Cop flips on kids for skating downtown in Hot Springs Arkansas. Jarad Graham, Drew Irwin, Skylar Nalls, Matt McCormack, Robbie Brindley, & Casey Canterbury get arrested.

I love to bring you these stories, let me guess…..the cop jumped him because he was “disorderly”, refusing to dive to the concrete when the officer ordered him to. WTF America, when are we going to stop and smell the roses that the Government, and specifically the Policing forces of the US are fucked. Who on Earth can justify the way the cop grabs the other “child” after he cant catch the other kid. They are brutal, out of hand, and truly believe they are untouchable. THE POLICE! We are not an anti-government site, nor have any public persuasion to one party or another. But we call bullshit when we see it. Take a look for yourself, and we encourage you to fallow up on the numbers below to complain about police brutality.

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Jefferson eyes bong-sale ban Wednesday, March 19, 2008

We’ve included this informational video for those of you who need to learn about the horrors of Marijuana, and how to spot illegal paraphernalia.

JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP — Local bong sales could go up in smoke beginning with a council discussion tonight.

The council agenda includes a sample drug-paraphernalia ordinance outlawing a long list of “all equipment, products and materials of any kind” that could be used for “introducing into the human body a controlled dangerous substance.”

The law echoes state statute. However, while the state law limits having the paraphernalia in the context of possession or distribution of drugs, the Jefferson ordinance to be discussed could outlaw the sale of anything in the township that could be construed as paraphernalia in the township without a connection to having or selling controlled substances.

Jefferson police Lt. Eric Wilsusen said Jefferson police are looking to limit the sale of potential drug tools and apparatus in two particular Route 15 gas stations. The Getty and Exxon stations recently sold what could be used as drug paraphernalia, particularly implements such as glass pipes and other filtration systems that could be used to smoke marijuana.

Getty voluntarily removed the targeted merchandise from the store, but the counter of the Exxon store still is covered with multiple pipes and other paraphernalia that could be used to smoke marijuana.

Wilsusen said the ordinance suggested by the police to the council is an attempt to avoid a drug problem, or even “nip it in the bud,” by banning the items for sale within the community.

“Obviously, this concerns us,” Wilsusen said. “I guess you can claim if you’re selling these things that people are smoking tobacco out of them, but we all know what it’s used for.”

Mayor Russell Felter and Township Attorney Lawrence Cohen could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

Wilsusen said the Jefferson council is using an East Rutherford ordinance passed in 1984 as a template for the Jefferson law.

East Rutherford police say the law has gone unchallenged and apparently has worked as it was intended. Deputy Chief Larry Minda said he considers their ordinance a success over the last two decades, especially considering the development that has sprung up with the sports complex in the borough.

“It actually works well … the foresight was there,” Minda said.

East Rutherford also has ordinances limiting the sale of spray paint to combat graffiti, and cracking down on public cigarette smoking by juveniles, Minda said. Like those, the local drug paraphernalia law sets the atmosphere for the town and curbs problems before they happen, he said.

“I think it serves as an example and a barometer … and it’s worked out very well,” Minda said.

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey’s spokeswoman said she had not heard of the East Rutherford or Jefferson ordinances covering the sale of drug paraphernalia. Executive Director Deborah Jacobs said state law already addresses the issues clearly.

“I haven’t heard from other municipalities passing ordinances like this,” she said. “I would assume it’s because state law covers this.”

Current legal precedents indicate that pipes and other smoking devices sold at the Exxon and other places are legal, if their potential use for controlled substances is not advertised or otherwise specifically known by the seller. This was partially determined in such cases as the 1980 U.S. District Court decision Knoedler vs. Township of Roxbury. In the case, the owner of a shop called Nature’s Head successfully defended his rights to sell potentially unlawful drug paraphernalia.

However, the judges’ opinion also said the spirit of the ordinance was well-founded, but it simply outlawed too many items that might have legal uses, such as various pipes that could also be used for tobacco.

“The ordinance is aimed at a legitimate target, the sale of paraphernalia utilized in connection with illegal drugs, but its impact is too broad,” wrote Judge H. Lee Sarokin. “It is a cannon where an arrow is more appropriate.”

Still, that kind of determination does not seem realistic to many people, said Wilsusen.

“The last I checked, there aren’t too many people hand-rolling their cigarettes anymore … let alone smoking tobacco out of 5-foot bongs,” Wilsusen said.

