What's with the threads on hanging?

[KD5PME]

In the hills where I came from we used to shoot em first, then hang em.

[KC0NBW]

Hal Long is a Chinaman's name

hao long is a chinamans name !

[WB3JLA]

In the hills where I came from we used to shoot em first, then hang em.

We do that here in PA

How else are you going to dress a deer

[KD5PME]

We do that here in PA

How else are you going to dress a deer

Where do you think we got the idea from?

[G4ALA]

Dear Friends,

It is simply to keep us in suspence!

(Get the engine started, they are starting towards me!)

73

John
G4ALA

[W5HTW]

We do that here in PA

How else are you going to dress a deer

A three piece suit? and a briefcase? And several fedoras.
Ed

[W3BNY]

We do that here in PA

How else are you going to dress a deer

A three piece suit? and a briefcase? And several fedoras.
Ed

Uhhh..ok...lets go with that. You can only guess where I was gonna take it. (read sig line...)

[W5HTW]

Last week someone had Obama hung in effigy, I think maybe in Atlanta. The FBI is investigating.

I am a law and order type of guy, but I think that has violated our freedom of speech, to have hanging an effigy to be federal crime. That has gone way too far. Maybe nothing will happen, maybe there will be no prosecution. But if that stands up in court, then the next step is protest signs will also be illegal. And then protest marches.

This noose incident is being developed as a threat to the President. I see it as a protest and nothing more. I doubt any person who would publicly hang an effigy of any president would resort to the real thing. It is simply a statement of distaste, nothing more.

I live near Estancia, NM, where the last legal (note the word) hanging in NM took place, on a tree that is still standing in the park. I don't recall when, but in the early 1900s, maybe around 1920 or so. How many illegal hangings took place after that would be hard to guess. Rustlers used to get hung out on the plains, without benefit of judge or jury, and I suspect that continued a few years. In later years they just got shot and buried on the lone prairie and became a "missing person."

I think the last hanging, though (legal) was a white man. I cannot see racism in nooses and hangings. For many years, the preferred justice system of dispensing with the bad guys was a noose. Didn't matter their color.

It was the illegal hangings that targeted the Blacks. Certainly up until the mid or late 1950s, many Blacks (Negros back then) were hung by the justice system, without really a very good trial. Legal? Yeah. Sort of. Probably that continued into the 1960s during the Freedom March days, but I don't know.

It can be a fine line between freedom of speech and threats to one's safety. I hope we can walk that line better than we have been doing. If I were dissatisfied enough, I would not hesitate to hang a dummy by a rope in my yard, as a statement of protest. Might be Obama, might be our sheriff, might be a congressman. I would feel I'm making a political statement, not threatening anyone.

But I bet I would get huge amounts of negative attention from the authorities, and I don't think that is right. And if it was a federal person, the president or a congress person, I'd probably get a lot of attention from the FBI as well.

Ed

[W5HTW]

In the hills where I came from we used to shoot em first, then hang em.

A story from my past. Many years ago I did a lot of prospecting for gold in the Colorado mountains where I lived. I had staked out several official claims, all recognized by the Bureau of Land Management.

I was in the courthouse in BlackHawk Colorado, in Gilpin County, filling out the form for still another claim, at 12,000 feet back in the mountains. The county sheriff happened to walk by. He asked what I was doing, and I told him.

He said, "I hope you're not cross-filing on someone else's claim."

I said, "No, sir. I've checked the claim maps, and this is fine."

He said, "Well, it happens pretty often. Some guy cross files and then they get into a fight. I let 'em work it out. Then I arrest the one still standing."

I got the message. I double checked with the county clerk's Land Book, and, yep, I was in the clear. Made me kinda nervous, though!

Ed

[WA6MHZ]

Back in the GOOD OLD DAYS, we used to have Pep Rallies in high school, and it was Standard practice to have an effigy of the opposing football team in their jersy HUNG in the gym! No one had any problem with it. It was just good fun and generated team spirit.

Now, it would be considered a HATE CRIME!!!!