From: mars1933@hotmail.com   
      
   By Hadding:   
      
   Jasskirat Saini, a student at the Garden City Campus of Nassau   
   Community College on Long Island, has been arrested for drawing   
   offensive graffiti on NCC's campus beginning with three swastikas in a   
   bathroom on 15 October. He is supposed to have drawn 110 politically   
   incorrect figures on 12 occasions. On 20 December Nassau County Police   
   observed Saini drawing two swastikas on the exterior wall of one   
   building and KKK on the floor of another.   
      
   Initial reporting on the graffiti alleged a connection to supporters   
   of Donald Trump.   
      
   While Breitbart calls it a "hate hoax" -- which to some degree it is,   
   insofar as Saini is surely not with the KKK -- Saini says that he did   
   the graffiti because he felt that he was being harassed by Jews.   
      
   A police spokesman says: "Bigotry, racism, will not be tolerated here   
   in Nassau County."   
      
   Saini is being charged with "aggravated harassment" for ten instances   
   of anti-Jewish graffiti, potentially carrying a penalty of four years'   
   imprisonment.   
      
   Four years' imprisonment for offensive graffiti under the guise of   
   "aggravated harassment"?   
      
   I see a First Amendment issue here. There is no claim that valuable   
   property was destroyed. A penalty proportionate to the expense of   
   removing the graffiti would be appropriate, but that cannot be much,   
   since Saini only used a black magic marker, easily removed with   
   organic solvents. When four years' imprisonment is contemplated as a   
   penalty for graffiti, it is clear that the content of the graffiti is   
   what is being punished -- and that is constitutionally protected.   
      
   "Bigotry, racism" as such is not illegal anywhere in the United   
   States!   
      
   If Jasskirat Saini wanted to display a swastika, he should have posted   
   leaflets, or distributed printed matter in whatever way is consistent   
   with the normal practices at that institution. Jews, being as they   
   are, might still have agitated for him to be charged with "aggravated   
   harassment," but without the fundamentally illegal act of drawing   
   graffiti (usually charged as "criminal mischief") the question of free   
   speech would be conspicuous, and prosecution therefore less likely, or   
   less likely to succeed, and meanwhile Jews would appear as enemies of   
   a fundamental American freedom.   
      
      
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