Great Day for America: Court Upholds Sports Fans’ Right to Flip the Bird
San Diego – Giving opposing fans ‘the finger’ at Qualcomm Stadium or Petco Park may be rude and risky. But it’s not against the law. A Kansas City Chiefs fan went through a legal nightmare to prove that point. On Monday, 33-year-old Jason Ensign of San Diego was acquitted on battery charges stemming from a scuffle with stadium security guards after he ‘flipped off’ Chargers fans while leaving early from a November, 2009 game that his favorite team, the visiting Chiefs, was losing badly. Ensign’s lawyer says language in the judge’s ruling sends authorities a message about the First Amendment… The trial judge, Gale Kaneshiro, ruled that Jason Ensign was invoking his free speech right with his middle-finger salute to Chargers fans, and had a right to defend himself from the private security officers who tackled him.
You know, I’ve always assumed football fans in Whale’s Vagina were delicate little pussies, just based on the way they got their sniveling panties bunched after the playoff game where the Pats were doing the Shawn Merriman Lights Out thing on the field. I just had no idea they were this sensitive. And Communists to boot. C’mon… arresting a guy for flipping you off? That’s not the America I know. The right to give someone the Andrew Ference Salute is exactly what Thomas Jefferson had in mind when he wrote the Bill of Rights. It’s what all those boys died at Lexington and Concord for. It’s why old John “Bud” Thornton single-handedly brought Nazi Germany to its knees. So that a Chiefs fan could look 80,000 San Diegoans… San Dieguns… San Diegan cowards in the eye and exercise his inalienable right to tell them all to fuck off with a wave of the finger. It’s what makes us great. So who knew a mere gesture could send 80,000 alleged football fans into panic like this? No wonder their teams never win anything. Because out there, the middle finger is a hate crime. But here, in the City of Champions, we call it the State Bird of Massachusetts. God Bless America. Now let’s all celebrate this huge win for Free Speech by buying a t-shirt. Us Stool writers don’t pay ourselves. @jerrythornton1
City of champs…. That’s changing fast… Back to the good old days when our teams get bounced in the first rounds of the playoffs… But we got our bruins tho… They flip the script on us
I’m still laughing at the taint comments from earlier today. Best in a while.
by Numero Two on May 12, 2011 at 3:30 pm
“I’m almost convinced that this is a prank by scientists to see how many guys but a finger in their asshole as a place holder to measure the distance.
Touche, scientists, touche.”
city of champions? hahahahaahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahaahahaha yeah ok thornton
History lesson Jerry, Thomas Jefferson didn’t write the Bill of Rights, James Madison did. Jefferson was in France during the Constitutional debates and was onnly a psuedo supporter of the Bill of Rights.
I thought they were doing the guy a favor by arresting him before about 1,000 esse’s from tijuana went all mutilation murder on his ass…not in kansas city anymore dorothy
America got a few things right. Football…and freedom
With 3 of our teams in absolute free-fall from the respective pinnacles of their respective sports leagues, I don’t think we can hate on anybody else’s teams for “not winning anything”, ya dig?