Civil Rights Leader Charged With Incest

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 6/9/07 | AP

[TFFKAMM]

A civil rights leader who worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been charged with incest.

The Rev. James L. Bevel, 70, was arrested late last month in Alabama, where he has been living, after being indicted on one count of unlawfully committing fornication.

[TFFKAMM]

Let's hope the charges are "recovered memory" BS and not legit. Jesse Jagoff and Fat Al have already sullied Dr. King's legacy enough as it is...

[Nextrush]

I don't like anyone being railroaded on false charges of child abuse. Of course this could be a true story.

I wonder how many other true stories there are out there and if prosecuting them all wouldn't send hundreds of thousands to jail. I'm not kidding.

When I think of all the bad things that do go on out there and have gone on, I'm worried. (I know of three guys still alive and kicking that may have done this in my town when they were younger. I have no proof, but good hunches.)

Heck, they may have to let all the Paris Hilton's out of jail to fill them up with child sex abusers.(sarcasm)

Sin is everywhere and it makes the Lord's Prayer even more poignant when one considers how deep this sexual evil runs in our society. "Forgive us our tresspasses as we forgive those who tresspass against us."

A police state would be needed to deal with all the wrongs done to others (including sexual ones) and I think we would have a big dilemma if all the victims came forward and named names.

It was Tony Snow who spoke of a criminal justice system that would be jammed up if we sent tens of millions of illegals back to Mexico.

A mass confession of sexual abuse would give us a jam up, too, I'm afraid.

[Chickensoup]

Sexual with minors is as old as man. So is incest. I am not sure that this is something that the bureaucracy can stop or prosecute widely. This is more an issue of the heart.

[goldstategop]

The new "civil right" - screw your own offspring!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[TN4Liberty]

Agreed, the news is that there is an accusation dating back 13 years, which is certainly not proof. Definitely a “wait and see.” If it did happen, it is a reflection on the man, not on the movement.

[cgbg]

it is a reflection on the man, not on the movement

True, but...

the MSM and the universities have been trying very hard to get everyone to forget how MLK spent his leisure time.

Of course, that isn't a reflection on "the movement" either. :-)

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

King’s legacy is consistent with sexual profligacy, and several other serious flaws.

Those who think this disqualifies him from heroic stature should consider the testimonies of other prominent religious and political figures of history, such as David ben Jesse (adultery and murder-by-abuse-of-office), Saul of Tarsus (assault and murder by abuse of judicial process), and Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (”make me chaste, Lord, but not yet!”). Of course, in each of these cases, there was evidence of decisive repentance from their earlier deeds. I don’t recall any public repentance by King, and the general approach of sympathetic readers of his history has been to declare his sexual wanderings (up to the week he was assassinated, according to the testimony of a close follower) irrelevant, and condemning references to them as tantamount to condoning the (clearly illegal, and abusive of public office) FBI campaign to discredit him by making the seedier aspects of his private behavior generally known, e.g.,

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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
by David Garrow
http://www.amazon.com/Bearing-Cross-Christian-Leadership-Conference/dp/0060566922

Amazon.com
In this 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner, David J. Garrow, through extensive interviews, and access to F.B.I. transcripts, delves deeply into both Dr. Martin Luther King’s leadership role and his private life. He attributes King’s moral and physical courage to his religious faith: King believed that he had literally been called to do the Lord’s work. But from 1965, when the F.B.I. taped King in sexual encounters and sent the tape to S.C.L.L. headquarters, his associates noted a “spiritual depression”, even a “death wish.” Fear that exposure would ruin his public work dogged him until his assassination in 1968. While documenting the F.B.I.’s dirty tricks, Garrow never loses sight of King’s achievement and vision, nor of the poignancy of King’s belief that “the cross is something that you bear and ultimately that you die on.”
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One need not condone the action of blackmailers and abusers of public trust, however, in giving a negative assessment the character implications of the behavior which gave the blackmailers their leverage. For example, King David had many fine qualities, and was exemplary in comparison with those who preceded and followed him, but the consequences of his misbehavior with Bathsheba and her husband followed nevertheless - - - violent disruption of his extended family , misguided development of his successor, and division of the Hebrew kingdom under his grandson.

