I saw this sign yesterday on my way home and took a picture of it this morning (it's at the corner of Vickers and University in Durham, NC):
Is it serious? Or a parody of our ridiculous political debate? You be the judge.
Update: Hey Tapped folks! Hope you'll check out the rest of the site...
Update 2: My wife heard a local reporter asking people about this - apparently there's a backstory involving a guy putting up about thirty of these signs. This appears to be his website, which contains the following insightful commentary along with a lot more pictures of these signs:
Communists in Durham, NC have been stealing Bush political signs and then vandalizing other signs for mentioning it. These photos are time stamped and were taken 10/27/2004 mostly in the Forest Hills area of Durham, NC.
While there are a lot of good people in the Forest Hills community, the Forest Hills Neighborhood Association, for example, is dominated by fiercely anti-American types and anyone who speaks against communism, socialism, immorality etc. are banned from the Forest Hills Neighborhood Assn. email list. I am not sure if those running that list are that way or simply don't have the guts to stand up for what is right.
Here are some photographic examples of "free speech" Democrat / Communist style that we enjoy in the Forest Hills area of Durham, NC.
You can guess why he might have been banned from the neighborhood association email list.
And in news from agitprop central, World Magazine's voter fraud blog has already linked to my post with the tagline "Commies intimidate voters in North Carolina." Once again, you can't make this shit up. [Correction: World Magazine's voter fraud blog linked to this post under a humor category, so I guess they meant it as a joke, though it wasn't immediately obvious from context. Apologies.]
Disclaimer: Stealing or vandalizing signs is always wrong, but if it did happen here in Durham, I tend to doubt that Communists were the perpetrators.
Update 3: Here's the latest update on the Durham sign wars - this guy is getting some competition...
Update 4: The Durham Herald-Sun has now issued a report on the controversy...
This morning, the sign was gone.
Sigh.
At least it gave me a few good chuckles.
Posted by: ken | October 29, 2004 at 03:21 PM
Communists? First we have to worry about terrorists, and now the communists are back too? Next thing the anti-segregationists will be back to threaten our way of life!
Posted by: TG | October 29, 2004 at 05:24 PM
I've seen a better one:
"They stole my Kerry/Edwards sign--just like they stole Florida in 2000!"
Posted by: Brad DeLong | October 29, 2004 at 05:25 PM
Um ... here at agit-prop central, we had posted it under the humor category?
Posted by: votefraud guru | October 29, 2004 at 07:01 PM
Umm, how does he know they're communists? If they left their Party credentials, they're no longer card-carrying members...
Posted by: tinman | October 29, 2004 at 08:22 PM
"We shall steal their signs. We shall TP their houses. We shall key their cars. Thus we shall destroy their will to resist." --Lenin
Posted by: Herostratus | October 30, 2004 at 12:04 AM
They're not communists man, we kicked them out of the party last month cause they wouldn't pay their dues
That is probably why they have to resort to stealing Bush signs, cause they're too lazy to work, and they never have money
Posted by: free patriot | October 30, 2004 at 03:04 AM
Just checked out the guy's website, I actually know him! He's pretty wacky, but I am surprised he just out and out lied (about the communists and check out the links on his page). I'm disapointed too, I knew he was nutty, but not that he was a liar.
Posted by: dc | November 01, 2004 at 10:35 AM
There is a FAQ on this guy at:
http://users.rcn.com/sadams.enteract/winfaq.html
FAQ #100...
100. Who is Steve Winter?
Steve Winter is a defrocked pastor (apparantly by the same man who ordained him - Marvin Arnold) and the operator of a system known as "PRIME.ORG". He lives in Durham, NC, and is also a re-seller of computer equipment1. At one point, he had begun to re-sell internet services (presumably from PSI), though that ISP TOS'd him (see below). He continues to list internet access on his web page, so he is likely reselling from or through his current provider. Mr. Winter claims to be a Reverend representing "Jesus Name Apostolic Holiness Church, Inc." He operates a Web page ( http://www.prime.org ) which describes his particular doctrinal distinctive. He claims the page is a ministry of the aforementioned church.
Posted by: Paul Hinrichs | August 08, 2005 at 01:21 PM