It's a time & place when murderers & torturers could arrogantly hide in plain sight, secure that their friends & their government would willingly keep silent - or be too intimidated to speak out. The violence was as casual as it was brutal, part of the culture, layered over with a harsh, preachy, biblical fundamentalism in which every dehumanizing act was perversely justified by faith. I'm not referring to Pakistan, or the White House in 2005, but to Mississippi in 1964. & an old, physically broken man named Edgar Ray Killen, a "Christian" man according to his own beliefs, has at last been convicted of arranging the murders of Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney. It was never a secret. In the Neshoba County that had produced many generations of racists like Killen, it didn't have to be; a jury of his peers could not reach a verdict in 1967 & this killer & burner of churches lived from middle to old age a free man.