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A Jewish cop in burning Mississippi (Long but Interesting if You're Interested)
JPost.com ^ | Jul. 3, 2005 | ARIEH O'SULLIVAN

Posted on 07/04/2005 3:21:19 AM PDT by WKB

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To: Chapita; WKB

That was one of the first rooftop maniac style killings I recall.

Good article.


21 posted on 07/04/2005 8:40:02 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: Mamzelle

Only in America...


22 posted on 07/04/2005 8:40:02 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is not conservative!)
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To: wardaddy

Good article.



When I first started reading it I said
"Here we go again" but it is a real good article.
I emailed the writer and told him so.


23 posted on 07/04/2005 8:46:28 AM PDT by WKB (A closed mind is a good thing to lose.)
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To: WKB

This is one of the best articles you have ever posted.
Thank you!


24 posted on 07/04/2005 8:50:50 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats." M. Bowers)
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To: dixiechick2000

Thanks Sweetie


25 posted on 07/04/2005 8:51:40 AM PDT by WKB (A closed mind is a good thing to lose.)
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To: WKB

"Sounds like the "Dukes of Israel"


ROTFLOL!


26 posted on 07/04/2005 8:52:27 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats." M. Bowers)
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To: WKB

You're very welcome, dear. ;o)


27 posted on 07/04/2005 8:52:53 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats." M. Bowers)
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To: WKB

LOL!


28 posted on 07/04/2005 8:55:43 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats." M. Bowers)
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To: Valin

Big ole bump!

Very nice post.


29 posted on 07/04/2005 8:57:42 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats." M. Bowers)
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To: cyborg
You are planning a southern wedding aren't you?
30 posted on 07/04/2005 9:01:00 AM PDT by WKB (A closed mind is a good thing to lose.)
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To: WKB
Don't want you to miss a chance to bash ping.

Bash what?

31 posted on 07/04/2005 9:15:16 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: WKB

http://www.gulflive.com/opinion/mississippipress/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1109502968260890.xml


32 posted on 07/04/2005 9:23:45 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is not conservative!)
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To: WKB

I am particularly fond of Bubba Jews with a respect for our heritage.


33 posted on 07/04/2005 9:48:58 AM PDT by wardaddy
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To: wardaddy

The killing started on the first floor and ended on the roof of the Howard Johnson.


34 posted on 07/04/2005 9:49:06 AM PDT by Chapita (There are none so blind as those who refuse to see! Santana)
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To: WKB; cyborg
Eudora Welty's guidebook for Southern Weddings: Delta Wedding.
35 posted on 07/04/2005 10:28:45 AM PDT by bourbon (Hal Needham is my hero.)
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To: WKB

top notch article, WKB!


36 posted on 07/04/2005 10:30:41 AM PDT by bourbon
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One day back in 1973, a black racist decided to shoot white people. From the Howard Johnson hotel in New Orleans, he killed four civilians and five cops, including my father's close friend, the deputy chief. He shot my father in the arm and ear. The sniper, Mark Essex, was eventually shot down with an Uzi submachine gun my father had managed to acquire for the NOPD through his contacts in Israel.

I read a book on this case many years ago (perhaps this one.) The Uzi story is dubious. Here is a site describing this case. The killer was shot from a helicopter. A few quotes:

They were 10 feet off the roof and less than 50 feet from the sniper.

"We were looking eyeball to eyeball at him," Saacks says. With a fresh magazine in his M-16, Saacks opened fire. "I just walked the bullets right into him."

He was hit a number of times," recalls Pitman, in a bit of understatement. An autopsy later revealed Essex had been struck by more than 200 bullets. "The guy was so shot up he had to be picked up with a scooper," says Eddie Rantz, who was perched on a nearby building, armed with a .30-caliber carbine, and who took part in the volley of shots that finally brought Essex down.

The real question is why is the killing of Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney or Emmett Till a big deal and the victims of Mark Essex (and thousands of others) unknown? I'll give you a hint: it ain't about justice.

37 posted on 07/04/2005 11:11:55 AM PDT by jordan8
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Oh, and from a reader review in the book link above here is a delicious little quote about Mark Essex allegedly from the New York Times:

"A Terrible Thunder is more than just another fashionable journalistic rehashing of a crime. In its depiction of Essex's abrupt transmogrification it raises questions about the accumulated effect of petty but persistent injustices and about the individual's capacity to endure aggrievement."

38 posted on 07/04/2005 11:23:56 AM PDT by jordan8
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To: bourbon; cyborg; WKB
Well, heck.
If she's gonna have a Southern wedding, why not take it all the way?
You, too, can be a Southern Belle. ;o)

Southern Belle Primer : Or Why Princess Margaret Will Never Be A Kappa Kappa Gamma

New Times In The Old South : Or Why Scarlett's in Therapy & Tara's Going Condo

39 posted on 07/04/2005 12:00:08 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats." M. Bowers)
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To: WKB
Sounds like the "Dukes of Israel"

What's Hebrew for "Daisy"? Answers without pictures will be deemed non responsive.

40 posted on 07/04/2005 12:14:06 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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