The Peaceful people: The Left
From the
St Petersburg Times comes this perfect example of teaching by example and why the left have so much to say about peace in the world:
Bumper sticker evokes road rage -- Her Bush-Cheney sticker sent him into a tirade that led to a dangerous car chase through the streets of Tampa.
Politics has always been divisive, splitting families and turning friend against friend.
This week, though, a Tampa woman learned that simple Bush-Cheney bumper sticker can bring trouble, if not danger, from a total stranger.
Police say Michelle Fernandez, 35, was chased for miles Tuesday by an irate 31-year-old Tampa man who cursed at her as he held up an anti-Bush sign and tried to run her off the road.
His sign, about the size of a business letter, read:
Never Forget Bush's Illegal Oil War Murdered Thousands in Iraq.
"I guess this was a disgruntled Democrat," Tampa Police spokesman Joe Durkin said. "Maybe he has that sign with him so he's prepared any time he comes up against a Republican."
Screw them -- the election was about five months ago.
Wake up and smell the cappuccino bub...
Anyway, they caught the moke:
Police arrested Nathan Alan Winkler at his home on N Cleveland Street near Hyde Park within an hour of the incident.
After finding the antiwar sign in his car, they booked him into the county jail on one count of aggravated stalking, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison, Durkin said.
And the Mom who was chased by this lunatic?
"At first I didn't know why he was screaming at me," she said. "Then it clicked."
In her frantic nine-minute call Tuesday to a 911 dispatcher, Fernandez said it was the Bush Cheney '04 bumper sticker on her green Ford Expedition that set the other driver off.
"I was just almost run off the road by a man," she told the dispatcher at 5:14 p.m. She was taking her son, 10, and daughter, 3, to a ballfield.
"He just ran me off because I have a Bush bumper sticker in my car. He had some type of - he drove up next to me with - he had a sign on it like hanging from his - from the passenger window, that said something about the war in Iraq. . . . I'm shaking like a leaf."
I am not saying that there are not some Lunatic right wing people out there -- there are. Lunatics from the conservative side of things do not spend their days trying to run mothers off the road based on a piece of paper on their bumper, they just hole up in the wilderness somewhere, Liberals just want to squirt their joy and self-rightousness everywhere...
Posted by DaveH at March 10, 2005 11:05 PM