Farewell to Jesse Helms, a Provincial Redneck »
Posted By Neophile 1 year, 4 months ago in NewsIt seemed somehow profane that Sen. Jesse Helms should have managed to depart this life on the 232nd anniversary of the declaration of American independence. One doesn't want the occasion sullied by the obsequies for a senile racist buffoon.
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slate1 year, 4 months ago
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What do you expect from the beanie cap scout from the frozen north, you'd think the wind from that propeller on his cap would have thawed the permafrost that he calls a brain?
Hey Neo, I bet you'll believe in Gawd long enough to wish Helms a place in Hell huh? PMNLOL!
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antibrainwasher1 year, 4 months ago
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Because every republican is in love with the idea their party is lead by a bunch of evangelical status quo lovin' rednecks.
Vote republican, vote to continue the legacy of the south, slavery, jim crow, and evangelical inbred ignorance.
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hamy1 year, 4 months ago
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Actually what I can't get over is his fighting to keep my friends from getting much needed medication that could have saved their lives. I can't get over the fact that he fought to keep me from having any civil rights at all.
I can't get over that he wanted me to die and actively worked for legislation to make that happen.
He was a murderer. He was disgusting. Now he is gone and we never have to hear his wretched voice again. Praise the lord.
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scott42611 year, 4 months ago
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I have always stated that I will not speak ill of the dead. I made an exception for Jerry Falwell and I am making another for Jesse Helms. IMO, neither made a positive contribution to the world. Indeed, they were two faces of hate to millions of Americans. If there is a Hell, Jerry and Jesse are burning in it!
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antibrainwasher1 year, 4 months ago
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Jesus hated blacks. Jesus supported the status quo jim crow system suppressing civil rights, gerrymandering so black votes were meaningless. Jesus believed a black child should ride on the back of a bus, jesus never ate in a restaurant where blacks ate, and if a black swam in a pool, jesus had it drained. Jesus loved Jesse, cause jesus was a white southern man.
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antibrainwasher1 year, 4 months ago
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Having attempted, and failed, to block passage of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Care (CARE) Act passed in 1990, Helms tried to block its refunding in 1995, saying that those with AIDS were responsible for the disease, because they had contracted it because of their "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct", and falsely claiming that more federal dollars were spent on AIDS than heart disease or cancer. [27] His opposition to the spending was consonant with his long term anti-gay rhetoric and opposition to civil rights for gay men and women generally. Helms had declared homosexuality "degenerate," and homosexuals "weak, morally sick wretches."
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antibrainwasher1 year, 4 months ago
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Helms once deeply offended a black colleague, Democratic Senator Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois, by singing part of "Dixie" 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' until she cries." He then proceeded to sing the song about "the good life" during slavery to Mosely-Braun (Gannett News Service, 1993-09-02; Time, 1993-08-16)
Jesse Helms was a great republican. Vote republican, vote to bring a heaping dose of hateful status quo ignorance to policy making positions.
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Itachirumon1 year, 4 months ago
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Neither will I, I'm a moderate Christian but I am incapable of expressing any Christian forgiveness towards this man. Let God sort him out, if he wants to bring him into Heaven, great fine w/e, if he wants him in Hell, equally fine. Just as long as I never have to see him. It also won't stop me from wishing heartfelt wishes that he'd rot in a pit of hell. Let his punishment be that a bunch of straight demons get hell-fever, miss seeing women around and start boning his ugly ass up the melting hershey highway. Sadly that probably would just give him joy because he'd feel his emotions were justified and that gays go to hell... So scratch what I said.
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