Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Justice?
Forty-one years to the day after three civil rights workers were beaten and shot to death, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty of manslaughter Tuesday in a trial that marked Mississippi's latest attempt to atone for its bloodstained, racist past.OK - I'm all for justice as well as the next guy, however. Forty-one years ago this KKK asshole killed some kids. Today, he was found guilty of it. I'm curious how much money was spent over the last forty-one years to put this 80 year old guy in jail.
I live in a city that is rapidly rusting away both materially and emotionally. You can drive down the mainstreet in town and it gives reminders of newsreels I've seen in Europe after World War II. There's about 60,000 people left in the ruins of this town. There's still somewhere around a dozen or so murders that are unsolved just in the last year or two. How about spending some of the money that's been wasted on idiots like Michael Jackson, Robert Blake, OJ and an 80 year old KKK ding-a-ling on solving murders that are happening here and now.
