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Law elevates display of noose as a threat to a felony
BY VALERIE BAUMAN The Associated Press

    Gov. David Paterson signed legislation Thursday that will make it a felony to display a noose as a threat.
    The crime would be punishable by up to four years in prison.
    “It is sad that in these modern times there remains a need to address the problem of individuals who use nooses as a means of threat and intimidation,” Paterson said in a statement. “But it is a reality, and if we ignore it we would be derelict in our duty.”
    Paterson says the legislation still isn’t enough and New York law will need to be strengthened more.
    Nooses were found last year on a black professor’s door at Columbia University, outside a post office near ground zero in lower Manhattan and in locations on Long Island.
    The symbol of lynchings has shown up in other high-profile incidents around the country — in a black Coast Guard cadet’s bag, on a Maryland college campus and in the Jena Six case in Louisiana, where six black teenagers were charged with beating a white student. The incident happened after nooses were hung from a tree on a high school campus there.
    New York isn’t the first state to consider making it a crime to threaten with a noose, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Connecticut passed a bill this year making it a misdemeanor unless property is damaged, which would be a felony. At least two other states, Louisiana and Maryland, have considered similar legislation.
    In New York, the current crime of aggravated harassment in the first degree applies to conduct committed with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm a victim chosen for reasons of bias.

Now the government has given 'credibility' to 'the noose'.......

It's getting so the government is legislating the way we live our lives and our personal freedoms are just about gone. They tell us where to smoke, when we have to wear seat belts, when to wear helmets [motorcycle, bike, 4 wheeler], when not to use cell phones, and on and on and on with laws every time they or someone gets a whim to pass another law. We can't think for ourselves anymore because the government thinks they know what right for us and we have no say in the matter.

I agree completely shadow. I remember growing up and playing HANGMAN as a kid. I guess that's not a word game of choice now, huh? It seems that we have criminalized everything today.

Ironic that this comes from a black governor.

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Now the government has given 'credibility' to 'the noose'.......

EXACTLY!!!!

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It's getting so the government is legislating the way we live our lives and our personal freedoms are just about gone. They tell us where to smoke, when we have to wear seat belts, when to wear helmets [motorcycle, bike, 4 wheeler], when not to use cell phones, and on and on and on with laws every time they or someone gets a whim to pass another law. We can't think for ourselves anymore because the government thinks they know what right for us and we have no say in the matter.

That would be called stumping----stumping the masses into thinking this one particular thing(however insignificant it is) is so important that you will not have food on your table and your quality of life would go down or not get any better.....we all think the gas prices are high because of just supply and demand, falling dollar etc,,,,,anyone hear of war effort,,,,,they dazzle us with their puny little things (ie:seat belts, smoking, lotto, headlights, etc etc) and the BIG foundational issues get by under the current of crap......OBFUSCATION......and they keep it rolling with COMPENSATION......there is no truth and justice only obfuscation and compensation.......

I believe the pharisees where in trouble for this kind of crap back in the day.......we keep electing them and they are not grown in a vaccum......