Paper names ex-Klansman in civil rights murder

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CNN

Early on the morning of December 10, 1964, Frank Morris ran out of his shoe store, his clothes and skin on fire.

People who saw him in the hospital afterward said the African-American businessman was so badly burned they didn't recognize him.

"Only the bottom of his feet weren't burned. He was horrible to look at," said the Rev. Robert Lee Jr., now 96.

Morris survived for four days before dying -- long enough to tell the FBI that two men had broken into his store while he slept, smashed windows, doused the place in gasoline and told him: "Get back in there, nigger."

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No one has ever been charged with killing him. But Wednesday, more than 46 years after his death at age 51, a local newspaper has named two men it believes were part of a Ku Klux Klan "wrecking crew" that torched his store and murdered him.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/12/louisiana.civil.rights.murder/index.html?hpt=T2

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What a horrible crime! It's never too late to out these racists!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. Get these bastards

[StopTheNeoCons]

2. Right wing, christian terrorists

Right wing, christian terrorists

[Judi Lynn]

3. And look how far they've come there from the time of the murder. From the article:

A woman at a second phone number listed as Spencer's said he had never done anything wrong.

"Y'all digging up a dead black man? This happened 46 years ago," she said, identifying herself as Betty Spencer, another ex-wife who divorced Spencer in 1969.

"I got two federal agents out at my place a couple weeks ago about a shoeshine man that got killed," she said.

It's as if time has stood still in some quarters. Unbearable. How many centuries will it take?

[defendandprotect]

8. In an odd way, these people aren't responsible for their own bigotry ....

"You have to be taught to hate and fear --

You have to be carefully taught."

These are the landmines which elites leave among us - the myths of "inferiority"

so carefully taught in their efforts to exploit most of humanity --

from Native Americans, to Africans enslaved here -- from Women to Jews -- and

Homosexuals. It's where their profit are made!

Capitalism is suicidal for nature and humanity!

[rasputin1952]

4. If we can prosecute those responsible for the Holocaust...

we can prosecute these purveyors of hatred and murder. Time makes no difference in matters such as these, there is no statute of limitations on murder.

Like all other terrorists, they need to face justice.

[defendandprotect]

7. We did very little about the Holocaust ... few prosecutions ...

and, in the history I've read --

Evidently the final word on the OK for Jews moving into Palestine was given

by Nelson Rockefeller -- that surprised me -- but only on condition that there

would be no further hunting of Nazis. !!!

That comes from "The Secret War Against The Jews" by John Loftus and Mark Aarons -- 1997

A fantastic book which is very poorly named because it deals with so much more.

[rasputin1952]

9. The Nurmeburg Trials were a start...

but it goes beyond that actually. Individuals like Simon Weisenthal hunted nazi's his entire life, there are groups that still expose some that are still on the run. Just last year someone was indicted in Germany for crimes against humanity.

Naturally, over time, people die out, but far too often the ideology lives on. It is the ideology that must be challenged, and whether the guy(s) who perpetrated this crime are now in their 90's, it makes no difference to me. My compassion has limits.

There are times when I have to wonder if we've collectively lost the ability to ask "why?". I always question authority, I may get a response that I can live with, but authority must always be questioned.

As an aside, growing up in NYC, I knew many Holocaust survivors in our neighborhood. When I found out what had really happened, I joined them and state proudly, "Never Again"...and that goes for all hate; we can never let it go unchallenged.

[defendandprotect]

10. Only Simon Weisenthal persisted ..... that's the point ....

no organized effort -- he was alone.

Remember when TORTURE was a crime -- and not something our own government was doing?

There were two concepts as I recall Nuremberg --

Wars of aggression are illegal -- yet, here we are in Afghanistan and Iraq!

And, "Following Orders" was no excuse -- yet we now have psychiatrists having aided

our TORTURERS in softening up prisoners at Gitmo for TORTURE.

And our own soldiers and CIA involved not only in TORTURE -- but in shpping people

off to be TORTURED!

And while W. Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney walk free!!



What Nelson Rockefeller was talking about at that time was that there was to be no

interference with the movement of Nazis and Gold through the Vatican "rat holes."

As they moved to freedom and new lives --

Tens of thousands of these Nazis, as well, were being taken into America by Allen Dulles

under "Operation Paperclip" --

Dulles used them to found the CIA and funneled many of them into the FBI and other

government agencies -- Werner Von Braun into NASA.

THAT was what Nelson Rockefeller was talking about --

Evidently, JFK had found out about it at some point -- perhaps after his disagreement

with Von Braun on his plan for using nuclear fuel for rockets?



There are times when I have to wonder if we've collectively lost the ability to ask "why?". I always question authority, I may get a response that I can live with, but authority must always be questioned.

As an aside, growing up in NYC, I knew many Holocaust survivors in our neighborhood. When I found out what had really happened, I joined them and state proudly, "Never Again"...and that goes for all hate; we can never let it go unchallenged.

I'm also formerly from NYC -- Greenwich Village -- West side --

But, it was predominatly Irish, Italian, Polish -- generally Catholics in the main.

Unfortunately, can't support Israel today and its warmongering.


:)

[yellowcanine]

5. No Statute of Limitations on murder. But proving it at this point almost impossible, short of a

confession.

[defendandprotect]

6. Good news ... and if we want info on REVOLUTION let's look to the African American ...

and the Homosexual community who have always courageously fought for their freedom --

Native American and their refusal to cooperate with "discoverers" --

Women and their long history of a non-violent struggle --