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Old 02-06-2007, 10:14 AM   #1
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Here's one of those stories that the MSM has failed to adequately cover. I read about it in Bob Herbert's column in the New York Times, but you need to be a subscriber to read it there, so here's a link to a different site:

http://politikaerotika.blogspot.com/

It's the second column on the page, called "Gary Tyler’s Lost Decades," and these excerpts here do not do justice to the column:

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There is no longer any doubt that the case against the teenager, Gary Tyler, was a travesty. A federal appeals court ruled unequivocally that he did not receive a fair trial. The Louisiana Board of Pardons issued rulings on three occasions that would have allowed Mr. Tyler to be freed.

But this is the South and Mr. Tyler was a black person convicted of killing a white. It didn’t matter that the case was built on bogus evidence and coerced witnesses, or that the trial was, in the words of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, “fundamentally unfair.” Mr. Tyler was never given a new trial and the pardon board recommendations were rejected by two governors.

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Now consider this, because it will tell you all you need to know about racial justice in the South. A 19-year-old black man named Richard Dunn was shotgunned to death as he was heading home from a benefit dance in support of Mr. Tyler at Southern University in New Orleans in 1976. A white man, Anthony Mart, was arrested and convicted of shooting Mr. Dunn from a passing car.

Gary Tyler’s current attorney, Mary Howell, ruefully explained what happened to Mr. Mart for the cold-blooded killing of a black stranger: He was sent to prison for life but was pardoned and freed after serving about 10 years.
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Here's one of those stories that the MSM has failed to adequately cover. I read about it in Bob Herbert's column in the New York Times, but you need to be a subscriber to read it there, so here's a link to a different site:

http://politikaerotika.blogspot.com/

It's the second column on the page, called "Gary Tyler’s Lost Decades," and these excerpts here do not do justice to the column:

...

There is no longer any doubt that the case against the teenager, Gary Tyler, was a travesty. A federal appeals court ruled unequivocally that he did not receive a fair trial. The Louisiana Board of Pardons issued rulings on three occasions that would have allowed Mr. Tyler to be freed.

But this is the South and Mr. Tyler was a black person convicted of killing a white. It didn’t matter that the case was built on bogus evidence and coerced witnesses, or that the trial was, in the words of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, “fundamentally unfair.” Mr. Tyler was never given a new trial and the pardon board recommendations were rejected by two governors.

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Now consider this, because it will tell you all you need to know about racial justice in the South. A 19-year-old black man named Richard Dunn was shotgunned to death as he was heading home from a benefit dance in support of Mr. Tyler at Southern University in New Orleans in 1976. A white man, Anthony Mart, was arrested and convicted of shooting Mr. Dunn from a passing car.

Gary Tyler’s current attorney, Mary Howell, ruefully explained what happened to Mr. Mart for the cold-blooded killing of a black stranger: He was sent to prison for life but was pardoned and freed after serving about 10 years.
Its official...the world is still BIZZARO......
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Blacks & Hispanics are doing the same thing to each other on the streets of LA and in the Prisons.

Iraqi's killing each other every day, Palestinian's now killing each other everyday, Muslims killed 3000 people in NYC and are trying to kill more.

Africans are are carving each other up with macehette's.

Americans are killing terrorists.

Hip Hopper Morons want to kill Cops.

Hyena's & Lions always kill each other.
Cats torture Mice for two hours, then kill them.

Crack Head Mothers in Detroit's housing projects throw their new born illegetimate baby's in dumpsters.

Ryan O'Neil tried to shoot his son yesterday.

Somebody killed Kathleen Wileys Cat (??????)

Vince Foster Killed Himself (??)

Uncle Teddy Killed Mary Jo.

Whats the big deal--????????????

Animals Kill Each Other, That's What We Do.
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Blacks & Hispanics are doing the same thing to each other on the streets of LA and in the Prisons.

Iraqi's killing each other every day, Palestinian's now killing each other everyday, Muslims killed 3000 people in NYC and are trying to kill more.

Africans are are carving each other up with macehette's.

Americans are killing terrorists.

Hip Hopper Morons want to kill Cops.

Hyena's & Lions always kill each other.
Cats torture Mice for two hours, then kill them.

Crack Head Mothers in Detroit's housing projects throw their new born illegetimate baby's in dumpsters.

Ryan O'Neil tried to shoot his son yesterday.

Somebody killed Kathleen Wileys Cat (??????)

Vince Foster Killed Himself (??)

Uncle Teddy Killed Mary Jo.

Whats the big deal--????????????

Animals Kill Each Other, That's What We Do.
actually, it's extremely rare for mammals to kill their own... might wanna rethink that one...
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actually, it's extremely rare for mammals to kill their own... might wanna rethink that one...
We should elect a f-cking Mammal in 2008 then.
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We should elect a f-cking Mammal in 2008 then.
just underscoing another in a long line of your factual inaccuracies
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We should elect a f-cking Mammal in 2008 then.
You already elected a Monkey!
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