Fair question. I have no sympathy for racist organizations, and no sympathy for the violence that occurred in the Deep South 40 years ago. However, I do like to play devil's advocate against liberal pieties. These people get very full of themselves, and their hypocrisy is something to behold, is it not? The various civil-rights trials are a good example of this. These trials cut corners that the liberals would never countenance against, say, Muslim terrorists or Black Panthers. In addition, there are indeed serious questions about the integrity of the justice system here. And if no one else will speak out about these, I will. Conservatives should NEVER let the prospect of name-calling, from liberals or from other conservatives, tell them what they can and can't say and do. Finally, I think it's significant that Killen is too old to be a danger to society. As I said in a previous post: It's not Killen specifically who I'm concerned about. It's anyone in such a position, regardless of politics or race.
Hope this helps.
When it comes to the likes of Killen and others just like him the majority of conservatives are and should be appalled he managed to mock the justice system all these years.
If someone is a known leftist and only presenting one side of any issue, naturally they must be challenged.
Conservatives feed into liberal traps if even appearing to side, for any reason with an individual who used God, called himself a 'preacher' to fuel some of the worst hate for fellow Americans this nation witnessed.
In terms of age, he was trying to play everyone as suckers, just the same as many of the captured Nazi war Criminals. Saddam is what, maybe 10 years younger then Killen? When it comes to vicious killers such as the one in question his age did not prevent him from attempting organizing a Klan rally not less then 8 months ago. He knew in 1964 when he was a Klan organizer and in 2004 engaged in the same garbage.
He placed himself on trail. If Killen had clammed up and not tired inciting hate all over again, the same hate as in 1964, due to his hard-core racist mentality, there would not have been a trail.
why'd they wait so long to nail this guy?
More than the race factor, do you feel less motivated to condemn this deviously despicable person because he killed a bunch of "liberals" ?