alarming and/or disturbing enough to get her a ticket? This is being punished for speech, which, last time I checked, was guaranteed by the 1st Amendment. Sure, certain stuff, such as incitement to violence, and against the law, and rightly so, but this is beyond the pale. Next thing you know, I will be ticketed for the enormous number of times that I have not only called Democrats “surrender monkeys,” but actually used pictures of monkeys, and Barack Hussein Obama has been a part of that a few times.
Hey, let’s see that BHO, yokay?
 
