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Re: Edgar Ray Killen Says God Will Get You (If You Helped Put Him Away)

Rickeyevans6 — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:50:33 -0000

I was locked up wit edger ray killen and I have writing evidence from him

Re: Free Herman Wallace — of the Angola 3

Herman's House Film — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:25:29 -0000

It's the 40th year of Herman & Albert's solitary confinement, we're hoping to get 5,000 signatures on the @amnesty petition by April 17

http://www.amnesty.org/en/appe...

You also might want to take a look at the trailer for our new film about Herman and artist Jackie Sumell http://youtu.be/Gjd1smWtf7k

Re: New Article: The Legacy of a Murder

Ben — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:14:46 -0000

Thank you for your comment, Robert. So pleased to know you've found the article. Did you find the link above, in my reply to your cousin David, to download the full piece? It means a lot to me to hear from you and other members of your family.

Re: New Article: The Legacy of a Murder

Robert Otkins — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:10:46 -0000

I am Robert son of Phalba it is very refreshing to read about such a great man and then an honor to be related to such a pioneer. He was so far ahead of the times that his own kindness and trust for everyone ended up costing him his life. It is nice to see that people did not forget him, because his murder was not investigated to the full extinct of any law. So thanks and to my cousin David O'Quinn good to see that we all think alike. I guess it comes from the greatest man in our lives second only to GOD and that's Mr. Samuel O'Quinn.

Re: Cold-Case List Omits Many Names

Ben — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:15:18 -0000

Hi Rhumberosoy. Thanks for your comment. I know Anne Moody's book and have long been interested in whether her connection to her uncle Clifton Walker had anything to do with why he was targeted for the brutal shooting that ended his life so terribly. I'm familiar with the story of the three individuals found dead in a car about a year earlier, in Dec 63, not far away from where Walker was shot.

Re: Cold-Case List Omits Many Names

Rhumberosoy — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:31:49 -0000

Anne Moody in her autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi, makes reference to her family member, Clifton Walker, and the three civil workers that were found death from fumes. It was believed they were killed to send a message to the black of that county and state. It act was referred to as "terror killings."

Re: Sheriff Illegally Withholding Records on Orleans Parish Prison, ACLU Lawsuit Charges

Kavenbarnes — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:16:11 -0000

I was there, the deputies hade everything they needed. the inmates were stuck out. As I remember, when DOC got there, and took us out the building that is called CCC. Where the About Face Program was held. When we got all day way down stairs the deputies had cloths kentwood water jugs and food. While we were in a buliding with nothing! Now I'm not saying Gusman didn't abandon the deputies but the deputies that gaurded CCC had evrething they needed from what I saw.

Re: St. Petersburg Police Bind Hands And Feet Of 5-Year-Old African-American Girl

truthandjusticeforallmba — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:06:08 -0000

I believe this with all my heart, African Americans, were never wanted in the educational institutions in America. Ever since Brown vs Board of Education White Supremacists in this country has sought to keep African Americans from growing and fully utilizing the education system. Why do white's feel that African Americans do not have a right to be properly educated? Why do they use tactics such as this to harm the minds of black child? I am so sick and tired of white people and their white police treating our people with such disrespect. Then white people have the nerve and audacity to wonder why we are angry and upset or hate them and want to kick their assess. I don't blame the mother for suing the school district. The school district should be investigated for violating the US Constitution. They should shut the entire schools system down. Blacks and white just home school their own children. We have always done a good job at teaching ourselves, just wanted better facilities. At least if blacks where home schooled they would and not fear being put in handcuffs.

Re: Remembering Reagan

Shane Hanson — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:40:49 -0000

He raised the debt. He forced the democrat controlled senate and congress to raise spending. They had no choice, since the democrats controlled the congress and senate, they had to follow the orders of the president and raise spending.

Re: Remembering Reagan

danny — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:56:36 -0000

That just about says it. Amazing much of the Reagan reality conservatives like to overlook.

Re: New Article: The Legacy of a Murder

Sylvia Kittrell — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:03:23 -0000

Wow! What a shame? Many of our grandparents were killed for no reason but racial hate. There was no justice then for the black man and I find no real justice today either. There is white justice, black justice and ohers justice. Will it ever be equal? My heart goes out to you and your family. Today it's a little different, we are murdered by jailing, drugs, drive bys, and the inability to find or get a job whether educated or not. We are racial profiled at every end of he stick. The killers are not dressed like the KKK or the good ole boys. They wear suit and ties, they sit in high places in diguises. When will we have the justice we are due? When will we be judged for our contributions and not the color of our skins? May God give you peace and his justice to the coward who killed your grandfather. Peace and Love to you!
Sylvia

Re: Why DDoS Attacks for Wikileaks Are Not Civil Disobedience

Iramckey — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:24:15 -0000

I am not sure if I agree with your conclusions surrounding anonymous and the DDOS.

While I definitely understand the natural draw to compare the DDos attacks with MLK , Ghandi etc,I don’t think they are comparable.

