Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (42387)	6/28/1999 9:54:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

As I stressed, I am no legal expert, but MY cursory search indicated that there is no one "law" on cross burnings, but a lot of different state & local laws/statutes/ordinances, some of which have been ruled unconstitutional (e.g., St. Paul's). And generally speaking, a distinction is made between burning a cross on somebody's lawn (a no-no) and burning it on one's own turf (e.g.,as part of a ceremony for Ku Klux Klan members). The grand wizard, who was defended by the black ACLU lawyer in Virginia, had been engaged in the latter. But I gather that was not why he was prosecuted. The question was whether he had incited others to violence during the proceedings.