Effigy of KY governor Beshear hung from tree at 2nd Amendment rally outside his house

[essentialsaltes]

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

A group of protesters holding a rally outside of Gov. Andy Beshear's mansion at the state Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, Sunday hung an effigy of the governor on a tree outside.

The protest was advertised on Facebook as a Patriot Day Rally to exercise Second Amendment rights.
As the rally was winding down, someone drove up in a pick up truck and pulled the effigy of Beshear out of a bag and hung it on a tree, Gerry Seavo James told CNN.
The effigy had a note around its neck with the Latin phrase "sic semper tyrannis," which roughly translates to "thus always to tyrants." Generally attributed to Brutus, the phrase was shouted by the assassin John Wilkes Booth when he shot President Abraham Lincoln and is also the state motto of Virginia.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

A group of protesters holding a rally outside of Gov. Andy Beshear's mansion at the state Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, Sunday hung an effigy of the governor on a tree outside.

The protest was advertised on Facebook as a Patriot Day Rally to exercise Second Amendment rights.
As the rally was winding down, someone drove up in a pick up truck and pulled the effigy of Beshear out of a bag and hung it on a tree, Gerry Seavo James told CNN.
The effigy had a note around its neck with the Latin phrase "sic semper tyrannis," which roughly translates to "thus always to tyrants." Generally attributed to Brutus, the phrase was shouted by the assassin John Wilkes Booth when he shot President Abraham Lincoln and is also the state motto of Virginia.

It was good to see someone pull it down somewhat quickly and to have someone in power (Mitch) denounce it before waiting to see if it is politically beneficial to denounce it.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Harmless protesters exercising their First Amendment rights.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Well, that explains everything. Holding rallies and using free speech is not the answer. It's time for death threats against politicians.

Responding to the backlash, one of the protest’s organizers took to Facebook and said that this is what happens when people have “stood by and watched this Governor drag people thru the mud and do nothing.”

“People have had enough, the rallies that you attend and speak at, do absolutely nothing to help the people of this State,” Kentucky 3Percenters Inc. State Secretary Patsy Kays Bush on Facebook. “It was not racist it was radical…You can condemn it till the cows come home but screaming and shouting in a microphone is not the answer any longer,….maybe it was in bad taste, maybe it was severe, maybe it was unexpected but at least it was something and I personally will stand by it to the absolute end.”

 

[essentialsaltes]

I understand this refers to the person who hung the effigy.

More details:

The protester who hoisted an effigy of Gov. Andy Beshear from a tree at the Kentucky state Capitol has been fired from his job at an auto dealership.

Terry Bush, president of the Kentucky 3 Percenters group, was fired by Neil Huffman Auto Group on Tuesday, his wife Patsy Bush confirmed Wednesday morning.

 

[High Fidelity]

Good. Losing his job is a good start.

 

[Speedwell]

What's this country coming to when you can't hang a politician if effigy any more? They'll be outlawing tar and feathers next.