Back From the Dead and Facing Life - Trial Recalls Horrors of the Klan

[Sequoia]

Thomas Moore is looking forward to finally coming face-to-face with James Ford Seale, a Ku Klux Klansman who came back from the dead. "I want to look at him," he said. "I want to tell him about the pain he caused me and my family."

Mr Moore, 63, a retired sergeant-major, recalled the day he found out that Mr Seale was still alive. "I was so happy. We thought he was dead - and so did everyone else."

The trial opens here today of Mr Seale, 71, a former worker in a paper plant, crop-duster and policeman, accused of kidnapping and conspiracy in relation to the murder of two black teenagers in 1964, one of them Mr Moore's brother. According to the indictment, the two 19-year-olds, Charles Moore and Henry Dee, were kidnapped by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, tortured and dumped in the Mississippi, Moore tied to a jeep engine block, and, according to an FBI informant at the time, still breathing.

The killings marked the beginning of a summer of madness, as the KKK responded to the civil rights movement with the fiery crosses, church bombings and murders depicted in Alan Parker's 1989 film Mississippi Burning.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2091104,00.html

From England. Have to go overseas for our news these days. Ha, ha...you old coot, be sure your sins will find you out.

[tularetom]

1. Time to go biblical on this piece a shit

Eye for an eye and all that stuff. Do to him what he did to those kids years ago. Torture his ass & tie him to a jeep engine block & dump him in the fuckin river still breathing. See if his pal jaheezus does anything for him.