Peoria, Arizona Sgt. Pat Shearer was at the center of a recent Secret Service investigation after snapping a photograph of gun-wielding teenagers hoisting a bullet-ravaged t-shirt of President Obama. Shearer admitted to being embarrassed that the picture made its way to Facebook, but dismissed the actions of the kids as nothing more than a "political statement."
The secret service says that this whole ignorant mess is protected by "free speech," but by that logic, there should've been a bunch of Swiss-cheesed Reagan tees in every hood during the '80's. Right?
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Injynqbs January 29th, 2012 at 10:34 PM
"Political Statement?" If the person on the front of that shirt was actually in it, we'd call that "assassination". How bout getting those kids BACK in the classroom, ey? That's exactly why I don't like politics. People wanna use their trigger finger to solve somethin instead of their brains. Train those kids up (and I guess the cop too) to be congressmen or some other moving force in the govt instead of adding to the riff raff that's already out here. Be original for crying out loud. It's sad ppl can't respect their own President whether you like them or not. That says the most about what you REALLY think about your country and that's why other countries think we look like greedy, money hungry, materialistic idiots...It's frustrating.
ch January 29th, 2012 at 10:39 PM
Never has the office of the president been disrespected so much.
Chief568 February 29th, 2012 at 12:37 PM
Oh PLEASE! They had effigies of Bush being hanged and burned. And pictures of Bush depicted as HITLER! Keep trying.
mb January 30th, 2012 at 03:04 AM
the tee "just do it"... just scary :s
bob January 30th, 2012 at 07:17 PM
Who cares...the more this spreads around the more people are helping these kids achieve their goal...to make a statement! Jeez..its not like they are gonna kill the guy. If there were people who really wanted the man dead, he would be already. The officer should have used common sense and just declined taking the photo