"John Graeme" <jdgraeme@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:5a493855-454d-41a6-9932-9f83d81b4b69@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Where is the ACLU on this one? Since when is a noose hanging from
> your truck "intimidating"?
Are you ignorant? If you aren't aware read up on American history
where White, ignorant, lawless and brainless people hung Blacks mostly
in the South. The "noose",
"swastika", "hammer & sickle" are intimidating.
> Apparently many people--including the feds--sup****t freedom of
> expression only if it's not too repugnant. But that is exactly the
> type of expression that most needs protection.
>
>
http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080426/NEWS01/80426002/1002
>
> Teen in Jena noose incident pleads guilty to hate crime
> Billy Gunn
> Alexandria Town Talk
>
> Jeremiah Munsen pleaded guilty Friday to a misdemeanor federal hate
> crime for last year's effort to intimidate a group of "Jena Six"
> civil
> rights marchers with hangman's nooses draped off the back of a
> truck.
>
> U.S. District Judge Dee Drell set an Aug. 15 sentencing date for
> Munsen, 19. He faces maximum penalties of one year in federal prison
> and a fine of $100,000.
>
> Munsen pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of hindering
> interstate
> travel of marchers from Tennessee who waited in downtown Alexandria
> for return-home buses after the massive Sept. 20 rally in Jena,
> where
> tens of thousands of marchers protested the judicial treatment of
> six
> black Jena youths.
>
> Earlier on Sept. 20, Munsen and a teenaged accomplice had been
> drinking beer and fa****oned nooses out of electrical extension
> cords.
>
> In pleading to the lessor of the two charges he was indicted for in
> January, Munsen will not face the felony hate crime charge of
> conspiring to deprive the marchers of their civil rights by using a
> noose - a deep-South symbol of hatred and murder by lynching - to
> intimidate the crowd.
>
> Munsen had faced 11 years in prison if convicted of both charges.
> ...
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