The Good
Our Most Fearless Leader of the Enlightened Bellicoscenti, the illustrious Agent 99, has brought to my attention that this past Wednesday the House of Representatives passed H.R. 923, otherwise known as the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act. The bill was passed by a 422-2 vote with only Congressmen Ron Paul and Lynn Westmoreland voting against it.
The ACLU reports that the bill:
authorizes $10 million annually to establish a special federal investigator in the FBI's civil rights unit focusing on solving crimes committed before 1969. In addition, it allocates additional funds to assist local law enforcement agencies with investigating and prosecuting unsolved civil rights crimes.They go on to say:
The ACLU is heartened by the House of Representative's overwhelming support for this important legislation. Hundreds of African-Americans and civil rights activists were victims of violence during the turbulent 1950s and 1960s. Too many of these cases still await justice because local law enforcement failed to fully pursue the offenders due to personal bias or political considerations. In light of recent revelations at the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, we hope this legislation will send a message, that effective law enforcement and prosecution cannot and must not be politicized if it's to perform its duty - protecting the rights of all Americans.The Bad
Set to sail through the Senate with a unanimous vote on Thursday, the bill was brought to a screeching halt when Congressman Tom Coburn put a hold on the bill.
Senators Chris Dodd and Patrick Leahy, introducers of the bill last February, had this to say about Coburn's action:
“My colleagues and I have fought long and hard for this bill in order to bring to justice people who have perpetrated heinous crimes based on racial hatred,” said Dodd. “It has been a bipartisan effort, and I am angry that one of my colleagues is delaying this bill’s passage under false pretense. While we allow another day, another week, another month to pass before enacting this legislation, we allow racist criminals to live the lives of innocent people when they should be apprehended and brought to justice. After so many decades, to further delay justice and solace to the families of the victims of these horrific crimes is simply unimaginable.”The Ugly
“The Senate should not wait another day to take up this important legislation,” Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said. “This legislation provides necessary tools for our federal government, in cooperation with state and local officials, to vigorously investigate and prosecute these cases. As each day passes, new evidence trickles in while older evidence fades and witnesses age. We must have a sense of urgency about these unsolved cases – justice cannot afford to wait.”
Congressman Tom Coburn, who stalled the bill has earned the nickname Tom “rampant high school lesbianism” Coburn. In an article from 11/5/04 The Nation had the following to say about Coburn:
Tom Coburn - OklahomaCoburn has also held up a bill against cockfighting as reported at Think Progress:
The former doctor and three-term Congressman elected during the "Gingrich Revolution" of 1994 is undoubtedly the most right-wing member of his new Senate class. Coburn called his campaign against conservative Democrat Brad Carson "a battle of good vs. evil," suggested blacks have a genetic disposition toward a shorter life expectancy, and said "lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom." Most noteworthy, Coburn favors "the death penalty for abortionists and other people who take life," explaining his ardent opposition by noting how his great-grandmother was raped by a territorial sheriff. Not surprisingly, he earned a 97 percent lifetime approval rating from the American Conservative Union (ACU).
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is “holding up a popular bipartisan bill to crack down on cockfighting that was expected to pass easily in the Senate yesterday.” House bill co-sponsor Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) said that Coburn’s hold “testifies to the powers of these shadowy forces that allow this illegal and barbaric scandal to continue.”A fine representative indeed!
Original links from Crooks and Liars.
For a background on Emmett Till see my previous posts The Death of Emmett Till and the follow up No Justice for Emmett Till. Also see the comments at those for even more information and links.
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