California bans threatening noose displays

California bans threatening noose displays

Thursday, August 6, 2009

(08-06) 17:23 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) --

California law already bans threatening displays of swastikas or burning crosses. Now add nooses to the list.

On Thursday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation making such displays punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $5,000.

The bill by Democratic Assemblywoman Wilma Carter of Rialto would make it a misdemeanor to hang a noose on someone else's property or at a school or workplace.

She introduced the bill after noose hangings were displayed in several Halloween decorations last year. Two such displays were effigies of then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/08/06/state/n172326D26.DTL&tsp=1

or dislike.... fuck them and their racist mentality.

holy fucking mother fucking fuck!:banghead:

"...someone else's property or at a school or workplace."

It's like putting a big sign on your house that says "I'm a racist pig!" Only genuine morans would do it.

has been a part of political protests for centuries.

Not that I approve.

fine. But whatever your motivation, you need to do it on your OWN goddam lawn, and not on someone else's. No sneaking around at night burning crosses on the local black family's lawn. And no sneaking around and hanging our president in effigy where no one will know who did it.

You wanna be a racist fuckwad, you own up to it publically (not you personally).

:patriot:

between threat and mockery? It's almost impossible to define. People hang effigies of George Bush it's simply a sign of disapproval about how he ran the country. Hang one of Barack Obama and for obvious reasons it takes on a whole new meaning, intentional or not.

see what a douchebag you are, it's free speech. You sneak around doing that crap at night, anonymously, and on somebody else's property, it ain't.

Pretty fucking simple to me.

We're seeing a lot of racist assholes crawling out of the woodwork, suddenly it's acceptable to hang a black man in effigy. Fucking disgusting.

Be careful as you pursue this line of thinking.........

Motivation has always played a factor in prosecuting crimes.

its not racist and fine by you? After all, you state that its the motivation that matters.

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The law, which takes effect Jan. 1, will not ban displays by a homeowner, which are considered constitutionally protected speech.

and those who don't can be ignored, though they tend to be noisy and hysterical. This is really much ado about nothing.

n/t

be it Bush or Obama. To assume prima facie racism is bigotry in itself

who put them up...and this law doesn't cover that, does it? it just says you can't put up such a display on your neighbor's property, school or workplace.

the assholes who had these displays in their front yards will have them again without consequence.

(not to change the subject, but i used to hang white sheeted ghosts in a tree for halloween. not with a noose. i'd just tie them up and they looked like they were flying....spooky! then the tree got cut down and there went my ghostly graveyard. damn! besides, i loved that tree...)