Finally a happy July 4th!

[Cheung Mo]

Jesse Helms is dead! Words can barely express how pleased this makes me. Imagine someone ten times worse than Nick Griffin being able to hold real power. Scary eh? A Sad day for White supremacists who don't know the difference between India and Pakistan. :-P

[Red October]

I live in North Carolina, where Jesse Helms served in local government and then represented us in the US Senate. Good riddance! I could go piss on his grave tonight!

[RedAnarchist]

Sounds like a bigoted old fucker. If you guys have bonfires with your fireworks, chuck him on one!:lol:

[Decolonize The Left]

Good riddance indeed. For those of us not familiar with Mr. Helms, here are a few tidbits complements of Wikipedia.
"Helms opposed the Martin Luther King Day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Day) bill in 1983 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983) on grounds that King had two associates with communist ties, Stanley Levison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Levison) and Jack O'Dell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_O%27Dell). [6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms#cite_note-5) Helms led the Senatorial opposition to the bill and voiced disapproval of King's alleged philandering."

"Helms had close ties to the rightist Salvadoran (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador) death squad leader Roberto D'Aubuisson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_D%27Aubuisson) and was considered a main sponsor of D'Aubuisson's political party, the Nationalist Republican Alliance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist_Republican_Alliance).[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms#cite_note-6) When confronted with evidence that D'Aubuisson ran death squads that systematically murdered civilians, he replied that "[a]ll I know, is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious."[8] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms#cite_note-7)"

"Helms opposed Fidel Castro, arms control treaties and supported the contras in Nicaragua as well as the right-wing government of El Salvador. [10] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms#cite_note-9)"

"
Helms once deeply offended a black colleague, Democratic Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Moseley-Braun) of Illinois (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois), by singing part of "Dixie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_%28song%29)" on a Capitol elevator.

Soon after the Senate vote on the Confederate flag insignia, Sen. Jesse Helms (R.-N.C.) ran into Mosely-Braun in a Capitol elevator. Helms turned to his friend, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah), and said, "Watch me make her cry. I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing 'Dixie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_%28song%29)' until she cries." He then proceeded to sing the song about "the good life" during slavery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery) to Mosely-Braun (Gannett News Service, 9/2/93; Time, 8/16/93).[12] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms#cite_note-fair1-11)
Helms was an ardent supporter of the late Chilean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile) dictator Augusto Pinochet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet).[13] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms#cite_note-12)"

[RedAnarchist]

Build a bonfire,
Build a bonfire,
Put Jesse Helms at the top,
Put Bush in the middle,
And burn the fucking lot!

:lol:

[PigmerikanMao]

Sounds like a douche. Good job, NC!

[Comrade B]

Hurray for death!

to quote Bill Marr

"Death isn't always bad"

[Cheung Mo]

Incidentally, a discussion on Wikipedia's Talk page actually came to the conclusion that there is no evidence of Jesse Helms being a White supremacist. If given half a chance, this guy would have been as despicable as Suharto or Pinochet. Luckily, being socially liberal (or even just reasonable sane) in and of itself is generally not grounds for being shot by a paramilitary death squad in the U.S., unlike in some of its Third World puppets. In North Carolina alone, enough clear-thinking people knew that the guy was a major league asshole that keeping him on his toes the odd time was doable.

[BIG BROTHER]

anybody who supports the contras deserves all my hate, good thing that leech is dead

[ckaihatsu]

Subject: [icffmaj] END DEPENDENCE DAY FOR MUMIA

Stand up for the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Friday - July 4th at 12 pm Market Street between 5th & 6th (in Philadelphia)
Witness Mumia's daughters perform conscious hip hop, along with Taina Asili y La Banda Rebelde! Followed by an open mike, let your voice be heard!

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Bring noisemakers - pots, pans, whistles!

On July 1st, 1982, the "hanging judge," Albert Sabo, encouraged jurors in the case of Mumia Abu- Jamal to return a verdict quickly, in time to enjoy their 4th of July holiday. On July 2nd, a guilty verdict came. On July 3rd, Mumia was sentenced to death. By July 4th, they were home to celebrate with their families.

While evidence of Mumia's innocence exists, jurors were never shown it, and no court of law has agreed to hear it to this day. It's 26 years later - and we, the people, are still demanding justice.

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[Dicktator]

Jesse Helms is dead! Words can barely express how pleased this makes me. Imagine someone ten times worse than Nick Griffin being able to hold real power. Scary eh? A Sad day for White supremacists who don't know the difference between India and Pakistan. :-P

Ahahah! Yeah, best July Fourth in a long, long time.

[bootleg42]

I live in North Carolina, where Jesse Helms served in local government and then represented us in the US Senate. Good riddance! I could go piss on his grave tonight!

I wish someone at sometime could do something to his grave. Shit on it, piss on it, something.....then record the aftermath without recording your faces of course.

If I lived in North Carolina, I would be planning by now.