Feds Investigate Man Putting “Impeach Obama” Notes in his Portrait

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Can someone refresh my memory as to which Federal law protects presidential portraits from tampering. Do we have a Lèse-majesté clause somewhere?

A federal agency is trying to determine who’s been tucking slips of paper into a portrait of President Barack Obama in a federal building in Lafayette that call for the president’s impeachment.

For several weeks, someone has been tucking slips of paper from anti-Obama pamphlets into the corner of a framed portrait of Obama that hangs in the Charles A. Halleck Federal Building in downtown Lafayette. Those messages haven’t damaged the president’s portrait but they do contain the phrase “Impeach Obama.”

A spokeswoman for the U.S. General Services Administration, which owns and manages the building, says the agency is investigating the tampering with the presidential portrait.

GSA spokesman Gina Blyther Gilliam tells the Journal & Courier the agency “does not tolerate this type of behavior.”

Good for them. Nothing more intolerable than a little harmless protest against the ruling powers. One day they’re slipping Impeach Obama notes into his portrait and next thing you know they’re taping them to his back.

Maybe Obama Inc. needs to take a page from the handbook of their fellow Juiche socialists and how they handle portrait disrespect.

Most of the bodies of dead North Korean sailors who washed up on Japanese shores earlier this year after their freighter sank in the Sea of Japan had portraits of the late North Korean President Kim Il Sung and his son, the late Kim Jong Il, according to a police investigation.

In North Korea, portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are required in all houses and public spaces. If citizens facing a disaster fail to take portraits with them while making their escape, they face possible severe punishment, including being sent to a concentration camp.

If they protect the portraits at the risk of losing their lives, they are praised by the authorities and lauded with heartwarming stories. The crew members of the Taegakbong apparently took the portraits with them, thinking not only of themselves but also their family members.

Serious stuff.

In North Korea, you are not allowed to use an old newspaper for anything other than reading if a photograph of Kim Jong-il appears in it. You must collect those editions separately and return them; anyone who uses the newspaper as scrap or to repaper something, or rolls it up to use when making a cigarette, etc. is punished.

The GSA could learn a few lessons here. So could all Obama supporters.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has bestowed a posthumous award on a 14-year-old schoolgirl who drowned in a flash flood while trying to save portraits of the country’s late leaders.

Han Hyon-Gyong’s heroism earned her the Kim Jong-Il Youth Honor Award, and her school will be renamed after her, the newspaper Rodong Sinmun said on Tuesday.

Han died on June 11 as she tried to save portraits of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il from her flooded home at Sinhung county in the eastern province of South Hamkyong.

As she was swallowed up by gushing floodwaters, the girl held the pictures wrapped in plastic sheets above the surface, according to the report on the paper’s website.

Hope, Change and Juiche.

  • Cat’s Meow

    Okay to dis the flag though! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NQYjBysh0I

    • ziggy zoggy

      What a bltch. Barack, not Michelle.

      Seriously. Who actually voted for that bltch?

  • tickletik

    I think they have a right to know who is defacing the portrait of their boss. I wouldn’t be OK with this if someone did this under Bush or Reagan, or any other president. According to what you have quoted, this is a Federal building, which means everything in it, including the portrait is Federal property. You say he isn’t defacing the portrait, so what? Does that mean he can put a sign up in the hallway saying “Starbuck coffee on sale now!”? No, I both assume he can’t and I know he shouldn’t.

    Furthermore, the impression I get from the article you quote is that this isn’t being investigated by local police or their federal equivalent, but by the people in charge of that building. Well, if that is so, then who else is supposed to look into it? Pepe the grocer?

    Now if this was a public street, and it was a privately owned portrait of the president, then feel free to draw pictures of genitals with expletives and references to the man’s genetic ancestry being descended from various evolution theorized animals if that is what you like.

    The only thing that really got me irritated was the schoolmarmish response of GSA spokesclown Gina Whatever. This high sounding prissy crap is always irritating. I bet she’s some overweight pudge body with a degree in “Communications”. I hate those people. We should fire them all. And by “them” I mean 90% of the staff in the Federal government. And that includes the cops, the DEA, the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, the Housing Burea, DOE, etc. etc.

    Parasites.

    • Edward Buehrle

      You do understand that ALL federal property is the peoples, owned, operated and for. Every building in DC belongs to the people, every single one.

      • tickletik

        Do you think that means you can walk into a federal office building and take a desk if you need one? The point of all of us owning it is that we are shared owners, in which case we cannot do anything to any of it without the approval of group according to the rules we set up for these decisions.

        This is also exactly why we want to severely limit the reach of the Federal government. Because as you can tell the shared collective ownership limits what gets done to who can manipulate the decision making process the best.

        • Ignatz

          Okay, laser-brain, he didn’t DEFACE the portrait. He put a little slip of paper with an insult to Der Fuehrer in the corner of the frame. Don’t get your boxers in a bunch.

  • tagalog

    Then there’s the story about the guy who wrote “for Stalin” on the poster that was posted in the Stalinist era in the erstwhile USSR that said “Under Stalin, Life is Better.”

    He got eight years in the gulag for Anti-Soviet Propaganda, a violation of law. I wonder if he survived.

    At least we know who our Esteemed Leader and his administration are looking to as role models.

  • john spielman

    Sounds like North Korea needs some Kim il Sung and Kim Jung il toilet paper(ie paper with their portraits on them)

  • tagalog

    Then there’s the story about the guy who wrote “for Stalin” on the poster that was posted in the Stalinist era in the erstwhile USSR that said “Under Stalin, Life is Better.”

    He got eight years in the gulag for Anti-Soviet Propaganda, a violation of law. I wonder if he survived.

    At least we know who our Esteemed Leader and his administration are looking to as role models.

  • john spielman

    Sounds like North Korea needs some Kim il Sung and Kim Jung il toilet paper(ie paper with their portraits on them)

  • Pocho Basura

    ……HAHAHAHAHA
    This cld be a national trend

  • Pocho Basura

    ……HAHAHAHAHA
    This cld be a national trend

  • Jim McCormack

    She hates us, our troops, and our flag. Go back to Africa

  • Ignatz

    Wasn’t Solzhenitsyn sent to the Gulag for something similar? God, how I detest them.

  • Lizard

    Whaaaa Whaaa please do not pick on poor little black man Whaaa