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It's about time! Lee, County Florida is charging these two people under a new Florida state law that criminalizes the use of electronic media to "promote gangs."

Baytzim.com was the lone voice in this matter when a person who has clear ties to gangs, judging from his gestures on his MySpace page, was caught smuggling guns onto an airplane. Nobody seemed to care about this.

But Florida, which has little regard for minor annoyances like our "Constitution" and our "First Ammendment" is bold enough to do something about this horrible electronic threat!

LEE COUNTY — Elvis Rodriguez, 30, flashed Latin Kings hand signals on his MySpace.com page and called himself “King Kamel,” according to his arrest report.

Richard Figueroa-Santiago, 22, used his MySpace page to post pictures of friends making “Eastside” hand gestures, detectives said.

Now, in the first cases of their kind in Florida and in the nation, both Lee County men face five years in state prison for the gang-related content of their Web pages.

Their prosecutions are the first under a state law passed last year that criminalizes the use of electronic media to “promote” gangs.

Attorneys for both are challenging the law as unconstitutional.

“It violates his right to free speech, to associate,” said Joseph Cerino, Rodriguez’s lawyer.

The bill’s sponsor, a retired police officer, calls the law a modern response to increasing gang violence in some Florida cities.

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