On Apr 27, 7:50 am, John Graeme <jdgra...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 26, 1:37 pm, "Frank Arthur" <A...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "John Graeme" <jdgra...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >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"?
> > > 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.
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> >
>http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080426/NEWS...
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> > > Teen in Jena noose incident pleads guilty to hate crime
> > > Billy Gunn
> > > Alexandria Town Talk
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > > Earlier on Sept. 20, Munsen and a teenaged accomplice had been
> > > drinking beer and fa****oned nooses out of electrical extension
> > > cords.
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> > > 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.
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> > > Munsen had faced 11 years in prison if convicted of both charges.
> > > ...
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> > 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.
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> So should the feds also prosecute people who display the swastika,
> hammer & sickle, or other emblems people might find "intimidating"?
> Are you ignorant of the meaning of "freedom of expression"?
I doubt it. He's merely opposed to it.
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