NationStates Jolt Archive

"A city councilman in Lancaster County, Pa., wants a local merchant to remove a photo of George W. Bush from a stall in a local market because the image is offensive to local Democrats, reports the Lancaster New Era.

David Stoltzfus has had the president’s image hanging in his Central Market baked-goods stand for a couple years now. He says it is there to honor the office of president.

But City Councilman Nelson Polite wants the picture down. He says political paraphernalia has no business on public property. Besides, says the Democrat: "Bush didn’t win here [in Lancaster City]. It is like rubbing salt on a wound."

Because Stoltzfus has so far refused to take down the image, Polite says he will ask the city council to change the law so that all political items would be banned in public places."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,141281,00.html


Imagine that, the presidents picture on the wall of a public place. The nerve. :rolleyes:

Didn't some mall ban Santa because he'd be offensive to non-Christian shoppers?

(Yes, I see the irony in that as a concept, too...)

There are a lot of idiotic, over-sensitive people out there.

This is wrong in just about every possible way.

At what point does PC turn into persecution of those whom you disagree with? This seems to be a fine example.

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Imagine that, the presidents picture on the wall of a public place. The nerve. :rolleyes:
It's public propert?

It's public propert?
That's what the article says.