War Protest Has Captive Audience

[IndianaGreen]

October 24, 2005

War Protest Has Captive Audience
No matter how much neighbors may try to ignore it, effigy gives display a high profile.

By Eric Bailey, Times Staff Writer

SACRAMENTO — Morning begins on Marty Way. Sprinklers slap across crew-cut lawns, and the rising sun angles through a thick canopy of trees. As neighbors head to work, they hardly glance anymore at the block's oddest sight.

The soldier is still there.

Affixed under the gingerbread eaves of Stephen and Virginia Pearcy's place is the figure of a U.S. serviceman in desert camouflage and helmet. A balled-up American flag forms the head. A noose is cinched around the neck, just above the sign reading, "Bush Lied, I Died."

Early on, TV news cameras caught young vandals tearing down the effigy. Talk radio buzzed over a clash of free speech and neighborhood norms. Internet blogs called the Pearcys seditious creeps.

Their persistent stand never attracted the media horde that chronicled Cindy Sheehan's summertime vigil in Crawford, Texas. But the Pearcys' home-front display, which first appeared in January, has proved an improbably enduring presence on Marty Way.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-effigy24oct24,0,3080143.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[texpatriot2004]

1. Good for them. Glad to see they are protesting; unique protest. nt

[No Exit]

2. The Pearcys' display should be hung on the Washington Monument. n/t