However, the situation could resolve itself before council even gets to vote on a potential ordinance.

The unnamed manager of the Jefferson Exxon said he wants to avoid the stigma of carrying items that might run afoul of the law and said he likely will send them back with the wholesaler later this week.

Now this my friends, is some funny shite! It’s sad that the US Government goes unchecked for so long that we end up making animations about how they are screwing the American Public, for entertainment. Here, screw me, then I’ll make a funny movie about it so you can get a laugh!

Some Silly Laws in good old California as told to by a fairly smart dude! Let’s take a little trip down taxpayer lane and see what our good hard earned cash is spent on by the government. Basicaly as I see it, they make up new laws so that they have plenty of justification for paying themselves $200,000 a year. No new law making, no jobs for lawmakers! Due you really think that there are laws that just “slipped the mind” of lawmakers over the past 200 years. NO, THEY KEEP SPENDING OUR MONEY, TO HAVE JOBS!

texas dildo law 5 dildo limit or a felony">Texas, a bit reminiscent of Iran nowadays, still seems to be arguing morality laws. Many people have heard about the texas 5 dildo law. In Texas, you are only allowed to have 5 dildos for medical reasons, if you have 6, then it is a felony. You gotta love “freedom” in Texas. So what is Texas so afraid of… well the theory is politicians may in fact believe that their own wives may come to like the dildos more than them. Having seen and heard some of these “GREAT” lawmakers, I can see why they are scared of losing the wife to a piece of plastic. a new definition of “penal code” for Texas republicans.

You can check out the Dildo Diaries to watch great lawmaking

Years after GWB left the Governor’s mansion, the Great State of Texas seems to continue to be obsessed with dildos. I reported on Feb. 13 in Texas Dildo Law Goes Limp that the Fifth Circuit struck down Texas’ Saudi-esque “obscene devices” law.If you have 6 or more dildos, Texas declares that you have ‘intent to distribute‘ and therefore you are a felon. If you have less than 6 then you are merely a hobbyist, and therefore things are okay.well then, that makes sense to me.

So Joe goes to prison, convicted felon… asks his fellow inmates “what are they in here for?” he gets… I robbed an old lady, I killed my wife, I got my 20th DUI. Joe looks at his peers and tells them “I got busted with a gift pack that had 6 dildos in it” It was mail order, the ad said 5, but the company threw one in for free. Damned out of state companies.

Texas politicians or kings of YOUR bedroom, buy 6 rubber dongs and be a felon for life.

Naturally, the State of Texas simply can not survive if dildos are sold in that state. Therefore, a bunch of small-government republicans have banded together to waste the taxpayers’ money seeking a rehearing en banc.

The brief is the same old “the sky is falling” bollocks — as if every time you touch your genitals, an angel burns to death.

Now I also found this quote somewhere.

“A federal appeals court has overturned the Texas statute outlawing sex toy sales, leaving Alabama as the state with the strictest ban on such devices.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Texas law making it illegal to sell or promote obscene devices, punishable by up to two years in jail, violated the Constitution’s 14th Amendment on the right to privacy.”

Point is.. There MUST be better things to waste taxpayer money on than arguing over how many rubber toys one may have! WTF people!!!

And you gotta love laws that no one has any way to enforce. A great waste of public funds for this mighty state.

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Police polygraph test… cops teaching how to lie and pass.

This type of stuff really, really annoys me. Police are the people we look for to uphold the laws, not the people who should be teaching other people to circumvent the laws and not get caught… for a price of course. So, let me get this straight… If I am a corrupt wanna be cop, I can pay to have other cops coach me on how to pass the polygraph and entrance tests into the police department?

This is the polygraph test I found that many police officers must pass to get hired. The funny… or maybe not so funny part of it was that the person who wrote this was promoting his product to “pass the police polygraph test” and not get caught.

The man behind this article is promoting his site on how to lie effectively and pass the police polygraph test as well as other tests. This is supposed to be a picture of him, in uniform on the left.
Now, I may be wrong here, but isn’t the point of the testing is to weed out the corrupt cops? With this type of coaching available from other cops, no wonder, some police department somewhere, is in hot water over corruption issues almost weekly.

Most of the questions involved are about criminal conduct… I may be nuts here, but how does any PD allow officers to coach others or reveal what will be on the test as a side job? Unlike other fields where stuff like this probably does not matter, here, it does.

