THE CURIOUS CASE OF CORY MAYE

MORE ELOQUENT TONGUES tell the tale of Cory Maye, guilty of being black while defending his home in the dark of night from a sudden intruder now dead, but for Cory unfortunately also white.  White and the son of the police chief.

IN A PHRASE so frequently the coin of the realm, mistakes were made.  Now Cory Maye is scheduled to be cashiered out of the ranks of the living.  Those inclined toward decency and incidentally justice have taken it upon themselves to do the decent thing and report on some of the anomalies of the incident in question.  Question number one is how answers the police gave in the case showed less than intelligent design and underwent some evolution.

THE STORY OF CORY MAYE is age old, told before to be told again.  If you listen in the quiet of night, when the scent of magnolia overwhelms the nose and all sense and senses, you may hear Kafka whispering words to Faulkner.

E MAIL the Governor of Mississippi: governor@governor.state.ms.us

Comments

[Angie]

It's good to see this case is making the rounds. Hopefully those that can do something about this will take notice and fix it.

[Lawrence Krubner]

I was alarmed by a post on 12-22 in which Angelica of BattlePanda lamented the fading interest that the blogosphere was showing in the Cory Maye story. I wrote to her and asked what might be done to keep attention on the story. She had several ideas, one of which included:

"[How about] a button that people can stick on their sidebars to say something like "I blogged to free Cory Maye" which, when clicked, take them to the website? One of the frustrating things about blogs is people forget a story as soon as it is off the front page. Always having that little reminder on the front page that Cory maye is still on death row would go a long way to keep the story alive."

My friend Laura Denyes, a talented graphic designer, donated some of her time to come up with some buttons that might be used in this fashion. We hope people will look them over and choose one they like. We provide the HTML they will need to make the images appear on their weblogs. We will be hosting the images ourselves, and whatever bandwidth issues arise, we will consider part of our donation to this cause. Please consider adding one of these buttons to your own sidebar. You can see them here:

http://www.whatisliberalism.com/index.php?pageId=81082

[Walker Willingham]

There is now a petition up for people express their dismay at Maye's sentencing, and their insistence on his unconditional pardon by the governor of Mississippi. Heretik, would you be willing to promote a link to the top of your blog or sidebar? Thanks to any and all for signing.