Another Reason To Love The Fourth Of July.

Jesse Helms died at approximately 1:15am on July 4 2008. Condolences to his family and all, but otherwise, fuck him:

-- "White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races." (1950, working on Willis Smith's U. S. Senate campaign)

-- "The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights." (1963, commenting on Civil Rights protests)

-- "Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact of life which must be faced." (1963)

-- "Vote for Helms - He's One of Us!" (1972 campaign slogan for U. S. Senate, running against Greek-American Nick Galifianakis)

-- opposed Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday on grounds that MLK had two associates who were Communists (1983)

-- "All I know, is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious." (1983, when presented with evidence of Roberto D'Aubuisson's leadership of El Salvadoran death squads which frequently targeted civilians)

-- "There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy." (1988, in opposition to government-funded AIDS research and treatment)

-- stated that AIDS sufferers were responsible for their own condition due to their "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct" (1995)

So... yeah. Roast in Hell, you vicious bastard. The world is a better place today.