Hillary and the
Lynch Mob
John McCaslin | Washington
Times | June 12, 1998
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.
See these links:
DISCLAIMER
- Scream, America, when you've had enough of this
manipulation.
THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Platform & Program
Two Controversial Cases in New Haven
History: The Amistad Affair (1839) and The Black Panther
Trials (1970)
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