Ex-Klansman faces trial for 1964 murders

[maddezmom]

Source: The Telegraph

Ex-Klansman faces trial for 1964 murders
By Tom Leonard in New York and Richard Luscombe
Last Updated: 2:14am BST 29/05/2007

A former Ku Klux Klansman will go on trial tomorrow for the murder of two young black men who were abducted, beaten and dumped into the Mississippi river in 1964.

James Ford Seale, 71, a former crop duster and sheriff's deputy, faces spending the rest of his life in prison if convicted in a trial that civil rights groups hope will be the first prosecution in a wave of rekindled investigations into unsolved race killings from the era.

Seale and fellow Klansmen are alleged to have picked up the two 19-year-olds - Henry Dee and Charles Moore - as they were hitchhiking in rural southwestern Mississippi.

The Klansmen, who believed the pair were trying to smuggle guns into the state, drove them into the woods where they were questioned and beaten with tree branches.

They were then bound with duct tape and taken by boat on to the river where - still alive - they were thrown overboard, weighted down with chains and an engine block. The bodies were not discovered for two months.




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[Behind the Aegis]

1. k&r

He will get the justice the victims never did! It is never too late to prosecute hate!

[Big Pappa]

2. Good. If guilty, into the big house bubba.

This shit sounds like the movie "White Lightning".

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[bitchkitty]

4. Oh, wow, that's hilarious.

I'm laughing so hard I can hardly type. You're a real funny guy, huh?

[maddezmom]

5. probably more like George Allen

;)

Macaca controversy

Allen points to Webb aide S.R. Sidarth, referring to him as "Macaca."<38>Main article: Virginia United States Senate election, 2006 — Macaca controversy
On August 11, 2006, at a campaign stop in Breaks, Virginia, near the Kentucky border, Allen twice used the word macaca to refer to S.R. Sidarth, who was filming the event as a "tracker" for the opposing Webb campaign. Sidarth is of Indian ancestry, but was born and raised in Fairfax County, Virginia. Macaca is a slur meaning "monkey" in francophone African nations, which led to speculation that Allen may have heard the epithet from his mother,<39> a Francophone who grew up in French-colonial Tunisia. Allen apologized and later said that he did not know the meaning of the word.<40> After the incident, many bloggers and comedians, and some commentators, began to refer to Allen as "Senator Macaca"<41> or "Macacawitz" (combining his gaffe with the controversy over his response to his mother's Jewish ancestry).<42>


Allegations of Allen's use of racial slur in college
On September 24, 2006, Salon.com Washington correspondent Michael Scherer reported that the magazine had interviewed nineteen of his teammates and that "hree former college football teammates of Sen. George Allen say that the Virginia Republican repeatedly used the racial epithet 'nigger' and demonstrated racist attitudes toward blacks during the early 1970s."<43> One of Allen's classmates who made such a claim is University of Virginia political science professor Larry Sabato. Sabato later admitted his information was second hand.<3> However, seven teammates have stated they do not recall any racist behavior on Allen's part. Four of these have made statements that were released by the Allen campaign.<44> Allen dismissed the claims as "ludicrously false."<45>

[shenmue]

6. You're never too old to face justice.

Throw away the key.

[fasttense]

7. God, it took so long.

Forty-three years to brings these cold blooded murderers to justice. I wonder if the murderers in the white house will avoid justice that long?

[MrPrax]

8. Wow...!!

I guess they finally got the votes they needed. Good to see that the investigation finally ended in an indictment.

:sarcasm:

[bamacrat]

9. Good.

They ought to sink them to the bottom of a river.

[whopis01]

10. Every 'former' klansman should be in jail. n/t