At least some of the KKK's hate-filled members that is. Some of them will now be doing time.
Due to the DOJ's 'actual' pursuit of 'the ideals' they are sworn to protect.
Department of Justice -- Office of Public Affairs
Justice News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Friday, February 6, 2015
Former Ku Klux Klan Officer Sentenced to 10 Months for Committing Perjury During Cross-Burning Investigation
Today, U.S. District Court Judge L. Scott Coogler sentenced Pamela Morris, former secretary of a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Ozark, Alabama, to 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release for committing perjury during a grand jury’s investigation into a racially motivated cross-burning.
Morris, 47, previously admitted during her plea hearing on June 12, 2014, that she lied to a federal grand jury investigating a cross-burning committed by Steven Joshua Dinkle, Morris’s son and the Exalted Cyclops (president) of the local KKK, and Thomas Smith, another KKK member. On May 8, 2009, Dinkle and Smith burned a six-foot tall cross at the entrance to an African American neighborhood in Ozark to threaten and intimidate residents. [...]
In pleading guilty, Morris admitted that she had been an officer of the KKK and that her testimony denying any connection to the organization was false. She further acknowledged that she knew Dinkle had committed the cross-burning. In addition, Morris admitted that she testified falsely to prevent the grand jury from learning about other KKK members who had information relevant to the investigation.
Dinkle is currently serving a 24-month sentence imposed on May 15, 2014, for his conviction on hate-crime and obstruction-of-justice charges related to the cross-burning. [...]
And there's this recent KKK conviction from the DOJ's Hate-avenging Justice files ...
Department of Justice -- Office of Public Affairs
Justice News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Friday, February 13, 2015
Former Klansman Sentenced for Cross Burning
Timothy Flanagan, 33, was sentenced to nine months and ordered to pay a $5000 fine in federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, for his role in the April 30, 2012, cross burning in front of an interracial family’s home in Minor Hill, Tennessee, the Department of Justice announced. Flanagan previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring with others to threaten, intimidate and interfere with an African-American man’s enjoyment of his housing rights, and one count of interfering with those housing rights.
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“Hate-motivated crimes will not be tolerated in our country,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta of the Civil Rights Division. “The Justice Department will vigorously prosecute individuals that violate the rights of others because of race.”
“There can be no tolerance for such acts of intimidation when innocent persons are targeted simply because of their race,” said U.S. Attorney David Rivera of the Middle District of Tennessee. “The U.S. Attorney’s Office and our law enforcement partners will work tirelessly to protect the civil rights of all persons and bring to justice, anyone who would attempt to impede the constitutionally protected right to liberty of any person.”
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"Ten Months," "Nine months," "24 months" -- those hardly seems enough -- for blatant, threatening and intimidation of American families --
in their own homes.
Still, it's a conviction, which is better than none. But if these "tireless" protectors of civil rights want to put the "Fear of the Law" into the hate-filled scoffers of it -- then they need to set their "Standards" a bit higher ...
These "tireless" protectors of civil rights at the DOJ, need to think in terms of "years" or even "decades" for such heinous crimes -- against our fellow neighbors.
They need to think in terms of the "time deprived" -- the innocent Victims -- of such Hate-crimes. Time ... that they and their families will never get back.
That should be the metric, and even more. The lost time. The pain inflicted. The cruelty against Humanity.
Department of Justice -- Office of Public Affairs
Justice News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Three Brandon, Mississippi, Men Sentenced for Their Roles in the Racially Motivated Assault and Murder of an African-American Man
Victim Died After Being Run Over by Truck
The Justice Department announced today that Deryl Paul Dedmon, 22, John Aaron Rice, 21, and Dylan Wade Butler, 23, all of Brandon, Mississippi, were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Jackson for their roles in federal hate crime charges in connection with an assault culminating in the death of James Craig Anderson, an African-American man, in the summer of 2011. Dedmon, Rice and Butler each previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act for their roles in the death-resulting assault of Anderson, 47, of Jackson, Mississippi. Dedmon was sentenced to 600 months; Rice was sentenced to 220 months; and Butler was sentenced to 84 months. [50 years, 18 1/3 years, 7 years]
“The defendants targeted African-American people they perceived as vulnerable for heinous and violent assaults -- hate crimes, motivated solely by race, that shook an entire community and claimed the life of an innocent man,” said Attorney General Eric Holder.
“These sentences bring a fitting end to the case against these three men. Although nothing can erase the grievous harms inflicted, or ease the grief of the victim’s friends and loved ones, this outcome holds those responsible for these horrific crimes fully to account. And it illustrates the Justice Department’s steadfast commitment to combating hate crimes, supporting victims, and seeing that justice is done -- in every case and circumstance.”
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Real Justice demands more than looking the other way ... more than
'Not Guilty' business as usual.
Real Justice demands real Time. Real Fear of the real Consequences.
"Decades long" convictions, that is starting to reach those "Fear of the Law" levels.
Convictions like that might dissuade the next would-be Hate-monger, to just 'go bowling' with his buddies, instead.
Maybe even convince 'his buddies', to suggest it -- as some alternate activities that do not cross the blazingly clear 'DOJ Civil Line'.