Police polygraph examinations fall under the guidelines for employment interviewing of title VII of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, so examiners are obliged to conduct the examinations in a way that would not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, etc. One central principle of ethical standards is that relevant questions be related to the job applied for.

Here are typical questions asked on the police polygraph exam:

Did you tell the complete truth on your job application?

Have you deliberately withheld information from your job application?

Have you ever been fired from a job?

Since the age of ( ) have you committed an undetected crime?

Since the age of ( ) have you been convicted of a crime?

During the past year, have you used marijuana more than ( ) per ( )?

Have you used any other narcotic illegally in the past ( ) years?

Have you sold marijuana or other narcotics illegally in the past ( ) years?

Have you ever stolen more than ($ ) worth of merchandise in any one year from any of your employers?

Have you even stolen more than ($ ) in moneys in any one year from any of your employers?

Have you ever used a system to cheat one of your employers?

Have you ever had your drivers license suspended or revoked?

Have you ever had any traffic citations in the past five ( ) years?

Have you deliberately lied to any of these questions?

Values, such as age and number of years is determined by the specific department.

The method used by John E. Reid & Associates employs four standard relevant questions: In the last five years did you steal any merchandise from previous employers? In the last five years did you steal any money from previous employers? In the last ten years did you take part in or commit any serious crime? Did you falsify any information on your application? These standard questions may be modified depending on admissions made during the pretest (e.g., a revision may be, In the last five years did you steal any merchandise other than minor office supplies?).

In addition to the standard questions a fifth relevant question (e.g., concerning the illegal purchase or sale of merchandise; use of narcotics) may be added. The Reid firm also uses what it regards as control questions in pre-employment interviews. Control questions include, Did you ever steal anything in your life? and Did you lie to any of the questions you answered during the application process for this job? It is not clear, however, how the Reid pre-employment control questions differ from the relevant questions. It seems reasonable to suppose that both truthful and non-truthful subjects (in terms of the relevant questions) may be just as concerned with the subject matter of the control questions as they are with the relevant questions. It is also not clear why employers would be less concerned with the control than with the relevant questions.

Remember, the police polygraph is only a tool used by law enforcement agencies to gather background information on the candidate. Though it is seen as a form of intimidation, there are proven techniques and strategies that should be employed to ensure you pass the polygraph.
Did you know that 50% of all police applicants will fail the polygraphy? Can you afford to be one of them? To learn important strategies to pass the police polygraph and also learn why 70% of all police applicants fail the written test

Just sick coaching on how to be better at corruption

The silly stupid and absurd beer, wine and liquor laws in the US. so cheers and enjoy the humor.

This is a long one so be prepared and make sure you have a beer on hand, you may need it after reading this shit.

Sit back, crack the beer, read the beer prayer on the left and now begin to read the silly and stupid beer and wine laws below.. be careful to not spill.
The Silly Beer Laws by U.S. State in the list below are, by no means, a complete list of laws governing beer or alcoholic beverages. They are merely a broad illustration of the range of regulations covered, from the ridiculous to the mundane.

Alabama
Cities and counties can choose to be “wet” or “dry” - 26 of 67 counties do not allow alcohol sales…A statewide ban on draft beer sales requires that cities and counties must take Legislative action to lift the ban in each jurisdiction. However, a section of the law allows draft beer “in rural communities with a predominantly foreign population. . . in accordance with the habit and customs of the people of any such rural community”…Twenty-three counties and cities have abolished the ban against Draft Beer in their districts…Likewise, Sunday alcohol sales are only allowed if a referendum has been passed…Ban on off-premises sale of alcohol on Sundays.

Alaska
In Fairbanks, AK, it is illegal to serve alcoholic beverages to moose.

Arizona
An obviously intoxicated person can only stay for 30 minutes at the establishment that recognized he was drunk.

Arkansas
Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays

California
It is illegal for producers of alcoholic beverages to list the names of retailers or restaurants that sell their products, whether it is in advertising or in newsletters…It is illegal to display alcoholic beverages within five feet of a cash register in a store that sells both alcohol and motor fuel…A server can be convicted of selling alcohol to a minor if the minor uses a false or altered ID to obtain the alcohol.

Colorado
It is illegal to ride a horse while under the influence…It is also illegal 1) for liquor stores to sell food and 2) for food stores to sell alcohol with an ABW greater than 3.2%. Beer with 3.2% ABW is called “low point beer.” Beer with higher alcohol levels can be purchased in liquor stores…The sale of alcohol is prohibited on Election Day….Ban on off-premises sale of alcohol on Sundays.

