2005-06-28
JUSTICE AT LAST
Murderer Killen Tried and Convicted | Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old preacher and longtime leader of the Ku Klux Klan, who, investigators say, organized and led two carloads of Klansmen on the 
night of the killings in 1964 | Sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison Thursday for masterminding the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers, Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon sentenced Killen to 20-year terms on each of three counts of manslaughter | Gordon said the terms will run consecutively | Killen was convicted Tuesday, 41 years after Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman were brutally murdered on Killen's orders | Killen's attorneys plan on appealing the conviction, arguing that "manslaughter" was an inappropriate sentence | At least I can agree on that | Manslaughter is too polite a charge for this bastid | He ought to have been executed, or ...perhaps, placed alive in a car that gets buried under six feet of swamp ooze |
Murderer Killen Tried and Convicted | Edgar Ray Killen, an 80-year-old preacher and longtime leader of the Ku Klux Klan, who, investigators say, organized and led two carloads of Klansmen on the night of the killings in 1964 | Sentenced to the maximum 60 years in prison Thursday for masterminding the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers, Circuit Judge Marcus Gordon sentenced Killen to 20-year terms on each of three counts of manslaughter | Gordon said the terms will run consecutively | Killen was convicted Tuesday, 41 years after Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman were brutally murdered on Killen's orders | Killen's attorneys plan on appealing the conviction, arguing that "manslaughter" was an inappropriate sentence | At least I can agree on that | Manslaughter is too polite a charge for this bastid | He ought to have been executed, or ...perhaps, placed alive in a car that gets buried under six feet of swamp ooze |SOME LINKS TO SITES THAT COMBAT RACISM: Vernellia R. Randall's Race Racism and the Law | White Privilege | Crosspoint's Anti-Racism links make clear that race hatred is not unique to the USA | Eddie Becker's History of Slavery in North America | Let's not be fooled about these subjects | Racism is not just when slavery occurs; nor has slavery been abolished | The two co-mingle when those in power allow for them to so do | The times we live in continue to see both the abberant philosphy of race hatred and the abhorent practice of slavery alive and well | DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! |
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