Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee.

[jefferson_dem]

Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee.



After picking up his 10-year old daughter from school yesterday afternoon, Nashville resident Mark Duren was driving home when he was suddenly and intentionally rammed from behind by Harry Weisiger. Enraged at the sight of Duren’s Obama bumper sticker, Weisiger gave Duren “the bird” and then hit him from behind, leading to a violent series of events. Nashville’s WKRN reports:

“He pointed at the back of my car,” Duren said, “the bumper, flipped me off, one finger salute.”

But it didn’t end there.

Duren told News 2 that Weisiger honked his horn at him for awhile, as Duren stopped at a stop sign.

Once he started driving again, down Blair Boulevard, towards his home, he said, “I looked in the rear view mirror again, and this same SUV was speeding, flying up behind me, bumped me.”

Duren said he applied his brake and the SUV smashed into the back of his car.

He then put his car in park to take care of the accident, but Weisiger started pushing the car using his SUV.

Duren said, “He pushed my car up towards the sidewalk, almost onto the sidewalk.”

Watch a video of the report:

Weisiger has been charged with felony reckless endangerment.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/26/bumper-sticker-violence/

[missmel224]

1. this kind of garbage scares me.

Unfortunately I live in Alabama, and I have an Obama bumper sticker, I am just waiting for the moment someone starts with me.

[graywarrior]

2. This is going to happen more and more

In 2004, I got run off the road in Florida due to my Kerry sticker.

[tandot]

3. That is the reason I took off all of my bumper sticker

There are too many violent Obama/Democrat haters out there and I don't want anything to happen to my son

[missmel224]

6. I hate to have to do that..

but I also have a son, and I am pregnant with another, I would hate for some asshole to harm them.

[Dappleganger]

19. Our first duty as parents is to our children

and their safety. I try to not do anything which would bring the crazies into our lives.

We don't put any bumper stickers on our car, really never have for this reason. There is *always* someone who will disagree. We have had our tires slashed before during the Obama campaign (never knew who did it but I have my suspicions). There's nothing on our extremely common, silver minivan (which is nearly impossible to identify) which says where our kids go to school, what sports they play, their names, etc. No gun stickers, no peace signs, nothing but a very faded breast-cancer support cling which probably needs to come down too.

It's not that we're afraid, it's just that we're trying to be smart.

[and-justice-for-all]

14. fuck those pricks

I have the same bumper stick on my car that is in my signature, I also have a "Religion: All Nonsense, All the time" bumper sticker and a "Support Law Enforcement" sticker (because my spouse is a Cop).

I feel sorry for the piece of shit puke fascist asshole who wants to start some shit with us.

[Clio the Leo]

18. Just took mine off.

My father was a member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, did voter registration drives in the '60s and had been urging me to do so already because of all of this crazyness. I dont live in Nashville, but I DO live in TN.

This insanity wont last forever and I can get a new bumper sticker more easily than I can get a new car or a new me.

[TwilightGardener]

36. I took mine off after the election. Just didn't want to chance any damage or nuttiness.

[Gman2]

4. I hate seeing the future.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Gman2/56

[and-justice-for-all]

10. Harry Weisiger and the like are not the future...

they are actually people who fear the future and change.

[ProSense]

5. Anyone want to keep making excuses for these lunatics?

Anyone?

[Jennicut]

7. The 10 year old in the car could have been seriously hurt...a child. WTF are these people thinking

about? I know, why bother asking. They are clearly nuts.

[Dappleganger]

21. They're NOT thinking, that's the point!

They're just completely overtaken by rage, encouraged and validated by RW media and GOP leaders.

[deutsey]

8. Jeesh. If I did what this jerk did everytime I see a stupid GOP sticker around here

I'd go through cars more cars than the cops on Dukes of Hazzard.

[LiberalFighter]

32. That would be the time to have a Hummer or a tank

[and-justice-for-all]

9. Fucking neaderthral....nt

[1776Forever]

11. Wonder if Weisiger had any bumper stickers of his own? Hannity/Rush/Beck/Tea Party/etc.?

They all spell HATE!

Terrible and this is what it has come too. So many of us had tried to get something done about Beck et al but it just didn't happen. Shameful tactics with a 10-year-old girl in the car yet! Disgusting!

