(F-Bomb) Free Or Die!
It’s still America. If some (F-bombing) (expletive) of a personal injury lawyer starts minding your business while you’re removing Democratic political signs that someone posted in your yard on Election Day in New Hampshire, you’re still free to call him an (F-bombing) (expletive). Portsmouth Herald:
By order of District Court Judge Sharon DeVries, released Monday, Eric Rieseberg, 59, of 300 Wentworth Rd., was exonerated of a misdemeanor count of criminal threatening.
The charge alleged Rieseberg put attorney Ryan Russman in fear by “entering” Russman’s “personal space,” yelling and raising his hands “in a manner which appeared to nearly strike (Russman) in the face.”
Based on evidence presented by New Castle Police Chief James Murphy during a Friday trial, the judge ruled Murphy did not prove Rieseberg acted with criminal intent, as required for a conviction.
During Friday’s trial, the judge dismissed a companion charge of disorderly conduct, which alleged Rieseberg called Russman a “f-ing a******.”
The New Castle police chief alleged Rieseberg’s use of the f-word was “not an exercise in free speech,” but used to provoke physical violence. Before dismissing that charge, Judge DeVries said Rieseberg’s use of the f-word, “wasn’t polite. It wasn’t small-town and it wasn’t admirable. But this set of facts does not support a charge of disorderly conduct.”
(F-bombing) A. You remember how this (F-bombing) thing played out:
… on Election Day, Nov. 4, 2008, a New Hampshire property owner was removing Democratic political signs someone else had planted on his property, when some busybody walking his dog verbally accosted him with the words, “What are you doing? You can’t do that. Who do you think you are?”
To which the property owner, quite reasonably, responded, “Who the (F-bomb) are you?”
At which point the dog owner, who turns out to be a professional busybody, a.k.a. lawyer,* sought to impress the property owner with that fact by presenting his business card. The property owner looked it over, and announced, “Ryan Russman, you are a (F-bombing) (expletive).”
The Portsmouth Herald report is silent on whether the ruling by Judge DeVries … champion of American freedom, defender of the (F-bombing) rights of red-blooded American (mofos) … addressed the issue of whether or not Ryan Russman is in fact an (F-bombing) (expletive). That does not appear to have been a point of dispute, though it is conceivable it might be relevant for defense counsel to establish the fact for a jury of Rieseberg’s peers, in the event they weren’t able to figure it out for themselves.
How close we came to a new tyranny, the kind of Euro-shackles the founders of this great nation threw off more than two centuries ago. The freedom to say things that might hurt others’ feelings, perhaps even cause brief alarm, when they poke their noses into a man’s business as he tends to that most American of civic values, seeing to his own yard.
Vodkapundit: America, F-yeah!
Topics: free speech, lawyers
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:06 pm Comments (6) on Tuesday, February 24, 2009
6 Responses to “(F-Bomb) Free Or Die!”
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February 25th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
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February 25th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
At last. A breath of common sense.
February 25th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
I’ve never met the man, but I must agree, Russman is a f-ing a******.
February 25th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
[...] How close we were to total dictatorship? I’m not speaking of the latest decree of the Obama administration, rather a simple court case, where yet another lawyer proves, without a doubt, that if the human race were a body, Democrat lawyers are where you would put the enema. [...]
February 26th, 2009 at 8:34 am
I can pretty much guarantee you that the lawyer was not a native-born New Hampshirite, but was instead, a transplant from either the people’s republic of Vermont or the Kennedy’s republic of Massachusetts.
The judge, on the other hand, sounds like a native.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:00 am
“…the issue of whether or not Ryan Russman is in fact an (F-bombing) (expletive).”
As I understand it, when both sides agree to accept an issue without debate it’s said to be “stipulated.” Clearly Russman’s status as a (F-bombing) (expletive) had been stipulated.