Dear Mr. Hortlund,
I have read your questions and answered them:
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Treat them with all the sincerity and wisdom they deserve.
Now. How about we cut to the chase?
THIS WILL OPEN YOUR EYES
By Paul Harvey - Conveniently Forgotten Facts Not reported by Paul Harvey "Paul Harvey's people confirm he has never broadcast the Panthers and Hillary Clinton story. "
Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black panther
named...Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was suspected of disloyalty.
Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized, his friends
tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him. True enough
When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member, Warren Kimbo
took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later
found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn. Perhaps
at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers. also true enough, some facts are left out, but not relevent ones IMHO.
"That several Black Panthers directly took part in the torture and murder of Alex Rackey is beyond dispute, and to those of us who believe that torture and murder are always wrong, no matter what the cause, their actions were morally reprehensible. "
In 1977, that's only eight years later, only one of the killers was still in jail. Now we start to leave out pertinant information. Like Kimbro was not convicted for murder! He spent 4 1/2 years in jail and was released on a State program which offered college educations to former convicts. Kimbro attended a small local University and won a scholarship to Harvard Business school where he received a masters degree.
The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard,
and became good friends with none other than Al Gore. He later became an
assistant dean at an Eastern Connecticut State College. Isn't that
something? As a '60s
radical you can pump a bullet into someone's head, and a few years later, in
the same state, you can become an assistant college dean! Only in America! Especially when the Government tries to convict people who didn't take part in the actual shooting and did it only for political gain.
Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water for
Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a
California School Board. How in the world do you think these killers got off
so easy? Maybe
it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense Is this what you are using as your point Hortlund? The word Defense? Read the article, and tell me which "defense" is implied here.
"We often find it necessary, in order to preserve and protect our rights, to defend (in a legal sense) those whose actions we consider morally wrong, and to defend (in a moral sense) those who actions we find legally wrong. We sometimes let criminals go free because constitutional safeguards were violated in the process of bringing them to justice. That doesn't mean we condone their crimes; it means we're willing to "defend" their rights in order to preserve a higher moral principle (i.e., the rights that protect all of us)."
of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale
University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers
during their trial.
Since your point was that the Snopes article backed up "most" of the first post in the thread, I will stick to quoting Snopes.
"Classes were made optional when 12,000 Panther supporters swarmed the campus in protest, and the president of Yale University himself, Kingman Brewster Jr., announced: "I personally want to say that I'm appalled and ashamed that things should have come to such a pass that I am skeptical of the ability of Black revolutionaries to achieve a fair trial anywhere in the U.S." To lay the entire responsibility for this massive, widespread protest on the shoulders of two Yale students is just silly, all the more so because nobody has offered evidence that either one of them led, or even participated in, any student demonstrations or protests in support of the Black Panthers."
One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan
Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a
California School Board. He is now head of the US Justice Department's Civil
Rights Division, appointed by none other than Bill Clinton. The fact that Mr. Lee was a member of the justice department is not in question, his "defense" of the Panthers and the fact that he was one of the "two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations" WRONG!
"So, what exactly did Mr. Lee and Ms. Clinton do to "defend" the Panthers in a legal sense? In Mr. Lee's case, he did absolutely nothing. He wasn't a lawyer, or even a law student; he was simply another Yale undergraduate who had nothing to do with the Black Panthers' trial. "
O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? The other Panther defender
was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. We have just shown that Lee was NOT a law student She is now known as The "smartest woman in the world." She is none other than the Democratic senator from the State of New York----our former First Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton. Panther defender? Maybe defender of constitutional rights. Hardly a Panther defender, and hardly "the other" Panther defender.
"Ms. Clinton wasn't a lawyer then, either; she was a Yale law student. The sum total of her involvement in the trial was that she assisted the American Civil Liberties Union in monitoring the trial for civil rights violations. "
And now, as Paul Harvey said; You know "the rest of the story". Well, there he goes again