:argh:

[Teaser]

12. maybe I do need to arm myself

after all.

[Dappleganger]

22. See my tag.

[flpoljunkie]

13. Words are powerful. They have consequences. The GOP and Fox need to take heed before it's too late.

[Blaukraut]

15. This will not end well unless something is done to stop hate speech

by Talk radio, FOX, and elected officials. Free speech be damned if it crosses the line into incendiary rhetoric.

[Gwoppi]

38. Truer words never spoken

And lurking here two years I've seen a certain cadre of DUers regularly make fun of anyone who compares what is happening now in America to documented prior cases of identical conditions which led to actual horror in other countries. Compare RW violence of rhetoric and behavior to the rise of the similar brownshirts of Nazi Germany, some smug script kiddie will retort, "Godwin's Law". Compare it to the far more closely identical start of the Rwandan genocide, the same script kiddie or other /4/chan wannabe will poke fun to humiliate the comparer into helping (whom exactly?) raise DU's threshold for accepting increasingly more aggressive forms of domestic violence. Yet both the campaigns of hatred I cited began identically: with deliberate and state-enabled misuse of public media to promote violent rhetoric against an innocent nemesis until increasingly aggressive acts against that nemesis became both state-sanctioned and out of control.

So fuck Mike Godwin and fuck his little vanity law. I hereby vanity-invent Duck Law: If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and is yellow like a duck, it's a goddamned duck. End of debate.

[tabbycat31]

16. I've been circled on the highway before

because of the 2 Obama stickers on my car. Freaked me out, but it was clearly a wingnut circling me (the entire back end of his truck read Palin 2012

[smoogatz]

17. Fox Newz Incitement.

Just wait--it's going to get worse. If you can stand it, check out freeptardland sometime--they're all talking armed insurrection and civil war. They basically feel justified in encouraging people to kill liberals. While I doubt very many of them have the balls to actually do anything more violent than going upstairs to Mom's fridge for a Mountain Dew and a Ding-Dong, a few of them are sufficiently crazy to actually cross the line into violent action--and it only takes a few to get the ball rolling.

[Dappleganger]

23. Road rage is so bad around here already.

If you piss someone off it's not uncommon to be followed/stalked for miles. We have bumper-tag accidents often due to this. Guns have been brandished or even used just over how somebody drives. It would be surprising to hear at all that cars will be used as weapons to chase down people because of a damn bumper stick and then to pull out a gun.

It's time to bring in the great equalizers, folks. There's no negotiations with someone at 70 mph who is trying to kill you over a sticker when you have children in the backseat.

They just don't freaking care!

[Phx_Dem]

20. I've got one on my car and it's staying there.

Fuck the wackos.

[zulchzulu]

24. Give him a call

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=UaB&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=Harry+Weisiger+tennessee&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

[smoogatz]

25. Bad idea.

It's what they'd do. Let the courts deal with him.

[zulchzulu]

26. OK. Maybe mail him an Obama sticker...

:rofl:

[smoogatz]

28. Now you're talking.

Love it.

[olegramps]

27. He looks like the product of hillbilly incest.

[smoogatz]

29. Product or perpetrator?

Take your pick, I guess.

[madamesilverspurs]

30. I got flipped off and cussed at

within minutes of putting the Obama sticker on the back of my car. So I put an Obama sticker on each side of the car as well.

Do NOT mess with old ladies who walk with a cane.

-

[vaberella]

31. This asshole is fucked up. The man had his kid in the car.

Dear God. Fuck republicans.

[LiberalFighter]

33. He needs to spend a few months in jail.

[AngryAmish]

34. Bumper stickers are asshole magnets

I think having one is a passive aggressive act. Blame the victim? Hardly.

[hayu_lol]

35. Perhaps such an extreme example ought to carry...

a charge of attempted murder...number of counts depending on the number of passengers in the attacked vehicle.

Be difficult for the sucker to come up with bail for attempted murder.

[damonm]

37. I'd like to see one of these a-holes...

try that on me.
I go 6'1", 270 (played offensive line in HS), and have had some people back down REAL fast when I got out of the car & stood up...