Re: Another Blow to Freedom of Speech: Teen in Jena noose incident pleads guilty

"the big dog" <thebygdog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:5517c2a8-d415-477b-8256-244d521d91a6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> How on earth can a crowd of people be intimidated in any fa****on
> whatsoever by a goddamn symbol?  It's ridiculous and infantile.

Because it can be construed as a threat of real violence.  Like, say, if 
there was a history of black people being lynched....duh.  Murders of 
complete strangers for reasons of race (and ***ual orientation) still
occur 
today, or aren't you aware of that?