"Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" <xeton2001@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:Xns9A2FD5E8B8176riemann1850yahoocom@216.168.3.70:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/BlackHistory/story?id=4184706&page=1


Feds Indict Teen for 'Threatening' Noose
Jeremiah Munsen Faces Federal Hate Crime Charge for Allegedly Flashing
Nooses at Jena Rally

Jan. 24, 2008

As a group of marchers waited for a bus to transport them from

Alexandria,

La., to Tennessee, a pickup truck allegedly cruised slowly by, a pair of
nooses hanging from the back of the truck. Local police officers took
notice and arrested the teen driver and his passenger.

Four months later, federal prosecutors have announced the indictment of
Jeremiah Munsen, 18, on a federal hate crime, and civil rights conspiracy
charges, for "his role in threatening and intimidating marchers" as they
attempted to cross a state line.

Munsen and his 16-year-old passenger, who has not been identified by
authorities, allegedly fashioned a pair of extension cords into nooses

and

discussed the Ku Klux Klan as they drove repeatedly past a group of
marchers gathered at a bus stop, while they waited for Tennessee-bound
transportation.

"It is a violation of federal law to intimidate, oppress, injure, or
threaten people because of their race, and because people are exercising
and enjoying rights guaranteed and protected by the laws and Constitution
of the United States," U.S. Attorney Donald W. Washington said in a
statement. "Our civil rights laws protect the civil rights of all
Americans, and they remind us that we are all members of one particular
race - the human race."

Sounds a like a First Amendment issue.

Too bad conservatives don't like the First Amendment.

On Jan 24, 9:27 pm, Mitchell Holman <Noemailple...@comcast.com> wrote:

"Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" <xeton2...@yahoo.com> wrote
innews:Xns9A2FD5E8B8176riemann1850yahoocom@216.168.3.70:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/BlackHistory/story?id=4184706&page=1

Feds Indict Teen for 'Threatening' Noose
Jeremiah Munsen Faces Federal Hate Crime Charge for Allegedly Flashing
Nooses at Jena Rally

Jan. 24, 2008

As a group of marchers waited for a bus to transport them from

Alexandria,

La., to Tennessee, a pickup truck allegedly cruised slowly by, a pair
of
nooses hanging from the back of the truck. Local police officers took
notice and arrested the teen driver and his passenger.

Four months later, federal prosecutors have announced the indictment of
Jeremiah Munsen, 18, on a federal hate crime, and civil rights
conspiracy
charges, for "his role in threatening and intimidating marchers" as
they
attempted to cross a state line.

Munsen and his 16-year-old passenger, who has not been identified by
authorities, allegedly fashioned a pair of extension cords into nooses

and

discussed the Ku Klux Klan as they drove repeatedly past a group of
marchers gathered at a bus stop, while they waited for Tennessee-bound
transportation.

"It is a violation of federal law to intimidate, oppress, injure, or
threaten people because of their race, and because people are
exercising
and enjoying rights guaranteed and protected by the laws and
Constitution
of the United States," U.S. Attorney Donald W. Washington said in a
statement. "Our civil rights laws protect the civil rights of all
Americans, and they remind us that we are all members of one particular
race -- the human race."

Sounds a like a First Amendment issue.

Too bad conservatives don't like the First Amendment.

Mitchell Holman

That was my first thought too. If you can burn the flag, why not
this?

On Jan 24, 8:27 pm, Mitchell Holman <Noemailple...@comcast.com> wrote:

"Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS" <xeton2...@yahoo.com> wrote
innews:Xns9A2FD5E8B8176riemann1850yahoocom@216.168.3.70:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/BlackHistory/story?id=4184706&page=1

Feds Indict Teen for 'Threatening' Noose
Jeremiah Munsen Faces Federal Hate Crime Charge for Allegedly
Flashing Nooses at Jena Rally

Jan. 24, 2008

As a group of marchers waited for a bus to transport them from

Alexandria,

La., to Tennessee, a pickup truck allegedly cruised slowly by, a pair
of nooses hanging from the back of the truck. Local police officers
took notice and arrested the teen driver and his passenger.

Four months later, federal prosecutors have announced the indictment
of Jeremiah Munsen, 18, on a federal hate crime, and civil rights
conspiracy charges, for "his role in threatening and intimidating
marchers" as they attempted to cross a state line.

Munsen and his 16-year-old passenger, who has not been identified by
authorities, allegedly fashioned a pair of extension cords into
nooses

and

discussed the Ku Klux Klan as they drove repeatedly past a group of
marchers gathered at a bus stop, while they waited for
Tennessee-bound transportation.

"It is a violation of federal law to intimidate, oppress, injure, or
threaten people because of their race, and because people are
exercising and enjoying rights guaranteed and protected by the laws
and Constitution of the United States," U.S. Attorney Donald W.
Washington said in a statement. "Our civil rights laws protect the
civil rights of all Americans, and they remind us that we are all
members of one particular race -- the human race."

Sounds a like a First Amendment issue.

Too bad conservatives don't like the First Amendment.

Mitchell Holman

"Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment."
Ann Coulter, October 21, 2005

We speak to convey information, feelings, intent. What do two nooses
convey?