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“The proposal was provoked by a series of recent incidents throughout the state, including in the Bridgeport Police Department, where nooses have been displayed where minorities would be sure to see it.”
What about Whitey? Can he not see them too?
Posted by Mike Harrigan at 6:15 PM on March 26
Will the same standard apply to gang grafitti,?? which is used to intimidate others ? also I am pretty sure gang violence has killed more blacks in the last 15, years than nooses have in the last 10,000 years.
Posted by Todd at 6:23 PM on March 26
You can bet more and more nooses will be planted, aimed at implicating whites. This noose law was clearly intended to hang whites upon. Whether guilty or not.
Posted by at 6:37 PM on March 26
Has there been a noose incident that has been proved NOT to be a hoax?
Posted by Civilized Neighbor at 6:50 PM on March 26
What’s next?
Posted by at 7:09 PM on March 26
“One of the proud things about our country is we’re tolerant and don’t have the patience with people who aren’t tolerant,” Lawlor said.
Tolerant of doublespeak, he must mean. (In his quoted statement, substitute “tolerance” for “patience”)
Posted by H. Dumpty at 7:48 PM on March 26
Ain’t this a slippery slope!
What about Wild West displays in museums? What about Old West town re-creations? What about rodeos (isn’t a lasso a noose of sorts?)? John Wayne movies? Haunted house decor?
But I must not be up on current events, because I hadn’t heard of these noose incidents throughout Connecticut. Anyone else?
Posted by kitty at 8:18 PM on March 26
Where are the officials out there who have a responsibility to hurt down the perpertrators of “love Crimes”??? I don’t know ANY crime committed out of anything BUT hate, so why the differentiation? Sounds like minorities sure get their feelings hurt easily. If something was bothering me in my sight I just wouldn’t look at it. Guess that is what separates the races. I don’t see everything in any museum as art, but I defend anyone’s right to display it as such. If it offends me I don’t HAVE to look atit….Why do the blacks have the sole responsibility to tell officials what is “racially offensive” ????
Posted by jenbelievesinwhites at 8:27 PM on March 26
Okay-lets make the nose illegal to display in public. And also the X and the clenched fist.These logos are offensive to me and milions of others.
Posted by Peejay in Frisco at 8:32 PM on March 26
Why don’t they make any crime against a person of another race, a hate-crime. That’s not going too far at all.
Posted by at 8:42 PM on March 26
California legislators must be fuming that another state beat them to the finish line with legislation this stupid and PC, but I’m sure they wil follow suit soon.
“Old Hangtown,” (AKA Placerville, my hometown) where nooses are plastered on everything from business signs to little league uniforms, should be prepared to have its history erased with a pen stroke.
Posted by Ryan Chaserian at 8:53 PM on March 26
“Displaying nooses in public places and work sites would become a hate crime under legislation approved unanimously Monday by the Judiciary Committee.”
Strange they don’t think it’s worth their time to pass laws against preaching hate in black churches, since the practise is rampant and widespread and is the basis for inciting thousands of black on white assaults, murders and property crimes every year.
Posted by Robert Kelly at 9:25 PM on March 26
I better study up on my knots. I wouldn’t want to make one who’s design leaves me open to prosecution. Be carefull if you work on a farm and use pullys, or do warehouse work, it could be dangerous in more ways than one. I think I’ll see Uncle Jack— Daniels now. It’s too much.
Posted by Bobby at 9:32 PM on March 26
Funny to think that some of these “noose hate crimes” were shown to have been perpetrated by the black “victims” themselves. Just the sight of a rope in 2007 was enough to fire up cries of racism, or justify the beating of Whites (as in the case of the Jena Six farce).
Now more invasive thought crime bills are on the way to pass into law in the name of these absurd events, and will probably only invite more restrictions on our personal freedoms. Sort of like an “blaxploitation” version of the Reichstag fire.
Posted by ZKR at 9:34 PM on March 26
“What’s next?”
I would support the criminalization of the Black Nationalist flag that in front of Malcom X college in Chicago because I consider it “offensive.”
Posted by at 9:44 PM on March 26
And when a black guy is caught committing a noose hoax, what will his punishment be?
Posted by sbuffalonative at 10:24 PM on March 26
St. Paul Minnesota tried this with burning crosses. When they tried to prosecute under this hate crime law, the US Supreme Court threw it out as it abridged the man’s right free expression. And that was the old court, not the new one that just told Bush to take his World Court and put it you know where.
They can only ban it on public grounds, no more.
Posted by RobertB at 11:54 PM on March 26
We are now officially building our own gulags; stud by stud, joist by joist , rafter by rafter . I guess next we will have to fill out surveys ,much like the ones corporations require when deciding just who to fire, only these will much more serious implications .Aided by our internet habits and phone records , maybe even private conversations within the walls of our own homes picked up by government eavesdropping equipment and shown as irrefutable evidence we are indeed hate criminals and belong in those gulags .If the Founders were alive today they would have us nuked…. no, I’m wrong on that , they would be in the gulags with the rest of us , wondering what the heck happened to their noble idea .
