Suspect detained over 'extremist' bumper sticker ?
from WND http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.p...w&pageId=97374
Posted: May 07, 2009
10:45 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
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A Louisiana driver has been stopped and detained for having a "Don't Tread on Me" bumper sticker on his vehicle and warned by a police officer about the "subversive" message it sent, according to the driver's relative.
The situation developed in the small town http://kona.kontera.com/javascript/l...rey_loader.gif
of Ball, La., where a receptionist at the police department told WND she knew nothing about the traffic stop, during which the "suspect" was investigated for "extremist" activities, the relative said.
It followed by only a few weeks the release of a Department of Homeland Security report[ "Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment" , which prompted outrage from legislators and a campaign calling for the resignation of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.
The report cites individuals who sport certain bumper stickers on their vehicles as suspect, and it was delivered to tens of thousands of local law enforcement officers across the nation.
According to the relative, the situation happened this way:
Her brother-in-law was driving home from work through the town that has a local reputation for enhancing its budget by stopping speeders and ticketing them. He was pulled over by police officers who told him "he had a subversive survivalist bumper sticker on his car."
"They proceeded to keep him there on the side of the road while they ran whatever they do to see if you have a record, keeping him standing by the side of the road for 30 minutes," she told WND.
Finding no record and no reason to keep him, they warned him and eventually let him go, she said.
WND is withholding the driver's name and the relative's name at their request. However, the situation was described on the American Vision blog, too.
Hope y'all are ready for the Thought Police
