Thursday, July 17, 2014
The Nightmare Float on Elm Street
Dick Holder's Big Case- As Narrated by Date Line's Keith Morrison
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/13/doj-investigates-obama-presidential-library-parade/
They say nothing much happens in Norfolk, Nebraska, a quiet town that nature seems to have forgotten. Old timers claim that Lewis and Clark passed through these parts on the way to wherever they were going. Then again, it could have been the Donner Party or Sir Edmund Hillary. History in Norfolk seems shrouded in a big fog. There just isn't much going on in Norfolk, Nebraska.
That is until this July 4th. As is typical in July, July 4th in Norfolk was hot and muggy. As is the custom, they held a modest 4th of July parade down Elm Street with floats that would remind nobody of New Years Day in Pasadena.
But there would be something vastly different about this parade. For rolling down Elm Street was a blue pick up truck with what resembled an outhouse in the bed, which read, "Obama Presidential Library". Also standing outside the structure was some sort of a dummy that looked like what some described as a zombie. The driver and creator of this strange exhibit was one of Norfolk's old-timers, a man in his 70s named Dale Remmich.
At the time, everybody got a good laugh out of the exhibit.
That is except local Democrats. They sent a letter to the Nebraska Democratic Party, who called the float "racist".
Now things took a different turn. A few days later, some strange men turned up in Norfolk-men wearing long black leather overcoats-which stood out in the summer heat. Turns out they were from a little-known unit in the US Department of Justice called the Community Relations Service Team.
"We're here to serve."
And leading this group was the Justice Department's ace investigator-Dick Holder, a savvy veteran who had handled some of the biggest cases in DOJ history, including the Susan Rice murder on the Orient Express, the IRS Cincinnati scandal, Operation Fast and Furious, and the Marc Rich case.
Clearly, Washington was not happy with Mr Remmich. Clearly, there would be Hell to pay.
The next day, Remmich heard a knock on the door. Standing on his porch were three men from the dreaded CRS. Dick Holder flashed his badge and asked if they could come in. Not knowing what to do, Remmich allowed them in.
Dick Holder cut to the chase.
"Why did you build that exhibit? Are you a racist?" Asked Dick Holder
Remmich gulped and said he was not a racist, that he was not happy with the president's actions on the VA mess and that zombie-like figure was a caricature of himself.
"Did you say you don't like the President's actions in the VA issue? Is that what you said?" pressed Dick Holder.
"Er, well ah, no I don't, but ah."
Dick Holder then asked Remmich if he knew his Miranda rights. Remmich said he did, to which Dick Holder replied, "Good. Then prove to me you are not a racist. You made an outhouse and called it the Obama Presidential Library. Please explain why if you are not a racist. You don't like the President, do you? You don't like me, do you?"
Remmich replied that he simply wanted to make a statement and thought he was constitutionally protected.
"We'll see about that," Dick Holder told him.
At that, Dick Holder and his associates from the CRS got up and headed for the door. Remmich asked them if he was in any trouble.
"We'll be in touch," said Dick Holder.
And then the team from the CRS was gone-just as suddenly as they had arrived. And left in the wake of all this was an old man named Dale Remmich wondering if he was headed for prison.
So now as the sun sets on tiny Norfolk, Nebraska, the town's populace is left stunned and confused after the feds invaded their town. Will they return? Will Dale Remmich be swept away to some undisclosed location or stand trial for his act? No one wonders this more than Remmich.
Only time will tell.
(To be continued)
Fortunately, the DOJ has no jurisdiction in Germany.
("Obama: The Savior")
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3 comments:
Most of this is fiction. Don't quit your day job Gary. It is possible that the parade display is true. It probably is free speech, but its in poor taste, and doesn't offer a coherent criticism of any policy, certainly not the VA mess. The parade organizers should have exercised their constitutional right to exclude it from the parade, and told the artist to exercise his freedom of expression in his own driveway.
(Citation: Hurley v. Irish Gay and Lesbian Group of South Boston.)
I understand that DOJ really is "investigating" this little escapade. I can't figure out what criminal offense is involved. It is not a crime to be a racist that I know of, otherwise Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al would be doing time somewhere.
I don't know any reason it should be investigated either. But if I lived in that town, I would start organizing an alternative parade for next year. Cardinal rule: no partisan floats. (That's not a government mandate, that's exercising my rights to freedom of expression, together with the great silent majority of my fellow citizens who will of course agree with me... or not.
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