In both cases cited the overall intent was to publicize and draw on the appeal of human nature and compassion to effect an outcome, resistance of tyranny through mass civil disobedience.

You have to consider who MLK and Gandhi’s opposition were.

When you take it in its totality Anonymous speaking to corporations in the only language they understand “profits”, seems a lot like a March or sit in to me.

I suppose going to the steps of PayPal, handcuffing themselves to the front door would send a message, its simply not as big of the message they got when they couldn’t process transactions.

In the end you do what works and impacting profit works when wanting to send a message to multinational corporations.

Re: MLK, Communist Training Schools, Cindy Sheehan, and Rosa Parks (II)

Treekp Kirkpatrick — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:17:38 -0000

I will always remember seeing the photo of a Billboard from the 60's which showed Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks at the Highlander School. the Caption Read, "Martin Luther King and Roas Parks at Communist School." On this holiday, celebrating MLK and his heroic efforts to end segregation in America and to open the minds of Americans to the notion that "Civil Rights" for all citizens is a the foundation of our US constitution, I decided to try to find that photo to post on my Facebook Page- to remind everyone I know -of the power, and absurdity, of propaganda. Moreover, a reminder that freespeech and slander are two different things... we have a responsibility to question if "News" is objective reporting, opinion, or destructive slander.

Re: Frank Morris Murder Suspect Confronted by Local Reporter and Cold Case Film Crew

Jlmcdona — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:09:01 -0000

Let's hope Spencer stays away from the witnesses and that local law enforcement protect them from his anger. We at the Cold Case Justice Initiative have been working for four long years with the family of Frank Morris (and with the Concordia Sentinel) to make sure that justice is served here; that means indictments and prosecution of those responsible for the killing of Mr. Morris, not violence. For information on our work see www.coldcaselaw.syr.edu or follow us on Twitter coldcasejustice Janis McDonald Cold Case Justice Initiative at Syracuse University College of Law

Re: Haley Barbour’s Raid on Historical Memory

Ben — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:26:08 -0000

I meant to note as well that your book is $50 on Amazon.com. Unless one has an academic affiliation—which I don't—it is not really a publicly available resource at such a prohibitive price point. In my suggested approaches to engaging bloggers with expertise that overlaps with yours, let me add c) you could have left a comment or dropped me a line noting that you've published a book in this area and offered me a review copy.

Re: Haley Barbour’s Raid on Historical Memory

Ben — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:14:08 -0000

Liberal American, please investigate a little more carefully before making such inflammatory charges.

As I noted in my blog post, the Sovereignty Commission files are available to all online. They are not *your* sources. They are everyone's.

But getting beyond silly claims about who owns publicly available sources, please look at the publication date of my post: December 21, 2010. That is one week before your post was published.

I am not familiar with your book, but if you take some time to read the archives of my blog, you will find that I've been publishing about Sovereignty Commission documents since 2005. I can't say for sure, but I suspect that I am the first blogger to have made use of Sovereignty Commission files online. I have read extensively in the files and am familiar with a great deal of what is there. I've actually cited the Louis Hollis speech on my blog before; finding the Yazoo Citizens Council sources just involved typing "Yazoo" in the folder title search field, to get these results:

http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/...[]=910|10|92||0&foldercheckbox[]=44|2|13||0&searchimages=Submit+Query

Being an obsessive researcher type, I opened every document and read looking for sources that would add to this discussion. It's not rocket science.

Finally, I did cite my sources. I introduced my passages from the Sovereignty Commission files with the following text:

The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a state funded segregationist spy agency, funneled public money into the Citizens Councils[1] and received regular intelligence from Council officials all around the state. The Sovereignty Commission files were declassified in 1998 and are available online.

In the post, the phrase "available online" links to the Sovereignty Commission Online homepage: http://mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/...

Each quote includes links back to the specific documents quoted.

A better approach to engaging me would have been a) to acknowledge in *your* post that someone else has already published on some of the same sources and b) leave me a comment or drop me a line inviting me to come check it out and discuss.

Re: Haley Barbour’s Raid on Historical Memory

liberal american — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:23:04 -0000

Thank you very much for using my sources without attributing them. There is only one place those quotes from the MSSC came from and that is my blog. It took a lot of work to dig up that evidence. The least you can do is acknowledge it. You very clever6 circumvent copyright law.

The REAL story is

Haley Barbour and the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission

Re: Why DDoS Attacks for Wikileaks Are Not Civil Disobedience

Ben — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:18:47 -0000

Will, Thanks for this reply. I've appreciated your thoughtful comments on this issue, even when it seemed like we were more on opposite sides of the discussion. And what you add above is valuable nuance that I didn't get, even after I spent a fair amount of time digging into the anonops communications to be better informed about what the operation is all about.

Make sure you you @ me on Twitter so I know who you are after you change your name. I spent a little time looking at your photos earlier and want to spend some more. Really beautiful work.

