Rest in Peace Jesse Helms

[Fairweather]

It seems that the greatest Americans always pass on the 4th of July, and he is no exception. A great man who stood up against compromise in the face of communism. Well done.

[MarkMcJizzy]

Jesse Helms was a great man. He stood up to those who wanted to venerate MLK. To those who wanted Pinochet in jail, Jesse said "no dice". And he supported big tobacco and it's government subsidies against those weak leftists with the Moscow supported anti-smoking campaigns

[Mal_Con]

Wait til he finds out God is a Black Lesbian.

[glassgowkiss]

how fucking patriotic! first sell eastern and central europe to soviets and then pretend to be a great hero fighting them.

[Off_White]

Generally I don't speak ill of the dead, but today I'll make an exception. Good riddance to that rotten prick, today the world is a better place.

[Dechristo]

off color

[Sherri]

Wait til he finds out God is a Black Lesbian.

Note to self: start going to church.

[prole]

From his earliest years, Helms's attitudes recalled those of an earlier southern bigot, Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, who so outraged his Senate colleagues, that they eventually refused even to let him take his seat.

 

There was never a comparable risk for Helms, who maintained an old-world courtesy in his personal contacts. But that was only on the surface. He became one of the most powerful and baleful influences on American foreign policy, repeatedly preventing his country paying its UN contributions, voting against virtually all arms control measures, opposing international aid programmes as "pouring money down foreign rat holes", and avidly supporting military juntas in Latin America and minority white regimes in Southern Africa.

 

In domestic politics he denounced the 1964 Civil Rights Act as "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress", voted against a supreme court justice because she was "likely to uphold the homosexual agenda", acted for years as spokesman for the large tobacco companies, was reprimanded by the justice department and the federal election commission for electoral malpractice, and compiled a dismal personal record as a slum landlord.---from Guardian.co.uk 7/4/08

 

It's times like these that I almost wished that I believed in an afterlife.

[prole]

It seems that the greatest Americans always pass on the 4th of July

 

We've still 7 hours yet to go!

[Dechristo]

You'd not only need to believe in an "afterlife", but also in an administration of justice that squares with notions of your own.

[mtn_mouse]

There seems to be no mention of his brief homosexual affair with a young black male intern... oh well.

[prole]

You'd not only need to believe in an "afterlife", but also in an administration of justice that squares with notions of your own.

 

It's justice enough for me to know that as an aging Jesse Helms looked across this country he saw that most of his racist and bigoted life's work had been an abject failure and knew that at most he was regarded, even by his peers, with disdain.

[Dechristo]

a rare glimpse of a just world?

[rob]

wasn't he friends with the guy who started the El Salvador Death Squads? Chele, AKA "The Blowtorch"?

[Dechristo]

wasn't he friends with the guy who started the El Salvador Death Squads? Chele, AKA "The Blowtorch"?

 

are you asking me about Prole?

Edited July 5, 2008 by Dechristo

[Dechristo]

just joshin'

Edited July 5, 2008 by Dechristo

[TREETOAD]

FW thinks John Wayne was a great actor!!

[G-spotter]

[ivan]

bill hicks, a much kewler american than the hater-in-question, had some great shit to say about helms...

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[blurpy]

Burn in Hell, Jesse Helms!

 

I wish there was a hell....

[tvashtarkatena]

Wait til he finds out God is a Black Lesbian.

Note to self: start going to church.

 

You funny, girl.

[Sherri]

Wait til he finds out God is a Black Lesbian.

Note to self: start going to church.

 

You funny, girl.

 

Do I hear an "Amen?"

[billcoe]

Do I hear an "Amen?"

 

Amen Brother Sister.

 

But I thought Jesse Helms was over 100 ? Sure looked it, maybe it was the Strom Thurman school of cosmology he attended for grooming tips that got him that aged look?

[rob]

If there is a hell, it must be getting awful crowded down there.

[murraysovereign]

...the greatest Americans always pass on the 4th of July...

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004)