Beaten to death with clubs and chains in Mississippi

[Omaha Steve]

June 21, 1964 - Civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner disappeared near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Federal agents eventually found their mangled bodies; Klansmen and Mississippi police had kidnapped the activists and beaten them to death with clubs and chains.

[jobycom]

1. Ah, the very town Reagan chose to kick off his 1980 presidential campaign, delivering his message of

states rights.

[Skittles]

2. it still kills me how many people fell for that bastard's act

lots of people who are now DUers included

[lib2DaBone]

3. Ronnie Raygun was evil....

He was a senile, evil moron. Yet we are stuck with his legacy today, because Americans are sound asleep. Shhhhhhh..... do not disturb.

[Skittles]

4. it's the first time I realized how stupid and greedy a lot of voters could be

I was 22 at the time and absolutely DISGUSTED

[frogcycle]

6. never trusted the sumbitch

never could understand why the MSM gushed about him being "the great communicator", why they said he was likable

now in hindsight I realize it was the cabal doing its packaging thing, as it later did with gwb and is trying to do with mcswine

[silverojo]

8. It wasn't just the MSM

Even the @#$%ing TV Guide ENDORSED Reagan, back in 1984! I was volunteering for Mondale, and was so pissed when I saw that. I wrote to TV Guide, but of course, they didn't print my letter.

That was the moment I realized the true depravity of the media.

[Bluerthanblue]

12. well, he was an actor- and I think that sadly,

he connected with many of the "greatest generation" in a sort of ...nostalgic ? way?

The 'gipper' mentality?

Pretty sad though.

peace~

[EFerrari]

5. A lot of anniversaries this month.

Thanks, Steve.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. I wish we could say we've grown as a nation since then, but I'm just not sure that

there aren't still a lot of people who would do something like that if they thought they could get away with it.

[uppityperson]

9. k&r for Andrew, James and Michael.

[harrison]

10. I had grown up in Mississippi during those days, and had

left the state. During the 70's, we had successfully desegregated most of the schools in not only Mississippi and the South. You felt like you were making progress in this country. And then in 1980, Reagan kicks it off in Philadelphia and even though I was pretty young, I knew what was going on. The symbol of it all...17 miles and 17 years removed from that terrible day in Philadelphia. And here was Reagan, a national name coming right in to the heart of Mississippi talking about States' Rights in PHILADELPHIA, MS. My God, My God.

I knew then that the beast of racial politics (which I naively thought somehow had been vanquished with the election of Carter in 1976. Mississippi went for Carter that year) had resurrected and reincarnated and had arisen in the form of the Modern Republican party. And I knew that we were in for a rough ride.

And then the roll backs started coming, even wanting to cut back on school lunches and head start and all those things which were good and were working. And need I mention the dirty wars in Central and South America.

And here we are now, the middle class and poor folk in this country getting squeezed, the results of a quarter century of Republican Rule.

And it all started in Philadelphia in 1980.

Well, the Republicans have been dancing with the Devil in the pale moon light for a long time, but let's hope the sun is about to rise.

Just call me a Bitter Redneck for Obama.

[tom_paine]

13. Well said, sir.

[Ken Burch]

11. Here's the words to a song that was written in their memory

THOSE THREE ARE ON MY MIND

I think of Andy in the cold wet clay
Those three are on my mind
With his comrades down beside him
On that brutal day
Those three are on my mind

There lays young James in his mortal pain
Those three are on my mind
So I ask the killers can you see those three again
Those three are on my mind

I see dark eyed Michael
With his dark eyed bride
Those three are on my mind
And three proud mothers
Weeping side by side
Those three are on my mind

But I'm grieving yet
And for some the sky is bright
I cannot give up hoping
For a morning light
So I ask the killers do you sleep at night
Those three are on my mind

I see tin roof shanties
Where my brothers live
Those three are on my mind
And the little burnt out churches
Where they sing we forgive
Those three are on my mind

I know of Tom Paine's Water Tree
I know the price of liberty
Now I ask the question that is deep inside of me
Did they also burn the courthouse
When they killed those three
Those three are on my mind
Those three are on my mind
Those three are on my mind

Words and Music by Frances Taylor and Pete Seeger


:cry:

[zeos3]

14. stories like this

have absolutely nothing to do with why Rev. Wright may have given the goddamn America sermon or why Mrs. Obama said she's really proud of her country.

:sarcasm: