I do however approve approve of the use of nooses to deal with evil dictators: 
Posted on 10/30/2007 7:21:24 PM PDT by trumandogz
Four contract workers were banned from FMC Technologies after they hung nooses at one of the firm's Houston facilities, the company announced Tuesday.
The three men and one woman also were fired from their jobs with the contractors for FMC, an oil-field services equipment manufacturer, said Maryann Seaman, FMC spokeswoman.
"FMC has zero tolerance for workplace harassment," Seaman said.
Seaman said about a month ago an employee notified company officials that he had seen a noose hanging in the FMC's Gears Road facility.
Three workers were banned from FMC after they were discovered to have been involved in placing the noose, she said.
Last week, another noose was seen hanging in the same facility, Seaman said, and another person was banned from the firm because she was involved in placing that noose.
Seaman said the company is investigating the cases. So far, she added, the firm has has not contacted law enforcement authorities, but it will do what is ever necessary once its investigation is complete.
Seaman said the incidents are especially troubling on the heels of an incident about a year ago in Jena, La., in which nooses were hung from a tree at a high school campus and racial tension erupted.
"It's certainly sad," said Yolanda Smith, executive director of the Houston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "It's taken us back to the days of the 1950s and 1960s. We have to be more cognizant of diversity. Education is the key."
Seaman said no one appears to have filed complaints related to the FMC incidents with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The number of lawsuits the EEOC filed related to nooses has dropped steadily from 10 in 2001 to two so far this year, said James Ryan, EEOC spokesman.
The EEOC recently won settlements in three harassment cases related to nooses, including one in the Houston area, Ryan said.
In May, the EEOC reached a $390,000 racial harassment litigation settlement with Pemco Aeroplex of Birmingham on behalf of a class of black employees who were subjected to racist graffiti, slurs and the display of nooses, Ryan said.
The EEOC settled a racial harassment suit in January for $600,000 against AK Steel Corp. of Butler, Pa., Ryan added, after nooses were displayed and Klu Klux Klan videos were shown in employee lounges.
In March 2006, Ryan said, the EEOC obtained more than $1 million in a case against Commercial Coating Service, Inc. of Conroe, Texas, in which a black worker was racially harassed and choked with a noose by his coworkers in a company bathroom.
How about fried Chicken?
Sorry about what I have said to you.
If I had know you watched “The View” I would have backed off long ago. My daddy raised me not to pick on the weak minded or those that watch daytime TV.
Perhaps you should use “I watch “The View” on your tagline.”
The Mexicans would just stand there and scratch their heads.... The Polish and Italians would look at you funny too. Oh I get it, trolling,(for calves) right?
It comes on right after the morning news, and I can only get a couple channels on the tv in my office.
Bsides, Someone has to keep an eye on what the racists loons on the left are saying. Every day, every black TV personality makes a racist remark. They can't help it. But should a WHITE person say something, like "nappy hair", well, that's "Racist" even though they complain about their nappy hair all day long.
Wow, I really never knew that hanging nooses was a conservative ideal. However, if it is why is it that none of the GOP candidates for president don't come out on stage at the next debate holding a noose?
LOL! Dude. Are you from NYC?
Yer so mean.
"I have no problem with watermelons."
You'll get everything all sticky.
I do however approve approve of the use of nooses to deal with evil dictators:
Back off leave him alone.
Apparently, he watches “The View” and thinks that cowboys use nooses to rope cattle.
Well, about 30 or so years ago, I used a noose-like rope to hold the bumper on my 1974 Torino. Now, I can't find too many places to hang one - maybe from the hitch receiver....
I don't have a problem with driving through a minority neighborhood with a noose hangin' from the hitch. If the locals didn't kill me in Nashville several years ago (did I mention my confederate flag boxers?), I doubt that they'd do so now. I think that most people have enough sense to laugh at the whole scene. To the few that don't, well, I really don't care. I'm confident that I can outdrive them.
Hang that noose in your office.
We can not have this free speech. It is very distructive and is not to be tolerated.
Free Speech does not exist in the workplace.
Now nooses are offensive symbols of racism? - that’d be a surprise to all those people who were hung in ye merry olde England or in our own wild wild west - and our local PBS station had better cancel the showing of “Young Frankenstein” it has scheduled in the near future - seems to me there was a pretty vivid hanging scene in that highly rated movie - this is insane.......
Well, it does in mine!
Anyway, it's getting late and I've got to run. It's been fun 'hangin' with y'all.
Close, I'm a northerner (ND). Those lariats look like nooses to me, they're just opened up wider. :o) Heck, when I was a kid, I had a confederate flag covering the back window of my truck. In those days, it meant you were a rebel, anti- establishment. Those were my "democrat" days.
Just think what would happen if I did that now, LoL! I'd be jumped by democrats! Maybe I should put that rebel flag back in my truck window, since it means I'm an intolerant right wing evangelist now. :o)
Your employer can fire you for hanging a Christmas card in your office or even hanging a picture of your wife.
They could try. But I would sue, and win.
Not in Texas.
Even in Texas.
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