At 05:04 PM 06/07/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Just got this from a friend. It's interesting. At first doubtful, I did a
>web search and found that at least David Horowitz claims that it's true.
Be careful of the claim by David Horowitz that it is true. He was once a
first class historian who was a lefty. Now he is an arch right winger who
claims to be an historian.
Bill (a middle-class left winger in the 60's who is still a middle-class
left winger <- for i.d. purposes only)
76B
>Couldn't find anything "Official" on it. Allen?
>Enjoy,
>Mike
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>Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a black man named Alex
>Rackley needed to die. Rackley was a fellow Panther suspected of disloyalty.
>Rackley was first tied to a chair. Safely immobilized, his "friends"
>tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him.
>When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren Kimbro
>took Mr. Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was
>found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn.
>Maybe at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black
>Panthers. Well, in 1977, that's only eight years later, only one of the
>killers was still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a
>scholarship to Harvard. He later became an assistant dean at Eastern
>Connecticut State College.
>Isn't that something? As a 60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's
>head, and years later, in the same state, you can be an assistant college
>dean! Only in America! Ericka Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers
>by boiling the water for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins
>was elected to a California school board.
>How in the world do you think that these killers got off so easy?
>Well, maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to
>the defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to
>shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused
>Black Panthers during their trial. One of those people was none other than
>Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee or Lan Lee as the case may be, isn't a college dean.
>He isn't a member of a California school board. He is the head of the U.S.
>Justice Departments Civil Rights Division. Lee is serving in that capacity
>illegally, by the way, but that's another story ... another part of the
>Clinton saga of ignoring the rule of law.
>O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? Is this other notable Panther
>defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an
>assistant college dean? Nope, neither. The other Panther defender was, like
>Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at that time. Self proclaimed,
>she is now known as "The Smartest Woman in the World." She is none other
>than the unofficial Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from the State of
>New York-our lovely First Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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>Michael Graziano
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