From Yahoo News:
COVINGTON, La. – A Louisiana man accused of helping his father hide the body of a Ku Klux Klan recruit pleaded guilty Thursday to obstruction of justice and was sentenced to three years in prison, according to a prosecutor’s spokesman.
Prosecutors believe Shane Foster, 21, also helped his father clean the camp site in rural St. Tammany Parish in southeastern Louisiana where Cynthia Lynch, 43, was shot to death in November 2008, district attorney’s office spokesman Rick Wood said.
Foster’s father, Raymond Foster, 45, is set for trial April 5 on a second-degree murder charge.
What on earth? What year is this? Cynthia Lynch, 43, was shot to death in November of 2008. Her crime? She was trying to leave an initiation ritual and head for home. She had hooked up with the Louisiana KKK group run by Raymond Foster via the Internet. She was described as a troubled woman who was trying to fit in somewhere. That probably fits the description of many people who are attracked to the KKK. Just a group of misfits.
All too often groups like this are blown off. Do-gooders try to tell us that the KKK is irrelevant nowadays and that any concerns about this organizaton are simply an over-reaction. This killing doesn’t sound like an over-reaction to me.
Do these sentences sound a little on the lean side? If you shoot someone to death, why is that second degree murder? Another female, Danielle Jones, pleaded guilty to being an accessory. She spent a year in jail. Is Louisiana soft on crime or is it just soft on KKK krime? How much a part of the south is the KKK in 2010?
Just in case anyone forgets who the Klan hates, here is a pretty good reminder. 🙄
Creative Loafing Atlanta presents: The Georgia Knight Riders and Knights of the Ku Klux Klan rallied for a crowd of more than 500 on Feb. 20 in the town of Nahunta, Ga.
These good ole boys are all pleased with themselves.
