Alright, I've just about had it.

I'm getting REALLY irritated by the Mississippians who think that we should just forget old murder cases. A couple of years ago, when Edgar Ray Killen was prosecuted for his involvement 40 - yes, FORTY - years after the beatings and murder of 3 civil rights activists, several people were saying that he got away with it and we should just let it be. Why bring up the past?

I think that's absolutely deplorable, and those people should be completely ashamed of themselves. Even now, as James Seale is being prosecuted in yet another decades-old case of the abduction and murder of two black teenagers, people are saying that wounds continue to fester if you continue to pick at them. We should just let the wound scab up and fall off. We shouldn't keep revisiting those cases. Nobody should come to justice for the horrendous atrocities they committed.

Seriously, I'm so mad that I just want to cuss. I don't cuss much on this blog, because I know of a few kids that might be reading over my friends' shoulders, but MAN this makes me mad.

Dusty old country racists don't make me that mad. They're just products of the people that raised them. If they don't want to deal with people of other races, so be it, they can stay in their shacks in the woods; nobody's gonna change their opinions. If it were just those old country racists that held the opinion that these men shouldn't be brought to justice, I wouldn't be this mad. It's not! I worked with a girl, a seemingly professional, intelligent girl, at one of my temp assignments a few years ago. She was from Philadelphia (the Mississippi one, not the Pennsylvania one), same as Killen. She, too, thought we should just let the past be the past and let it ride.

If some !#$&^!#$%& kidnapped, beat, and killed my child, I guarantee you that person would not rest another day in his life. He certainly wouldn't sit on his laurels, preaching the GOSPEL like Edgar Ray Killen did. I'd be out for blood. If it took me 40 years to find him, if I had to interview every single person in this state myself, it would be on like Donkey Kong, thank you very much. And when that day came when that person was found and brought to justice, I would take on ANYONE that said I should just let old cases lie, shouldn't pick the wound, shouldn't revisit the past. I'd take them on in the face, and probably in the kidney.

(Can't trade violence for violence. Can't trade violence for violence. What would Jesus do. What would Jesus do.)

For heaven's sake, people, these victims have families, have mothers, have sisters, have wives. It is absolutely soulless and cruel to say that the perpetrators of these crimes shouldn't be brought to justice, when they not only ended the life of another human being, they tore the lives of the families of that human being completely to pieces. To say that those victims and their loved ones don't deserve justice is so completely heinous - I can't believe someone would actually say it in public.

I done got myself all worked into a lather. I think I might write one of those fancy letters to the editor.