[Vision2020] Edgar Killian and Mississippi Justice

[lfalen]

It took 31 years to bring Bryon de la Beckwith to justice for the merdur of Medger Evers. Hopefully the same wii happen to Killian
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From: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:54:48 -0700
To: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Edgar Killian and Mississippi Justice

> 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.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 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/
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> >  
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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....
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 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!
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Rose Huskey
> > 
> > 
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