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OZARK, Alabama A former Ku Klux Klan leader was arrested Wednesday in Mississippi for burning a cross at the entrance to a predominantly black neighborhood in Ozark, Ala., according to federal authorities.
Steven Joshua Dinkle, 28, was charged in a five-count indictment returned by a grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama. The document was unsealed Nov. 27.
Dinkle, formerly the Exalted Cyclops (president) of a KKK chapter in Ozark, is charged with two counts of obstruction of justice and one count each of conspiracy to violate housing rights, criminal interference with the right to fair housing and using fire to commit a federal felony, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
According to the indictment, the cross burning happened May 8, 2009. Dinkle allegedly conspired with someone else to burn a cross to threaten and intimidate black residents of a community near Johntown Road in Ozark.
full: http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/11/former_ku_klux_klan_leader_ind.html
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Dinkle is a compleat republicon (R), infested with the degenerate Republicon "Family Values" that have so debased & disgraced the G.O.P. Such hateful assclownery (R). Jeezus would blow chunks if he knew how degenerate Republicons have become.
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)This happened in May of 2009 and we are just now learning of this? The action to adjudicate him on these charges is happening almost 5 years later?
Either we are simply incapable of conducting a justice system or something is wrong. In most civilized countries (and they include protections and defense for the accused), cases are brought forward within a year unless there are extenuating circumstances.
I want this man to get a fair trial but it sounds as if the legal system is either drawing this out or hoping the outrage of his actions will lean toward an acquittal.
If he is indeed guilty of these crimes I suggest he is punished to clean the toilets of the Obamas for the next 10 years.
This will demonstrate to him that he is no better than they are and in fact their dooo-dooo requires his personal attention.