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Thursday, August 30, 2007
【烈血暴潮/裂血大風暴】: 為弟弟雪冤之『天網恢恢,疏而不漏』 / "Mississippi Burning": Justice for a murdered brother - the sentencing
The criminal trial of the cold case that I had mentioned back on January 26, 2007 finally came to a close. James Seale, once a KKK member who had been accused of murdering two young blacks in Mississippi in 1964, was found guilty and given three life sentences. While his co-accused, now a born-again Christian, actually apologized to the families of the victims, Seale denies his guilt and remains defiant till the end. Given his advanced age and poor health, Seale's supporters think the sentence is too harsh. However, to the older brother of one of the murdered victims, Seale deserves the punishment, having already enjoyed 43 years of freedom after mercilessly taking away the lives of two innocent young men. There is no winner in a situation like this. As to the CBC reporter David Ridgen, he never would have thought that his investigative journalism would end up being key to solving this cold case when he started his journey across the Canada-US border.
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Justice !!!
but sadly, 42 years is a long time!
This long overdue justice is bitter sweet. It also reflects how slow the progress has been made in US society. This ugliest human nature could start with little harrassment of the Jews in Germany and evolved into full-grown genocide. Or Japanese felt a little superior of themselves and ended up enslaving the rest of Asian countries during WW II. Prejudice is still manifesting itself in hot spots like Iraq and Darfur. Not all of us will make sweeping changes that deserve Nobel Peace Price, but we all can make changes with people around us. Hope the world will be a better place to live for our children.
Eden: I hate to use the cliché: It's better late than never.
Keith: You are right in saying we can only take baby steps, starting with ourselves and the people around us. Looking back, I do think some parts of the world have made some progress, even though the human race as a whole still has a long way to go. Comparing now to the time when the two blacks were murdered, one could seek comfort in the progress made because of people such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and others who might not had won the Nobel Prize but surely had paid a noble price. I share with your hope that the world will be a better place for generations to come.
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