Connecticut
Beer cannot be sold after 8 p.m…Pharmacists who use alcohol in compounding prescriptions must have a specific state license to do so.

Delaware
Allows parents, guardians, or legal age spouse to furnish alcohol to minors in the private home of any said family member for medical, religious, or educational purposes.

Florida
1965 Law requires containers to be one of four sizes: 8, 12, 24 or 32 ounces only, prohibiting craft brewers from packaging in 22 ounce “bombers”, 750ml bottles, or any number of European style bottles.

Georgia
The 1935 Law prohibiting the sale of beer having more than 6% ABV was repealed in 2004…Bans off-premises sales of alcohol on Sundays.

Hawaii
Underage purchase of alcohol is prohibited except for law enforcement purposes…Underage consumption of alcohol is not explicitly prohibited.

Idaho
Possession of an unregistered, unlabeled keg is punishable by a maximum fine of $1,000 or prison for 6 months.

Illinois
A person commits a “social host offense” by renting a hotel or motel room for the purpose of or with the knowledge that such room be used for the consumption of alcoholic beverages by underage persons.

Indiana
It is illegal for liquor stores to sell milk or cold soft drinks. They can, however, sell soft drinks at room temperature….It is illegal to carry an alcoholic drink from the bar to a table - this can only be done by a waiter or waitress…Drinks “on the house” are illegal…Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Iowa
In Ames, Iowa, it is still illegal for men to have 3 sips of beer while they are in bed with their wives…It is illegal to “run a tab” in Iowa.

Kansas
Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays…Underage consumption of alcohol is illegal except for cereal malt beverages (defined as any fermented but undistilled liquor brewed or made from malt or from a mixture of malt or malt substitute, but not including any such liquor which is more than 3.2 % ABW).

Kentucky
It is illegal to send a bottle of beer, wine, or spirits as a gift to anyone in Kentucky - this can result in a 5-year term in prison…Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Louisiana
Underage possession of alcohol is illegal except when in a private residence, and furnished by a parent, guardian or legal aged spouse for one or more specified religious, educational, or medical purposes.

Maine
It is illegal to possess an unlabeled, unregistered keg - punishment is a maximum fine of $500 and/or time in prison. It is illegal to destroy the label on a keg, punishable by a maximum fine of $1,000 or 6 months in prison.

Maryland
Alcohol beverage writers must be certified as experts by a state agency in order to be eligible to receive product samples. The beverage writer can only receive three bottles per brand.

Massachusetts
In Woburn, MA, it is illegal to walk around with a beer in your hand.

Michigan
Prohibited to serve alcohol on Christmas Day, including at restaurants serving holiday buffets…Local laws exist too - one town prohibits brewpubs from selling beer-to-go…It is illegal for a minor (person under 21) to give an alcoholic beverage as a gift to anyone, even if they are of legal drinking age…It is illegal to allow restaurant diners to take an unfinished bottle of any alcoholic beverage home with them.

Minnesota
It is specifically NOT a crime to be inebriated in public…Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Mississippi
A parent, guardian, or legal age spouse may furnish beer or wine to minors over the age of 18.

Missouri
In St. Louis, MO, it is illegal to sit on a street curb and drink beer from a bucket…It is illegal for any person under 21 to handle household trash with even one empty alcohol beverage container in it…In Natchez, MO, it is illegal to serve elephants beer or other alcoholic beverages.

Montana
It is illegal to destroy the label on a keg, punishable by a maximum fine of $500 or 6 months in prison…A parent or guardian can furnish alcohol to a minor in a non-intoxicating amount for one or more specified religious, educational, or medical purposes.

We are moving on to the N’s now… wow, thats like 1/2 way through this list… check out the beer mug below and make sure it does not resemble you.

Nebraska
It is illegal for a bar to sell beer unless it is simultaneously brewing a kettle of soup…Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Nevada
Underage consumption of alcohol is not explicitly prohibited.

New Hampshire
You cannot be served an alcoholic drink unless you are sitting down.

New Jersey
If convicted of “Driving Under the Influence” (DUI), you lose the privilege of applying for personalized license plates for a period of three years.

New Mexico
Underage consumption of alcohol is not explicitly prohibited.

