Connecticut Criminalizes Nooses As Threats

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[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.”

[festus]

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 ?

[Arkansas Toothpick]

Will this hold up in court?

[doc1019]

I suspect more nooses will begin to appear as a consequence of this asinine Bill.

[2banana]

Can we ban the Malcolm X hats - those are meant to be intimidating to whites...

[BnBlFlag]

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.

[buccaneer81]

Gov. M. Jodi Rell

What does the "M" stand for? Marxist?

[SpaceBar]

The article has all the words I need.

Connecticut is bigoted, racist, repugnant, and cowardly.

[Chickensoup]

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.

[Rudder]

What’s next? A law banning pictures of Buckwheat.

[LibFreeOrDie]

It's not folks in Connecticut who need an anti-noose law.

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."

[SpaceBar]

Nice fungal infection on that kid’s scalp.

[preacher]

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” - Voltaire

[Baladas]

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!!!

[digger48]

What’s next? A law banning pictures of Buckwheat

""Tay what?"

[stevem]

Is a noose as “art” OK?

[the invisib1e hand]

how about a knot. that could be construed as a threat.

[spunkets]

"What does the "M" stand for? Marxist? "

Moron.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

There are, I believe states that still have hanging as a means of the meting out the death sentence. Will that be considered racist?

[HankArcher]

So “Hang ‘em High” with Clint Eastwood can’t be shown there anymore?