Officer to protester: This ain't America no more, okay?
On Tuesday, a town hall meeting on health care was being held at South Lakes High School in Reston, Virginia, a district being represented by Democratic Congressman Jim Moran. But as usual, it became controversial between protesters and law enforcement.
David Owen
Anti Socialized Medicine rally in Fort Collins, CO
In a video plastered all over the Internet and YouTube, a demonstrator holding an anti-Obama sign that read 'Organizing for National Socialist Health Care | The Final Solution' is being told that he is not allowed to be there because the sign cannot be on school property.
The demonstrator asks the question, 'Why?' Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. responds, 'Because I told you you couldn't.' Several times the demonstrators asks for reasons and the officer responds, 'Because it can't be up there.'
One bystander defends the officer and says, 'School property has different first amendment rights than anywhere else.'
'If you put the picture back up, I will have to charge you with trespassing,' the officer later adds, 'If you put the picture back up after I asked you to take it down then I can charge you with whatever I want to charge you with.'
The demonstrators exclaims to the cop before he leaves, 'This is America!' The officer responds, 'It ain't no more, okay?'