New York
Underage consumption of alcohol is not explicitly prohibited.

North Carolina
“Private Club Rule” applies - to sell liquor, an establishment must also sell a set percentage in food sales, unless they are a Private Club. To join a “private club,” you must fill out an application and wait three days to pick up a club card. State regulated liquor stores are not permitted to advertise.

North Dakota
Beer and pretzels cannot be served at the same time in any bar or restaurant.

Ohio
It is illegal to get a fish drunk.

Oklahoma
Beer stronger than 3.2% must be purchased in state liquor stores…Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Oregon
Underage purchase of alcohol is prohibited except for law enforcement purposes…Underage possession of alcohol is illegal except when in a private residence, and a parent or guardian is present or consents and it is for one or more specified religious, educational, or medical purposes.

Pennsylvania
Patrons must buy a case at a beer distributor…Six-packs must be purchased at a tavern - exception is the grocery store with eat-in café who has an E license…It is illegal to be intoxicated in public…It is illegal to have a previously opened container of any alcoholic beverage in your car…Parents or guardians cannot furnish an alcoholic beverage to their child under any circumstance, including within their private residence.

Rhode Island
Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

South Carolina
Private Club Rule - It is illegal to sell alcoholic beverages on a Sunday unless you are a Private Club.

South Dakota
Underage possession of alcohol is allowed for one or more specified religious, educational, or medical purposes.

Tennessee
Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Texas
The Encyclopedia Brittanica is banned in Texas because it contains a recipe for making homebrew…In Lefors, TX, it is illegal to take more than three sips of beer while standing…In Houston, TX, it is illegal to purchase beer after midnight on Sunday, but it is legal to purchase beer anytime on Monday, including just after midnight on Sunday…It is illegal to sell less than 100 ml of alcohol in Texas, making it illegal to sell less than 2 mini-bottles (airplane-size) in one purchase…In McKinney, TX, you can be arrested for “intent to distribute in a dry city” if you are caught with anything over a case (24 pack)…Texas also has a “Private Club Rule” allowing members to legally drink alcoholic beverages in dry counties.

Utah
3.2% ABW (4% ABV) limit on draft beer, preventing craft brewers in the state from creating a full range of beer styles…To get an alcoholic beverage at a restaurant, you must either bring your own, or you must buy a “set-up” and have them pour it…However, you can buy beer at a gas station or convenience store…Ban on off-premises sales of Alcohol on Sundays.

Vermont
It is illegal to destroy the label on a keg, punishable by a maximum fine of $1000 or a prison sentence of 2 years.

Virginia
If an intoxicated driver is stopped in Virginia Beach, VA, for Driving Under the Influence (DUI), and you are a drunk passenger, you can also be charged with a DUI.

Washington
A grocery store licensee may sell malt liquor in containers no larger than five and one-half gallons.

West Virginia
It is illegal to furnish alcohol to minors except by relatives by blood or marriage.

Wisconsin
An underage person is prohibited from knowingly possessing an alcoholic beverage unless accompanied by his or her parent, guardian or spouse who has attained the legal drinking age.

Wyoming
Underage consumption of alcohol is not explicitly prohibited…Underage purchase of alcohol is illegal except for law enforcement purposes.

After reading this long ass list of crazy, silly and just stupid beer laws… you may relate to this great image.

Talk about the absurd… what the hell were these fools thinking?

At first glance this does look like a joke of somekind.. you really gotta look at the image and say WTF! This is the biggest lynching in history for sure.

But it is real, this is the lynching of an elephant named Mary.

The year is 1916 and vigilante justice is the rage, whether its a negro or an elephant at the end of the noose does not seem to matter, townspeople come out in mobs, a family affair, to see the spectacle of a good lynching to satisfy the bloodlust.

War was raging and… It was a good year for scapegoats. It was a good year to hang an elephant.

I do say lynching because lynching is the execution without trial carried out by an angry mob… and yes, there was a town angry at Mary.

A circus came to town along with the elephants, clown and trained seals. Mary the elephant was billed as the largest elephant around with the promoters hyping her up as have killed a dozen people for the show.

Here is part of the elephant lynching story and the event that led to such a sick act.

Mary was billed as “the largest living land animal on earth”; her owner claimed she was three inches bigger than Jumbo, P.T. Barnum’s famous pachyderm. At 30 years old, Mary was five tons of pure talent: she could “play 25 tunes on the musical horns without missing a note”; the pitcher on the circus baseball-game routine, her .400 batting average “astonished millions in New York.”

