Saturday, July 05, 2008

Lynching Jesse

Jesse Helms, RIP. I did not follow the senator's career very closely.

Daniel McCarthy wrote on 4 September 2001 (one week before "9/11"),


Jesse Helms has not been the best friend a constitutional conservative or a libertarian could have, but he's done better than most. He opposed forced integration, a federal MLK holiday, and countless socialist treaties and international accords. Best of all he's never apologized for any of it. In a collectivist America increasingly intolerant of dissent from "respectable opinion," that makes Helms a hero despite his faults – or perhaps because of them.


Lynching Jesse

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