Vulgar and threatening graffiti painted on Huntsville business ahead of Republican congresswoman’s visit
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Vulgar and threatening graffiti painted on Huntsville business ahead of Republican congresswoman’s visit
A message spray-painted on the side of the Brewers Cooperative at Stovehouse in Huntsville. It targets Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and the conservative group, Moms for Liberty. It also calls for violence using a derogatory slur. The Alabama Republican Party called the act “Political terrorism” in a statement.“It’s disappointing that people would take the route of threatening intimidation,” Chris Horn, owner of the brewery Co-Op, said. “They’re trying to destroy my business because they don’t agree or disagree with the speaker,’ Horn said.
“It’s disappointing that people would take the route of threatening intimidation,” Chris Horn, owner of the Brewery Cooperative at Stovehouse, said.
It targets Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and the conservative group, Moms for Liberty. It also calls for violence using a derogatory slur.
Chair of the Alabama Republican Party John Wahl called the act “Political terrorism” in a statement:
“When someone vandalizes a venue with a message calling for people to be shot simply because of their beliefs, that’s not a protest — it’s political terrorism,” Wahl said in a statement.
Horn owns the brewery Co-Op, where Greene is speaking Saturday.
“I think it’s disgusting. Certainly, any type of hate speech or threatening speech is not indicative of the people of Huntsville,” Horn said.
He says he and his business are now caught in the middle.
“Right now they’re just trying to cancel my business, they’re trying to destroy my business because they don’t agree or disagree with the speaker, and that has nothing to do with the venue,” Horn said. “If anyone wants to be able to have an event here, we’re open to anyone and everyone. This one just happens to have just a little bit more focus on it, but this is what we do. We’re about freedom and freedom of speech, no matter who is speaking.”
Greene, the nationally known and outspoken representative, has already garnered the attention of groups looking to protest tomorrow’s event. Horn spent part of the day planning with Madison County deputies.
“Based on things that have happened in the past, we’re going to take all precautions,” Horn said.
As for the graffiti, a spokesperson for HPD said in a statement:
“This goes beyond property damage – it’s a deliberate act meant to disrupt and offend, and it has no place in our community.”
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