Ta Ta Jesse Helms

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Nephythys

He was someone's husband, father, grandfather

And they probably loved him. Which does not mean he was--what we would call--a positive influence in their lives any more than relatives who do other types of damage to their kids, while still professing love, are positive influences.

I remember watching some daytime TV show (Phil Donahue?) some years back that had Klan members on. There was at least one family with several generations on the show, and there was a Klan granny holding a baby who was dressed in baby sized Klan robes and hood.

I remember a 60 Minutes show on American Nazism from about twenty years ago. They showed tape of a brownshirted father proudly bringing his brownshirted twelve year old to his first local meeting. They then interviewed the kid, who said something like "When I grow up, I want to kill all the ni**ers and the Jews because they cause all the trouble."

But, Bear. The man's dead, and he's still making you miserable. Let it go.