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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 05:18 PM
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When a black guy makes racial threats he goes to jail.. when a white guy does it..he
Edited on Thu Aug-13-09 05:19 PM by ddeclue
gets a contract for a conservative radio program...

:eyes:

I've been saying that the DOJ ought to be going after Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh over the Federal riot act and making terroristic threats using interstate commerce (radio/TV/internet)...and instead guess who is going to jail?

Yep.. you guessed it... a black guy..

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/13/facebook.racial.threat/index.html

(CNN) -- An African-American man has pleaded guilty after being accused of impersonating a white supremacist in a fictitious Facebook account to make death threats against an African-American university student.


A Mississippi man admitted creating a false Facebook profile in November.

Dyron L. Hart, 20, of Poplarville, Mississippi, pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt to one count of communicating threats in interstate commerce, according to a Department of Justice statement.

Hart admitted creating the fictitious account in November, pretending to be a white supremacist outraged by the election of Barack Obama as the nation's first African-American president, the statement said.

He then transmitted a death threat via Facebook to an African-American student at Nicholls State University in Louisiana, saying he wanted to kill African-Americans because of Obama's election, according to the statement.

A court document provided by the U.S. attorney's office said Hart told an FBI interviewer that he intended the threat to be a prank "to get a reaction
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Metta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 05:56 PM
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1. RICO, it seems, also covers their actions.
Happy karma to them and to the DOJ.
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