The tone in the bully’s voice was almost exuberant; it was certainly smug and self-satisfied. 

The bully is a creep named Steven Pearcy, and he was trying to buffalo his way onto my Sacramento talk show on KFBK 1530 AM to bask in the glory of the attention he felt due him. 

Pearcy was boasting about California Attorney General Bill Lockyer’s endorsement of his vile bile, and now Steve Pearcy wanted to take me to task for my role in organizing what is now my second mobilization of the general public to denounce him.

For those of you who are not acquainted with Pearcy; the cowardly, pasty, frail, control-freak Berzerkley Attorney, he is the same low-life who owns a modest house in middle-of-the-road Sacramento.  Pearcy’s co-conspirator is his mouse-like wife (who is also an attorney, and sits from time to time as a pro-tem judge in Sacramento County Small Claims Court) and the two use Sacramento as an escape from the rarified air of Berzerkley’s liberal paradise, and the opportunity to get dirty with the working-stiff savages and middle-class serfs down here in the fields beneath their imaginary castle.

He and the mousey-missus set off a short firestorm with their U.S. soldier hanged-in effigy in their front yard display a few months ago.  Apparently they felt the need to kick it up a notch when the Palestinian Flag hung in a window facing a Jewish neighbor’s house proved insufficient to inflame the community.  At my urging, a military family filed a hate-crime complaint against the bully, a protest was staged and the bully was ultimately forced to alter his public display of apparent personal psychosis. 

Rebuked, but seeming perversely energized by the public embarrassment and beating he suffered, Pearcy is now back.

This time he is not alone.  He has a “work of art” on display at the California Department of Justice.  Pearcy’s “art” consists of a crudely scribbled drawing of an American Flag, in the shape of the United States, being flushed down a toilet. 

Aside from looking like it was drawn by some poor unfortunate victim of mental retardation or severe head-injury, it is indistinguishable from similar works of “art” that may be found in poorly maintained public restroom stalls.  But Pearcy’s “art” is one of several just like it, each displaying its own particular bigotry. 

There are “works of art” depicting current events as examples of acts of genocide by Jews and Christians alike.  In one, Boston’s Old North Church is a tank leaving death and destruction in its wake.  In another, an angry mob of corpses storm a ravaged U.S. Capitol Building over the caption “VOILA the ENEMY.” In yet another, a bombed-out White House is celebrated, as is a shackled and blood-soaked cowering Lady Justice in yet another. 

I refused to let Pearcy on the air.  In my opinion he is a 98-pound weakling bully who compensates and gets his jollies from inflicting emotional pain on those vulnerable, something I refuse to enable.  Besides, he is not the story here, he is but a bit player in a larger story, one of you and I being forced to not just tolerate offensive opinions, but to fund and support sedition on the part of public officials sworn to the contrary in a time of war.

The story here is the endorsement of these disgusting piles of puke by California State Attorney General Baghdad Bill Lockyer who issued a statement saying that he was “honored” to host these works.  “Honored”!  Lockyer even praised the display’s “style” and “beauty.”

Likewise, the director of the taxpayer-funded California Arts Council, Muriel Johnson, declared these works “wonderful” and gushed in a press release over how “impressed” she was when she first viewed this garbage.

It goes without saying that an “artist” who sought to flush a figurative Qur’an down the toilet on Baghdad Bill’s wall would be rebuffed.  Indeed, such a work would never get that far.  The self-hating, self-appointed high priests of the official definition of “art” at the taxpayer funded California Arts Council (did I mention that the California Arts Council is taxpayer funded?) would never accept such a piece in the first place.  These carriers of the societal mental illness known as “political correctness” (a cultural version of full-blown AIDS, only way more deadly) would toss Norman Rockwell out on his ear for being a right-wing kook, if not a purveyor of smut.

Move America Forward (www.moveamericaforward.org) and I are working to counter this disgusting and damaging use of taxpayer money to undermine our society. 

Here is what you need to do:

1) Join us at Baghdad Bill’s office (1300 I street) Thursday July 28th at 4:00 PM.  Bring your own pro-America work of art to contribute to our own display which will remain up in front of the building until 10:00 PM when it will be broken down and the pieces sent to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

2) Call Baghdad Bill directly at (916) 324-5487 and let him know what you think of his “honor”. 

3) Contact your state legislators and demand that the California Arts Council be de-funded and abolished, and that every penny, direct as well as that provided in-kind to produce this outrage be refunded to the taxpayers at once.

Our usual brush-off denial of the condition of our state – a nervous laugh while saying “Hey, it’s California” – no longer works.  Men, women and children die every time creeps like Pearcy and his subversive friends like the California Arts Council and Baghdad Bill lend their aid and comfort to the enemy. 

It must stop and only you have the power to stop it.  I’ll see all of you on Thursday, July 28, 2005 in front of the California Department of Justice at 1300 I Street.  Let’s show the world that Bill Lockyer and Steve Pearcy don’t speak for Sacramentans.