Say the 'N' word, go to jail - Man sentenced for uttering slur at another for attacking his wife

WorldNetDaily ^ | February 20, 2002 | Diana Lynne

[occam's chainsaw]

This is a follow-up to a post I read back in October here at FR. The article is about a month old, but I could not find any posts of it in this forum.

[meandog]

If this post survives until tomorrow, it will surprise me as others dealing this very subject have been removed by the moderator. (...not all "thought police" are liberal, you see, some indeed claim to be conservative).

[Xenalyte]

You have one of the best FR handles I've ever seen!

[Askel5]

"'Hate words' according to the Idaho legislature," Rae told WorldNetDaily, "are nigger, spook, gook, dike, fag, chink, spic – there's not one of them in there relating to white people. There ain't 'cracker' or 'honkey.' So I say to myself, this is a law for minorities only, and that violates equal protection."

Will FR ever list the words that can cause a post to be yanked?

(We'll include "redneck" I trust? =)

[jboot]

Bump for later

[tracer]

Although I don't countenance the utterance of racial slurs, Idaho was my last hope for a sane retirement someday. Goodbye, cruel world..... ( 8~} )

[aomagrat]

The "Equality Police" strike again.

[buffyt]

We were at McDonalds and a little black girl called my son "white boy", can we sue?

BTW we have black and white and native American ancestors, but only our European traits show, we only look caucasian.

[EBUCK]

Yah you can sue. Not only was a racial slur hurled at your child, but it was an incorrect slur at that. I think in Idaho you can sue for both. /sarcasm

In fairness, we never get to hear the ref's point of view on this. We only get to hear "our victims" story here.

EBUCK

[maxwell]

There's no reason this post should be removed... Good article. Especially Steele's remark about "Lonny Rae is being sacrificed on the altar of political correctness so that Idaho can be seen as the so-called Human Rights State and to counter recent negative publicity garnered from the McGuckin, Aryan Nations and Ruby Ridge affairs"...

This case is such obvious bullcrap. Manley was the one who incited retaliation in the first place.

[niki]

"'Hate words' according to the Idaho legislature," Rae told WorldNetDaily, "are nigger, spook, gook, dike, fag, chink, spic –

When these words are used in song lyrics and/or movies, are the people uttering them going to be charged? Are the songs and movies going to be banned in Idaho?

Do we have two classes for first amendment rights, the artist and the subjects?

[neutrino]

Does this mean that I cannot refer to the spooks out of Langley? That one should not discuss the little Dutch boy who stuck his finger in the dike? Or that one cannot go upon private property and collect faggots of wood to burn in their fireplace? This seems to be something of a chink in our emotional armor. Must we use spic and span to cleanse every word of our everyday language? Truly, this is a niggardly approach. I am left without words.

Oh, by the way...want to see a group of faggots lying together on the ground? Take a look at this link!!

[texlok]

Earlier this month, a jury acquitted Lonny Rae of felony "hate crime" but found him liable of assault for having hurled the epithet. City and county prosecutors refused to charge the black man with any crime.

So you can physically grab somebody and hurt them, but you can't say certain words.

Nice, really nice. This country is really going down the tubes.

[Lance Romance]

That's rich.

[meandog]

I wonder if the judge has ever pondered what "Idaho" means in Ebonic.

[meandog]

Oh, by the way...want to see a "stack of wood"
lying together on the ground? Take a look at this