I'm told it's a "get out of speeding ticket free" t-shirt in Philly if you're ever pulled over while wearing it.
Posted on 09/21/2011 6:09:07 PM PDT by Borges
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — White supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of James Byrd Jr., a black man from East Texas.
Byrd, 49, was chained to the back of a pickup truck and pulled whip-like to his death along a bumpy asphalt road in one of the most grisly hate crime murders in recent Texas history.
Brewer, 44, was asked if he had any final words, to which he replied: "No. I have no final statement."
He glanced at his parents watching through a nearby window, took several deep breaths and closed his eyes. A single tear hung on the edge of his right eye as he was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m., 10 minutes after the lethal drugs began flowing into his arms, both covered with intricate black tattoos.
Byrd's sisters also were among the witnesses in an adjacent room.
"Hopefully, today's execution of Brewer can remind all of us that racial hatred and prejudice leads to terrible consequence for the victim, the victim's family, for the perpetrator and for the perpetrator's family," Clara Taylor, one of Byrd's sisters, said.
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As late as 1965 things were very evil in Fern Park, Florida, as this page from Life Magazine, August 27, 1965 reported (scroll the image at the link up a little).
I suddenly remembered reading the article at the time, so I googled, and there it is!
Aside from sharing a name (albeit last vs. first), both were appointed by Republican presidents (Eisenhower and Nixon, respectively) and both were members themselves of the GOP. There were initially hopes that Warren Burger would undo some of the damage of his predecessor. Those hopes were dashed with the ruling on forced busing and then, of course, with Roe v. Wade.
To state the patently obvious, party affiliation alone does not guarantee an adherence to Constitutional Conservatism.
Yes it was a mixed bag of guys who killed James Byrd. Here is more on John King. I am sure thee is a small amount of white on white prison rape but most (90+%) is black men raping white guys. Yet no one says a thing about this. Lets put it this way. If all white men in prison in New York State were segregated and put in their own prison, then the number of white guys raped In New York State would fade to near zero
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http://www.alternativesmagazine.com/10/cahill1.html
A Monstrous Crime
While I was on a speaking tour in Texas for Amnesty International in February, 1999, I met the parents of a prisoner who confirmed my suspicion that John William King was most probably sexually assaulted in prison a few years earlier. King, you may recall, was the young, white man recently convicted and sentenced to be executed for dragging to death a black man last year in Jasper, Texas. This prisoner, once confined with King, told his parents that King was probably gang-raped by members of the Crips, a nationwide gang of blacks. King was just an average, Texas, good ole boy, redneck racist—not a particularly mean one—when he first arrived in prison, the prisoner reported. But soon afterward, King was “turned out” (raped) and turned vicious.
One of King’s court-appointed attorneys, Brack Jones, was quoted by The Dallas Morning News, Feb. 19, 1999, as having said, “Something…obviously happened to him (King) in the penitentiary.” In news accounts, including that of Time for March 8, 1999, words like “attacked,” and “assaulted*” were used to describe what may have happened to King at the Beto 1 Prison Unit in Texas several years ago. But no account that I read or heard until my trip to Texas in February ever mentioned sexual assault which is a big step up the ladder of violence.
I'm told it's a "get out of speeding ticket free" t-shirt in Philly if you're ever pulled over while wearing it.
Sad.
Fry miniature free speeding tickets? Lolrotf
I think you are right.
and they wanted to somehow make Texas crime his fault.
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Wasn’t this publicity supposedly in retaliation for Bush I using Willy Horton against Dukakis, even though Texas (Bush II) moved swiftly in prosecuting the White Guys?
‘Team Bush’ was the one that exploited Horton but Al Gore first brought the subject up in the D primary - without mentioning Horton’s name - just referring to the furlough program.
Ironically, an R Governor in Mass started the plan and Dukalis kept it alive and eventually shut it down under pressure.
Duke was bad enough but this Horton thing seemed to be the ‘straw that broke the camels back’.
This was supposed to be presidential timber?
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Scary part isn’t so much who ‘we’ have elected, the clowns who finished 2nd were terrible also.
To think there was a question over this doophus, and algore came so close it is actually ‘frightening’ then we got stuck with the present worthless POS**....
Not that the Bushes and Clinton were walks in the park but WTF has happened to our selection of leaders?
They presumably go through all these hoops and whistles to make sure we get a viable candidate and no one can ‘purchase’ the office, but between lifetime pols passing idiotic laws and the lack of anyone ‘good’ running, we are in a quandry.
My apologies to worthless **POS’s for including BO in your group.
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