80 yr. old KKK Member...

[gesser]

...found guilty on three counts of manslaughter. The killings occured exactly 41 years ago.

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2005/06/21/161293.html

Civil rights volunteers Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner - two white New Yorkers - and James Chaney, a black Mississippian, were intercepted by Klansmen in their station wagon on June 21, 1964. Their bodies were found 44 days later buried in an earthen dam, in a case that was dramatized in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning."

Prosecutors said Killen - a part-time preacher and sawmill operator - organized the carloads of Klansmen who hunted down and killed the three young men.

Nice to know he was a preacher. Imagine if he was yours?

Also, it is commendable that states prosecute these types of cases. While the old man looks rather un-intimidating, this man in his prime was a cold blooded killer. Gotta take these guys down.

[Jwaksman]

Imagine if you lived in West Virginia. Then you'd have an 87 year old former-KKK member (and actually a guy who organized an entire chapter for the Klan) as your Senator :D

[gesser]

Imagine if you lived in West Virginia. Then you'd have an 87 year old former-KKK member (and actually a guy who organized an entire chapter for the Klan) as your Senator :D


Wow. Gotta love West Virginia.

Wasn't there a LA Senator who was a KKKer too?

Crazy.

[Jwaksman]

I think you're thinking of David Duke. He was a congressman who ran unsuccessfully for Senator and Governor of Louisiana. He also ran for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1988. He was elected "Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan" and founded the "National Association for the Advancement of White People."


The Democratic Party had a pretty sorry record in the segregationalist south. It's remarkable how quickly parties can change what they stand for, because now Democrats completely dominate the black vote and have practically been eliminated from contention in southern political races.

[exjersey1]

Wasn't there a LA Senator who was a KKKer too?




"Edward D. White served as a Democratic senator from Louisiana from 1891 to 1894, when he was nominated by President Grover Cleveland (and confirmed by the Senate) to the Supreme Court. He was Chief Justice from 1910 to 1921. In 1915, during a White House screening of the KKK-compatible film The Birth of a Nation he revealed: 'I was a member of the Klan.'"

from here (http://reformed-theology.org/jbs/html/bipartisan_bigotry.htm)

[Jwaksman]

I'm pretty sure he was talking about David Duke. Kudos to anyone here who knew who Edward White was off the top of their head...

David Duke has been very prominent in the news for many years (even though not as much over the past 5-10)

[Sebrle]

Oddly enough this story ran yesterday.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-06-20-byrd-memoir_x.htm?csp=34

[exjersey1]

[QUOTE=Jwaksman]I'm pretty sure he was talking about David Duke. QUOTE]


Could be right about that.

Duke was a La. State Senator, so maybe that's what Gesser was thinking about.

[78Champ]

Funny and scary at the same time:

The defense rested earlier yesterday after a former mayor testified that the Klan was a "peaceful organization."

Harlan Majure, who was mayor of this rural Mississippi town in the 1990s, said Killen was a good man and that the part-time preacher's Klan membership would not change his opinion.

Majure said the Klan "did a lot of good up here" and said he was not personally aware of the organization's bloody past.

"As far as I know it's a peaceful organization," Majure said. His comment was met with murmurs in the packed courtroom.

JW

[gesser]

Ed White's the guy. In the fall I was in a gov't class and my professor went over Chief Justices. Couldn't remember the name though.

I think you're thinking of David Duke. He was a congressman who ran unsuccessfully for Senator and Governor of Louisiana. He also ran for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1988. He was elected "Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan" and founded the "National Association for the Advancement of White People."

I love how this guy was a Grand Wizard. What a title, huh? This guy founded the NAAWP too? Haha, what a clown. That's pretty twisted that he wanted the Dem nomination for President as late as 1988.



Not to justify being affiliated with the KKK. But during the height of the civil rights movement, the KKK's membership was in the millions I believe. This was mostly in the south. However, I'm sure not all of those people were die hard members. I think many likely joined out of peer pressure in that what would others think of them if they didn't join. They like dem Negros? So I bet many joined out of fear. Duke on the other hand, wasn't one of those as he was a Wizard...haha.

[Sulus]

...and Byrd was a Grand Dragon! ;)

[jersey_guy]

Imagine if you lived in West Virginia. Then you'd have an 87 year old former-KKK member (and actually a guy who organized an entire chapter for the Klan) as your Senator :D

Coincidentally, whle the liberal media loves to remind everyone that Tom DeLay used to be an exterminator, it rarely ever mentions that Byrd's previous job was a BUTCHER.

[jrun]

Duke got a pretty good amount of votes in his run for LA governor. Ahhh, the good ole stinkin' South:

Duke ran for Governor as a Republican Party candidate, although never getting any official endorsement from that party. In the open primary, Duke was second to former governor Edwin Edwards in votes, thus he faced Edwards in a run-off. Duke received 32% of the vote in that intial round,...

http://www.answers.com/topic/david-duke

[lasseviren]

ah yes, that was quite a race. i wasn't old enough to vote but i was old enough to realize that one man running was a racist idiot and the other was a shrewd federal criminal. and people wonder why nothing gets done in louisiana politics. :rolleyes:

[exjersey1]

ah yes, that was quite a race. i wasn't old enough to vote but i was old enough to realize that one man running was a racist idiot and the other was a shrewd federal criminal. and people wonder why nothing gets done in louisiana politics. :rolleyes:


hehehe....

Edwards' name is still mud among the 49'er faithful out here, since he was involved with Eddie DeBartolo (or vice-versa).

When Eddie D. went down for the count on that and the NFL forced him to sell, the team ended up being owned by York the Dork, and are now a bigger joke than the Bengals ever were.

[TrackDaddy]

He's 80 y/o.

He got away with it.

In this life.

[leighpeas]

He's 80 y/o.

He got away with it.

In this life.
that had the most ominous tone of anything i think i've ever read in here.
i want to say:
da da da dum, dadadadum! (i guess it'd work better if you could here me)

[gesser]

He's 80 y/o.

He got away with it.

In this life.

I was thinking, "Where do they send 80 yr old manslaughterists?"

I would hope they get sent to a max. security prison. And if so, I bet some of the black inmates might take some offense to him...even though he is 80 yrs old. There's no shame in kicking the crap out of a 80 yr "murderer", is there?

[TrackDaddy]

They sentenced him on TV just now.

I think he got 20 years on each count.

I hope the black prisoners don't do anything to him except maybe help him out especially since he's 80 y/o.


Although it would be unwise to place him in the general population.

[Zat0pek]

I hope the black prisoners don't do anything to him except maybe help him out especially since he's 80 y/o.

I wouldn't count on much compassion for a guy like that in that environment.

[gesser]

They sentenced him on TV just now.

I think he got 20 years on each count.

I hope the black prisoners don't do anything to him except maybe help him out especially since he's 80 y/o.


Although it would be unwise to place him in the general population.

As Larry David would think, I wonder what the age cutoff is for jailhouse debuachery and skirmishes.

I would think somewhere around 65. Maybe 70 if they were still really alert.

[jrun]

The sins of 40 some-odd years ago have come to light...