{"article":{"id":174471,"heading":"SOSMM, June Griffin, and hate","author":"EarlG via Fredric L. Rice","created":"2006-08-17 15:33:24","modified":"2006-08-17 19:34:00","last_modified":"Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:34:00","article":"

Meanwhile, in Dayton, TN, conservative activist June Griffin has been doing her best to show the world what makes America truly great.

Last week Griffin was arrested and is now \"facing misdemeanor charges of theft, vandalism and harassment and felony charges of civil rights violations,\" according to the Chattanoogan.

http:\/\/www.chattanoogan.com\/articles\/article_90690.asp<\/a>

Griffin was apparently driven into an apoplectic rage after visiting a local Hispanic grocery store and noticing a small Mexican flag in the window.

She stated, \"I went in and there was nothing English in the store. There was one man who could not speak a word of English.\"

She said she was outraged about the Mexican flag, saying it was an \"act of war\" and it \"insulted my citizenship.\"

Ms. Griffin said as the Hispanic man watched, she tore off the flag from where it was suctioned to the building and left with it.

She said, \"Foreigners should learn English or leave.\"

Apparently Griffin has been trying to get the local government to ban all flags except Old Glory (and the Tennessee state flag, of course).

I can see her point.

After all, how else are we supposed to remember that America is the land of the free if the government won't lock up people who don't fly the right flag?

By EarlG

From Democratic Underground

http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/<\/a>

<\/p>\n","contact":"frice@skeptictank.org","link":"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The "Save Our State" \/ "Minutemen" \/ Aryan Nations \/ National Vanguard \/ Stormfront \/ et al. mentality isn't solely the venue of racist hate mongers standing on street corners and screaming.","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2006\/08\/174471.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":174479,"heading":"Follow Up","article":"June Griffin Pleads Not Guilty\r\nWill Represent Herself When She Faces Civil Rights Violation Charge\r\nWDEF-TV, A Media General Station\r\nAug 11, 2006 5:09 PM EDT\r\n\r\nA Rhea County activist entered a not guilty plea in court this morning to charges she violated a mexican store employee's civil rights last month. \r\n\r\nHere are Key Points:\r\n\r\n-June Griffin told the judge she plans to represent her self when she goes to trial possibly in February.\r\n\r\n-She faces up to four years in prison if convicted of intimidating the employee and stealing a Mexican flag from the store.\r\n\r\n-Griffin, just last week, lost her bid to unseat Third District Congressman Zach Wamp in the republican primary.\r\n\r\n-Store Owner Gilberto Mejia says the employee Griffin spoke to quit after the incident.\r\n\r\n- Griffin returned the flag to police, but did a few hundred dollars of damage to the store door.","author":"repost","parent_id":174471,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-08-17 16:06:07","modified":"2006-08-17 16:06:07","fileurl":""},{"id":174481,"heading":"More Related News","article":"http:\/\/www.rhea.xtn.net\/index.php?template=news.view.subscriber&table=news&newsid=132940\r\n\r\n" Dunlap residents Jerry Layne and Billy Joe Stockwell drove to the Rhea County Courthouse on Monday to show their support for local Christian activist June Griffin and to express their disdain for illegal Mexican immigrants.\r\n\r\nGriffin was arrested last week and arraigned on charges of civil rights intimidation, telephone harassment, theft and vandalism at a downtown Hispanic grocery store.\r\n\r\nSoon after the Dunlap visitors arrived at the courthouse on Monday, there were over a dozen Mexican or Hispanic-related adults and children there quietly protesting what Layne and Stockwell were doing. ...." Click on link to read full story.\r\n\r\n__________________________________________________\r\n\r\nBTW: Can someone please explain what "Mexican or Hispanic-related adults and children" means? ~indio","author":"repost","parent_id":174471,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-08-17 16:12:14","modified":"2006-08-17 16:12:14","fileurl":""},{"id":174522,"heading":"It's worse than I thought","article":"> "Mexican or Hispanic-related adults \r\n> and children" means?\r\n\r\nOutrageous. They meant "brown people."\r\n","author":"Fredric L. Rice","parent_id":174471,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-08-17 19:34:06","modified":"2006-08-17 19:34:06","fileurl":""}]}