Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Mississippi BurningYou're looking at evil right here. Pure, proud bigoted evil. He's so genuinely vile that I'm uncomfortable at the degree of contempt I feel for him.
Edgar Ray Killen is on trial for orchestrating the 1964 abduction and murder of three voting rights volunteers, one of the most infamous episodes in the volatile civil rights struggle four decades ago.
What good is it doing now?
They did the same thing to Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers and Emmet Till's killers. They wait until these white men have lived full lives, get married, have kids, grandkids, etc, and when these killers have one foot in the grave to do something about it.
Why are they trying Killen now? Why didn't they prosecute Emmet Till's murderer when he was alive? Or when Emmett's poor mother was alive begging for justice?
Justice delayed isn't justice served. He and all the others should have been tried 41 years ago.
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