Florida rapper jailed for lyrics, violating first amendment rights.

hm... not CNN (anyone else gonna take one for the team?) but I'm not against John totally.... ;^)

rightous jam

2 years cause he is a minority... this is a white world and if a white man was to have done this... it would've been over looked or be a simple slap on the hand...

cops... nothing but a joke

We wouldn't react by throwing you in jail (or trying to.)

they already have songs that spew hatred towards blacks, yet i dont see any officers at their doors.

& arent you glad you have the internet to hide behind?
i bet you are.

People that use that word still (baring communities re-claiming it) are stone-age idiots. I moved to a rural area and have full lips because I am mixed race. (Not African American but anyhow...) One of my neighbors said I look like I was part "N" - what an inbred freak. It is a different thing to use antiquated hate speech than to express your feelings about government oppression through art.

listen let me explain this very clear...the word NIGGER is simply a WORD, an adjective ..which is merely a part of speech..and is self evidently a vibration of sound...thats it. The meaning of the word is solely dependent upon the individual. IMHO its a useless outdated slang terminology that is not worth getting amped up about...Believe me as black man spending the last few years of my life in hickville has taught me my fair share of lesson on racial hate..

Ideas don't die...they evolve.

do not expect accuracy from fox news.

No, no it's not. Not at all in fact. Except for that there are black people involved in both cases i fail to see the connection.

"This Country is FUCKED with you little prick's at the helm."

No need for this tone.

the country is fucked with little narrow minded sheep like yourself occupying it...If you can't accept American urban culture then move the fuck away...this country is about freedom of expression..going to jail for lyrics in a song is fucking stupid,especially since he didnt steal the music...i'm sure if our forefathers were here,they would protect and enforce our right to speak about anything that could come to mind...so what if a small child heard racial slurs?...we are in the process of changing what they mean anyway...an example is that i have white friends who address me as "their nigga"...whats so wrong with that if we ourselves have transmuted the meaning to mean friend...wake up old man the world is evolving.

All people have to freedom of speech. Some people choose to abuse the privelage and there should be consequences for that abuse.

On the other hand if we lived in a more intellectualized society, we would take this opportunity to laugh at this man for the insanity he so clearly demonstrates and use this episode as a guide on how not to behave. we would even encourage observation of this kind of fringe-ness to reinforce where we stand and why.

however people generally just aren't smart enough to do so, so instead we have to punish this man for exercising his lawful freedoms to set an example for the masses. what a world, what a world....

of course i dont want my culture to be filled with all these deluded people...but then again it isnt my culture..its all of ours and i have to respect what fruits it bears regardless of how morally incorrect they may seem..i believe if MLK were here he would be suprised by what we have done...The word nigger is transmuting itself...me and my white wife can walk around openely and happily with our children without people giving us weird stares...we have a black president...and we have a urban society who expresses its art in a way which isnt morally accepted on a wide scale but is tolerated..on the behalf that we have freedom of speech...now take the last part away and dr.kings smile might quickly fade...fore if it wasnt for freedom of speech..none of the other great changes would have came about at all...do you understand now?
BTW don't assume what i do and don't know..you will only fail.

We don't know that it didn't.

Fox has a habit of being a bit short with information that doesn't support their view.

They probably didn't. This article is suspiciously short on details. There may be say some contempt of court or something in there they don't want to talk about as much.

His words were in a song, if you don't want to hear him express himself then don't listen to the song. Cops have made threats to me, but you don't see me trying to press charges against them. Once I had a cop tell me he was going to embareass me and my family because I was the biggest drug dealer in town. I actually was broke, and didn't even smoke pot at the time. I had just passed a drug test for a job. The officer no only threatened me, but my family as well. Im my opinion, if you cant eat it don't dish it out yourself.

It's not my opinion alone. This stuff is directed by social mores. I mean, you can think badly of your mother or father, but most people don't go insulting their parents to their faces. You can think a cop is an asshole, but you can't just go to his face and tell him or her that. You can't tell a judge on a trial that he's full of shit. There's stuff you JUST CAN'T DO. Physically, yes, you can, but in reality, there are always repercussions.

You cannot threaten a person without repercussions. Cops are a different story because THEY are the ones who hold the power.

Do I think this is right? NO. But I would rather not have someone threatening to kill me through a song just CUZ he doesn't like me.

Finally someone who actually understands the amendment.

Going by that theory, the right to bare arms is also out dated, right? If so, then guns should be made illegal since we are not fighting a political revolution like we were 233 years ago, and the second amendment was written for that reason. Also, music piracy shouldnt be considered wrong because the copy right laws do not include that... right? Just because the amendment is 233 years old does not mean it is of no significants to us now. Poor argument, in my opinion.

onemalefla...i do agree with you on one level about our forefathers not having a dam clue this is where society would be some 200 years in the future but on the same note...speech is harmless..action is what harms people...speech only harms ego's and creates fear..this young man expressed himself and for it he will have to spend 2 years of his life in a cell..which of course will only make him hate the system even more...so either way freedom of speech is still very important...i honestly was thinking about making poem where i kill members of the federal reserve...do you think i should go to jail for it?If you think so then i just want you to become aware that YOU do not respect life and therefore should die.simple and fucking plain..

Just wanted to add that the constitution was also written by a bunch of upper class men who (mostly) did not want the 'common folk' to have any say in what went into it. The constitution is outdated, I completely agree. But some of those fundamental rights can never become outdated.
If you don't like what you're listening to, then turn it off, no one is forcing you to listen to it.

Uhhh don't you people realize that your second ammendment is the only thing between you and the second coming of Hitler??!!!??? The constitution is a very good document and no the forfathers could never imagine how much we could corrupt and distort such a good idea. The reason we're so far away is because we've all but thrown it out the window. You are not very bright.

iamfree of your silly convictions by default...they only apply,should i start believing in them..you can have fun "earning" your rights...i said what i said to give a living example of free speech..not as a threat to you...LOL you're the one who isnt too bright...ehh?

you are simply ignorant malefla trying to tell me i have to earn rights. BULLSHIT im fucking born with rights. fuck what this country says and writes down on a piece of paper thats all superficial. all these people like to hide behind laws behind pieces of paper. fuck that i should be able to do whatever the fuck i want im born with that right.

I actually find i'm more comfortable when onemalefla trolls. When he turns around and says something intelligent and insightful like this it leaves me all confused.

Umm, if you're a citizen of the United States, then you automatically have rights...hahaha

You're basically saying it's ok for govt. to crap all over civil rights and if you get caught oh well....??? I would have to strongly disagree and say you have no idea what you are talking about. The govt. should have no role in regulating our personal lives. We have outsourced our personal autonomy for a govt. that will "protect" us. Protect us from what?

Definatly! I don't see how it hasnt become more of a story yet!

Nope. it's pretty cut and dried by the look of it. You cannot extol others to murder. It's pretty simple.

He would also have been charged if his lyrics had been about say, killing someone because they were black. There have been songs like that and the same thing has happened.

I knew a girl once who made up a bunch of "kill your rapist' stickers. She didn;t go to jail... quite, but only because she was very contrite when it was explained to her and went around and removed all the stickers herself.

i think this rapper should learn the thing that backs up 'freedom of speech"..

how would you feel if i write a rap song about N-WORDS????

do i have the right to say that?? do you think its reckless for me to preach that all black people are a bunch of ...

are you getting it already??

you can preach about whatever you want..why do i have to listen? Since when are we afraid of dogs who bark but dont bite?