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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:42 PM
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I hope this piece of shit lives a long, long time
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:43 PM
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1. I don't.
Some Mississippi parole board could let him out.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:45 PM
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4. I want him to live long enough to appreciate the fact that he'll die
in prison.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:45 PM
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5. Maybe Bush will pardon him
To get the White Supremacist's vote...

Oh, wait, he already has it.

Nevermind.


Nothing directed at you. Just angry at Bush and saw an opportunity for a cheap shot.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:47 PM
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7. Considering his father's pardons, that's not impossible. nt.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:51 PM
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9. I think they would have to change existing law first
With a manslaughter conviction, he has to do a full third of the sentence before he can even go before a board. A sentence of murder would actually have been better from his viewpoint, as he could have been before a parole board much earlier.

I only wish they'd gotten him sooner. He is a mean, vicious person who lived the best years of his life freely and without consequence. The only thing I can hope is that he has ALL his marbles, and is doing the sort of thinking that one does as one advances in years...reviewing one's life, adding up the good and bad. Of course, he seems so obtuse he probably just does not get it.
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Kraklen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 02:50 PM
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15. That would mean twenty years.
He's, what, 81 now?

That means he'd be 101 when eligible for parole.

Unlikely, but still a distinct possibility.

I hope he never makes it.
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:43 PM
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2. i hope in general pop
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smartvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:44 PM
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3. Did you see him attack the camera? He is a violent SOB,
even from the wheelchair.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:46 PM
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6. Just wheel him out in the yard in general population . . .
He'll learn a thing or two.
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mark414 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:51 PM
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8. i hope he lives long enough to serve his full sentence
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:51 PM
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10. Wouldn't it be the Christian thing to do
to keep him alive like Teri Schiavo? I know such "outrageous" suggestions upset our Christian members, but why not? Do we not value life? killen is a leader of the kkk and he was a christian minister. Please someone share with me why I can't call him a radical zealot. Tell me why I can't state the truth that he and his kind (millions) are the number one threat to our constitution? That is not broad brush, that is the truth.

Yes, burtworm, I hope he lives a long, long time.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:52 PM
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11. In the event he's beaten into a persistent vegetative state
I concur.
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 01:55 PM
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12. I hope he lives long enough to become
Edited on Thu Jun-23-05 01:55 PM by SalmonChantedEvening
An accomplished salad tosser

:evilgrin:
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 02:02 PM
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13. I was thinking the same thing
I watched the judge this morning, and listened to the buildup to the sentence.

Looking at him now, one can't imagine Killen as nothing more than a kindly old grandfather, who wouldn't hurt a fly. However, one must look at the monster behind the man.

Thank God for the internets:






Edgar Ray Killen, a thirty-eight-year-old, ordained Baptist minister, was the point man in the conspiracy to murder three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi on June 21, 1964. It was Killen ("the Preacher") who Deputy Sheriff Price contacted that Sunday afternoon to get the word out to local klansmen that he was holding for their later disposal three men, including Mickey Schwerner, the much despised "Goatee."
Killen, the owner of a local sawmill and a former unsuccessful candidate for sheriff, was a marginal character until Sam Bowers appointed him "kleagle," or klavern recruiter and organizer, for the Neshoba and Lauderdale County klan. He zealously performed his duties, as evidenced by the over seventy men who met on June 16 in Meridian to plan a trip to Mount Zion Church in Longdale, where they hoped to find and kill Schwerner. Instead of encountering Schwerner, they found only local blacks, who the klan badly beat before burning down their church.

After Killen received word from Price that Schwerner and the other two civil rights workers were being held in jail, he travelled to Meridian in Lauderdale County to meet with other klan bigwigs at the Longhorn Drive-In. Phone calls were made and recruits signed up for a trip that evening to Neshoba County. A larger group of Klan met at Akin's Mobile Homes in Meridian, where Killen informed them of the plan he had worked out with Price for the three men's release shortly after dark. He told klan members participating in the murderous expedition to get rubber gloves. A meeting was scheduled near the courthouse in Philadelphia for 8:15. When the Meridian klan arrived in Philadelphia, Killen took them on a driveby tour of the jail that held their quarry, then rushed off to establish his alibi by attending a wake for an uncle at the local funeral home.

The FBI was informed of Killen's role in the conspiracy by informant Wallace Miller, Killen's first klan recruit. Killen was one of nineteen men arrested on December 4, 1964. At his trial in 1967, Killen created a stir by passing to his defense attorney a question for a prosecution witness, Reverand Charles Johnson. His attorney then asked the question in cross-examination. Is it true, Killen asked, that Johnson and Michael Schwerner had tried to "get young Negro males to sign statements that they would rape one white woman a week during the hot summer of 1964 here in Mississippi?" The judge was not amused by the question, and demanded to know where it came from.

The jury was unable to reach a verdict on Killen's guilt. He was never retried.


http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Killen.htm
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DistressedAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-23-05 02:03 PM
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14. Charge Him One Pound Of Flesh For Every Year He Went Unpunished!
Then take the same from all of the prosecuters, the mayor of the town and any other fithy fuck involved in letting racist muderes walk free for 4 decades!

Before I am accused of "Southern Bashing", let me note that these pig fuckers are from indiana. This stupid bitch was so proud of her having the Grand Dragon over for dinner she set up a website to post the pics.

Who else agrees that posing in your Klan robes with your kids is child abuse?

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