Virginia Teabagger stands on highway overpass with automatic weapon, pistol, and Impeach Obama sign

[underpants]

http://wtvr.com/2013/08/27/constitutionalist-carries-assault-rifle-protests-obama/

HOPEWELL, Va. (WTVR) – A local Tea Party member has been protesting perched above busy overpasses, with his assault rifle and semi-automatic handgun in plain sight.

“I was illegally searched, my weapons were illegally taken from me, I was illegally detained. I was publicly humiliated.”

We asked Howard if he escalated the demonstration for publicity. He said “no.”

“If you’re a sworn officer to uphold the law, it might make sense to know the law you’re trying to uphold,” was his retort.


VIDEO at link

[Cooley Hurd]

1. "Hey! All I was doing was sitting in a clock tower waving a sniper rifle!"

"Why is every-body always pick-ing on me?"

Sometime in the future, someone will misread one of these "protests" and take the doofus out from behind.

[underpants]

3. 2 points - first remember when the anti-war and anti-W people were on overpasses....

and they got ordered off for "safety reasons" or were actually arrested? I do. I'm not arguing with you at all but when I heard this on the radio (the local RW radio host even called this stunt "dumb&quot I remembered all of the instances where no guns were involved and they still were told to "move along".

second - the guy clearly knows the law but he might have the right to do it but it isn't the right thing to do. Most people don't know gun laws THAT well and when they see someone with a gun they call the cops.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. You might've misread what I wrote, thinking it was tacit approval of the gun nut's actions

I was being sarcastic about the clock tower quip. This clown was a danger to all that passed over or under the overpass. He may have a "right" to stand on an overpass waving a gun, but with such a right comes responsibility. It's not responsible to stand on an overpass waving your gun, lest someone will misread your protest and take you out from behind.

[underpants]

8. No I got it

I just wanted to point out how "the left" was treated doing the same thing (without guns).

[Cooley Hurd]

15. Gotcha. They were holding signs and should've been left alone.

The dimwit with the guns, on the other hand...

[Shankapotomus]

30. I didn't misread it

It was hilarious.

[pinboy3niner]

11. I'll give you 2 bonus points for the clock tower sniper historical reference

[Blue_Tires]

2. Such a fuckin' tough guy

[olddots]

4. nice guns you manly man

your 15 seconds are over now .

[Turbineguy]

5. What is it with these people?

Did Rush Limbaugh promise them 72 virgins?

[11 Bravo]

28. That guy would have settled for a jar of peanut butter and a poodle.

[reflection]

29. .

[Turbineguy]

34. Ooooof!

[icymist]

7. Caring guns in the open in public are now free speech? Just like money = free speech?

From the article:

<snip>
However, the chief says, and legal experts agree, that there’s a fine line between individual rights and public safety. University of Richmond law professor Jack Preis references Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. opinion in Schenck v. United States, often paraphrased as “shouting fire in a crowded theater.”

Holmes ruling addressed the opposition of free speech and “clear and present danger.” Thus, even if citizens have the right to free speech, falsely yelling fire could incite panic and create danger. The ruling was later overturned by a 1969 case that limited the scope of banned speech to that which may incite lawless action.
<un-snip>

We're one step closer to bringing back the wild west! Yee Haw!

[mysuzuki2]

19. But free speech is no longer free speech.

Just ask the singers in the Wisconsin capitol.

[icymist]

20. Oh yeah, I almost forgot....

The cops have guns and the politicians work for the money interests.

[City Lights]

9. Idiot bagger.

Can you hear me laughing at you, Mr. Teabagger?

[Brother Buzz]

10. I call bullshit!

It is genetically impossible publicly humiliate a teabagger.

[aikoaiko]

12. A lawful idiot.

[Boom Sound 416]

13. I was kinda with him for argument sake until

Publicly humiliated.

[underpants]

22. clearly he is a dashboard believer

He believes those voice coming from his dashboard - I would guess a Glenn Beck devotee. RW radio begins every story by playing victim.

[Boom Sound 416]

26. It's like baking a cake

[KinMd]

14. Imagine the reaction if some African-American -Obama supporters were on an overpass

with semi automatic weapons? They'd call in an air strike

[polichick]

18. No kidding! What a country.

[JHB]

24. They wouldn't get one, but they would get a FOX film crew

Just think of how they've milked the New Black Panther Party, without providing evidence that it has enough members to fill a school bus.

[westerebus]

16. That's the result of living down stream from a DuPont plant.

Some things you just can't fix.

[underpants]

23. Kepone Trucking!!!

Ha! spot on westerebus

[shenmue]

17. FBI, hello?

We've got another one.

[Dawson Leery]

21. Sounds like a "Sovereign Citizen".

[hack89]

25. What an idiot. nt

[treestar]

27. He was not charged, the article says

Doesn't say what the arrest was for. If he had a right to have the gun, then it doesn't seem there was any reason to arrest him.

Exercising the right to free speech - it's for idiots, too.

[WCLinolVir]

31. To me it's an act of terror to carry a gun in a public place un-holstered.

In the wild west the guns were holstered. These asses carry assault rifles in hand and I would not blame someone for taking someone out, because if their judgment is so impaired to take such a weapon into a public space, then they can't be trusted.

[ck4829]

32. Police question me, people think I'm crazy... this all means Obama is a tyrant!

[Auntie Bush]

33. Someone needs to dunk that teabag er in boiling water and let him steep for awhile.

In fact that's what we need to do to most all the baggers.