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Alabama Man Hires KKK member to Kill Neighbor like an Animal

The way the laws are written vary. In some states, where they are poorly written, they are being abused.

No state in the country operates that way.

I understand the laws have taken on a political tinge since the George Zimmerman trial, even though he didn't use the defense, but if ever there was a group arguing something stupid for purely partisan reasons this is it.
 
No state in the country operates that way.

I understand the laws have taken on a political tinge since the George Zimmerman trial, even though he didn't use the defense, but if ever there was a group arguing something stupid for purely partisan reasons this is it.

Have you done any research on you own about this?
 
What a colossal display of historical ignorance. You really think the KKK still identifies with the Democratic party? Are you completely unaware of the shift in party ideologies regarding civil rights?

Support for the 1964 CRA wasn't divided on political lines, it was divided on geographic lines. Northern Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly supported it; Southern Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly opposed it.

Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Note: "Southern", as used in this section, refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. "Northern" refers to members from the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those states.

The original House version:

Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)

Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94–6%)
Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85–15%)

The Senate version:

Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%) (only Ralph Yarborough of Texas voted in favor)
Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%) (John Tower of Texas)
Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%) (only Robert Byrd of West Virginia voted against)
Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)

Thank you for posting that...I was responding before I realized that the thread was wayyyyyy past page one.;)
 
Thank you for posting that...I was responding before I realized that the thread was wayyyyyy past page one.;)

The conservative fixation with the Southern Democrats, and the historical ignorance it takes to conflate them with the Democratic party even of then as a whole, much less that of today, never ceases to amaze me. The logical and factual hoops one must jump through to prove that it's the Democrats who are the Real Party of Racism must be exhausting. Hell, look at the exchange I had earlier in the thread (paraphrased for fun):

FENTON: "Democrats didn't support the Civil Rights Act!"
ME: "Actually, that's not true, as illustrated here ..."
FENTON: "You are trying to call all Republicans racist!"
 
The conservative fixation with the Southern Democrats, and the historical ignorance it takes to conflate them with the Democratic party even of then as a whole, much less that of today, never ceases to amaze me. The logical and factual hoops one must jump through to prove that it's the Democrats who are the Real Party of Racism must be exhausting. Hell, look at the exchange I had earlier in the thread (paraphrased for fun):

FENTON: "Democrats didn't support the Civil Rights Act!"
ME: "Actually, that's not true, as illustrated here ..."
FENTON: "You are trying to call all Republicans racist!"

That is exactly how that conversation goes.:doh
 
Exactly. When this law was all over the site because the the Trayvon Martin case I saw several examples of it being used to mask intent by the shooter and get then...get them off the hook.

Yeah, it is terrible they "got off the hook" from being murdered like it was their duty to allow for the greater good of all.
 
2. I am, of course, very troubled by the presence and seemingly casual acceptance of the KKK being avaible for hire to kill but there is not enough in the story about that issue to address it here or support my thinking about it being commonplace.

There is no reason to believe that it is. An undercover fed said he was KKK, and an idiot believed it.
 
There is no reason to believe that it is. An undercover fed said he was KKK, and an idiot believed it.

as I said previously, I am perplexed on how you could even take that away from the article
 
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