{"id":3261,"date":"2008-12-22T11:49:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T18:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/22\/james-bevel-dead\/"},"modified":"2008-12-22T11:49:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T18:49:04","slug":"james-bevel-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/12\/22\/james-bevel-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"James Bevel, dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within a massive jabbing dump on the part of “revenire” in April, there was this:
\ni love the bevel stuff, sort of reminds of of the murder of martin luther king and how he was accused of having sex with women\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/em>
\nThis was followed up immediately with:
\nlol, keep on trying jumper brigage
\n<\/em>Which in the context of this weird ordeal meant a suggestion that I was slandering the good name of Lyndon Larouche\u00c2\u00a0with my\u00c2\u00a0“slandering” of\u00c2\u00a0the good name of James Bevel.\u00c2\u00a0 (Or, as the case was, simply re-posting the news accounts of the testimony from his victims<\/a>, and I suppose tying it to Bevel’s rationale for working with Larouche — eccentric ideas on education, apparently.)<\/p>\n

His legacy in the civil rights movement was clouded <\/a>when he was convicted in April by a Loudoun County, Va., judge for having sex more than a decade ago with one of his daughters, Aaralyn Mills, who was a teenager at the time. Prosecutors said the assault occurred in Loudoun County, when Bevel was working closely with the Virginia-based organization led by LaRouche.<\/em><\/p>\n

The four-day trial divided members of Bevel’s large family, with relatives testifying for both the prosecution and defense. He was sentenced in October.<\/em><\/p>\n

At that time, prosecutors revealed at least four other daughters had made similar allegations against him. The victims hoped for an apology and some reconciliation, but Bevel mocked the notion of an apology.<\/em><\/p>\n

But his reputation is probably by then a little tainted, or at the very least has a bit of a bifrocation in terms of “before” and “after”, by dent of moving from associating with Martin Luther King, Jr to associating with Lyndon Larouche, Jr.\u00c2\u00a0— the 1992 vice presidential candidate, in fact.\u00c2\u00a0 Incidentally, I may as well address revenire’s cries months after the fact (at the time, I was diverted in pondering the meaning of “I eat this blog for breakfast<\/em>.”)\u00c2\u00a0 Allegations of infidelity on the part of Martin Luther King, Jr. with consenting women don’t much concern me and transplant me to 1960s America and I’d let them remain the province of Jay Edgar Hoover.\u00c2\u00a0 James Bevel and his incestual relations are a rather more serious infraction — in his case,\u00c2\u00a0done in the context of a supposed family “educational” program.\u00c2\u00a0 Ironically\u00c2\u00a0the biggest crusade, on behalf of “the children”, during his time in the orbit of Larouche was “exposing the Franklin cover-up”, or better to say perpetuating a hoax — supposedly a massive Republican child molestation ring based which stretched all the way to the White House — a conspiracy which had renewed circulation when\u00c2\u00a0the former Nebraska state Senator, collaberating with Bevel in this conspiracy theory,\u00c2\u00a0stretched the story of white house “correspondent”\u00c2\u00a0and at times male prostitute\/porn star Jeff Gannon\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0back to the first Bush White House as a member of this pedophile ring<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(skip to “update 3\/26\/05).\u00c2\u00a0 It makes total sense?\u00c2\u00a0 I guess\u00c2\u00a0these things\u00c2\u00a0tapping into the conspiracy well of people who want to believe, people who want to believe the worst about presidents named George Bush on one hand and people who want to believe the worst about causes of homosexuality on the other hand — and most importantly people who want to find secret orders in the workings of the universe in connecting “forgotten” or “hidden” histories beyond all sane comprehension.\u00c2\u00a0 (Or, better still, fitting into this hypothesis<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

But these matters\u00c2\u00a0bring\u00c2\u00a0one part\u00c2\u00a0of his civil rights’ work in either stark relief or with an item of moral ambiguity — and in light of subsequent events, puts a rather bleak light on how he thought about these matters.\u00c2\u00a0 The “Children’s Crusade”, which is characterized in the comments section here:<\/p>\n

I remember when Bevel put the children in the civil rights protests; he drew strong criticism for it. No one thought it wise to put the children in danger like that, and they were right, as history shows us.Bevel knew it would not matter to Bull Conner that the children were there, and THAT is what got the world’s attention! I guess it’s true that it takes one to know one.<\/em><\/p>\n

So Bull Connor brings out his fire hose and moes down the children.\u00c2\u00a0 Public opinion turns a few screws more.\u00c2\u00a0 And … you have a bunch of physically pelted children.\u00c2\u00a0 At the hands of Bull Connor.\u00c2\u00a0 But they put there\u00c2\u00a0by Bevel’s strategizing.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, I wonder if it would have worked best to cap the affair at high school students, who have a reasonable independence compared to elementary school aged to know what they’re getting into there.\u00c2\u00a0 Bull Connor’s faux “Law and Order” is exposed still.\u00c2\u00a0 Malcom X’s complaint<\/a> “Real men don’t put their children on the firing line\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/em>is lessened.\u00c2\u00a0 Kennedy’s hand remains forced<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, it’s a thought anyway.<\/p>\n

Unrelated, but I have to slide it somewhere:\u00c2\u00a0 frequent candidate for crap Gerald Pechenuk <\/a>pokes his head up here regarding a\u00c2\u00a0trajectory I wondered when someone would get to from Blagojevich in the realm of Illinois politics — in this case from John Schrag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Within a massive jabbing dump on the part of “revenire” in April, there was this: i love the bevel stuff, sort of reminds of of the murder of martin luther king and how he was accused of having sex with women\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 This was followed up immediately with: lol, keep on trying jumper brigage Which in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-larouche-challenge","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}