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(Black) Man sentenced for racist Facebook threats
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Posted on 12/03/2009 12:14:43 PM PST by Chet 99

Man sentenced for racist Facebook threats

by Michael Luke / Eyewitness News

Posted on December 3, 2009 at 10:16 AM

Updated today at 10:18 AM

NEW ORLEANS - A federal judge handed down three years of probation for a Mississippi man who, after the election of President Barack Obama, threatened to kill African Americans through a Facebook account, according to U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.

Dyron Hart, 20, who is black and a student at Nicholls State University, of Popularville, Miss., was sentenced for communicating threats in interstate commerce, said Letten.

In August, “Hart created a fictitious name and used the photograph of a white supremacist to communicated a threat. He then purported to be a person outraged by the election of President Barack Obama when he used a Facebook account on a computer in Poplarville, Mississippi to transmit a threat to an African American student at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana indicating he wanted to kill African American individuals because of the election of the President,” said Letten.

Hart used the name Colton Brodoux, setting up his fake page and a photograph of a white supremacist as the avatar on the site.

Posing as a white supremacist, Hart repeatedly used obscenities and the N-word, and he threatened to kill more than 3,000 black people in a month, court documents say. He warned those who received the message of an attack from a "random white man."

Hart must perform 150 hours of community service and complete racial sensitivity course.

Hart told FBI agents that he sent the message to “get a reaction.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hatecrime; hoax; racebaiting; racism
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To: Chet 99

NRA1995 likes this, to use Facebook jargon


21 posted on 12/03/2009 1:32:39 PM PST by NRA1995 (Obama, when you lie, we're going to call you out)
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To: dfwgator

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAH...!

One of the funniest comedic skits ever... along with the skit with Wayne Grady. Gimme your sandwich, Dave!


22 posted on 12/03/2009 1:47:51 PM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: wardaddy; KLT; montesquiue; Downsouth55; Michael Knight; ejonesie22; bkwells; DogwoodSouth; ...

Mississippi ping


23 posted on 12/03/2009 2:00:38 PM PST by WKB (From "Handout" to "Bailout")
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To: Chet 99
Hart must perform 150 hours of community service and complete racial sensitivity course.

This is all the penalty he gets? Justice?????????

24 posted on 12/03/2009 2:03:50 PM PST by petitfour (Are you a Dead Fish American?)
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To: Chet 99

I wonder what percentage of threats against 0ba-Mao and blacks in general, made to look like white racists, are hoaxes like this one?


25 posted on 12/03/2009 2:04:52 PM PST by TigersEye (Sarah Palin 2010 - We Can't Afford To Wait)
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To: Chet 99
150 hours of community service

He will probably do those hours at the local ACORN office.

26 posted on 12/03/2009 2:05:54 PM PST by CharacterCounts (November 4, 2008 - the day America drank the Kool-Aid)
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To: petitfour
As a thought experiment, lets imagine the races reversed, and some white guy pretending to be a New Black Panther, or some such, sent threatening messages to white people saying that they were to be targeted y blacks, in an attempt to stir up racial incidents.

You think he would get off with a wrist slap?

27 posted on 12/03/2009 2:10:39 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: Chet 99

Probation?! That’s it? Seems like people get sent up-river for a long time for lesser crimes every day. Who was the judge?


28 posted on 12/03/2009 2:13:07 PM PST by Moltke (DOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the Big House - HOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the White House.)
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To: Chet 99

Is anybody keeping track of how long this streak is, of some report of a “white person” threatening a black person turns out to be a black person?


29 posted on 12/03/2009 2:22:28 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Chet 99

“Hart must perform 150 hours of community service and complete racial sensitivity course. “

If this had been a White man who made real or fake threats, the penalty would be 100 times more severe than that.

He tried to promote his racist cause by pretending to be a White man and then get Whites blamed for fake racism and thus get stronger “hate crime” laws passed.

Anyone who falsely accuses someone of a crime, must get the same penalty as the innocent person would have gotten.


30 posted on 12/03/2009 2:48:42 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: jessduntno

“So, he might be dumb and blind? Wonder if he can hear?”

But can he also play pinball?


31 posted on 12/03/2009 3:26:46 PM PST by Walvoord
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To: Walvoord

But can he also play pinball?

Mean pinball...


32 posted on 12/03/2009 3:57:34 PM PST by jessduntno (Make the Democrats STFU - Stop The Federal Usurpation...dump them out in 2010.)
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To: jessduntno

He’s a pinball wizard..


33 posted on 12/03/2009 3:58:27 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

How do you think he does it?


34 posted on 12/03/2009 3:58:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I don’t know..


35 posted on 12/03/2009 4:02:18 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Chet 99; stainlessbanner; WKB; Travis McGee; river rat

we have had precisely the same sort of imposters here on FR...and suspect we still do

and they play both sides

race baiter on one moniker

and racist agit prop on the other


36 posted on 12/03/2009 4:02:19 PM PST by wardaddy (Angel Flight by Radney Foster on GAC, if you don't tear up then you must be mighty cold)
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To: trisham

What makes him so good?


37 posted on 12/03/2009 4:03:31 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

He ain’t got no distractions..


38 posted on 12/03/2009 4:07:28 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: wardaddy
I am sure that Jesse and Al are saddened. Jesse tried to stir up Mississippians with the incident where the student committed suicide with his belt and Jesse tried to say it was a lynching. This guy will end up on Obama’s staff for his radical out of the box thinking.
39 posted on 12/03/2009 6:06:06 PM PST by vetvetdoug (FUBO, a fashion statement for conservatives.)
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To: trisham; dfwgator

We’re Not Gonna Take It!


40 posted on 12/03/2009 6:11:55 PM PST by Canedawg (Bring lawyers, guns and money.)
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