Obama effigy found hanging from tree
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Obama effigy found hanging from tree at Christian college in Oregon
By Mary Hudetz, The Associated Press
NEWBERG, Ore. - Officials of a small Christian university say a life-size cardboard reproduction of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was hung from a tree on the campus, an act with racial undertones that outraged students and school leaders alike.
George Fox University President Robin Baker said a custodian discovered the effigy early Tuesday and removed it. University spokesman Rob Felton said Wednesday that the commercially produced reproduction had been suspended from the branch of a tree with fishing line around the neck.
Taped to the cardboard cutout of the black senator from Illinois was a message targeting participants in Act Six, a scholarship program geared toward increasing the number of minority and low-income students at several Christian colleges, mostly in the Northwest.
The message read, "Act Six reject."
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080924/world/obama_effigy
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By Mary Hudetz, The Associated Press
NEWBERG, Ore. - Officials of a small Christian university say a life-size cardboard reproduction of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was hung from a tree on the campus, an act with racial undertones that outraged students and school leaders alike.
George Fox University President Robin Baker said a custodian discovered the effigy early Tuesday and removed it. University spokesman Rob Felton said Wednesday that the commercially produced reproduction had been suspended from the branch of a tree with fishing line around the neck.
Taped to the cardboard cutout of the black senator from Illinois was a message targeting participants in Act Six, a scholarship program geared toward increasing the number of minority and low-income students at several Christian colleges, mostly in the Northwest.
The message read, "Act Six reject."
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080924/world/obama_effigy
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Disgusting.
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Would that really solve anything?...
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
So much for freedom of speech. You can't just allow speech that only you agree with.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
You're joking, right? You really think racial symbolism should be protected under the first amendment?
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Dude.. you way crossed the line here. I will not even lower myself to comment any further on this little bit of spewing garbage.
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Do you feel that freedom of speech should mean freedom from consequences? Do you think students can say or do whatever they want and the institution should just accept it because of the first amendment?
What if it had been a effigy of a teacher at the school? It's almost a death threat.
I don't know how "speech" is determined in the US. But if hanging an effigy from a tree with the message stop helping out minorities is "speech" than what can't be interpreted as free speech?
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but wait... dont rail on him.. after all Freedom of Speech is one of the 'best things about your country' answers on that other thread on the MT.
mind you, considering it has the worlds greatest and bestest freedoms (according to many)... then how can its rank be 48th in the world by RWB on its Worldwide Press Freedom Index? surely it should be no. 1!!!
I thought this was a pretty stupid response...
...then you go and say this, which gives stupidity a whole new meaning. Well done.
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Like I said, apparently actions or speech are only permissable if you agree with them to this bunch.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
I guess if I come to your house and take a shit on your front porch you'd be supportive of such action...I'm just practicing freedom of action and free speech...right..?
This effects EVERYONE, your responses suggest that it doesnt effect you, that is the problem.
If they were charged with a crime, it'd probably be another story.
I don't think free speech applies when you are inciting violence. Unless of course you're a rockstar on stage, then you can do what you want and it shoudl be protected.
I know it does. If you read what I wrote more closely, you'll see that I used the word "supposedly" because in my opinion everything we do affects someone else, yet there are people who will claim that certain things that I oppose - like abortion for instance - don't.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
Would I be supportive? No. But if it weren't against the law, do you think there would be grounds to throw you out of school or fire you from your job?
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
So i can burn a cross in my yard without fear of consequences?
Under your ideal of freedom of speech without consequence i can tell you "i am going to kill you and your family" and face no consequence?
go ahead and scream "FIRE" in a crowded theater and tell me how your argument works out for you in court the next day
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A very assholish comment.
This was a racist and cowardly act, and such actions cannot be tolerated in a civilized society of "free speech". People like you just see black and white, and that's irrational and immature.
I have no intentions of voting for Obama or McCain, but I know a hateful act of 'freedom of speech in the cover of darkness' when I see it. This election race has brought out the worst in everyone!
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as a manager, I would not welcome an employee who is a porchshitter....and would find a way to help them out the door....
and if the shitting took place on school grounds...yes, kick me out...
honestly, I really don't see you anyone can justify the actions of those who conducted this fake hanging...
I'm not justifying their actions. I think their actions are wrong. My initial comment about free speech was in response to a specific comment that was made. I did not justify the act...which I think is deplorable.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
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Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
This song is all I can think of when I hear about this. The actions of the cowards who did this in Oregon are reprehensible and criminal. This is 2008.
Anyone who can defend these actions in any way shape or form has a lot of soul searching to do.