Comments on: Don’t mourn Jesse’s death – mourn that his legacy lives

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:02:43 +0000

So, Jonas, let me make sure I understand your position. We should always say nice things about people after they die – NO MATTER WHAT THEY DID IN LIFE. Right?

By: Jonas

Jonas — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:47:03 +0000

Wow, check out the negative vibes scribbled here man. Anger isn’t the right way man. I mean the dude is dead…. Show some tolerance he couldn’t afford man.

By: Dan Gambiera

Dan Gambiera — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:41:20 +0000

Meanwhile, hats off to L.F. Eason III. Mr. Eason took immediate retirement after 29 years with the NC Department of Agriculture rather than lower the flag in honor of Helms’ death.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/State_employee_wont_lower_flags_for_0709.html

By: Dan Gambiera

Dan Gambiera — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:35:24 +0000

On refusing to attend the funeral of a man he despised Mark Twain was urged to at least write a letter to his widow. Twain sent the following note: “While I am not able to attend your husband’s funeral I heartily approve of it.”

My usual policy is “De mortui nulli nisi bonum”. But for 24 karat, raw gum, 200 proof, Board certified evil I’m willing to put aside principle once in a while.

Jesse Helms was evil from his opposition to all Civil Rights legislation to his support for the unspeakable and abominable RENAMO.

My fondest hope is that the Powers That Be will sentence him to endless rebirth as a poor Black lesbian in a world conforming precisely to his pre-mortem specifications.

By: Jim Booth

Jim Booth — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:11:52 +0000

I shall save my comment on Jesse until WordsDay. I would only say this: if asked if I look forward to spitting on his grave, my reply will be that I never intend to stand in any line that would be so long….

By: kallata

kallata — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:57:12 +0000

JESSIE HELMS WAS A RACIST BIGOT. A POLITICAL HACK AND HYPOCRIT WHO LEFT THIS WORLD IN WORSE CONDITION THAN WHEN HE FOUND IT. ALL OF US WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER OFF IF HE HAD NEVER BEEN BORN. HE WAS AN IGNORANT FASCIST WHO TOOK PRIDE ON HIS IGNORANCE.

By: Euphrosyne

Euphrosyne — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:37:48 +0000

I first became aware of him in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s – when beautiful, loving people I knew began getting sick, rotting from the inside and dying in agony with no hope of treatment. Jesse Helms blocked funding for research, saying time and again that sodomites deserved what they got… and smirking while he said it.

My only regret about his death? He didn’t suffer enough first.

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:55:42 +0000

He’s undoubtedly with Jerry Falwell in that “utopian” (white, straight, obses, racist and ignorant) society in the sky, I’m sure they make a lovely couple. The fact that I am wasting 15 seconds of my life to “comment” on him says it all..I think I’ll stop – such biggotry and hate doesn’t deserve the energy.

By: JS OBrien

JS OBrien — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:18:24 +0000

I’ve often wondered why, when someone dies, he or she suddenly becomes the subject of tribute, regardless of merit. Had Hitler died in June of 1939, doubtless the American media would have sung his praises for rebuilding German industry, completely ignoring laws that, by that time, meant Jews in Germany could own nothing, do nothing, sit almost nowhere, and live almost nowhere.

Jesse Helms was a very, very bad man. I grew up listening to his diatribes on WRAL TV 5 in Raleigh, North Carolina. At the time, I was too young to understand all that he was saying, but I could see the pure dog meanness in the way he said it.

It sure wasn’t hard to see.

Helms was a virulent bigot who was convinced of his own superiority in being white and male. Had he been raised in Hitler’s Germany instead of FDR’s America, I have no doubt he would have been a high official in the Nazi Party. He and the Nazis would have understood each other well.

I do have one thing to thank him for, though. Virginia didn’t cover itself in glory during the civil rights movement. Having Helms next door made us look almost good compared to North Carolina.

By: www.buzzflash.net

www.buzzflash.net — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:58:32 +0000

Don’t mourn Jesse’s death – mourn that his legacy lives…

Jesse Helms was an ignorant, bile-spewing hatemonger who left a greasy film on everything he touched. Yes Virginia, there are evil people in the world. There are those who make society a worse place simply by living in it, and when they manage to acqui…