Pastor compares Ken Lay to lynching victim James Byrd

Whose family was treated coldly by Bush boy when he was governor of Texas:

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/07/13/lay/index.html?source=war_room.rss

"Ken Lay was neither black nor poor, as James Byrd was," said the Rev. William Lawson, pastor emeritus of the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. "But I'm angry because Ken was the victim of a lynching."

:puke:

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

pretty effin amazing that that guy's a pastor, huh?

:eyes:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1626457&mesg_id=1626457

Jesus Christ! What a motherfucking asshat!

:D

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Ken Lay, lynching victim?

In 1998, three Texas men attacked a 49-year-old African-American named James Byrd. They cut his throat, chained him to the back of a pickup truck, then dragged him along a road for several miles. Byrd was alive for at least part of the ordeal; a forensic pathologist said that Byrd lived until he hit a culvert and his arm and head were severed. His attackers dragged what was left of his body for at least an additional mile.

Gruesome? Yes, but it's apparently no worse than what happened to Ken Lay.

The former Enron chairman died of a heart attack at his vacation home in Aspen, Colo., last week. At a memorial service
in Houston Wednesday -- with former President George H.W. Bush in attendance -- a local pastor likened Lay's prosecution in Enron's collapse to the attack on Byrd. "Ken Lay was neither black nor poor, as James Byrd was," said the Rev. William Lawson, pastor emeritus of the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church. "But I'm angry because Ken was the victim of a lynching."

-- Tim Grieve

after a trial where the charges against him were laid out and he was allowed to present the best defense his large amount of money could buy. He never went hungry, he was never beaten, he was never water boarded. Had he lived, his lawyers would have filed an appeal. It's quite possible that * would have pardoned him. I'm not sure how the hell that compares to being tied to the bumper of a car and dragged to your death because of your skin color.



And once again I am reminded of the quote from an early 20th century newspaper editor in Texas (cited by Molly Ivins) "The only trouble with Baptists is that they don't hold them down long enough"

they do not know.

the absolute bedrock for the civil rights movement in Houston from the 60's to today. I do not understand the quote or the context, but I will reserve kneejerk liberal condemnation of what sounds like an outrageous quote until I hear more about it.

Apparently Enron (Lay) contributed a lot of cash in the past to Mr. Lawson's church.

Of course, you dont need any further proof than Enron's accounting records (the ones that didnt get shredded) to find that you, stupid asshole.