Harboring Terrorists in America

US authorities are investigating whether some of those responsible for one of the American south’s most notorious mass lynchings are still alive, in an attempt to finally bring prosecutions over the brutal unsolved killings.

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Speaking at his home in Monroe, 10 miles west of the [Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching of 1946] site, Charlie Peppers denied taking part in the killings of four African Americans who were tied up and shot 60 times by a white mob.

“Heck no,” said Peppers, 86, when asked if he was involved. “Back when all that happened, I didn’t even know where Moore’s Ford was.”

  Guardian

An 18-year-old country boy didn’t know what was 10 miles east of him. Sure.

Peppers was accused of being involved by his nephew, Wayne Watson. Video of Watson, 57, claiming in 2013 that Peppers and several other men from the area had spoken of their involvement in the killings was given to the US Department of Justice by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

“All through my life, I heard them talk about the Moore’s Ford and the lynching,” said Watson, in an April 2013 interview. “I’m tired of it.”

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A report by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) published last week found at least 700 more lynchings than had previously been recorded in southern states.

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No one was ever prosecuted for the killings on 25 July 1946 of two black couples in their 20s: George and Mae Murray Dorsey, and Dorothy and Roger Malcom. According to unconfirmed claims from the time that are now asserted by campaigners, Dorothy Malcom was heavily pregnant and her unborn baby was cut from her body by the attackers.

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Watson [said]he had been shunned by members of his family after entering a relationship with a black woman. “I want it all over with, the racism,” he said.

Pipe yourself up another dream, son.

Two neighbours at his last known address said he had been evicted and was thought to now have no permanent home.

And in other KKK news...

[A] man charged with killing people at Jewish Centers near Kansas City has a new attorney.

During a hearing Friday, Glenn Miller's former attorney asked to be removed because Miller had stopped cooperating.

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At Friday’s hearing, Miller also made a Nazi-like salute and, at one point, turned to the gallery and made several statements about Jewish people.

  Ozarks First

Alittle background…

A Kansas prosecutor will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist from Missouri who was ruled competent [...] to face trial on charges of killing three people at two Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City.

Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe announced his intention to seek the death penalty at a hearing for Frazier Glenn Miller, 74, of Aurora, Missouri, who has said he felt it was his patriotic duty to kill Jews.

Miller is accused of killing Dr. William Lewis Corporon, 69, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, who were at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City on April 13 for a singing contest audition. He also is accused of fatally shooting 53-year-old Terri LaManno, who was visiting her mother at a Jewish retirement home in nearby Overland Park.

None of the victims was Jewish.

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He has told the AP and other media outlets that he planned and executed the fatal attacks, and that it was his intent to use the trial as a means to “put the Jews on trial where they belong”.

Miller, also known as Frazier Glenn Cross, is a Vietnam War veteran from southwest Missouri who founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in his native North Carolina and later the White Patriot Party.

  Guardian

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