More Obama gangland tactics: Signs banned at Virginia rally today

[bijou]

Reader Ron e-mails that the Obama campaign has issued a decree banning all signs at a rally today at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia.

It is a public campus on public property.

The local newspaper, the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star is up in arms:

NOT ALL COUNTRIES guarantee their citizens the right to virtually unbridled freedom of speech. The United States does. Would someone please tell the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama? And the dozing guardians of liberty at the University of Mary Washington?

Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, is scheduled to speak at a rally at the university today. The public is invited to this forum, on property it, the public, owns. However, signs and banners will not be allowed, according to the organizers and compliant campus officials. Suddenly, UMW is a First Amendment-Free, or at least a First Amendment-Crippled, Zone, subject to the self-serving preferences of politicos. Why does an Obama rally–or a McCain rally or a Nader rally–justify taking a little off the top of Americans’ most fundamental rights?

A UMW spokeswoman says that the Obama campaign required the sign-and-banner ban. That campaign tells us that the ban is for “security” reasons. But a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, responsible for protecting presidential candidates, says that the service has no objection to signs at rallies, provided that no “part of the sign could be used as a weapon”–e.g., a heavy metal pole or a sharpened stick. Finally, the McCain campaign tells us, “We encourage people to make signs at our events.”

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/27/more-obama-gangland-tactics-signs-banned-at-virginia-rally-today/

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/092008/09272008/413770

A leftist rally with no signs. Perhaps he's afraid of the Blacks Against Obama people showing up again.

[Lacarnut]

McCain should nail his ass on this sign ban.

[rich_t]

McCain should nail his ass on this sign ban.

McCain perhaps should, but I doubt he will.

[formerlurker]

More Obama gangland tactics: Signs banned at Virginia rally today
By Michelle Malkin  •  September 27, 2008 10:21 AM Reader Ron e-mails that the Obama campaign has issued a decree banning all signs at a rally today at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia.

It is a public campus on public property.

The local newspaper, the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star is up in arms:

NOT ALL COUNTRIES guarantee their citizens the right to virtually unbridled freedom of speech. The United States does. Would someone please tell the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama? And the dozing guardians of liberty at the University of Mary Washington?

Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, is scheduled to speak at a rally at the university today. The public is invited to this forum, on property it, the public, owns. However, signs and banners will not be allowed, according to the organizers and compliant campus officials. Suddenly, UMW is a First Amendment-Free, or at least a First Amendment-Crippled, Zone, subject to the self-serving preferences of politicos. Why does an Obama rally–or a McCain rally or a Nader rally–justify taking a little off the top of Americans’ most fundamental rights?

A UMW spokeswoman says that the Obama campaign required the sign-and-banner ban. That campaign tells us that the ban is for “security” reasons. But a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, responsible for protecting presidential candidates, says that the service has no objection to signs at rallies, provided that no “part of the sign could be used as a weapon”–e.g., a heavy metal pole or a sharpened stick. Finally, the McCain campaign tells us, “We encourage people to make signs at our events.”
Just more Chicago gangland tactics from Camp Obama.

Careful out there. The Goon Squads are watching.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/27/more-obama-gangland-tactics-signs-banned-at-virginia-rally-today/

[RightCoast]

compare that with McCain going into the heart of Libtard cesspools - the union run GM plant where nObama supporters started shouting Obomba slogans at him.

[Baruch Menachem]

You know, Obama is reminding me of the President in Clancy's "Sum of All Fears."   He meets a problem and he panics and pushes all the wrong buttons first.

We are in for a very scary time if Obama wins.  I won't say for four years. He will probably have the earth as no more than a glowing cinder by the time he finishes.