Since when is an act of speech a "Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights"?
Man Charged in Noose Left on Integration Statue at Ole Miss
Graeme Phillip Harris has been indicted on a trumped-up civil rights charge for tying a noose onto a statue of a negro at a Mississippi campus. No matter how distasteful some may find the act, it has long been argued that such acts fall into the category of "freedom of expression".