Hate speech cases are hard to win. So police, prosecutors use workarounds to jail white extremists
Simone Weichselbaum and Joseph Neff
Why not everything you say or tweet is protected under free speech
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Douglas Story’s white supremacist street cred was easy to find. He had a white pride tattoo and a neo-Nazi license plate. In extremist online forums he made ominous, N-word-filled posts about President Barack Obama, implying that the president should be shot. The Aryan Nations even booted Story from its website when he sought help for converting his AK-47 rifle into a fully automatic machine gun – a federal crime.