Likewise, the dismal record of those who have grabbed the King mantle stems at least in part from the example he set.

[torchthemummy]

According to the indictment, the crime occurred in Loudoun County in northern Virginia between Oct. 14, 1992, and Oct. 14, 1994, when the accuser was 13 to 17 years old.

Maybe my math skills are rusty but...

[bikerman]

Its called Farrakhan math

[the lone wolf]

http://www.avert.org/aofconsent.htm

Just reading between the lines here, but the age of consent in Virginia is 18 years old. Having sex with someone 13 to 17 years old may be a legal catagory, such as statutory rape or unlawful sexual contact. Younger than 13 may qualify as child molestation, which may be why the story was written this way.

Also, the writer may be deliberately vague about the age in order to help conceal the identity of the alleged victim.

[csvset]

A quick search on this guy shows that he’s associated with Lyndon LaRouche.

[dbacks]

[This is more an issue of the heart.]

So its OK? Murder is as old as man. Should it be an issue of the heart?

[Smokin' Joe]

According to the indictment, the crime occurred in Loudoun County in northern Virginia between Oct. 14, 1992, and Oct. 14, 1994, when the accuser was 13 to 17 years old.

So what was the age? You can have three different ages in a two calendar year span, but not four.

[cgbg]

Likewise, the dismal record of those who have grabbed the King mantle stems at least in part from the example he set

MLK's philandering, like that of William Jefferson Clinton, left the rest of us with a power-mad spouse eager to calm her bruised ego by oppressing the rest of us.

[Mark was here]

I think “civil rights” laws are wrong. This is simply because they make a mockery of the Constitution.

I think that regular laws should be sufficient. If an obvious violation of regular laws was not prosecuted, say a murder, well it should of been. Two wrongs do not make a right. The right thing to do would of been to prosecute the murder. How many of the prosecutors who failed to bring charges were Democrats?

I think we should treat everyone politely.
I do not like hate crime laws.
I do not like laws forcing one to sell ones property to someone you don’t want to, it is called property rights & the right to be a stupid fool.
I do not like laws that make a mockery of our protection from Double Jeopardy, as the cops in the Rodney King case were subjected to, thanks to George Bush the First. (Didn't he swear to uphold the Constitution?)

If the truth of the Civil Rights leaders, can disparage the movement I am all for it. The sooner Civil Rights are thrown in the trash heap, the sooner we can get back to Constitutional Rights that are equal for every one.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

How long are the media going to carry on with this fiction called “civil rights leader”?
Civil rights are now guaranteed to all except White Christian males.

[torchthemummy]

Good points.

[sgtbono2002]

This one is going nowhere. It will quietly dissappear.

[PA-RIVER]

“like that of William Jefferson Clinton, left the rest of us with a power-mad spouse”

What came first? The Power mad Wench? Or husband gone astray?

Reminds of the Henpecking wife and alcoholic husband.

He drinks to escape her henpecking, she henpecks because he drinks.

He should be a man, stop drinking and then get a divorce when she henpecks because he left the toilet seat up, after she comes home from her affair with her boss.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"The ambition to secure an education was most praiseworthy and encouraging. The idea, however, was too prevalent that, as soon as one secured a little education, in some unexplainable way he would be free from most of the hardships of the world, and, at any rate, could live without manual labor...a large portion took up teaching or preaching as an easy way to make a living. The ministry was a profession that suffered most - and still suffers, though there has been great improvement - on account of not only ignorant but in many cases immoral men who claimed that they were "called to preach." In the earlier days of freedom almost every coloured man who learned to read would receive "a call to preach" within a few days after he began reading...When we add the number of wholly ignorant men who preached or "exhorted" to that of those who possessed something of an education, it can be seen at a glance that the supply of ministers was large. The "calls" to preach, I am glad to say, are not nearly so numerous now as they were formerly, and the calls to some industrial occupation are growing more numerous. The improvement that has taken place in the character of the teachers is even more marked than in the case of the minsters. -- Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery, 1900.