Jesse Helms died today.

Let's dwell on how unpatriotic it is to die at 1:15 on the 4th of July. The prick couldn't even hang around for just one more day, after being alive for over 13,000 days, to honor his country? Good riddance, he obviously hated America.
 
[quote name='VanillaGorilla']I'm sure he did more good than bad, but since he was a homophobe, let's dwell on that.[/QUOTE]

Don't be so sure.
 
I am not super familiar with this guy, and I was wondering why the likes of Mykevermin hated him enough to drink over his death.

After a quick google, reading his bbc obituary:

On domestic issues, he provoked the ire of liberals around the country with his crusade against abortion, homosexuality and affirmative action - programmes to overcome the effects of past discrimination by allocating resources to members of specific minority groups....

"You needed that job. And you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. Is that really fair?" he asked potential voters.
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Question officially answered.
 
[quote name='thrustbucket']I am not super familiar with this guy, and I was wondering why the likes of Mykevermin hated him enough to drink over his death.[/quote]

Maybe Mykevermin was being weird or ironic, but generally isn't drinking to someone's death honoring them?
 
There's the actual ad, if you prefer.

Though if you think that I'd express disdain for one person over one act, you're being deliberately naive. A person who makes a career and leaves behind a legacy of hatred, bigotry, and for imposing a hierarchy based on race and sexual orientation in this country, on the other hand, is one whose removal from this mortal plane puts me at ease.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIyewCdXMzk[/media]

EDIT: Drinking *to* someone's death and drinking *for* someone's death are not identical acts, Spaz. Thanks for the defense, but I was celebrating that he was dead.
 
Helms commented on the 1963 Civil Rights protests, "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."[7][8] He also wrote, "Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact of life which must be faced".[9] The University of North Carolina, which had a reputation of liberalism in the state, was a frequent target of Helms' criticism: in one editorial he suggested a wall be erected around the campus to prevent the university's liberal views from "infecting" the rest of the state. Helms also referred to the university as the "University of Negroes And Communists".[10]
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Meanwhile, Democrats retired the ailing Senator B. Everett Jordan, who lost his primary to Congressman Nick Galifianakis, a Greek American, from Durham, North Carolina. Helms played upon Galifianakis' ethnicity during the campaign using the campaign slogan "Vote for Helms — He's One of Us!"[11]
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Helms had close ties with and was considered a main sponsor of the right-wing Salvadoran Nationalist Republican Alliance and it's leader and death squad founder Roberto D'Aubuisson.[14][15][16] When confronted with evidence that D'Aubuisson ran death squads that systematically murdered civilians, he replied that "[a]ll I know, is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious."[17]
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Helms was "bitterly opposed to federal financing of AIDS research and treatment".[24] Opposing the Kennedy-Hatch AIDS bill in 1988, Helms stated, "There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy."[25] When Ryan White died in 1990, his mother went to Congress to speak to politicians on behalf of people with AIDS. She spoke to 23 representatives: Helms refused to speak to her even when she was alone with him in an elevator.[26]
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Helms was a supporter of the late Chilean President Augusto Pinochet.[35]
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Having attempted, and failed, to block passage of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Care (CARE) Act passed in 1990, Helms tried to block its refunding in 1995, saying that those with AIDS were responsible for the disease, because they had contracted it because of their "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct", and falsely claiming that more federal dollars were spent on AIDS than heart disease or cancer. [37] His opposition to the spending was consonant with his long term anti-gay rhetoric and opposition to civil rights for gay men and women generally. Helms had declared homosexuality "degenerate," and homosexuals "weak, morally sick wretches."[38]
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More good than bad? Hardly. His homophobia was directly responsible for strangling funding that would have recognized and educated about AIDS before it became an epidemic. His ignorance cost lives. He can fuck right off to hell, as far as I'm concerned.
 
U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms said Wednesday that he was ashamed
to have done so little during his Senate career to fight the worldwide
spread of AIDS and pledged do more during his remaining months in
office.

"I have been too lax too long in doing something really significant
about AIDS," the North Carolina Republican told a gathering of several
hundred Christians at an international conference on AIDS held at a
Washington hotel. "I'm not going to lay it aside on my agenda for the
remaining months I have."
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And he was friends with bono. Doesn't that redeem him?

Geez what a bunch of incompasionate unforgiving CAG's.



:)
 
[quote name='evanft']Good fucking riddance.[/quote]

And because of this post right here, I'll say the exact same thing when Teddy goes. Congratulations!
 
[quote name='thrustbucket']And he was friends with bono. Doesn't that redeem him?

Geez what a bunch of incompasionate unforgiving CAG's.

:)[/QUOTE]

Yeah, well, feeling bad after the fact doesn't bring people back to life.

Does that make me an asshole? Maybe. If so, I'll be sure to kick him in the nuts when I see him in hell.
 
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