On Apr 27, 3:37 am, "Frank Arthur" <A...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "John Graeme" <jdgra...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
> news:5a493855-454d-41a6-9932-9f83d81b4b69@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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/NEWS...
>
> > 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.
> > ...
How on earth can a crowd of people be intimidated in any fa****on
whatsoever by a goddamn symbol? It's ridiculous and infantile.
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