Posted by at 3:22 AM on March 27
Why not just make displaying white skin in public a hate crime? Isn’t that were we are heading anyway?
Posted by Drifter at 6:09 AM on March 27
When a black guy is caught committing a noose hoax there is NO PROSECUTION! These laws were created to put White people in jail, not blacks!
Posted by at 6:30 AM on March 27
Well, while we protect the sensitive Afro- Americans against the epidemic scourge of noose dislays, another White person has met an untimely death at the hands of a gang of Afro-Truants in a subway station.
Sean Mc Elroy 36, a manager at a Starbucks in Center City Philly was on the train platform when he was attacked. He suffered a heart attack and died. One “YOUF” is in custody and PPD is looking for several other “YOUFS”. The arrested “YOUF” was 16 years old and was truant from Simon Gratz High School. Police say that they don’t have a motive for the attack ( as if the “YOUFS” need a motive other than the victim being White ) but are investigating.
Sean was engaged to be married.
This is the link.
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=6043617
Meanwhile in the once but no longer beautiful Strawberry Mansion section of the city, police responded to a shots being fired call and were confronted by two “men”, one of whom pointed a weapon at them and was fired upon by the police. He was wounded in the leg and later died at the hospital.
I’m sure that the high pitched screaming and wailing will begin and officers will be suspended and maybe even Jesse and Al will visit Philly.
Meanwhile Sean’s family and fiancé will bury him quietly and everyone save his survivors and co-workers will have forgotten him in a few months.
Posted by at 8:16 AM on March 27
I think if anyone would research hanging, more whites were hung than blacks. Look at the record of Judge Roy Bean.
Our tax money and the governments time could be better spent dealing with illegal immigration, the economy and a host of other much more important issues.
But no, they need to investifate steroids, nooses, drivers licenses and a bridge to no where.
Lost FEMA and Homeland Security. They are just money pits anyway. New Orleans had the pleasure of receiving their help and it has worked out quite well, don’t ya think?!?!?
I whish that on the election ballet there was a box to check entitled “None of the Above”. Chosing no one would be a vast improvement over a “do nothing”.
Posted by at 8:44 AM on March 27
I know of no reason why a noose should be displayed at any work site or public place, so employers, business owners, etc. would have every right to disallow them. However, it’s ridiculous to make hanging one a crime, and of course, the phrase “hate crime” is ridiculous.
Posted by Cindy at 9:57 AM on March 27
A unanimous denouncement of nooses and hate. No word on the 1 million acts of real crime commited each year against whites at the hands of blacks alone. If only they were hate crimes… Wait. They already are.
Posted by at 10:16 AM on March 27
Who’ll be the first white to be sentenced to 2-10 years in prison- far longer than myriads of blacks convicted of aggravated assaults, muggings, armed robberies, rapes, even murders- because a black used a noose in a “hate crime” hoax. And unless he’s placed in solitary confinement 23 hours a day in a toilet with bars day after week after month after year he’ll be harassed, tormented, assaulted, gang-raped, sexually-enslaved, and possibly murdered by blacks.
Posted by S.K. at 10:38 AM on March 27
On my google homepage I have a game called hangman, and if I play it there is a noose. I guess hangman will have to be forbidden on google and in all schools. I can also recall when some on the left referred to a NYC newspaper as the Daily Noose.
“Hate crimes” are thought crimes, and should be abolished. On the other hand, all crimes are hate crimes. But liberals never want to enforce stringent sentences when minorities violently assault, rape, or murder whites. The enemy of justice, of equal sentencing, of punishing the perps, is invariably the liberal.——————-HM
Posted by at 12:05 PM on March 27
St. Paul Minnesota tried this with burning crosses. When they tried to prosecute under this hate crime law, the US Supreme Court threw it out as it abridged the man’s right free expression. And that was the old court, not the new one that just told Bush to take his World Court and put it you know where.
They can only ban it on public grounds, no more.
I think you are mistaken:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/04/07/scotus.cross.burning/
Posted by qwerty at 12:10 PM on March 27
The utter STUPIDITY of this kind of legislation blows my mind. But maybe it’s meant to get peoples’ minds of thinking about REAL stuff. Like the article on today’s MSN News…
That Chicago is having a murder problem… BY TEENS, OF TEENS! Expectedly, of course, victims and perps being our typical dysfunctional Blacks!!!
Now I’m waiting for the inevitable histrionics by Lying Hillary and Phony Obams. Both telling us the only solution being to throw MORE money at the dysfunctional Black population. To WASTE more money for more schools — for the little darlings to destroy in sheer ignorance and boredom. Nor can we afford to overlook legislation STRIPPING decent citizens of their right to own defensive guns, right?
