FBI calls Juggalos "a gang"

[Simon Bar Sinister]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/nov/01/juggalos-classified-as-gang-fbi

well, alrighty, then.

[candyman]

I would say they are more of an STD but whatever...

Bleh...that word has tainted my day now...nuts!

[Joey Deadcat]

A threat? No. An annoyance? Yeah.

[Soulrev]

This actually isn't news at all, to me. Juggalos and/or anyone with a Hatchetman shirt/sticker/tattoo, etc, are considered "Gang Related" here in Colorado by local and state authorities. I've also heard of other cities across the US have been profiling the same way.

I think it's rather ridiculous, most "juggalos" I've ever met aren't bad people.

They say that racism and prejudice are on their way out of our society.. I disagree. Especially since our government is filled with more prejudice than anything else. That, and it's in our nature. People will always be "classified" by other people or figures, for the way they look, the way they dress, the way they talk, or the color of their skin. With no prior knowledge of the individual at all.

This move by the FBI just gives law enforcement further excuse to harass innocent people and violate their 4th amendment rights. Pretty soon *everyone* will fall into some sort of "threat" category, and we will no longer have constitutional rights at all. We're losing them already, just look around you for 5 minutes. It's only going to get worse.

[Destroit]

Since in the song "Gang Related", they rap:

"Do you wear the hatchetman? (Yeah?)

You in a gang,

and your ass better be ready to do that thang

You rep the JRB and you will never switch

(JRB?) JUGGALO RYDAS BITCH!"

CLEARLY threatening people who are all in a gigantic violent street gang !...

[candyman]

If they are going to talk alot of that shit...which they do plenty of and somehow manage to do it more outside of the music...they could at least own up to the shit. They are just like every other rapper or rap fan...they love to talk about it and strut around bragging until they get busted for something...then they cry like a bitch and blame it on society.

And why do we always say "our society" and mention our agencies and make it sound like heaven in other places? In terms of dick move are are not at the top of the list at all...past or current. Why would racism or anything like it ever end anyways? It won't change and don't expect it to...in fact if racism and profiling are completely gone then I will know for a fact that I am truly in the Matrix and someone went and changed one of the constants that nobody liked but was always there lurking.

[the eternal]

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