I’m hardly unbiased when it comes to politics — as are the vast majority of people — and I’ve harbored thoughts of performing horribly violent acts on people driving SUV behemoths in front of me with three or more Bush campaign stickers on the back window. But what makes me a “good” person is that I have a modicum of self-control and a general understanding of right and wrong.
So I’ll live vicariously through this guy:
A Tampa man apparently enraged by a Bush-Cheney sticker on a woman’s sport utility vehicle faces felony charges after chasing her for miles, allegedly trying to run her off the road and displaying an anti-Bush sign, police said.
… Nathan Alan Winkler, 31, was free after posting $2,000 bond early Wednesday on a single charge of aggravated stalking, which carries a maximum five-year prison sentence.
… Winkler told police officers he got upset with the woman, 35-year-old Michelle Fernandez, after she made an obscene hand gesture, Durkin said. Fernandez was taking her 10-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter to a ball field in her Ford Expedition Tuesday when the incident occurred.
… Police said Winkler had a sign in his Nissan sedan that read, “Never Forget Bush’s Illegal War Murdered Thousands in Iraq.” “Maybe he has that sign with him so he’s prepared any time he comes up against a Republican,” Durkin said.
The unsurprising part about this is that she was driving an Expedition. I’d say that 99% of the Bush stickers I see are affixed to SUVs. And I’ve never seen one on a Prius, that’s certain. What’s also certain is that this idiot Winkler was carrying around a protest sign and almost certainly started this incident by flashing his sign at her, which instigated the “obscene gesture.”
Hey, am I alone in thinking that the “obscene gesture” — assuming it was what we all think it was — is hardly “obscene” in this day and age? (Maybe I should keep my mouth shut before the FCC starts fining “digital” TV stations…)