Rumor and exaggeration swarmed about Mary like flies. She was worth a small fortune: $20,000, Charlie Sparks claimed. She was dangerous, having killed two men, or was it eight, or 18?

She was Charlie Sparks’ favorite, his cash cow, his claim to circus fame. She was the leader of his small band of elephants, an exotic crowd-pleaser, an unpredictable giant.

On Monday, September 11, 1916, Sparks World Famous Shows played St. Paul, Va., a tiny mining town in the Clinch River Valley.

Which is where drifter Red Eldridge made a fatal decision. Slight and flame-haired, Red had nothing to lose by signing up with Sparks World Famous Shows: he’d dropped into St. Paul from a Norfolk and Western boxcar and decided to stay for a while.

Eldridge was hired as an elephant handler and marched in the circus parade that afternoon. From statements from that time, it seems that Eldridge may not have had the experience or smarts to handle such large animals. Yep, he may not have realized a 5 ton animal can kill you with a step.

The story of what happened has many versions, the witness story seemed to keep changing. There were 5 versions of how the man was killed from being accidental to a fit of rage. Anyway… the town wanted justice and since mob justice and lynchings were all the rage in the early 1900’s… an public elephant execution was demanded.

They tried to shoot Mary, but that had little effect. They tried electrocution but that did not kill her either. So they wanted the tried and true method of hanging. Mary was hung from a railroad crane that at first try broke, sent her crashing to the ground breaking her hip.

The following is way sick for society, even turn of the last century, and families with children but… more than 2,500 people gathered to watch Mary swing near the turn-table and powerhouse on that drizzly afternoon.

One of those witnesses, Myrtle Taylor, remembered that every child in Erwin was at the Clinchfield Yards. “And they took the other elephants and Mary down Love Street from the performance to the railyards, trunk to tail. We kids hung back because we were scared to death, but still we wanted to see it.”

Wade Ambrose, who was 20 at the time Mary was hung, recalls that the roustabouts chained Mary’s leg to the rail, then drove her companions back around the roundhouse.

“They had a time getting the chain around her neck. Then they hooked the boom to the neck chain, and when they began to lift her up, I heard the bones and ligaments cracking in her foot. They finally discovered that she’d not been released from the rail, so they did that.”

Lynchings were never real laws, they were illegal, but back than the mob was the law. Here are some of the craziest excuses I have ever heard for punishment, much less capitol punishment.

These are all reasons people, mostly black men, got lynched in the Southern United States at the turn of the last century.

The reasons seem just insane, if you read the lists you run into many men lynched for such capitol crimes as:

• Talking back
• Cursing a white woman
• Entering a woman’s room
• Mistaken Identity (yes, that is a reason on one of them, those fools could not even come up with a better cover story than just Whoops!)
• Outraging a girl
• Bad language
• Race prejudice (haha, go figure that one)
• Voodooism
• Arguing
• Being a foreign worker (Say what? never knew working was a crime)
• Dangerous Character
• Violated Ferry law
• Attempted a train wreck (huh?)
• An awful lot of just pissing off some white woman
• and here is a great one: The daughter of a murderer / son of a murderer.
• The Unknown Outrageous act (thats always a sure thing… you see… its unknown, but someone did say it was outrageous! It was so outrageous, they could not even remember what it was)
  
• Angered the Klan

I look at that list in astonishment. Its just amazing how little value was placed on life not all that long ago where a mob would lynch a person for something as trivial as “insulting a woman”… Hell, if they kept that shit up, 2/3 of the male population would have been hanging from a tree before ever reaching puberty.

Here are the links to the full lists of Lynchings in the Southern US.

Louisianna Lynchings

florida hangings and lynchings in 1900's">Florida Lynchings

Georgia Lynchings

Mississippi Lynchings

Tennessee Lynchings

alabama and the south">Alabama Lynchings

and here is one of the worst excuses for a lynching in the great state of Kentucky for an entire family… babies and all

Mrs. Walker lynched for race prejudice

Mr. Walker lynched for cursing a white woman

3 walker children for race prejudice

Daughter and son walker lynched for race prejudice

and lastly baby walker lynched for race prejudice.

From how it reads it looks like 3 generations. Just sick

WOW… I never knew babies could be prejudiced against white folk since they can’t yet talk.