🚀 go-pugleaf

The sweetest <melody> that I can conceive would occur should you ever tie a
rope around your neck tightly and join your obsession, Ed_J.

A perfect end to your grieving, you sad, pathetic, brainwashed whore.

A <swinging> melody.

Now, that would truly be gleefully < wikked ;>!

[ LOL! ;]


On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 16:03:29 -0400, "Melody" <wikked@cdc.net> wrote:

>
>"The Sanity Inspector" <chollanamdo@mindspring.com> wrote in message
>news:3b927d8e.1869300@news.mindspring.com...
>> Real *miscarriages* of justice were instant, too.  There's a
>> companion book to this exhibit, that's been in print for about a year
>> and a half.  One of the victims was a jobless day laborer who stopped
>> at a house to ask for food.  The housewife got spooked, and he was
>> strung up.  Another occasion was a case of mistaken identity--a mob
>> went into a neighboring burg and lynched the harmless town drunk.
>> The victims were denied their day in court.  Those who *were*
>> tried and found guilty and then lynched were denied due process.
>> There are plenty of societies in the world today which regularly deny
>> them today.  You're free to go if you really prefer that state of
>> affairs.
>
>(Sanity Inspector, note that I am agreeing with you, the tangent below was
>sparked by your post, not really replying to it)
>
>They were *all* miscarriages of justice. People in the US had a right to a
>fair trial, most black men didn't recieve that in the late 1800's & early
>1900's. Some still don't today. Even if they *were* guilty of the crime in
>question they did *not* deserve to be lynched because of the color of their
>skin. They deserved the same treatment that a white man would have recieved
>if convicted of the same crime.
>
>Here's a case that happened in my hometown in 1906 that has always bothered
>me:
>http://www.timesfreepress.com/2000/FEB/29FEB00/OPITI0129FEB.html
>I visit this bridge often. It's since been turned in to a pedestrian bridge
>as part of a long series of walking trails. From that spot you can see so
>many symbols of injustice... Civil war battle sights, the Trail of Tears, an
>island where Native Americans were  placed to die, where Civil War Prisoners
>were kept, a cemetary where black men & women who were lynched were once
>thrown in to shallow holes in the ground until members of the community came
>out (50-70 years later) and gave them proper burials.
>
>People walk, jog, socialize, vacation, etc... on this bridge. Children throw
>stale bread to see the fish pop up out of the river, lovers get engaged,
>families gather, mothers push their babies in strollers, teens
>rollerblade... most oblivious to the history & sadness that surround this
>place. But once in a while you'll see someone standing there, usually an
>older man, alone by that second gurder. Tears in their eyes and a distant
>look on their face as they remember the stories told by grandparents years
>ago. It's sad that we ignore the truth, that these people look at a brass
>plaque inscribed in memory of Ed Johnson and don't even know who he is. A
>terrible injustice was done to this man, and so many of us choose to ignore
>it.
>
>*sigh*
>
>Here's a huge list of lynchings:
>http://blackhistorypages.com/Lynching/
>
>Sure, some of these people, the ones who did commit the crimes, deserved to
>go to jail. Some may have even been death penaly candidates. But not *one*
>of them deserved to be the victim of a lynch mob. Lynching is murder, worse
>than most other murders, a far worse crime than most of the lynch mob
>victims were accused of. It's the lynch mob, the people who allowed them to
>do what they did, and the people who didn't bother to try to stop them who
>should have been hanging from bridges or trees.
>
>And people wonder why so many African Americans are still so bitter... Did
>we really just expect them to forget? They've had to *fight* for every right
>that white citizens were handed freely. What makes you think they'll stop
>fighting now? You don't think they still fear the things their ancestors
>were once subjected to?
>
>All men were created equal. That doesn't mean "all white men", it means ALL
>men. And all of them deserve the same rights & freedoms *without* having to
>fight for them.
>
>Why does skin tone mean anything?
>
>Melody

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"Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying
and trampling upon the white man�s law, upon his system of values and
that I was defiling his women."
Eldridge Clever, former Black Panther leader on why he raped white
women.