Today in Iowa: Hunting posters for Immigrant season

[hawkeye21]

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https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/politics/2024/08/14/hampton-iowa-police-investigating-anti-immigrant-signs-invoking-donald-trump/74800662007/

See for yourself. This is the kind of people we're dealing with. How can we possibly play nice when MAGA Trump cult members are publicly calling for the hunting down of human beings because they are immigrants?

Are media members going to ask the cult leader for a reaction to this act done in his name? And how much different is this than inciting people to attack the US Capitol or to suggest that a sitting VP might need to be hanged?

The man who posted these things has been arrested, but the cult leader he worships is allowed to roam free. "Justice for all"? There is no bigger lie in the United States of America than that one. And it makes me sick.

[Solly Mack]

1. Sick. Depraved.

[Fla Dem]

2. Deplorable and disgusting. But that's the GOP.

[Bettie]

3. And yet, the US food chain

would collapse without undocumented workers.

I'm in Iowa too....hopefully none in my stupid little town today.

[displacedvermoter]

4. Larry Sailer speaks with forked tongue!

[pat_k]

5. Daniel Embree, of Hampton, is charged with eight counts of second-degree harassment

At least that is something.

Per Google: Second-degree harassment carries up to one year of incarceration and up to a $2,560 fine.

I hope he is convicted on all eight and given the maximum for each to be served consecutively. The nature of this "harassment" is so egregious it should have a hate crime multiplier.

[hawkeye21]

6. And yet Donald Trump remains free . . .

after merely trying to overthrow the government of the United States, among other criminal and treasonous acts.

[stopdiggin]

8. we'll see where this goes

once it hits the courts. I would imagine there's probably lawyers lining up. And the argument will follow that this is self evidently meant as humor. Without any element of eminent threat or intent. And so very clearly free speech.
The fact that Hispanic business was targeted here adds an element of racism - but without direct threat, it remains to be seen whether that will be enough to override the foregoing.

To be clear - I think it is hateful, ugly, and damaging to the public space - (along with about zero 'humor' involved) - but that doesn't preclude free speech.

[pat_k]

10. I hope such arguments don't fly, but of course they may.

But given the tinderbox that has been created by calls for "elimination" of the "migrant" threat (you notice they no longer distinguish status - the calls to action from Trump and MAGA are now aimed at all non-white migrants, regardless of documentation status), this poster strikes me as about as humorous as a burning cross. It is incitement to violence, whatever the so called "humorous" intention of the perpetrator.

[stopdiggin]

11. I can only agree.

While reiterating that we haven't gotten to the point where we have prohibited this fomenting of hatred.

As disgusting (and as we both argue, dangerous) as the BoogieBoys, the ProudBoys, the KKK and DJTrump are ....

[rsdsharp]

7. I'm sure our great attorney general, Brenna Bird will be all over that.

[moondust]

9. "taped to multiple Hispanic-owned businesses"

[RandomNumbers]

12. We only wish it were "The" Sick F*ck.

Seems TSF exists BECAUSE of a sadly large set of SF's in this country.