The description of what happened and Barbour's response to it almost leaves me speechless. The fellow is DEAD, for crying out loud, and was sentenced to prison for seven years over $25.
This ungodly, phoney-fake macho law-and-order stance strips Haley Barbour bare as the empty, shallow, heartless, merciless hypocrite he is.
That this is what the GOP offers speaks volumes.
On edit: Please read the stories concerning this, to gain special perspective on the case. It is truly sick-making.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/04/us/04pardon.html?ex=1304395200&en=71a3e5fcbc8a838a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss"Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi acknowledges that Clyde Kennard suffered a grievous wrong at the hands of state officials more than 45 years ago. But he says he will not grant a posthumous pardon to Mr. Kennard, a black man who was falsely imprisoned after trying to desegregate a Mississippi college."
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"But because that college, Mississippi Southern, was reserved for whites, state officials not only rejected Mr. Kennard's repeated applications but also plotted to kill him.
"They kept him out of college by convicting him of helping to steal $25 of chicken feed based on what the sole witness now says was perjury. The 1960 conviction drew a seven-year prison term, and Mr. Kennard died of cancer in 1963."
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060319/NEWS/603190383/1002/NEWS01http://www.law.northwestern.edu/news/article_full.cfm?eventid=2549Contact information for Barbour:
http://www.governorbarbour.com/contact/