bigotry is constitutional?
Dennis
dperrin13 at mediaone.net
Sat Nov 3 11:57:30 PST 2001
> But KKKers don't generally burn crosses in their own yards, to "express"
> their bigotry. It's usually done on someone else's property and intended
> (and understood) expressly as a threat. Doesn't that put it in a somewhat
> different category than just speech? Not incitement, exactly (though it
> could be that), but sort of like scrawling "I'm going to kill you" on
> someone's door. Burning crosses, considered abstractly, might be
protected
> speech; but doesn't context matter?
> Gary Ashwill
Mr. Berlet may correct me, but my general take is that the KKK usually burns
crosses in a field at night during a private rally or ceremony. The days of
burning crosses on people's lawns are more or less gone, so far as I know.
DP
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