from biloxi sun herald: Medgar Evers once said, "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea." It was 45 years ago today that Evers, the field agent for the Mississippi NAACP, was assassinated outside his Jackson, Miss., home just hours after leaving the Coast where he'd been planning a protest with Dr. Gilbert Mason for June 16, 1963, in an effort to gain blacks access to Mississippi's public beaches.
Evers was shot shortly after midnight on June 12 as he got out of his car and dragged himself to the back door of his home, where he died in front of his wife and three children. Evers' killer, Byron De La Beckwith, was convicted of his murder more than 30 years later in 1994 after Evers' body was exhumed and the bullet tied the suspect to the murder. "Every year this time," said Robert L. Stepney, who fell quiet before remembering the anniversary of his friend's death. He thinks about Evers, his college roommate for three years, and said, "You don't have many good friends."
Linder says Paul being smeared because he is a threat to the establishment
from paul joseph watson: Austin NAACPPresident Nelson Linder, who has known Ron Paul for 20 years, unequivocally dismissed charges that the Congressman was a racist in light of recent smear attempts, and said the reason for him being attacked was that he was a threat to the establishment.
Linder joined Alex Jones for two segments on his KLBJ Sunday show this evening, during which he commented on the controversy created by media hit pieces that attempted to tarnish Paul as a racist by making him culpable for decades old newsletter articles written by other people.
"Knowing Ron Paul's intent, I think he is trying to improve this country but I think also, when you talk about the Constitution and you constantly criticize the federal government versus state I think a lot of folks are going to misconstrue that... so I think it's very easy for folks who want to to take his position out of context and that's what I'm hearing..."
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from biloxi sun herald: Medgar Evers once said, "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea." It was 45 years ago today that Evers, the field agent for the Mississippi NAACP, was assassinated outside his Jackson, Miss., home just hours after leaving the Coast where he'd been planning a protest with Dr. Gilbert Mason for June 16, 1963, in an effort to gain blacks access to Mississippi's public beaches.
