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joether -> RE: Free Speech (5/25/2015 11:21:34 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Aylee
Remember the thread with the sweet little boy stepping on the flag?
Yeah, well, it turns out that he may not be so sweet after all.
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Eric Sheppard, the Valdosta State University student who was confronted last month by an Air Force veteran after he stomped on the American flag, has issued a violent 4,700-word anti-white rant in which he threatened to “annihilate those who come after me.”
Sheppard is wanted by police after they found a gun in his backpack days after the flag-stomping demonstration. In his lengthy letter, submitted to The Valdosta Daily Times this week, Sheppard said he will not surrender and will use violence if necessary. . . .
Quoting former Nation of Islam leader and New Black Panther Party chairman, Kallid Abdul Muhammad, Sheppard wrote of whites, “we give them 24 hours to get out of town by sundown.”
“I say, if they don’t get out of town, we kill the white men, we kill the white women, we kill the white children, we kill the white babies, we kill the blind whites, we kill the crippled whites, we kill the crazy whites, we kill the faggots, we kill the lesbians, I say god dammit we kill ’em all,” Sheppard continued.
“If they are white kill ‘em all.” . . .
According to The Daily Times, Brian Childress, the Valdosta chief of police, believes that Sheppard’s video is a publicity stunt. Nevertheless, he contacted federal authorities about the threats.
http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/23/valdosta-state-student-who-stomped-us-flag-wants-to-kill-all-white-people/
I would count this type of thing as bullying and intimidation.
Ya know, if'n a white guy had said that about blacks...why, it woulda been called Hate speech.
Bets on charging him with a hate crime?
Any one?
No one?
The two concepts are not related. Someone flies a flag in their life and then wants to kill someone; try some of the more hard core Tea Partiers after they get alittle drunk. I suspect that the person has been harassed and threaten. Feeling 'back to the wall' and 'surrounded on all sides', one doesn't have anything to lose but death and destruction. Sad thing is, those doing all the threats will sink back into the shadows; why should they be responsibility if this guy goes postal?
Its like walking up to someone and punching them in the face; they will punch back. But that's not the case here. It would be like one person sucker punching someone than pointing out someone nearby did it. However, the recently punched individual pulls out a gun and kills the person (whom was completely innocent). Would you feel guilt, shame, horror, or even a tad responsible?
....nope.....
That's the viewpoint I get from you. Completely without emotion. Yet, that is not true, since you created this thread. You have some emotion to the flag being walked on (which the courts have pointed out is legal and within the 1st). And you have some emotion towards this individual threatening violence. Yet, you were one of the ones more than happy to attack this individual.
You don't seen to have any compassion or empathy here. Which makes 'joy for your fellow citizens to enjoy their rights' seem hollow and absent.
As for it being 'hate speech'? What are we defining as 'hate speech'? Yes the words are violent and offensive; but then again, so is some of the more outlandish stuff out of the NRA. Recall that Sarah Palin once put 'gunsight' markers on democrats. And plenty of other conservatives and libertarians after that person.
There are plenty whom hate President Obama on the right. In fact, some of the regulars on here have stated so many times. Should we throw them in jail too? Defining their sentence as 'Hate Crime' related? There have been times when well known individuals in the political spotlight have been...'alittle'.....violent and offensive towards the President. To which they get a 'face to face' visit from the Secret Service soon afterward.
Which is what is taking place in this case. The legal authorities are trying to track the individual down and obtain an understanding of the real situation. Just having the materials and a hatred for someone is not enough to arrest them (unless the material is illegal). There has to be a motive. That's what keeps many gun nuts from being arrested in America. At the end of the day, those folks dislike the President, but not nearly enough to see him harmed; there's always the next election!
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