[Vision2020] Edgar Killian and Mississippi Justice

[Tom Hansen]

"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact
amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these
will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they
oppress."

 

- Frederick Douglass

 

 

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see
it tried on him personally."

 

- Abraham Lincoln

 

 

"Freedom is not the liberty to do what you want, yet the liberty to do what
you ought."

 

- Unknown

 

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are
dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
exist very nicely in the same box. 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of DonaldH675 at aol.com
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 4:58 PM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Edgar Killian and Mississippi Justice

 

Visionaries:

 

The Edgar Killian trial in Philadelphia Mississippi has brought back a lot
of bad memories. Killian, a KKK member and preacher was the man who planned
the killing of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia 41 years ago
tomorrow.  As I listened to the prosecutor's closing argument, I had great
hope that things had changed in that little Mississippi town over the past
41 years.  That was, apparently, a false hope.  After just three hours of
deliberation, the jury has declared that they are hung 6-6.  Fortunately,
the judge refused to accept that non-verdict and has directed the jury to
return tomorrow for more deliberations.

 

Of course bigotry is not limited to Mississippi as we have come to know in
Moscow.  And, speaking of Doug Wilson, his favorite neo-confederate group,
the League of the South, is discussed on the MSNBC link below.

 <http://www.nhpeas.ang.af.mil/hro/eeo/>
http://www.nhpeas.ang.af.mil/hro/eeo/

 

Moscow has its own unique connection with the LOS.  Doug Wilson has invited
his close friend, Steve Wilkins, an LOS founding member (who still sits on
the Board of Directors), to once again visit Moscow as a principal speaker
at the Trinity Festival.  I guess Doug can't get enough of that hog fat,
corn-pone twaddle....

 

On a more positive note, please do something to honor Andrew Goodman,
Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney tomorrow on the anniversary of their
murders.  Speak out loudly and publicly against bigotry and racism.
Challenge the people and institutions who continue to justify it, right here
in our own town.  You can be a Freedom Rider without making the journey to
Mississippi -  all you need is some backbone and a healthy dollop of moral
outrage.  

 

As we PBR fans like to say,  It's time to "Cowboy (or Cowgirl) Up Moscow!

 

Rose Huskey

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