Mississippi -- FUCK YEAH!
from the NY Times:
"The most infamous unresolved case from America's civil rights struggle four decades ago - the 1964 abduction and killing of three voter-registration volunteers by nightriders on a lonely rural road in Mississippi - was revived last night with the arrest of a longtime leader of the Ku Klux Klan, the authorities announced.
"The suspect, Edgar Ray Killen, a 79-year-old preacher who, investigators say, organized and led two carloads of Klansmen on the night of the killings, was arrested at his home in Philadelphia, Miss., and charged with the murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, Sheriff Larry Myers of Neshoba County said.
"The sheriff said there would be more arrests in the notorious case..."
I wasn't even alive then and I feel vindicated! Further on in the article it says that Killen wasn't convicted originally because there was a hung jury: one of the jurors said she could never convict a preacher. What kinda twisted-ass red state logic is that? 'Just cuz it's something a preacher did, doesn't mean it's something a preacher WOULD do,' as Rob Corddry might point out.
At least in the modern era of American disenfranchisement, no one's getting brutally murdered. We probably passed that torch on to Iraq..
"The most infamous unresolved case from America's civil rights struggle four decades ago - the 1964 abduction and killing of three voter-registration volunteers by nightriders on a lonely rural road in Mississippi - was revived last night with the arrest of a longtime leader of the Ku Klux Klan, the authorities announced.
"The suspect, Edgar Ray Killen, a 79-year-old preacher who, investigators say, organized and led two carloads of Klansmen on the night of the killings, was arrested at his home in Philadelphia, Miss., and charged with the murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, Sheriff Larry Myers of Neshoba County said.
"The sheriff said there would be more arrests in the notorious case..."
I wasn't even alive then and I feel vindicated! Further on in the article it says that Killen wasn't convicted originally because there was a hung jury: one of the jurors said she could never convict a preacher. What kinda twisted-ass red state logic is that? 'Just cuz it's something a preacher did, doesn't mean it's something a preacher WOULD do,' as Rob Corddry might point out.
At least in the modern era of American disenfranchisement, no one's getting brutally murdered. We probably passed that torch on to Iraq..
posted by azulita at 11:36 AM
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