Posted on 06/21/2005 9:37:38 AM PDT by misterrob
Robert Byrd's former compatriot was found guilty of manslaughter....
You're getting your cases confused. Go back and do some research before you post more silliness.
Gee, That wasn't predictable was it????
I suppose you're not referring to the pass the guy got at trial forty years ago. He's a POS who committed murder. He should have fried back then.
Byrd was in the KKK for most of the 1940s, and he was the head honcho in his state.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html
He's downplayed it as much as he can, but his own paper trail betrays him.
Ya know...I'm from the South and it's really sad how so many buy off on the "everything in the South either was wrong or is wrong now" crap.
The issue here should be about the legal system and how it works. By your logic any white man in the South could be accused of being a former Klansman and you would say he's guilty of something. Even if the facts are flimsy at best. If you are going to try someone for a crime it should be a fair trial no matter what. Just saying "Well they used to be unfair before so it's okay to be unfair now" is lame.
If he did it fine...convict him. But this trial was bogus from the start.
Maybe in another 10 years, Teddy "The Swimmer" Kennedy can go on trial for manslaughter in Mary Jo Kopeckne's drowning death, since we are so into bringing people to justice.
The upset that he was found guilty of manslaugher is sickening, okay? He should have been found guilty of murder over 40 years ago and put to death for it then. But, he's had his freedom all of these years. He's had a full life. Not so for those he murdered. Today's verdict does little in the way of justice, but only because it should had been more severe and several decades ago.
Cut the whining.
The issue here should be about the legal system and how it works. By your logic any white man in the South could be accused of being a former Klansman and you would say he's guilty of something
The guy was tried in the past and only saved by one juror who wouldn't convict a Reverend. Try again.
this trial was bogus from the start.
Uh, sure. The bogus trials in the past led to this situation today. Deal with it.
First of all, little boy, I'm not whining. You do a great job of generalizing the issues. That's about all you have.
We're done now.
Relevance? Two wrongs don't make a right.
Bawk bawk BAWK.
They don't generally make people the officer in charge of recruiting if they're not serious about it.
Also, allow me to post part of a couple letters that young Robert Byrd wrote:
"I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state .... The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia .... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va .... I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities."
— Robert Byrd in letter to Klan Imperial Wizard Samuel Green of Atlanta, April 8, 1946.
Please note that this letter was written in 1946, three years AFTER Byrd puportedly left the Klan.
In another letter Byrd wrote that he would never serve in the military "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
Doesn't sound like youthful foolishness to me.
Exactly.
Again... relevance?? Two wrongs don't make a right.
Obviously the jury had not heard of jury nullification.
All three should be behind bars, IMO.
Actually, I was wrong--the death penalty for double murderer OJ, MJ and Killen behind bars.
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