Posted on 05/11/2008 6:23:06 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
Gov. M. Jodi Rell has signed into law Senate Bill 604, An Act Concerning Hate Crimes, which makes it a crime to display a noose as a way of harassing or threatening someone.
"Connecticut simply will not tolerate bigotry or racism," Rell said. "Let this bill send that message loud and clear. Using a noose -- a symbol of the racially motivated lynchings during the late 19th and first half of the 20th century -- to intimidate anyone because of their race or any other characteristic is a repugnant and cowardly act. No one should be subject to that kind of treatment.”
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What if I don’t use it for intimidation but rather just tie it for practice and to use to tie around logs I drag behind my bike like when I was a kid ?
Is that crimminal ?
Will this hold up in court?
I suspect more nooses will begin to appear as a consequence of this asinine Bill.
A kid in Jena, La. dispayed a noose while protesting a demonstation by Sharpton and Jackson and received one year in prison for it recently.
What does the "M" stand for? Marxist?
Connecticut is bigoted, racist, repugnant, and cowardly.
Nooses are bigotry or racism. More whites swung by the noose in this country than blacks ANYDAY. Think Nathan Hale. Think cattle rustlers.
What hogwash.
What’s next? A law banning pictures of Buckwheat.
This photo was taken at the elementary school run by Grambling State University, LA, during the controversy over the Jena Six. "Kindergarten and first-grade students at Alma J. Brown Elementary School were being taught why nooses are a symbol of racism."
Nice fungal infection on that kid’s scalp.
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” - Voltaire
Politically correct fool. You people in CT had better learn how to display a noose NOT as a way of harassing or threatening someone.
YES WE CAN!!!
""Tay what?"
Is a noose as “art” OK?
how about a knot. that could be construed as a threat.
Moron.
There are, I believe states that still have hanging as a means of the meting out the death sentence. Will that be considered racist?
So “Hang ‘em High” with Clint Eastwood can’t be shown there anymore?
In “The Gulag Archipelago” Solzhenitsyn related the story of a peasant who was ordered to go to the next village and bring back a large bust of Stalin. When he got there he found that the bust was too unwieldy to carry, so he took off his belt, looped it around the neck of the bust, put it over his shoulder, and went on his way. He got twenty years for terrorism, if I remember correctly.
In that context, I don't think you need a BS hate crimes statute to recognize that displaying a noose is really a way of threatening a lynching. If what you described really happened, that kid belongs in prison.
Seems like anytime a noose shows up it’s on someone’s door who is either being investigated or is a deranged attention starved person.
ok to burn the american flag though...
this sort of PC crap is insanity
By your logic Nazi symbols would have long ago been outlawed but they haven’t.
This is a gesture, it won’t hold up.
Are nooses still illegal when carried by BLACKS???
FTA: which makes it a crime to display a noose as a way of harassing or threatening someone.
Threatening and harassing people is already illegal.
Baseball bat, noose, tire iron. Whatever.
Threaten anyone with or without anything and it is a threat. Harass anyone with or with out anything and it is harassment.
Our CT legislators have nothing to do, they insist on staying in session and blathering on and on. Can’t wait for the next thing to pop into someone’s mind and demand it be a law. Good Heavens!
BTW didn’t the lady Professor that declared nooses were left everywhere around her found to be lying?
Displaying a noose = prison? I guess the First Amendment means nothing to you.
Depends entirely on the context. If the noose is intended as an immediate threat, then absolutely you should go to prison... The same way the First Amendment protects speech, but not death threats.
Huh? The context is everything. I don't support outlawing nooses in general. However, if you're trying to make a death threat, then that is already illegal.
a convoluted ruling that allowed the ban but only if intimidation is the aim
...i think...
Thomas dissented but not to protect cross lighting
and Ginsburg and Souter were against the ban I think....Anton for it....another black mark
in any event what bothered me was that the VA law was for on private property too.
Should the LASSO be banned?? That would make cattle uset if cowboys use the LASSO on runaway cattle!!
Jeez, CT first you were trying to control where UConn football can play their games against Norte Dame, then you came up with this F**Ked UP law. Why didn't you do something about BUSINESS TAXES to lower them. Did that stupid delivery tax get passed?? That'll HELP businesses so much in Connecticut!
Does the law say each noose has to have the full 13 twists, or is a simple half-hitch too many?
Funny,when I think of a noose,Hangin’ Judge Roy Bean comes to mind.His “law” was so often arbitrary he was as much a lyncher as an executioner.
He strung up American,Indian and Mexican “outlaws” mostly.Perhaps he hanged a black cowboy or two,I don’t know.
But obviously political correctness declares the noose was used on blacks being lynched in the Old South only.
The ropes in the hands of the angry mobs facing Marshal Dillon in front of the Dodge City jail must have been looped into cats cradles or were attached to big western yo-yos because the prisoners they were after were almost always white.
Also,Nazis murdered with nooses,sometimes as many as a dozen at a time.
Well,at least the only politically correct historical victims of the unjust noose weren’t killed by gunfire or else the 2nd Amendment would be in REAL danger.
Sporting gang tatoos still ok?
This bill is really going to tie the courts up in knots.
How do you determine it a death threat?
That’s pretty subjective.....a noose on a rear view mirror?
or a gang in the front yard with torches and a real noose?
what’s next....Confederate Battle Flag?
what about black symbols I find threatening?
braids?
baggy pants and pocket pool?
AK-47 t-shirts?
X hats?
It’s selective prosecution based on race and who’s the victim.
I have a problem with it and I’m tired of it. I’m tired of living in a culture where for me as a white middle aged man I have to fear black neighborhoods and black thug kulture and the perils of black government overtaking my locale and driving it in the ground.
and yet folks think some silly noose is the problem.
Have you ever examined black on white crime stats?
that’s the real problem in this country with regards to race...not symbols which are a deflection from the real problems folks are too cowardly to address.
Or is noose-hanging something only whites can be punished for?
I don’t think the Supreme Court will reverse this, but if a swastika is legal this should be too. (If they’re both displayed in the same fashion: no riot is likely to occur if they show it)
"Symbol of Racism and bigotry?"
Sheesh!
Police and the courts mkae just that kind of deterimination every day. Believe it or not, you tell the difference between a threat of physical violence ("I'm going to come over and shoot your horse!") and a joke ("I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"). People have brains, something the law depends on.
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