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Title: Prison for man who helped place noose on civil rights statue
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/man-helped-pl ... iss-statue-gets-170700110.html
Published: Sep 18, 2015
Author: JEFF AMY
Post Date: 2015-09-18 14:13:53 by Justified
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Views: 1310
Comments: 11
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former University of Mississippi student who admitted helping place a noose on a statue of a civil rights activist is going to prison. U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills sentenced Graeme Phillip Harris on Thursday to six months in prison beginning Jan. 4, followed by 12 months' supervised release. Harris pleaded guilty in June to a misdemeanor charge of using a threat of force to intimidate African-American students and employees, and prosecutors agreed to drop a felony charge. "No one should have to endure threats or intimidation because of their race or the color of their skin," Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta said in a written statement. Gupta leads the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Prosecutors say the Alpharetta, Georgia, resident and two other former students placed a noose and a former version of the Georgia state flag containing the Confederate battle emblem on the statue of James Meredith sometime before dawn on Feb. 16, 2014. Meredith integrated Ole Miss amid rioting that was suppressed by federal troops in 1962. Harris admitted to undertaking the plan after a night of drinking in the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house. The fraternity closed its chapter in the aftermath. Davis Hill, Harris' lawyer, had argued he didn't deserve jail time in a Sept. 2 court filing, saying that Harris had joined a fraternity which fostered racist behavior, was attending counseling to deal with alcohol problems and had admitted guilt. "Graeme fully recognizes the folly of the conduct and attitudes that bring him before this court," wrote Hill, noting Harris had written a letter of apology to Meredith. "He has grown, improved and become more serious as a person." Hill wrote that the seeds of racial bias were planted when Harris transferred to a Georgia high school seeking to play quarterback, only to have a black head coach pass over him for a black quarterback. He wrote those seeds bloomed at Sigma Phi Epsilon, where he said incoming pledges were taught to keep alive grudges over Ole Miss' purge of Confederate symbolism such as the Colonel Reb mascot and the display of Confederate battle flags at sporting events. "Blatant racism was not only OK, it was expected," Hill wrote of the fraternity. Harris faced up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. Austin Reed Edenfield — who also took part in the vandalism, according to prosecutors and Mills — had been scheduled to plead guilty Wednesday to an unspecified crime. That hearing was postponed without explanation in court papers. The third former student alleged to have taken part not been charged. Prosecutors said the investigation is ongoing.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Punishment doesn't not fit the crime. This is without a doubt "cruel and unusual punishments" This is only going to make the divide between blacks and all other races bigger!
Unjust punishments can do exactly that. Anyone feeling it's very excessive will begin to feel resentment and start blaming the system or, in this case, blacks for the injustice.
Holder, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta I wonder how many years in prison the girl is going to get for placing "Whites Only" signs at the drinking fountains at her school? She's black, by the way. How many years in prison is the black football player going to get for busting open a white players head with his own helmet, resulting in 10 stitches? How many years in prison are the two black football players going to get for assaulting the official on the field?
What a un-Constitutional crock of absolute Obama! Did the statue file a formal complaint? Are there any doctors statements saying the statue had injuries that might have threatened it's life? Meanwhile,a hundred or more times a day we have blacks doing actual physical damage to actual whites FOR NO REASON AT ALL OTHER THAN RACISM,and the alleged Justice Dept can't be bothered to look into them because they are busy doing crap like protecting the life and health of a freaking statue! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Unjust punishments can do exactly that. Anyone feeling it's very excessive will begin to feel resentment and start blaming the system or, in this case, blacks for the injustice. I may be wrong,but it is my firm belief THAT IS THE ACTUAL PLAN. IMHO,the plan is to create a race war,and when the bodies start piling up in the streets the sheeple will be screaming for the government to "Do something,DO ANYTHING,BUT STOP THE KILLING AND MAKE THE STREETS SAFE AGAIN!" Which will naturally result in a formal declaration of Martial Law,and a suspension of the Bill of Rights "for the duration of the emergency." Who gets to determine when the "emergency" is over? Why,our new Dictators,that's who? Funny how that works out,ain't it? Remember,the income tax was inacted as a "temporary measure" to pay off the bills for WW-1. Would someone like to point out to me when the government gave up that power and stopped collecting income taxes? Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
HAY! Dat bees de crackas falts,fo put-in hiz head whur de brutha bees swing-in de helmets! Yew bees racists,'n shit! Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
6 months in prison for a college prank that harmed no one. How much time in prison do blacks get for playing the knockout game? Or robbing stores as a mob? Or rioting and destroying businesses?
This sort of thing is understandable, when the aim is to generate a race war.
Psalm 37
Yup,and taking that one step further,it is the ONLY explanation for what has been happening. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
#2. To: Justified (#1)
This is only going to make the divide between blacks and all other races bigger!
#3. To: Justified, Racist Pimps (#0)
Racist community agitators, Crackas 
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#4. To: Justified (#1)
#5. To: misterwhite (#4)
I wonder how many years in prison the girl is going to get for placing "Whites Only" signs at the drinking fountains at her school?
#6. To: Justified (#0)
#7. To: Pinguinite, Justified (#2)
This is only going to make the divide between blacks and all other races bigger!
#8. To: misterwhite (#4)
How many years in prison is the black football player going to get for busting open a white players head with his own helmet, resulting in 10 stitches?
#9. To: Justified (#1)
"U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills sentenced Graeme Phillip Harris on Thursday to six months in prison"
#10. To: sneakypete (#8)
#11. To: Don (#10)
This sort of thing is understandable, when the aim is to generate a race war.
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