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Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a black man named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was a fellow Panther suspected of disloyalty.

Rackley was first tied to a chair. Safely immobilized his "friends" tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him. When they got tired of torturing Rackley Black Panther member Warren Kimbro took Mr. Rackley's outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn.

Maybe at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers. Well, in 1977 that's only eight years later only one of the killers was still in jail.

The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a
scholarship to Harvard. He later became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College. Isn't that something? As a 60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's head, and years later, in the same State, you can be an assistant college dean! Only in America!

Ericka Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a California school board.

How in the world do you think that these killers got off so easy?

Well, maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went to far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense
of the accused Black Panthers during their trial.

One of those people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee Or Mr.
Lan Lee as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a California school board. He is the head of the US Justice Departments Civil Rights Division. Lee is serving in that capacity illegally, by the way, but that's another story --- another part of the Clinton saga of ignoring the rule of law.

O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable
Panther defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean? Nope, neither.

The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at that time. She is now known as The Smartest Woman in the World. She is none other than the official Democratic candidate for US Senate from the State of New York ---- our lovely First Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton.





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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. (C.P.Gillman)
 
I'm not disputing you or spoiling for a fight, but where did you get all this? Do you have articles that will help back all this up? I really hope that you do, because I'd like to show it to a few people.
 
Please provide background. This is one of those that I can believe but it is too good/bad to really be true. Are you sure that HIllary wasn't pouring the boiling water on the guy???
 
I too have no problem believing either Clinton would do such a thing ("Hey, hon, I've got an idea. If you need the Puerto Rican vote so bad, we'll just hunt up the worst Puerto Ricans in prison and pardon 'em!")

BUT I recall seeing this posted somewhere else with a warning that it's probably not true. And if we find out that Clinton was involved it would be a good idea to research the case. Just because an email says so doesn't mean the accusations are true. These guys may have been railroaded and if so, we don't want to crucify their defenders on pain of looking like idiots ourselves later on.

So, who's got info?
 
Here's a source on this story - nothing less than The Washington Times itself!

Trouble is, the bad news about the Klintons never ceases to amaze us.


Inside the Beltway
Political tidbits and other shenanigans from around the nation's capital
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By John McCaslin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published in Washington, D.C.
5am -- June 12, 1998 www.washtimes.com

Hillary for the defense

A gang of criminals tortures, mutilates and murders a black man. The nation demands justice for the brutal killing.

Jasper, Texas, 1998? Not quite. It's New Haven, Conn., 1969.

This week's killing of 49-year-old James Byrd, reportedly by three convicts, bears similarities to the torture-murder of 24-year-old Alex Rackley in 1969.

Like Mr. Byrd's murderers --suspected of ties to the Aryan Brotherhood and the Ku Klux Klan -- the leaders of the Black Panthers were hardened ex-cons who had developed their
doctrines of racial hatred in prison.

In 1969, Panther leaders in New Haven suspected Mr. Rackley of disloyalty. He was tied to a chair, and his comrades tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling
water on him. Finally, Panther gunman Warren Kimbro ended Mr. Rackley's suffering with a bullet to the head.

Only one of the killers was still in prison in 1977. The gunman, Warren Kimbro, got a Harvard scholarship and became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College. Ericka
Huggins, who boiled the water for Mr. Rackley's torture, got elected to a California school board.

Unlike the Texas trio accused of killing Mr. Byrd, the Panthers in 1969 became a cause for radicals at Yale Law School.

One of those law students, Hillary Rodham, "organized shifts for her classmates" to "monitor civil rights abuses" during the trial of Mr. Rackley's killers and aided the American Civil
Liberties Union's defense of the Panthers, David Brock wrote in his 1996 book about the first lady.

Through her involvement in the defense of these killers, he reported, Ms. Rodham met Communist Party lawyer Robert Treuhaft and won an internship in his Berkeley law office.
 
That's more like it. Thanks a million.

She's quite a piece of work, isn't she? Probably decided in her own mind that "the cause" was furthered by this guy dying, so it was acceptable.

I think that there are a number of people since 1969 to fall into that same category.
 
Thanks Mr G. you saved me from that hotseat!

I recieved this E-Mail yesterday and I admit that I didn't have the Washington Post as a source.

I had however read this before in a creditable posting of the newspaper sometime back, but didn't have it in hand.

Didn't mean to upset y'all, but I did deem it creditable or I wouldn't have posted it.

I do realize that creditability is a must. We have so much propaganda to deal with from outside sources that we shouldn't be spreading untruths ourselves.

Seems the only way to tell the truth is to tell it yourself.But even that won't work always. Just ask George Bush. I believe that "Read My Lips" was the Gods truth when he said it. But things change and adjustments must be made. Does this make the original statement a lie? Not if it was spoken as truth.

I'll bet y'all one thing though. I bet that George Jr. don't ever make that statement!

Any takers on that bet?

prosouth

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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. (C.P.Gillman)
 
Good God. That's good enough for me. Thanks for the source.

I'm going to hit my history professor--the one who taught the Vietnam class--with this next time I see her. We spent a lot of time talking about the Black Panthers last year in that class. This should be interesting.
 
gwininnythepooh,
Check out a book by David Horiwitz---he was an extreme radical of the 60's...who's parents were card carrying communists and named by mccarthy as such, of course they lied about it. He was particularly associated with the black panthers in calif., and his turn around on that issue is remarkable.....the book is called "radical son", .....He was a contemporary of the clintons, although I dont believe he knew either.....I heard him on an interview and wanted the book to read ever since., ..during the interview he claimed that hillary was the commited revoluti0onary and bill was just in it for the chicks....even back then....fubsy.
 
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