On May 5, 5:22 am, "Bo Raxo" <crimenewscen...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "the big dog" <thebyg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 5, 8:14 am, "Bo Raxo" <crimenewscen...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> "the big dog" <thebyg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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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?
>
> > In public? surrounded by scores of other folk of similar race? For
> > gods sake, grow a pair and learn to live in a free society, or move to
> > one that is more to your liking.
>
> Dimwit, while the symbol of the threat may be in a public place with
plenty
> of witnesses, that doesn't mean the violence will be carried out right
then
> and there. Do you think James Byrd was killed in broad daylight? Have
you
> never heard of the history of lynchings - often carried out in the dead
of
> night, when a victim was caught out at night or dragged from his home.
The problem is that with that broad a definition of "intimidating" a
great many common things and actions could be construed as
intimidating enough to charge the peson with a crime.
> > Of course, there's always the third option of ****canning your
> > constitution and changing your own society into one that is
> > sufficiently totalitarian.
>
> Of course, it's easy to win an argument if you just make **** up the
other
> person didn't say. You asked why a symbol could be intimidating, I told
you
> why. I didn't say it should be outlawed, now did I? I wouldn't outlaw
> Nazis getting a permit to march down a public street. But I'd be naive
to
> think some people didn't find the existence of such a group in their
> community intimidating.
If you are opposed to charging the person with a crime just for having
a noose on his truck, then we are in substantial agreement.
> You're the one that needs to grow a set - of neurons. Unfortunately,
> doesn't happen post-partum.
Those sort of ad hominens don't exactly illustrate great intelligence
on your part either.
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