Re: Why DDoS Attacks for Wikileaks Are Not Civil Disobedience

Will — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:43:24 -0000

Both this article and current events have convinced me: DDoS attacks for Wikileaks are not civil disobedience. Something cannot be "civil" and also be classified as an "attack".

Which is unfortunate, because in many ways I agree with the ends for which Anonymous strives - freedom of information. And for my own part, I sympathize with them (on this issue only) because as the events surrounding Wikileaks unfolded, it was very difficult to see how to resist or publicly express disapproval. Organizing a boycott of Amazon, for example, almost seems an impossibility. Not paying our taxes (perhaps Thoreau's approach) might not even lead to arrest for a few years, and I doubt you'd make the paper. And therefore I can see (and in fact, I felt) the draw towards grabbing the tools at hand, in this case DDoS. Big splashes in the paper were made against big corporations. And all you had to do was lend some of your bandwidth.

Sadly, I can also say it like this: people who participated in the attack were among a large group of like-minded people who, afraid, acted together aggressively. The feelings of anonymity in that situation didn't come from hiding one's IP address. (In fact, contrary to all the reports I've seen, there was never any indication of anonymity anywhere on the software. The instructions even explicitly said: this does not hide your IP address, so "Don't DDoS alone. Only DDoS in groups.") Instead, those feelings of anonymity came from being in a large group. The old, "what are they going to do, arrest all of us?" bit. But put in that light - a large group of fearful people looking for targets under the cover of darkness - it evokes exactly the opposite of civil disobedience.

Obviously Anonymous and its add-ons (people like me, who were just looking for a way to protest while there was a sense of immediacy) are not killing anyone. And I don't really think of Visa and Amazon as losing their ability to "speak" through these types of actions. But DDoS is a weapon. For example, I just read an article today about how human rights groups and opposition parties were often the targets of DDoS. And as such, it shouldn't be used under the guise of the civil rights movement.

You don't find resolution to a problem by hitting them with a stick, even if they hit you first.

Anyway, I think that you had the most thoughtful post on this subject that I had read. The words of Diane Nash that you posted were particularly powerful. You have also convinced me that anonymity is not only unnecessary, but probably detrimental. So thanks for that. See you on Twitter after I change my profile name.

Re: Haley Barbour’s Raid on Historical Memory

Ben — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:44:08 -0000

Yes, Mimi, I tend to think you are right. I was trying to make a similar suggestion with my over-vague metaphor at the end.

Re: Haley Barbour’s Raid on Historical Memory

Mimi — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:31:47 -0000

Wow, great primary source material here! Thank you for this. Like you, I've been following his dissection by Digby and others, amazed that any Southerner could still be spewing such literally unreconstructed views, or trying to ignore history that recent and that undeniable. I wonder if the point is that he doesn't have to win any such debate -- he just has to start it, and step back. He can rely on the ignorance and willful forgetting of others to carry it forward, and say explicitly the things Barbour only says with a wink and a nod.

In other words, what a self-righteous racist poopsack.

Re: Why DDoS Attacks for Wikileaks Are Not Civil Disobedience

Ben — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:23:41 -0000

Thanks for stopping by, Margot.

Re: Why DDoS Attacks for Wikileaks Are Not Civil Disobedience

Ben — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:22:38 -0000

You've got a lot of hypotheticals in there about possible conditions and possible intentions of DDoS attackers. That's really not the same as breaking a law because the law is unjust and having the intent and/or stated willingness to get arrested for that action.

I wouldn't put anonymous publication of a political tract on the same par with anonymous attacks on a website (or storefront or home or person). Seems like apples and oranges to me.

Re: Why DDoS Attacks for Wikileaks Are Not Civil Disobedience

Mfriedman — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:54:06 -0000

Thanks for a thoughtful post on a complex topic I hadn't considered.

Re: Why DDoS Attacks for Wikileaks Are Not Civil Disobedience

Meredith L Patterson — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:48:46 -0000

It'll be interesting to see what happens if the rumours of an arrest dragnet for holders of IPs that participated in the DDoS turn out to be true; arguably, those who continued to DDoS in a discoverable fashion (and really, it is kind of hard to hide) would indeed be prepared to go to jail, if they expected arrest for their actions.

I only know of two arrests so far, both in the Netherlands, and that mainly because one of my friends, the founder of the hackerspace in Utrecht, is part of the group that offered to take the teenagers who were arrested under their wing and teach them about ethical hacking. It doesn't seem to have made much impact in the US media, though I did see an article in The Register about it.

But, apart from all that, I'm curious what you think about other anonymous acts, such as the publication of the Federalist Papers, that have shaped the course of our history. The identities of the men behind "Publius" were unknown at the time they were published (though they were guessed), and even today we aren't 100% sure which men wrote which letters. One might argue that anonymous speech as a category has special protections which other sorts of anonymous actions do not, which then raises the question of whether one considers DDoS to be speech at all.