This of course only applies to the likes of women(?) like her.
Posted on 11/13/2001 5:17:35 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black panther named...Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was suspected of disloyalty.
Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized, his friends tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him. When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren Kimbo took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn.
Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers. In 1977, that's only eight years later, only one of the killers was still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard, and became good friends with none other than Al Gore. He later became an assistant dean at an Eastern Connecticut State College. Isn't that something?
As a '60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's head, and a few years later, in the same state, you can become an assistant college dean!
Only in America!
Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a California School Board.
How in the world do you think these killers got off so easy?
Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers during their trial. One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a California School Board. He is now head of the US Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, appointed by none other than Bill Clinton.
O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean?
No, neither!
The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. She is now known as The "smartest woman in the world." She is none other than the Democratic senator from the State of New York----our former First Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton. And now, as Paul Harvey said; You know "the rest of the story".
Paul Harvey never reported this story.
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
Please document that. Received it from a reliable source.
You did not hear this coming from Paul Harvey.
This is taken from: urban Legends Reference page: click here.
This of course only applies to the likes of women(?) like her.
Hillary Clinton and the Black Panthers
I won't pretend to debunk this email from scratch, since it has already been researched by two fine sources on which I will rely: "Black Panthers" by David Mikkelson and "Hillary Clinton and the Black Panthers" from Urban Legend Zeitgeist.
Here are the main points of contention: Was Hillary Clinton a "defender" of the Black Panther murderers? No. Remember, they were accused murderers at the time (unless the principle "innocent until proven guilty" applies only in select cases). Secondly, there was a widespread suspicion that the Panther leaders had been framed by police and in any case were unlikely to get a fair trial in New Haven. Lastly, it's evident from the role Clinton volunteered for during the trial itself – that of observer for the ACLU – that her interest lay precisely in its fairness and legality.
Did Clinton help the accused murderers "get off easy?" No. How could she have?
Did Clinton organize demonstrations that "shut down" Yale University?
She was involved, but how big a leadership role she played is in dispute. Eyewitness accounts place her at planning meetings but also characterize her as contributing a "moderate voice" to those proceedings. Lastly, the demonstrations did not "shut down" the university.
Does her participation in the demonstrations or trial monitoring 30 years ago reflect negatively on Clinton in the present?
Not unless you assume that having once been a student activist taints one for life. Given the turmoil of the times and the spirit of dissent permeating college campuses during the Nixon era, Hillary Clinton's brand of activism was tame and rational. She was not anti-American. She was not a gun-toting revolutionary. Certain parties would like you to think so, however.
The Smear Campaign Continues
David Mikkelson's thoughtful dissection of the email rumor supplies the missing context needed to fairly judge Clinton's allegiances and activities at the time. It also undercuts the aims of those circulating the smear and thus has aroused their ire. The piece was derided on one conservative message board as a "a thinly-veiled whitewash." The angry respondent wrote: "The learned liberals with their college libraries and research powers appear to first find an answer they like and then use their intellect and university education to obfuscate the truth that might hurt their views or their hallowed leaders."
In other words, we're to think that Mikkelson has a left-wing agenda and his critique was biased. Unsurprisingly, no one on the message board took issue with Mikkelson's exoneration of G.W. Bush in the racial covenant affair (though no doubt he has received complaints from the left). The fact is, Mikkelson and his wife, Barbara – who between them have researched an enormous amount of like material for their Website – have an unblemished track record of impartiality.
Another nexus of conservatism on the Net, Insight Magazine, regurgitated the Clinton charges this year in an article called "Hillary Hides Her Panther Fling." It offers testimony to verify that Clinton and Bill Lann Lee "indeed were student leaders during the Panther protests" and concludes that both are therefore at least partially accountable for the accused murderers "getting off easy." But it's not entirely a rehash. The article also goes on to enumerate, in some detail, Clinton's contacts with various communists during the trial.
You heard right. Insight tells us that Hillary Clinton associated with communists.
Is it true? Yes. There were communists and former communists among the lawyers trying the case.
Was Clinton herself a communist? No.
Then, what is the purpose of naming names from 30 years ago? It should be obvious: to find her guilty by association.
In the 1950s this was known as McCarthyism. Like I said, the age-old techniques are still the best.
And please don't blame me for this left-wingers rant defending Her Heinous. I report, you decide.
If I think of it tomorrow I'll call our local radio programming and ask if they remember anything about it. They have regularly run contests where we listen to Paul Harvey five days straight and save the subject. If they get all the days right, they go into a special drawing.
Now I will need to definitely do a reality check ;-). And if that doesn't work, I just might call the afternoon talk show and ask if any listeners remember it.
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