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Peter Glickert, a Democratic Party strategist, has posted a video on his HatingnotDebating blog that sheds a little more light on an incident at yesterday’s Hillsboro, Missouri town hall meeting.
The video spotlights Maxine Johnson of St. Louis, Missouri. After being informed that signs were not permitted inside the hall, Johnson rolled-up her sign and placed it at her feet. In Glickert’s video, a reporter approaches Johnson—apparently asking her what her sign says. As Johnson unrolls the sign a man approaches, snatches the sign, and wads it up on his way back to his seat.
The sign featured a picture of Rosa Parks with the words “First Lady of Civil Rights.” A furious Johnson was escorted from the hall, and the sign-stealer—whose name has not been released—was arrested on suspicion of assault.
The photos below Glickert’s August 11, 2009 post were taken at the same event (“Youth In Asia” is apparently a homophone for “Euthanasia”: that, or people in China “will” kill your grandmother, future tense).