If you see this Traitor's Flag

flying at half-mast outside the Allen and Corker headquarters, maybe here's why...

This from SFGate.com...

Ex-Klansman Dies Serving Time in Killing

By HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writer

Sunday, November 5, 2006

(11-05) 20:22 PST Jackson, Miss. (AP) --

Former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Samuel H. Bowers, who was convicted eight years ago of ordering the 1966 bombing death of a civil rights leader, died Sunday in a state penitentiary, officials said. He was 82.

He died of cardio pulmonary arrest, said Mississippi Department of Corrections spokeswoman Tara Booth.

Bowers was convicted in August 1998 of ordering the assassination of Vernon Dahmer Sr., a civil rights activist who had fought for black rights during Mississippi's turbulent struggle for racial equality. He was sentenced to life in prison.

"He was supposed to stay there until he died. I guess he fulfilled that," Dahmer's widow, Ellie Dahmer, told The Associated Press on Sunday. "He lived a lot longer than Vernon Dahmer did."

Booth said that the Klansman died at approximately 11:30 a.m. in the Mississippi State Penitentiary Hospital in Parchman, a sprawling prison carved out of the cotton and soybean fields in the impoverished Mississippi Delta.

Dahmer, who championed equal voting rights for blacks, died at the age of 58 after being fire-bombed outside his Hattiesburg-area home on Jan. 10, 1966. The attack came after Dahmer announced that residents could pay their poll taxes at his grocery store, which was next to his home. The home and store also were torched.

When the Dahmer family awoke to honking horns in the pre-dawn hours that January morning, two carloads of Klansmen were waiting outside. They firebombed Dahmer when he exited the home, according to court testimony during a four-day trial in Forrest County Circuit Court in 1998.

Dahmer was able keep the Klansmen at bay with a shotgun while his family fled, but flames had already seared his lungs and he died in his wife's arms about 12 hours later.

During the trial, prosecutors claimed Bowers ordered the attack after becoming enraged that Dahmer was trying to register blacks to vote.

Bowers' lawyers claimed he was "sacrificed to the media" to further the political ambitions of the attorney general at the time, Mike Moore.

Earlier trials for Bowers, including at least two before all-white juries, ended in mistrials. A 1968 state jury split 11-1 in favor of guilty, while a 1969 jury split 10-2 in favor of conviction.

Dahmer's 77-year-old son, Vernon Dahmer Jr., said Bowers "caused a lot of pain, suffering, and death for many innocent individuals and families of my race."

"During his life, he never apologized or asked forgiveness for his actions. Apparently, he felt justified for what he did to his many victims," Dahmer Jr. said. "Now that he has passed from this life, God will be the judge."

Bowers had a history of violence and served a prior six-year sentence after being convicted in 1967 on federal charges of violating the civil rights of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

The three civil rights workers were stopped by Klansmen while in Mississippi in an effort to register black voters in 1964. They were beaten and shot and buried in an earthen dam. Bowers allegedly approved the killings as head of the KKK. Those slayings inspired the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning."

Bowers' conviction was just one in string of civil rights killings to be successfully prosecuted in the South decades after the crimes were committed. The case was reopened at the urging of black leaders and family members, which led to new leads in the case.
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The Klan was and is a domestic terrorist organization run by murderous cowards and sociopaths, a bulwark of Dixie Conservativism and the indispensable lynchpin of the Republican's despicable Southern Strategy.

The Klan is, in a very real sense, the main reason why there even is a Republican Party that looks and acts and governs the way it does today.

Why it has mutated and degenerated from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Jefferson Davis.

I'd like to think that someone put the blonde chick snips from the racist, Corker "Harold Ford = Mandingo" commercial on a loop and made Bowers watch it in HD at 150 decibels until his heart exploded.

Good riddance to human garbage.