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Freedom of speech is a right, so did the students do anything wrong?

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State leaders of the NAACP presented N.C. State University Chancellor James L. Oblinger with a list of demands during a closed-door meeting Wednesday about racist and threatening slogans painted in the campus free expression tunnel after the presidential election last week.

NAACP officials revealed that the words painted on the tunnel were more explicit than a university spokesman indicated last week. They showed a photo of one part of the graffiti that read "Let's shoot that n______ in the head," and said there also was the slogan "Hang Obama by a Noose" and references to the Ku Klux Klan.

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Freedom of speech is a right, so did the students do anything wrong? Is freedom of speech just an excuse to condone such behavior? How far does it go?

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YES

You cannot talk about killing a president or president-elect! Free speech is one thing but that is crazy. Why does that stuff happen at N.C. State?

You know I attended NCSU

You know I attended NCSU back in the mid 80's and every year we would have an incident of this type of hateful expression on campus. I regret that I ever enrolled at NC State because there was always this since of white supremacy in the air. I think we MUST punish anyone that make threats towards someone life. the fact is that this was no mistake and was an intentional act.

You know i attended NCSU

I very MUCH agree with you. This is not right and somtning should be done about this so it will not happen again. When nothing is done it is said to be OKAY!

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I agree, YES

If the Secret Service and campus police allow this to happen, we are going to be seeing a pattern of these type of isolated incidents. Seems like when things like this happen, certain people can say "I am sorry, I won't do it again(hint, Western Carolina incident) or "there was no threat, so we have concluded there is no need to press charges"

Get your emotions and anger under control people, there is a new sheriff in town and his name is Obama!

Tunnel vision

The students should not be criminally prosecuted because they did not legally commit a crime. These students should be expelled, which is the only remedy avaliable for the NCSU administration. I've seen all kinds of hate speech in the Tunnel, and this type of language is not new to my eyes, but those statements were of such an egregious manner that I do not know if I could continue my education at NCSU knowing that these four people are still students.

In lieu of criminal prosecution, the university should expel them all. Anything short of that would be a tacit condonement which would be insufficient. By expelling these students, we can virtually "tar and feather" them away from our school. What was written was mala in se.

I am proud of the Chancellor and the administration for the rally today along with the Chancellor's strongly worded statement. It made me feel a tad bit prouder of being part of the wolfpack.

It is a crime-- the laws apply to the “freedom tunnel” too.

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I can't believe that they are not being prosecuted. It's a crime to incite violence, communicate a threat, threaten to kill the President, plot to overthrow the Government, or yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater. These are hypocrites who think that flag burning should be banned, yet they support the right to call for the death of a human being-- and the President-elect no less!! This can only lead one place. I think we should kill all bigots, hypocrites,  and Republicans!

So, Are you Threatening Republicans?

Last I checked the Constitution applies to this website.

Freedom of Speech

Yes the students were wrong for writing what they did and should be punished somehow but not with expulsion. When people start defining what is free speech, the right ends up being taken from us.

Any kind of racism is wrong! During this election I saw lots of racism. Was Obama elected because your morals and beliefs aligned with his. Let history show, white people helped elect the first black president. How can people still call white people racist after this?

Realizing that this is not the issue, I hope you all can live with Obama's principles and lack of morals for which he stands especially for innocent unborn children. The people I asked couldn't tell me why they were voting for Obama, they couldn't tell me one thing he stood for and were quite shocked when I went down my list of the issues. So why did they vote for him? I hope you all will be equally as happy in 4 years with your choices.

For the record, I didn't like McCain either but at least he had a resume.

You are the hypocrite

What is different about what these kids wrote about Obama in the "Free Expression" tunnel, which yes is for voicing opinion, and what you wrote about killing bigots, hypocrites and Republicans.  Maybe you should get prosecuted.  That would only be fair, Right?  Just because it involves white on black racism, did it get so much attention.  Think about it. Had John McCain won and 4 African American wrote lets kill that Whitey, or Cracker or whatever slang you want to use, you would not have even heard about it. This is America, a country that gives people rights and a voice.  You may not agree with everyone, but you certainly aren't better than anyone else.

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