Civil Rights Leader to Picket 'KKK' Byrd Tribute (Kevin Martin)

NewsMax/com ^ | 1/22/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

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Civil Rights Leader to Picket 'KKK' Byrd Tribute

A Washington, D.C.-based civil rights leader said Tuesday that he would "chain [himself] to the construction site" of a ceremonial office being built as a tribute to Ku Klux Klansman-turned-senator, Robert Byrd, D-W.V.

"I will not stand idly by and allow the building of a fantasy office for 'a minister of hate' such as Robert Byrd," said Kevin Martin, political affairs director of the African-American Republican Leadership Council. "I am willing to chain myself to the construction site, run the risk of arrest and know I stood on principle rather than remain silent."

Yesterday reports surfaced of a secret budget appropriation to build a replica in the Capitol Building of the ornate office Byrd used to occupy as Senate Pro Tempore, even though he lost the pro tem post when the Democrats lost their plurality.

The exact cost has not been made public and it is unmentioned in any appropriations document or even internal Senate correspondence. But some estimated the Byrd tribute would come with a six-figure price tag, according to the Knight-Ridder news service.

Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., said Byrd's colleagues feared retribution from the ex-Klansman unless they found a new way to honor him, explaining, "Frankly, it's not worth the trouble he can create if you don't give him deference."

But on Tuesday Martin decried the Byrd shakedown as an outrage. "I say shame on both Senate Democrats and Republicans for saddling the American public with the bill of building a monument to an evil one-time recruiter of persons who wanted to conduct terrorist acts against fellow Americans."

Last week Byrd said through a spokesman that he had never participated in lynchings or cross burnings while he was in the Klan briefly during World War II. But questions continue to swirl about the West Virginia Democrat's claim, offered through his spokesman Tom Gavin, that he wasn't a racist while he was a member of the virulently anti-black terror group.

"Democrats can play the race-baiting games all they want, but Senator Robert Byrd is a continued reminder of their racist past of jackboots, billyclubs, water hoses, dogs and nightriders," Martin said. "I refuse to accept Senator Byrd's excuse of why he was a member of the KKK."

Coming Wednesday: Evidence surfaces indicating that Byrd may have been a Ku Klux Klan member well past 1943, the year he maintains he resigned from the notorious hate group.

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WHOOEE - YOU GO KEVIN!!! For any readers who don't know, Kevin is "Trueblackman" who posts on a regular basis on FR and appears often on Hannity and Colmes.

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There was a Kevin Martin on Hannity and Commie tonight and the guy was anti-war idiot.

Not our Kevin though :)

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A Washington, D.C.-based civil rights leader said Tuesday that he would "chain [himself] to the construction site" of a ceremonial office being built as a tribute to Ku Klux Klansman-turned-senator, Robert Byrd, D-W.V.

You go Kevin. You're exactly right, both parties need to take responsibility for the scum amongst them.

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It's about damn time that some outrage is expressed at Byrd. Like his fellow partymembers, he is a disgrace to this nation and an affront to the voters. I can't believe that the voters of Virginia have kept him in there for 44 years. Now a 'fantasy office'? That's going way over the line.

While you're at it Kevin, you should be rubbing Jesse's and Al's noses in it too - after all, they're DemonRats who support this Klansman. Who is the Uncle Tom now?

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Sorry - WEST Virginia.

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Where are all the black (and white) Democrat "civil rights" activists protesting the monument to his Klansman? Of course they're nowhere to be found, as they don't have a principled bone in their bodies. To them, the concerns of The Party trump everything else, and principle is way down on the list. They're virtually the same as the "peaceniks" who are currently protesting our upcoming war with Iraq because we might kill some innocent women and children, and were absolutely nowhere to be found when Klintoon was bombing and killing thousands of innocents in Yugoslavia (in '99) and in Iraq (in '98 - Operation Desert Fox). The DemoRat Party is their god, and nothing is too sacred to sacrifice to that god.

Kevin has guts. Too bad there aren't more like him.

Jeez, I completely forgot to get back to you about Iraq's connection(s) with OKC a few days ago. Sorry about that. I haven't even yet looked at the links I gave you. Did you get around to them yet?

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I agree. It's amazing a guy with Bryds' background can be in Congress, much less have a secret six figure budget appropriation to build a replica in the Capitol Building of the ornate office he used to occupy as Senate Pro Tempore.

Kudos to Kevin, I hope he keeps it up and it snowballs.

Actually, I did some research and found some interesting info and posted it at 170 and 174 on the following thread. Also check out 179 on the same thread. One way or another, and probably very soon, Saddam will be toast.

Check these post.170,174,179

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Monday, Jan. 20, 2003

Taxpayers Fund Sen. 'KKK' Byrd's Power Fantasy

The allegedly Republican-controlled U.S. Senate is forcing taxpayers to blow hundreds of thousands of dollars to give America's most famous ex-Klansman, Sen. Robert Byrd, the illusion that he is still Senate president pro tempore.

The chamber last week "bestowed upon Byrd, 85, the title of President Pro Tempore Emeritus and agreed to build him an office that will make him feel as if nothing has changed," Knight-Ridder Newspapers reported.

"Any day now, workmen will converge on a sunny dead-end corridor on the first floor of the U.S. Capitol and seal it off. They'll erect walls, install new wiring, and build a replica of the ornate office of the Senate President Pro Tempore."

The cost is secret, unmentioned in any appropriations document or internal Senate correspondence, but estimated in six figures, the news service reported.

The West Virginian, former Senate majority leader, minority leader and chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, remains the Democrats' senior member on Appropriations, which doles out pork to the states.

"Frankly, it's not worth the trouble he can create if you don't give him deference," admitted Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Rules Committee.

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Thanx for those link. Scary stuff.

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Your welcome. Saddams' fingerprints are evreywhere.