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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 06:20 PM
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In memory of the civil rights activists that justice overlooked
Edited on Mon Aug-15-05 06:28 PM by Horse with no Name
Now that I have your attention, in memory of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman.
Justice didn't serve these young men and (best line I have read all day), that Mainstream Media made lots of noise during the conviction of Killen, then is quiet and complicit when he and his money is ushered out the back door of the jailhouse. There is no justice for these men.
I can't wait til God spits on Killen and sends his sorry racist ass to the fires of hell. This old evil man doesn't deserve to breathe another breath.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Account.html
>>>snip
Sam Bowers, the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Klu Klux Klan of Mississippi, sent word in May, 1964 to the Klansmen of Lauderdale and Neshoba counties that it was time to "activate Plan 4." Plan 4 provided for "the elimination" of the despised civil rights activist Michael Schwerner, who the Klan called "Goatee" or "Jew-Boy." Schwerner, the first white civil rights worker based outside of the capitol of Jackson, had earned the enmity of the Klan by organizing a black boycott of a white-owned business and aggressively trying to register blacks in and around Meridian to vote.


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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 06:24 PM
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1. Would you mind editing your header?
I know you meant well and were commenting on the fact that a racist will walk away from his sentence, but for those of us who actually have been called such names, it's a bit harsh to read. Thanks.
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 06:29 PM
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2. My sincere apologies
Was using a quote from within the article. Didn't mean to offend.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 06:30 PM
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3. I appreciate that
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