Controversial student painting will come down from Capitol walls, lawmaker says!
Well it’s about DAMN TIME!!!
There is a world of difference between “Free Speech” and being an ass hole! This painting and the politicians that defended it, are the later of the two.
“A controversial student painting portraying police and protesters as animals will be removed from the U.S. Capitol walls next week, a lawmaker who pushed for its removal said Friday.
Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) said in a statement that he had been informed by House Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s office that Capitol officials had deemed the painting in violation of House rules and that it would be removed Tuesday, a day after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Reichert, a former county sheriff, asked Ryan earlier this week to have the painting removed, citing rules against “depicting subjects of contemporary political controversy or a sensationalistic or gruesome nature” on the Capitol premises.”
I am a writer. So I am most definitely “Pro- 1st Amendment”, and I know that there are things that I write that people don’t agree with. However, there is a line that I do not cross.
I may hate psycho pedophiles, but I don’t come out and say that they should be publicly executed. There’s a line that you just DON’t cross. I truly feel that this painting, and the act of defending it; crosses that line.