What drives Blacks to act like that? Fueling their mentality? It sure as hell can’t be blamed on White racism. Most of these “poor, misunderstood” youths will drop out of school. End up unable to find a job (for lack of education, skills — the usual qualities a hiring manager looks for in interviewing applicants. Then these “poor frustrated” youths will become career criminals and end up in those jails… Jeremiah Wright blames us for building… and of course, without a shred of doubt the whole mess is due to White racism, 350 years of slavery (poor math skills,remember?) and segregation! While the Jeremiah Wrights will rail and rant to their gullible flocks week after week laying the blame on us Whites!
Posted by Fed Up at 1:05 PM on March 27
How about making it a hate crime when a non-White rapes a White girl? Or robs an elderly White guy at an ATM?
Never happen, because “hate crime” laws were created for one purpose and one purpose only: to put more Whites in jail and let the left claim that all Whites are racist.
Posted by at 1:05 PM on March 27
What a bunch of spineless lemmings those committee members were! Can you imagine any other type of legislation other than, maybe, something in favor of mom, the flag and apple pie, passing a legislative committee 43-0? What a joke! They’re soooo scared to be put on the record as registering even the faintest opposition to something supported by the civil rights establishment.
I also liked the one legislator’s remark about how we’re such a tolerant nation that’s intolerant (he might as well have used that word) of those who are intolerant! Did this moron realize what nonsense he was spouting?!
Posted by Wayne Engle at 2:57 PM on March 27
Like so many have already posted, you are going to have a rash of blacks hanging “nooses” on everything in sight so whites will be blamed for it and if indeed a black is caught hanging one of those “nooses” absolutely nothing will happen to them. This type of legislation is the ultimate exercise in stupidity and anyone involved with it should lose their jobs weather they are Congressman, Senators, Governors, Mayors or even President of the U.S. because “we” the good and decent people of this country are indeed tired of paying their salaries for reckless and insane legislature when they really need to address the real problems concerning America, not this ridiculous politically correct bull that appeases only those who neither pay those legislators salaries or contribute anything useful at all to their fellow Americans. “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ALREADY”
Posted by Gerry at 5:45 PM on March 27
Noosephobia is the latest craze to hit urban America since hiphop. 40% graduation rates have failed to scare Whitey enough to move further out into the countryside, I bet noosephobia won’t work either.
Posted by Lars at 8:31 PM on March 27
I better study up on my knots. I wouldn’t want to make one who’s design leaves me open to prosecution. posted by Bobby.
Better watch out for those neckties too Bobby! loosening or fiddling with your necktie around a sensitive Black person could be seen as provocative hate-action.
BTW, is it only a crime if its a Black person who sees a noose?
This is just getting ludicrous, like the Muslims with their pigs, dogs and alcohol sensitivities,Blacks have got to learn to get over themselves. They will never be successful until they leave the past behind and stop complaining. Hundreds of White people were lynched too.
Arc.
Posted by Arcadian at 8:53 PM on March 27
Well, I guess this ends the time-honored custom of hanging in effigy. Come to think of it, everybody I’ve ever seen hanged in effigy was white, so I guess it’s OK.
Posted by john at 11:30 AM on March 28
The truth about these “noose” incidents:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.aspx?GUID=D121E44A-2E7B-4B07-909C-CFD2B22CA938
Posted by at 11:42 PM on March 28
“And when a black guy is caught committing a noose hoax, what will his punishment be?
Posted by sbuffalonative at 10:24 PM on March 26”
These are politely made to “go away.”
Posted by RaceandCountry at 9:47 AM on March 29
Since I have always been one to fly in the face of convention, I’m printing up some T-shirts with a noose on them, along with the slogan “No noose is good noose”
Anyone interested?
Posted by Superman at 8:19 PM on March 29
I just looked up noose in the dictionary and sho,nuf theres a picture of a noose. Will we all have to burn our dictionarys? What if you are in a library and you have the page open to the n,s? Will you be charged with public display of a noose? Will the library? Will the bookmaker? What a slippery slope. Blacks will not be happy till they destroy every white person like they did on Haiti. Then they declared their independence. Just look at the paradise they made of that island. Funny how they want to get on boats and come here. They,re creating a new paradise in Zimbabwe now and South Africa will be next. I like how Oprah made her billion in this country, but instead of doing something here she goes to Africa. Give something back but not where whites might get some benefit. But why not Gates made his fortune here but has to give a lot of it away overseas. What i never understand is why none of these billionaires dont give something to veterans.
Posted by at 11:56 AM on March 31
“They can only ban it on public grounds, no more.”
Nope. Lawfully, you have freedom of speech EVERYWHERE, not just on you own personal property or specially-designated areas. Besides, all the public property was paid for, built, and is maintained by us evil racists. You can’t lawfully ban nooses and such on public property any more than you can ban prayer or the Ten Commandments. Yes, I know, they claim to have done so (and most idiots go right along with it) but it is not lawful to do so. The Constitution of the the United States of America is in full force and effect everywhere in this country whether the various and sundry Marxist governments and their hired thugs like it or not.
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