One People's Project

Forgot about this case, didn't you? We didn't. Two years ago, six high school students in Jena, Louisiana were facing attempted murder charges after they got into a fight with a white student at their school. Preceeding the scuffle was a few months of racial tension which were made worse by the local District Attorney Reed Walters, with is double-standard approach to those tensions, which included telling black students protesting them that he could end their lives with the stroke of a pen. On Sept. 20, 2007, Reed Walters saw 20,000 people come to Jena daring him to try. That changed everything. The case immediately became national news and everyone wanted to know what was going on. We can now shut the door on this case. Five of the six pled no contest and only have to serve 7 days probation. The only one who didn't, Mychal Bell, pled guilty in Dec. 2007, served 18 months in jail and is now going on with his life. And Reed Walters? His term as District Attorney ends this year, and that honestly should be the last we hear of him. Remember his name though. If he does try to crop up again, he should be reminded of what he tried to pull in Jena, and he should be made a clear example of what happens when you play these kind of racist politics in this day and age. Mad props to all to had the back of the Jena Six, and to the haters, you lost another one.

There is something satisfying about the past of the old scumbags coming back to haunt them. The day after White Aryan Resistance's Tom Metzger had his home raided in Indiana, his longtime comrade-in-arms Dennis Mahon (pictured) was arrested along with his twin brother Daniel for a 2004 bombing of a diversity center in Scottsdale, Arizona that injured three people. Mahon has been around for years. He was one of those boneheads that was always in front of the cameras for one reason or another. He ran a Klan outfit out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He waged a huge court battle to produce a public access program, and then only produced one episode. He was a supporter of Tim McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, and being that he was in Tulsa at the time, many zeroed him as a possible suspect. He has never shaken that charge. This one however is what is got feds to pick him up at his home in Illinois. That's right, Barack Obama's home state has now collected four high-profile boneheads. They keep this up, they might be able to build that white-only homeland inside their prison cells. They shouldn't have a problem with that. Consider it the new segregation.

Oh, something is definitely going on. First things first. For those who are too young to remember or so old that he was forgotten. Tom Metzger was the go-to white supremacist for the media in the 80s, along with his son John. Based in Fallbrook, California, the Metzgers ran White Aryan Resistance (WAR) which had chapters and supporters all over the world. Then some of those supporters killed an Ethiopian immigrant in Portland, Oregon. Because of their professional association with WAR, the Metzgers were found liable in court and was hit with a multi-million dollar judgement that they never recovered from. The last we have heard, Tom was still in Fallbrook, California singing blues karaoke up and down the state. Meanwhile, there were rumors that his son John, who pretty much fell off the face of the earth, had a falling out with his father, possibly stemming from the libel suit and moved away to Indiana. But that's just a rumor about John. What's real about Tom was found out when the ATF raided his home in Warsaw, Indiana, roughly 40 miles from Fort Wayne (and 102 miles from Chicago, where Bill White and Hal Turner are going to face federal charges - if you catch our drift). According to sources, his mother passed on a few years ago and left him the house that the ATF decided to check out. At this time we don't know what is going on, but it is a rather curious development. We will keep you posted.

A rather curious thing happened around the time Michael Jackson was reported as being rushed to the hospital. In New Jersey it wasn't expected to rain, but a quick shower happened, which ended with a rainbow in the sky. It was a few minutes afer that when Hot 97 announced TMZ's report that Michael Jackson had passed away. Whatever issues he had or we had with him, there's one thing that can't be taken away from him: He changed how music was heard and seen for all time. We don't need to go through the history. We are going to hear a lot of that over the next few days, weeks and years. Hell, we know it already. All we should just say now is this is an incredible loss, and we wish his family well.