Is this particular thread about the issues you raise here?
Posted on 06/11/2005 12:30:54 PM PDT by bourbon
"Hopefully these murders of 1964 can be finally laid to rest once and for all."
That is my hope, as well.
This has been hanging over them for a very long time.
It's time for justice to be done, and for this story to be relegated to the history books.
I have a lot of faith in the good folks in that area.
"STAND FAST MISSISSIPPIANS !"
"Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance."
"Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands." - Jefferson Davis
With so much time passed, witnesses cannot be relied upon to remember details. There seems to be no bombshell evidence, like DNA, that makes this trial essential for today. It could have easily taken place 20 years ago, or even shortly after the movie. A jury isn't going to find a pet project of activists very sympathetic. It is quite likely that there won't be enough evidence to convict the slime and the only thing worse than him getting off is getting convicted on almost no evidence.
I just hope for the town's sake that the prosecution has an airtight case, otherwise, this will be even worse of a mess than it is now.
Thats an odd post? What do you mean?
just flying the flag sir :^)
Not at all. I agree that they should be investigated and the perps prosecuted. It just goes to show the hugh doublestandard when it come to black racism and black on white crime. White liberals are scared to death to even bring up the topic let alone try and prosecute a black racist for fear of being called racist themselves.
Is this particular thread about the issues you raise here?
[[Is this particular thread about the issues you raise here? ]] This thread is about racism. Racism whether black or white is wrong. White racism is not tolerated (which it shouldnt be) and black racism is excused and swept under the carpet for fear of making blacks look bad. You cannot deny the truth. You may choose not to recognize it but the facts are the facts.
No it isn't. It is about the murders that occurred in Philadelphia, MS, in 1964 and how the townspeople are worried about how this upcoming trial is going to play out.
You will never get an argument from me about the wrongness of racism no matter who practices it. But that is not the subject of this thread. There is a vast history here where threads are hijacked and the points of them get lost by changing the subjects.
mark
As horrid as the crime was, the notion of putting an 80 year old man on trial to salve the collective conscience of die-hard adherents of a culture which we profess to have eliminated, namely that of the plantation slave with no one there who even remembers the events clearly hardly speaks well for justice but speaks reams for revenge.
Mississippi prosecutes an old Klansman and West Virginia elects an old Klansman to the Senate. There surely is a story there somewhere.
I disagree..The young boys were murdered in cold blood and no one was ever tried for it..The families need justice..There is not statute of limitations on murder..The man has had 40 years of living free, a privilege the young men did not get.....I am listening to the trial on Court TV and all I can say is "If not now when?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5082010,00.html
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. - A former Ku Klux Klansman accused in the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers told fellow Klansmen to leave one of the men alone because another KKK unit had been assigned to "eliminate" him, according to testimony read in court Friday.
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I am watching this on Court TV...
I'll buy that
Have you bothered to read about the original incident and the trial?
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