Police seize political sign depicting an elephant with its trunk up girl's skirt
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At some point during Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s testimony last week, Marion Stanford grabbed a piece of wooden paneling, some paint and the $5 brushes she had purchased awhile
back.
She brought the items back to her living room, where she had been glued to the television watching the drama unfold in the Senate that day. She had heard Christine Blasey Ford tell
senators that Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, was the boy who sexually assaulted her 36 years ago, when they were both in high school. And as she
listened to Kavanaugh’s forceful denial and defense of himself, Stanford began to paint.
She drew an elephant, the Republican symbol, in red, white and blue — with its trunk climbing up the skirt of a little blond girl in pink. Her eyes are wide open, and so is her mouth. The
word “HELP!” is right next to her face. On the opposite side of the paneling, she painted the words, “YOUR VOTE MATTERS” in the same shade of pink.
“The message is if you recognize this, if you understand this pain, if you are part of this movement, your vote matters,” Stanford said, referring to the #MeToo movement. Stanford
placed the sign outside her home in the Central Texas town of Hamilton, right below another sign supporting Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat trying to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz.
A few days later, on Tuesday night, a police officer showed up at her house. Stanford said the officer told her there had been complaints about her sign, which some saw as a graphic
depiction of child abuse. Earlier a woman knocked on Stanford’s door and told her she found the sign “disgusting.”
“It is pornography, and you can’t display it,” Stanford recalled the police officer saying. She was given a few choices, she said: Take the sign down, refuse and get arrested, or let
police confiscate it. She said she chose the last option. City officials denied threatening arrest.
Earlier that Tuesday, the sign caught the attention of Sid Miller, the Texas agriculture commissioner. Miller, who was reportedly on President Trump’s shortlist for U.S. agriculture
secretary, posted pictures of the sign on his Facebook page and claimed that the girl depicted was one of Kavanaugh’s young daughters. “The Democrat sleaze knows NO bounds,”
Miller, who’s again running for agriculture commissioner, wrote in a post that was later shared more than a thousand times. Miller’s campaign did not respond to a call and email
seeking comment Saturday. Stanford said the girl does not depict Kavanaugh’s daughter and portraying child abuse wasn’t her intention.
She said the yard sign was based on an editorial cartoon that Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes drew last year, when then-Senate candidate Roy Moore was accused of making
sexual advances to minors.
“I knew what the symbolism was. I know what my motivations were,” she said. Stanford, a self-described independent who frequently leans liberal, said she found Ford to be credible.
“I stand with those women. I stand with the women who want change, who have a voice and are making their voice heard,” Stanford said, again invoking the #MeToo movement. “And
the whole community is not going to stop me.”
Advanced bullshitting on the cops' part. How the hell did they manage to get to Kavanaugh's daughters who don't look anything like that?
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There are his kids in the picture.
spin spin spin
If that girl is Kavanaugh's daughter than that elephant is a 100% faithful drawing of donald trump.
Really it's a sorrow that conservatives didn't go into running film screening considering how good they are at projection.
"Freedom of speech is for me, and not thee."
"fuck you I got mine" -libertarianism
I think this probably falls under indecency or a similar law.
“It is pornography, and you can’t display it,” Stanford recalled the police officer saying.
Uhh what, let's have a judge decide on that, instead of Bobby Nightstick.
I dunno if it does or doesn't fall under indecency laws but the officer's claim is that it's pornography and I pretty vehemently disagree with that point.
The police officer wasn't lying when he said he thought it counted as porn.
You see, he runs a Deviantart account in his spare time.
Yeah that is really dumb. But it is obscene and should be removed regardless.
Trunkenaugh...
I hope she sues for having her 1st amendment rights violated.
Ah yes, the good old "It's indecent!" or the "It's disruptuve!" excuse. I do believe I've heard similar things from governments like China, Russia and other like-minded countries. Pillars of democracies, those.
What should happen next is a large number of people printing this design out en masse and plastering it up and down the country.
what does the article or point of discussion have anything to do with libertarianism
like what does that have to do with anything here
this whole 2 weeks have been an exercise in the right saying they should be heard and that the left and protestors don't have anything to say.
It's not even fucking close to obscene lmao, get over it
A depiction of a child being molested is pretty obscene whether it's graphic or not.
The right aren't natively libertarian though, even I could partially be labeled a libertarian.
This should end up as a protesting icon now lol
Even if it was obscene enough to remove from view (which I disagree with) that's kinda the point. The entire point is to bring attention to and cause outrage over this subject.
How does a stick figure with a dress equal to a child.
Both Mexican migrant children and the picture were seized by the US government.
If they'd just left it up it would have been seen by the handful of people that drive by and pay enough attention to see it. Now it's on the internet. Someone should tell the GOP what the Streisand effect is.
Odds are the cop was a Trump fan, couldn't stand seeing someone insult his party, and in classic fashion for an aryl lot of US police, abused his power to get his way.
If anything that person must be huge since they are as tall as an elephant.
Baby elephants aren't that large. If anything it's more appropriate
It's less obscene than actually molesting a girl, and we've clearly established the government is A-okay with that.
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