This makes me so angry I can't think straight
One of the first steps on the road to straightening out my beloved state of Alabama is to purge it of idiocy such as this:
2 Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court
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The story isn't directly related to Alabama...but the useless lawyer who represented the illegal immigrants in this case is none other than Morris S. Dees Jr., co-founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery. Here is the Center's own story about the case.
Apparently this is not the first time the Center has sued to have property seized from its opponents, according to the NYT article:
This was not the first time the law center had taken property from a group on behalf of a client. In 1987, the headquarters of a Ku Klux Klan group in Alabama was given to the mother of a boy whose murder was tied to Klansmen. Property has also been taken from the Aryan Nations and the White Aryan Resistance, Mr. Dees said.
Now, someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but I don't believe such property seizure (or defense of illegal immigrants) falls under the scope of the SPLC's original mission. Furthermore, seizing someone's property (if it wasn't obtained by illicit means, at least) is patently wrong. The Klansmen should be on Death Row, but their land should remain with their families--not be given to the families of their victims. It certainly won't bring them back.
*Editor's note: I removed some particularly incendiary portions of this post which I should never have posted in the first place. I regret that some of you had to read it; I should have slept on the issue before hitting the "publish" button. (Like the first line of the post says, this made me so mad I couldn't think straight.) Nevertheless, it was atypical for me, and I apologize for writing it.
-D.
2 Illegal Immigrants Win Arizona Ranch in Court
(Registration required; use bugmenot.com to get around it)
The story isn't directly related to Alabama...but the useless lawyer who represented the illegal immigrants in this case is none other than Morris S. Dees Jr., co-founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery. Here is the Center's own story about the case.
Apparently this is not the first time the Center has sued to have property seized from its opponents, according to the NYT article:
This was not the first time the law center had taken property from a group on behalf of a client. In 1987, the headquarters of a Ku Klux Klan group in Alabama was given to the mother of a boy whose murder was tied to Klansmen. Property has also been taken from the Aryan Nations and the White Aryan Resistance, Mr. Dees said.
Now, someone correct me if I'm mistaken, but I don't believe such property seizure (or defense of illegal immigrants) falls under the scope of the SPLC's original mission. Furthermore, seizing someone's property (if it wasn't obtained by illicit means, at least) is patently wrong. The Klansmen should be on Death Row, but their land should remain with their families--not be given to the families of their victims. It certainly won't bring them back.
*Editor's note: I removed some particularly incendiary portions of this post which I should never have posted in the first place. I regret that some of you had to read it; I should have slept on the issue before hitting the "publish" button. (Like the first line of the post says, this made me so mad I couldn't think straight.) Nevertheless, it was atypical for me, and I apologize for writing it.
-D.
posted by -D. at 11:10 PM
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