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Posted: 8:58 PM Nov 6, 2008
UPDATED: 4 Admit To Painting Racist Graffiti At NC State
Officials at North Carolina State University are working to figure out who wrote disparaging comments about President-elect Barack Obama in a tunnel designated for free speech.
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Four people have admitted spray-painting racist graffiti targeting President-elect Barack Obama on a tunnel wall at North Carolina State University.
The graffiti appeared early Wednesday in the Free Expression Tunnel, where studnets are encouraged to speak their minds. It was painted over positive messages about Obama.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Thursday that university
police spokesman Jon Barnwell said the U.S. Secret Service assisted
in the investigation because of the threatening nature of the graffiti, which said "Shoot Obama" and used a racial epithet.
Barnwell said Secret Service agents searched the residences of the four and determined there was no threat to Obama. The four will not be charged, but could face university action, including expulsion.
Officials would not identify the four, and would not say if they were students.
ORIGINAL STORY:
Officials at North Carolina State University are working to figure out who wrote disparaging comments about President-elect Barack Obama in a tunnel designated for free speech.
N.C. State police Capt. Jon Barnwell said someone used spray paint to write comments about Obama that bordered on threatening. The Free Expression Tunnel was built in 1939 to allow people to express their first-amendment rights.
Barnwell said someone noticed the writing before classes began Wednesday.
N.C. State officials responded by painting the tunnel white, saying the negative expressions had gone over the edge of what was acceptable. Barnwell said anyone with information on who left the messages is asked to contact campus police.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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Apparently not. Did the meaning of free speech change recently? "The graffiti appeared early Wednesday in the Free Expression Tunnel, where studnets (sic) are encouraged to speak their minds."
Let's see, 3..three master's degrees...is that like 6 total? You know, it's better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak(or write) and remove all doubt. Did I smell, I mean spell all those wads, I mean words correctly?
B-Have you ever thought that maybe we live here in the SOUTH because we LIKE living in our own little world? Most of us are religious people even though a few were "snowed" by Obama. So, if you want to "open our eyes" so we can see the world. I see enough of it on tv, I have NO DESIRE to live the way they do. Which is why I choose to continue to live in the SOUTH!!!
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