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10/01/2007: "Jena 6 case fabricated by lone minister"

Bean—the creator of Friends of Justice, an organization primarily dedicated to helping poor minorities victimized by our justice system—had warned prominent members of the Jena community as early as January that the town would be painted as racist by the national media if Walters didn’t back down.

A lawyer in New Orleans put Bean and parents of the Jena Six in contact with each other in December. Within three months, Bean had researched Jena and the events surrounding the assault, and published a 5,400-word narrative titled “The Making of a Myth in Jena, Louisiana” and a 2,400-word, media-friendly narrative titled “Responding to the Crisis in Jena, Louisiana.”

These two pro-defense narratives form the outline for most of the world’s understanding of the case. Bean connected the December assault on Justin Barker to the September noose hangings, to Reed Walters’ infamous “I can ruin your life with the stroke of a pen” statement at a hastily called school assembly, and to separate off-campus confrontations between Robert Bailey and white men on the Friday and Saturday before the attack on Barker.

[ A lone neurotic failure makes life worse for everyone else, yet again. Why do we tolerate these parasites? ]

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/10/jena_6_case_cau.php