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| White supremacist 'stabbed and beaten to death by his black neighbour' |
| 2010-04-26 |
| "Is this Al Sharpton's secretary? Anyone seen Al? This would be a good one for him!" "Sorry. No can do. He thinks he can get more publicity marching for illegals." A white supremacist lawyer was stabbed and beaten to death by a black neighbour who had done yard work for him at his home in Pearl, Mississippi. Snicker. Looks like they took each other out. One in life, the other in death. Like Yin and Yang. The opposite sides of the coin. One can't exist without the other. Like black and white. A preliminary post mortem showed Richard Barrett, 67, was stabbed multiple times in the neck and bashed in the head, Sheriff Ronnie Pennington said. The cause of death was the stab wounds. The "bashed in the head" stuff happened at birth. He had burns over 35 per cent of his body, though investigators believe he was killed on Wednesday night and his house set on fire Thursday to cover up his death. Pennington did not disclose a motive but said neighbour Vincent McGee, 22, was charged with murder on Thursday and deputies charged three other people in the case on Friday. Albert Lewis, McGee's stepfather, was charged with being an accessory after the fact, while Vicky and Michael Dent, who live nearby, are charged with being accessories after the fact and arson. Pennington did not describe their involvement but said all three were being held at the county jail. He did not know if they had attorneys. Barrett traveled the country to promote anti-black and anti-immigrant views and founded a supremacist group called the Nationalist Movement. He had a knack for publicity but little real influence, one expert said. Anti-immigrant. Exactly the same as anti-illegal immigrant. Uh huh. I'm lapping it up without even knowing it. Got any on the bottom of your feet there for me? 'Richard Barrett was a guy who ran around the country essentially pulling off publicity stunts,' said Mark Potok, who monitors hate groups for the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center. Yeah, like Evel Knievel. Only thing is other people end up dying, not Barrett. 'He really never amounted to any kind of leader in the white supremacist movement.' Yeah, he'd just pi$$ people off. His body was found on Thursday morning after neighbours saw smoke coming from his house in a rural area of Jackson. The sheriff said McGee had not yet hired a lawyer and the suspect's mother had no comment when she went to the jail where her son was being held. McGee was released from state prison in February after serving five years of a six-year sentence for simple assault on a police officer and grand larceny. Barrett, a New York City native and Vietnam War veteran, moved to Mississippi in 1966, just before he founded the Nationalist Movement. He ran it from an office in the small rural town of Learned, about 20 miles southwest of Jackson, where he also ran a school for skinheads. "Use the Gillettes. They work best." Barrett attracted about 50 supporters to a 2008 rally protesting the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the Louisiana town of Jena, where six black teenagers were charged with beating a white classmate. Years earlier, he sued over a ban on Confederate flags at University of Mississippi football games. His modest, one-story brick home with white columns and shutters sits off a winding rural road. Yellow police tape was stretched across the yard and investigators worked on the scene late into the day. Now it's a modest zero-story pile of ash. Residents described the neighborhood as quiet and safe. Henderson Craig, who lives a few houses down, said Barrett mainly kept to himself though he was often seen riding his bicycle. Don't worry. Now that McGee is In 1994, he spearheaded an unsuccessful movement to get then-Gov. Kirk Fordice to pardon Byron de la Beckwith, who was convicted of murdering Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers in 1963. Nice. Get that idea from Fred Phelps, did you? Evers' brother, Charles Evers, said Thursday he has long thought that Barrett didn't really believe the things he said, but used them to entice people to donate money to his cause. Looks like Barret forgot the cardinal rule for success in this line of business: Put the word "Reverend" in front of your name. 'I think it was just a way he had to live,' Evers said. 'He made a living talking all that racist talk.' Looks like Sharpton and Barrett may have been separated at birth. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #8 Much like the sexual harassment training I got at work pointed out that only persons of a 'protected group' can be harassed. They probably just say that to reduce the number of lawsuits. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-04-26 23:16 |
| #7 This crime fits the narrative, so it gets major play time. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2010-04-26 17:50 |
| #6 Guys like Sharpton and guys like Barrett are all playing in the same league. The only difference between them is their choice of team colors. |
| Posted by: Mike 2010-04-26 16:01 |
| #5 That 67-year-old sure was a threat to the 22-year-old. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2010-04-26 14:44 |
| #4 Why is it that we know so much about the stabbie and so little about the stabber? What's the background of the person who stabbed him? What are his affiliations? Who does he hang around with? Was he in prison? Did he belong to a black muslim group? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-04-26 14:11 |
| #3 I don't think you can be the victim of a Hate Crime unless you are a member of a 'protected group'. Much like the sexual harassment training I got at work pointed out that only persons of a 'protected group' can be harassed. So, I guess, it is impossible for a white male protestant to be sexually harassed in the state of caliphornia. I would also assume that to be the victim of a 'hate crime' you would need to be a member of a 'protected group', and he clearly doesn't qualify. Dont bombard me with with comments about how it shouldn't matter what color he is, I agree 100%, it shouldn't. I'm just giving you some observations I've picked up in the wording of the law. It was made for a select group of people not for everyone's protection. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-04-26 13:47 |
| #2 Hate crime? |
| Posted by: Iblis 2010-04-26 11:59 |
| #1 Two comments: 1. Karma. 2. Gorb, you said, "Anti-immigrant. Exactly the same as anti-illegal immigrant." Don't know about this particular case, but that's not always true. Ever read Mark Krikorian? He's the big kahauna at a think tank called "Center for Immigration Studies." At one time he was rather forcefully against all immigration, not just illegal--though he seems to have backed off from that position of late. |
| Posted by: Mike 2010-04-26 08:06 |