NEWS: Racial Protests Overwhelm Small Louisiana Town

Yah, Jake Featherston ain't going to be winning any Good Samaratin awards, thats for damn sure

That being said, Turtledove won't be winning the nobel prize for literature any time soon, either

Well, yeah, I totally agree there. Although I have never heard of "The Turner Diaries" or "Did Six Million Really Die?" for that matter. Which sounds like my library(/workplace) has good taste.

No, as someone who actually lives with, you know, the people I purport to talk about. You are a halfwit selected against by forces of nature and doomed to a life of washing the laundry of rich white folks who for the most part inherited their privilege. Way to pick your battles, moron.

Capitulating, without learning why you lost, is the path to the permanent underclass. If nothing else, you should want better for your kids, so pay attention.

Good ole Tim McVeigh based his oklahoma city bombing on the turner diaries.

Noose in N.Y.

That's pretty fucked up. Not too many details yet, but at least it's being investigated as a hate crime.

Yikes.

Nasty...

"The Turner Diaries" is a book about, I believe, a supposed Jewish conspiracy against the country. ZOG (when ever I hear that I want to saw "Bow to ZOG!" ) takes over the country and some 'brave' (note I'm puttying that is quatations!) freedom fighters blow up federal buildings to reclaim the country.
Its a digusting little book that is uber-popular amongst the Militia and FAR-FAR Right-Wing crowd. Timothy McVeigh was inspired by it when he blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City.
Its a BAAAAAAD book. (I mean this from both its politics AND from the literary standpoint; from everything I've heard, the thing is written in the trashiest form imaginable.)

Mychal Bell's juvenile trial will be open to the public.

Update as the trial ends: after a no-contest plea, five of the Jena 6 will, in lieu of jailtime, serve 7 days unsupervised probation.

I'm wondering if it might not have been a good idea for Mychal Bell at least to serve some jail time. I read quite a while ago that he actually survived a failed suicide attempt. Perhaps if he was in jail for a while he could have recieved the counseling he needs.

You know I actually wondered for a second who revived this trainwreck of a thread.

It still baffles me how people so murderously stupid survive to adulthood.

Totally. Serving time in the nurturing environment of a prison is known to do wonders for people suffering from depression.

Perhaps I should have known that no good could have come of it, but it was either resurrect this thread and the monuments to idiocy contained within, or risk being chastised for starting another thread with the news update when there's already an open thread on the topic.

No, no, my reply was less than cogent. It was what was left of a much longer post that I deleted in a fit of better judgement.

This particular subject hits a bit close to home for me and Sgt. Halfwit, well, I wonder how it could possibly be that natural selection hasn't removed him from our midst.

I'm shocked that hate crime legislation even needs to be applied. Isn't the hanging of a noose a form of menacing or criminal threatening?

PS Subrosa certainly has sufficient journalistic chops. But journalist doesn't pay nearly what lawyer does. It's ok to admit it. I switched from Journalism to Business Administration for the same reason.

This isn't a Southern issue, it's an American issue, and in turn a human issue.

In the States there is no less bigotry now than 40 years ago (yes, a jab at the 60's and the resulting self-congratulatory smarminess; I'm apparently GenX), the attempts to use laws to make life more just, more fair weren't entirely successful.

Kudos to Dingoes8. That crazy Bill of Rights thing was a damned good idea.

"it’s difficult to sort through rhetoric from observation."
Well-said, the press is all too ready to pander to emotional reaction rather than engage in neutral observation and reporting. I suppose if there were folks that weren't poised for indignation about their pet issues, the press wouldn't have become what it is. Ah well.