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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (919)	11/8/2004 10:11:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1968

Yes, he was in the KKK for a short time in 1943. He wasn't just a member of the Klan he helped recuit other members. In 1945 (at the age of 28) he wrote a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo a strong segregationist, saying that he would never fight in an integrated armed forces. A quote from that letter - "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds" In 1946 he wrote to Klan Imperial Wizard Samuel Green "I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state .... The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia .... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va .... I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities." Sen. Byrd filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act for 3 months. He used a racial epithet on TV in 2001. Relatively recently Chris Dood said about Byrd - "It has often been said that the man and the moment come together. I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great Senator at any moment. Some were right for the time. ROBERT C. BYRD, in my view, would have been right at any time. He would have been right at the founding of this country. He would have been in the leadership crafting this Constitution. He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this Nation." So he supports a racist and its ok? I didn't say any campaign for Dodd to step down because of this. Tim