[Vision2020] Edgar Killian and Mississippi Justice

[lfalen]

Two great quotes
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From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:33:54 -0700
To: DonaldH675 at aol.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Edgar Killian and Mississippi Justice

> "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."
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> - Frederick Douglass
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> "Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see
> it tried on him personally."
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> - Abraham Lincoln
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> "Freedom is not the liberty to do what you want, yet the liberty to do what
> you ought."
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> - Unknown
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> Tom Hansen
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> Moscow, Idaho
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> 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
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> Visionaries:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>  <http://www.nhpeas.ang.af.mil/hro/eeo/>
> http://www.nhpeas.ang.af.mil/hro/eeo/
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> 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....
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> 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.  
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> As we PBR fans like to say,  It's time to "Cowboy (or Cowgirl) Up Moscow!
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> Rose Huskey
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