KKK chief testifies about 1979 shootings

Kansas City Star ^ | July 16, 2005 | Estes Thompson

[Graybeard58]

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[Graybeard58]

The klan, the nazis and the communists. Who do you root for in a fight like that?

[NathanBookman]

It's about time that Sen. Byrd fessed up!!!

[Arkie2]

Robert Byrd alert!!

[Arkie2]

You hope nobody misses and there's enough ammo to go around.

[USNBandit]

The klan, the nazis and the communists. Who do you root for in a fight like that?

The police officers unlucky enough to have to quell the riot.

[DumpsterDiver]

The klan, the nazis and the communists. Who do you root for in a fight like that?

I'd root for all three of them to shoot each other full of holes, but then I'm kind of a violent person to begin with.

I'm trying to figure out why this commission was ever convened and why any of the KKK men went and testified. The commission doesn't seem to have any force of law behind it.

... the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, an effort modeled on similar commissions in South Africa and Peru.

The commission is meeting without the support of city leaders in Greensboro, and it has no authority to pursue criminal or civil claims or grant immunity from them. ... but organizers hope to uncover what they feel is the untold story behind the shootings and promote healing.

[GSlob]

"The police officers unlucky enough to have to quell the riot."
They merely have to delay their appearance while loading on donuts and coffee. With any luck there would be few rioters left standing.

[Old Professer]

Never saw a blackmailer quit after one payment.

[Flint]

Folks, I live in the area. I wasn't living here when this happened.

This "Commission" is pure BS. It is just another angle by local blacks to keep the kettle simmering. Every night on the news Channel 2, which has always been very heavy black oriented, can't wait to fan the fire. The big catch phrase is something like, "We need this in order to let things heal." This happened in 1979. If the black "leaders" would drop it it would have gone away 20 years ago. I don't know one person who stays up nights worrying about the Klan/Nazi shootings in 1979.

[JediForce]

Senator Byrd...White (hooded) Courtesy Phone...

[Rebelbase]

"I'm trying to figure out why this commission was ever convened and why any of the KKK men went and testified. The commission doesn't seem to have any force of law behind it."

Race baiting black activists and communists created this commission as a way to provide validation for their "cause". I fully believe these very folks are very ones responsible for the cross burnings in Durham a few months, which happened just a couple of days before the initial meetings of the group were held.

I have no clue about the Klan being there.

The commission has no public authority at all. It is not sanctioned by the city nor is it supported by anywhere near a majority of the citizens of Greensboro.

[Teplukin]

I heard a lib say that Byrd's membership in the KKK back in the 1940s is as irrelevant as the Pope's membership in Hitler Youth back in the 1940s

How the heck do you respond to logic like that?

[Nov3]

The klan, the nazis and the communists. Who do you root for in a fight like that?

This is what my father used to describe as a win-win situation.

[JediForce]

YOU BEAT THEM SENSELESS AT THE POLLS. AND WE HAVE BEEN.

[DumpsterDiver]

Thanks to both of you for your posts.

[Nov3]

Or as Colonel Jeff Cooper used to say,"This sounds like a problem that is solving itself."

[dr_who_2]

Anyone who helps put them behind bars.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

The klan, the Nazis and the communists. Who do you root for in a fight like that?

Easy. The Klan. They will die out from old age. It would have been nice if they could have taken out all the communists before they croak. The Nazis need killing too, but the commies by far have the worst record.

[Bogolyubski]

That's easy. Sheets Byrd would not have been arrested as a subversive for refusing to join the Klan in 1940s WV. Ratzinger didn't have much of a choice in the matter - Byrd did.