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 Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: With Friends Like These . . . |
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In Texas, a black man named Brandon McClelland died a brutal death when a
white man driving a pickup truck struck him and then dragged him beneath the
truck for 70 feet, authorities tell the Associated Press. The driver and a
passenger, also white, are in jail on murder charges, and some call it a hate
crime and liken it to the murder of James Byrd:
Members of the Nation of Islam, the New Black Panthers and
the NAACP on Saturday promised protests to bring more
attention to the killing of an east Texas man whose death
recalls, for some, a notorious decade-old hate crime. . . .
"If this is not a hate crime, then there is no such thing
as a hate crime," said Krystal Muhammad of the New Black
Panthers. "Even though our brother was viciously slain,
we will not let him die in vain."
There are, however, a few problems with this story:
Unlike the Byrd case, there is no evidence that McClelland
was tied or chained to the truck. Officials also point out
that McClelland was friends with the two murder suspects.
Is this the old some-of-my-best-friends-are-black defense? No, there appears
to be more to it:
In an odd twist, McClelland served jail time after pleading
guilty to perjury for providing a false alibi for [suspect
Shannon] Finley in the latter's murder trial in 2004. Finley
eventually pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
The AP notes that Finley has "a tattoo of a Paris [Texas]-area gang that
includes blacks and whites." The reality would seem to be that all these guys
are lowlifes, regardless of the color of their skin. Dr. King's dream is a
reality, albeit, in this case, not in a very elevated way.
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It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing. |
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