"Virginia Man Temporarily Detained After Protesting Obama With Loaded Weapons On Highway Overpass"

[applegrove]

Virginia Man Temporarily Detained After Protesting Obama With Loaded Weapons On Highway Overpass

HUFFINGTON POST | By Caitlin MacNeal

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/obama-overpass-protest-virginia_n_3829902.html

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A tea party protester was temporarily detained on Tuesday after taking to an overpass in Hopewell, Va. with multiple guns to rail against President Barack Obama, according to WTVR, a Richmond, Va. CBS affiliate.

The protest was part of a campaign launched by conservative groups at the beginning of the summer, aiming to gather support for a movement to impeach Obama by standing on highway overpasses with signs.

Brandon Howard took his protest a little further: he was carrying a loaded assault rifle and a semi-automatic handgun on the overpass. He claimed that he was exercising his right to free speech and his right to bear arms by holding a sign that read "Impeach Obama" -- and wearing his guns.

“We have a tyrant in office right now; he thinks he’s a king," Howard said to WTVR. “If we don’t exercise these rights, the rights have no value."




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[applegrove]

1. Good lord they are deluded and even scarier...taking action. Such is the

life of GOP pawns and patsies.

[onehandle]

2. Just another responsible gun owner. nt

[Robb]

3. Man alone with rifle in elevated position.

Yeah, baffling he got any friction with that act.

[greiner3]

4. I lived in and around Hopwell for 10 years.

From the article;

"...and he moved his signs to Colonial Heights (pretty much adjacent to one another).

CH's nickname was/is Colonial Whites as Petersburg (the 3 cities are known as, you got it, the tri-cities) is mostly Black and CW/CH is...

All in all, a bunch of nasty little towns a bit south of Richmond.

[gopiscrap]

5. OMG I always worry that one of these some racist asshole cracker

is going to get a shot off at Obama. God help our nation...just keep praying for his safety.

[Cha]

6. Idiot.

[Scurrilous]

7. Another Impeach Obama bozo heard from...

...these people are all nutjobs.