Re: KKK justice (was Re: terrorists)

[I wrote:]
>>If by "put[ting] them out of business" you mean prosecuting people who
>>bomb churches, or who burn crosses on other people's lawns for that
>>matter, I wholeheartedly agree. As far as I know, however, the KKK
>>today pretty much meets in private and occasionally marches in public.
>>I hope you would not support banning those activities, no matter how
>>repugnant the KKK's views are.

[Marc Jones wrote:]
>Actually, if you're looking for justice in that neck of the woods, why
>don't you do a little web search on the Mississippi Sovereignty
>Commission. It makes for very good reading. Bunch of KKKers in the
>60s or so, sealed up about 100,000 pages of KKK documentation to be
>opened no sooner than 2027, when most of them would be dead. A
>Mississippi judge overturned this a few years ago. Justice is being
>served with cake and coffee; the man who shot Medgar Evers is now in
>jail. Six of the people who were acquitted in that church bombing, in
>Alabama I think, were all sentenced to life in prison. Contained in
>those pages are official memos, the ordering of a lot of hate crimes.
>Most of the people who are being sentenced thanks to the MSC are all in
>their sixties.

>Having been raised by, and having forever rebelled against, the fists
>and manipulations of someone who was in the KKK since age 3, I'm taking
>great pleasure in every case they're prosecuting.

I can well appreciate your feelings! And certainly I agree that, in
bringing murderers to justice, late is better than never. If, as it
seems, officials aided in the suppression of evidence in the intervening
years, that is a serious offense, worthy of prosecution in itself.

I'm curious to know whether you agree that speech, even racist speech,
should be protected, however.

JdL