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The Texas Murder That Shook America: James Byrd’s Condemned Killer Speaks Out
KENS5 ^ | September 20, 2011 | Doug Miller

Posted on 09/20/2011 9:07:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Hoodat
Some members of the Byrd family are against the death penalty, including, if memory serves, his own son.

They have forgiven the killers and want their lives spared. The survivors are actually remarkable people.

Me...dragging them behind a pick-up truck on the hot Texas summer asphalt sounds about right...

21 posted on 09/20/2011 10:05:36 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: nickcarraway
“In all the time he sat in that cement cage, that he’s been in there, in all the time that he’s had to think. I just cannot believe there’s not some kind of remorse,” Rowles says.

I can believe it. Fry him. The sooner, the better

22 posted on 09/20/2011 10:09:41 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Hoodat
So where are all the death penalty opponents who are protesting against his execution?

Death penalty opponents aren't opponents of the death penalty.. just like anti war protesters aren't opponents of war or global warming isn't about the warming of the globe. Any namesake liberal cause is simply the cover for a hidden leftwing agenda. In the case of the death penalty, it's simply about being anti white, anti Christian, anti male and/or anti American, depending on the specifics of the case.

23 posted on 09/20/2011 10:12:55 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: nickcarraway
There was a time in France when, if you were guilty of an especially heinous crime, you met your executioner with a black veil over your head, since the condemned wasn't considered worthy of seeling the light of his last day.

That's the least of what this guy deserves.

25 posted on 09/20/2011 10:26:31 PM PDT by csense
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Something else I remember is how the subhumans in the lamestream media descended on the town of Jasper and tried to stir up racial strife.
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Beaufort SC had the same problem in 1907 when they had a devastating fire.

The resolution of Mr. F. H. Christensen, as follows, was then unanimously adopted.

Resolved, That the Secretary of this meeting communicate with the Savannah Morning News, condemning in unmeasured terms the article contained in that newspaper of the 21st instant.

The following is the communication of the secretary:

Beaufort, S. C., Jan. 21 — A mass meeting of prominent white and colored citizens of Beaufort, S. C., hereby express their unqualified condemnation of your report published in the Morning News of January 21, headed “Troops Sent in to Beaufort to Hold Negroes in Check”. The implication that the two races did not work in harmony for the preservation of life and property or that there was at any time during the fire friction or ill feeling between them is a gross injustice to this community.

S. H. Rodgers,
Chairman.

R. R. Legare,
Secretary.

*”Where the carcass is the ravens will gather.” It was the would-be ravens who started the dissatisfaction as to the guard. The better people have little to say.

*Another visitation of the Savannah Photographer would be a calamity just now. He is too “yellow” journalistic for our conservative people. But he was advertising himself, don’t you know.

*We saw no attagonism (sic) between the two races. The would-be looters had disappointment lines in their faces.

*Considering their losses, our people show wonderful nerve, especially the women.

http://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/htdocs-sirsi/fireof.htm#Resolved


26 posted on 09/20/2011 10:30:47 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: libh8er

Bump to the top.


27 posted on 09/20/2011 10:34:12 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Tex-Con-Man
They have forgiven the killers and want their lives spared. The survivors are actually remarkable people.

Couldn't agree more. I get mad just reading the article. Imagine if this were your son, your brother, or your father.

28 posted on 09/20/2011 10:37:22 PM PDT by csense
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To: libh8er
Had this been the other way around where a couple of black men dragged a white man to his death, wonder what the media reaction would have been.

A conspiratorial silence, just like the Wichita Horror, The Franciscan University killings and the Christian/Newsom murders.

29 posted on 09/21/2011 1:24:20 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: nickcarraway

It was Bush’s fault.


30 posted on 09/21/2011 4:28:11 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
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To: nickcarraway

How many liberals are going to condemn Perry when he signs off on this particular execution?


31 posted on 09/21/2011 4:34:29 AM PDT by SoJoCo
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To: nickcarraway

This case is a prime example of how the media manipulates. Why and how did this particular case become a national obsession? What black on white murder has the press ever spent so much time on and made the name synonymous with ‘ hatred’ & ‘supremacy’? How about Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom? Or Omar Thornton? There are numerous examples yet the press has never once focused national attention on any of them. Hell they made Omar Thorton a victim and a type of bizarre hero. Wonder why? Of course the media can really only do what whites allow them to do.


32 posted on 09/21/2011 4:44:41 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: nickcarraway
There are protesters all over trying to save troy davis, the cop killer.

Where are the folks trying to save Brewer? What is the difference?


33 posted on 09/21/2011 4:59:47 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages.)
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To: Irenic

Wow, that is awesome. Great find.


34 posted on 09/21/2011 7:27:27 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: nickcarraway

Mike Farrell will be there protesting his execution,right?


35 posted on 09/21/2011 8:07:04 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (See ya later, debt inflator ! Gone in 4 (2012))
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To: isthisnickcool; nickcarraway

Hate because of skin color is like not like brown F150’s. Or blue F150’s. It’s still an F150 underneath - who cares.


36 posted on 09/21/2011 9:44:17 AM PDT by Ro_Thunder (I sure hope there is a New Morning in America soon. All this hope and change is leaving me depressed)
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Hate because of skin color is like not like brown F150’s. Or blue F150’s. It’s still an F150 underneath - who cares.

Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, Louis Farrakhan, the congressional Black Caucus, etc. seem to care....

37 posted on 09/21/2011 10:44:08 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks.)
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While I agree, THEY care - I do not. It’s idiocy to hate a truck because it’s fire-engine red, or a Corvette because it’s burnt orange, or a Mustang because it’s got pink pinstripes.

It doesn’t matter - it’s superfluous to the vehicle.

Now, some folks are all hung up on “I want a white truck” or a “black car”. They don’t care what it does, just what it looks like.

That’s why Woody Harrelson’s line in White Men Can’t Jump is so right - “You’d rather look good and lose than look bad and win.” Unfortunately, it’s a philosophy that has become more prevalent among the ‘black’ people, in my 41 years experience, anyway.


38 posted on 09/21/2011 11:40:53 AM PDT by Ro_Thunder (I sure hope there is a New Morning in America soon. All this hope and change is leaving me depressed)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
Al Sharpton is Larry Brewer without the guts.

True. Very true.

39 posted on 09/21/2011 12:37:03 PM PDT by Ron H. (Loving my Deering Goodtime 2 Classic 5-stringer)
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To: nickcarraway
An interview with Brewer was conducted in August by KFDM TV out of Beaumont Tx. The following link is to an article and that interview.


40 posted on 09/21/2011 12:51:49 PM PDT by deport
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