For Seale, justice delayed is still justice

It would have been preferable for James Ford Seale, Edgar Ray Killen and other surviving reputed Klansmen to be brought to justice swiftly for their crimes during the civil rights struggle. It’s tremendously unfair that they were allowed to live freely into old age, something they denied their victims. But the prosecution of Seale and others, however tardy, is essential to the survivors as well as the integrity of the justice system. Convicted Thursday on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of black teens Charles Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee in Mississippi, 71-year-old Seale could face life in prison.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

7 Comments

  1. Kev
    Posted June 16, 2007 at 7:38 am | Permalink

    I don’t know how this is “justice”. It would be justice if he were tied to a weight and tossed into the river to die the same way his victims died. He should have be given the death penalty and it should be carried out today. Now, as an old man, he will get sent away to some cushy Federal prison where he will be cared for the rest of his stinking life. Beats poaying for a nursing home I guess!

  2. Tom Paine
    Posted June 16, 2007 at 11:21 am | Permalink

    The real miscarriage if justice isn’t that the Federal government took so long in prosecuting these crimes but that Mississippi and other southern States never have.

  3. 2REL4U
    Posted June 16, 2007 at 11:29 am | Permalink

    The truth of the matter is the justice system is pathetic. It took all these years to convict these people for a crime that they knew about within days after it happen.There is paradoxical attitude of forgetfulness towards the murders and abuse that occurred before and during the civil rights movement. I know for a fact there are thousands of cases in the deep south( Miss,Ala,Ark,GA,Tenn)that have cases still open, were the closure would consist of one individual testify against each other. What we will begin to see even more of in the coming future, is these individuals attempting to expunge their actions in association to the crimes that occurred during that era. After years of confession to practice a certain dislike towards others,it does take a toll on one’s conscience.

  4. sgt. slaughter
    Posted June 16, 2007 at 11:31 am | Permalink

    Typical, more PC persecution.

  5. parkay
    Posted June 16, 2007 at 10:14 pm | Permalink

    Justice delayed is justice denied.Charge George Tiller for his post-viable abortion crimes, and get an independent prosecutor (one with no blood-money in his pocket) on this stalled sham investigation that is obstructing justice.

  6. Tom
    Posted June 16, 2007 at 10:20 pm | Permalink

    Parkay,

    Are you Phill?

  7. RD
    Posted June 17, 2007 at 12:52 am | Permalink

    Good question, Tom. Parkay is made with vegetable oil, therefore greasy and oily, much like Phill. And I’m not talking about his hair gel.