{"id":741,"date":"2008-10-08T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T17:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=741"},"modified":"2009-09-25T21:56:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T05:56:25","slug":"i-can-feel-the-devil-walking-next-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"I can feel the devil walking next to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting story has appeared on my radar: <div style=\"padding-left: 1em ; padding-right: 1em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annistonstar.com\/breaking\/2008\/as-localupdate-1006-jflemingcol-8j06o5456.htm\"><q>McCain wrote on behalf of ex-trooper now awaiting trial in civil rights slaying<\/q> by John Fleming of <cite>the Anniston Star<\/cite><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">In the early 1990s, Sen. McCain, R-Ariz., wrote a letter to the State Department regarding James B. Fowler, who was at the time imprisoned in Thailand on narcotics charges.<\/blockquote><\/div><\/p> <p>In 1965, James Bonard Fowler was a corporal in the Alabama State Police.  With a group of State Police officers, he pursued peaceful protestors into a caf&eacute;;  Fowler began beating an old man.  The victim's daughter tried to protect her father, so Fowler beat her.  Her 26-year-old son, Jimmie Lee Jackson, tried to stop this, so Fowler gut shot him twice.  Jackson died a couple of days later.  Marches held in response to this murder were important events of the civil rights movement in the '60s.<\/p> <p>I don't know how reliable <cite>the Anniston Star<\/cite> now is; it used to be a commercial newspaper, and it has the honor of having been an Alabama newspaper that argued against racial segregation during the <q>civil rights<\/q> era.  But it is now apparently run by journalism students.  The story at least <em>seems<\/em> legitimate.<\/p> <p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010516012330\/http:\/\/www.capcat.org\/\">Some years ago, Senator McCain wrote a letter in support of <abbr title=\"the Co&auml;lition against Prostitution and Child Abuse in Thailand\">CAPCAT<\/abbr><\/a> &mdash; a thoroughly bogus organization used by Griffith Simmons <q>Sean<\/q> Parlaman for self-promotion and as cover for his p&aelig;dophilia &mdash; one of various acts that jointly persuade me that McCain is a d_mn'd fool.<\/p> <p>In the earlier case, I don't think that we have further evidence that McCain is a fool (do we <em>need<\/em> more?), but it's interesting to find him again having written on behalf of a villain (in whom I happen to have a prior interest), and again with a Thailand connection (about which I had no idea prior to this story).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An interesting story has appeared on my radar: McCain wrote on behalf of ex-trooper now awaiting trial in civil rights slaying by John Fleming of the Anniston Star In the early 1990s, Sen. McCain, R-Ariz., wrote a letter to the State Department regarding James B. Fowler, who was at the time imprisoned in Thailand on [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,4],"tags":[132,44,406,407],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public","tag-john-mccain","tag-mccain","tag-parlaman","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}