In his closing statements yesterday, Mississippi AG Jim Hood revealed his overt insensitivity to the Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman families.
Some of you have asked why I am here. . . Because this is where justice is done.
I wish some of my predecessors had done their duty. I wouldn't have to be here, to have missed my daughter’s second birthday.
It would be extremely unprofessional for Jim Hood to complain about missing his daughter's second birthday during his closing statements in any court case. But does he hear himself?! There's been 41 missed birthdays for the families of the victims.
Jim Hood also went so far as to desecrate what Chaney, Schwerner and Goodman stood for, by comparing the Southern Freedom Movement to Bush's war in Iraq:
They came down here doing God's work. They were here in peace. They weren’t troublemakers. They were doing the same things that we are doing in Iraq — fighting for people's freedoms. They showed a lot of courage. They were heroes for being here to grant people the freedom to vote.
Jim Hood had the chutzpah to claim that another reason he showed up to make closing arguments (and not just leave it to DA Mark Duncan) was that
I wanted to be here myself, I didn't want to have any regrets. That I did my duty to the victims and their families.
What a lying, insensitive boor. I'm pretty much ready to believe he was being insulting on purpose. But I guess when you've got an ego that big you probably manage to insult people all the time while you tell them how important you are to them.
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