Senator Byrd The Klansmen
The Ku Klux Klan is a terrorist organization that exists within the United States of America and abroad.
From Washington Post
Sen. Robert C. Byrd Laments KKK Connection
Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s new memoir reveals both his encyclopedic knowledge of political history and the unlikely inspiration that helped launch his own political career: A Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.
Not only was he in the Ku Klux Klan, he was Grand Dragon. Pretty big role.
It was a Klan leader who motivated the young Byrd during his short-lived tenure in the racist organization _ something he writes was “an extraordinarily foolish mistake” that has haunted him for 40 years.
A foolish mistake would be “attending” a rally or two. But Byrd, became the Grand Dragon, that was no mistake or bad judgement. You have to go through years of training and tests before you can become that deeply involved in the terrorist group known as the “KKK.”
“It has emerged throughout my life to haunt and embarrass me, and has taught me in a very graphic way what one major mistake can do to one’s life, career and reputation,” the West Virginia Democrat says in an autobiography being released Monday. “I displayed very bad judgment, due to immaturity and a lack of seasoned reasoning.”
Byrd is a racist. Byrd was and most likely still is a member of terrorist group, the KKK.
t’s a mistake he has paid for time and again, the only significant scandal ever attached to a man who grew up in Wolf Creek Hollow and who next June stands to become the longest-serving senator in U.S. history.
Even now, with the 2006 election more than 18 months away, Republicans are using it in their campaign to oust him. Byrd has not declared whether he will run again, and his book gives no hints.
America always has the finest in office. Our “longest” serving Senator, also served as GRAND DRAGON in the Ku Klux Klan. What a great guy.
“Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields” chronicles his 87 years, from boyhood to his re-election in 2000. But at 770 pages, the $35 paperback from West Virginia University Press is more weighty tome than light reading.
It portrays a man who is religious, socially conservative, respectful and respected _ a man for whom a promise is an unbreakable bond. But it is more the chronology of a career than the story of a man, dispassionately detailing virtually every federal dollar brought to West Virginia.
“religious, and socially conservative” is a republican way of saying racist and “our guy.”
I wonder if Byrd still has his white robe?