Schlesselman and Cowart mugging and mugging for the camera Tennessean Daniel Cowart, one of two skinheads charged with conspiring to murder dozens of blacks en route to assassinating President-Elect Barack Obama, is crying bias, prejudice—racism, even! Why? Because his federal grand jury in northwest Tennessee just happens to be mostly black. Boo hoo! The situation's as rich in irony as it is in silliness. Cowart's petition sounded awfully scholarly in the Tennessean. I'm going to go out on a limb and say his attorney composed it:
The jury, he said, could not "under the most modest constitutional scrutiny ... be considered fair, impartial and unprejudiced."
Let's see: A grand jury in northwestern Tennessee should exclude black folks during the selection process—even though they comprise a disproportionate chunk of the local population—on the off chance Mr. Cowart and his cohort Paul Schlesselman can round up enough fellow lily-white crackpots to get off? Gotcha. I don't think race is implicit in the phrase, "a jury of your peers." But if peers are what Cowart wants, good luck finding 12 idiot douchebags who planned to take out a presidential candidate while wearing white tuxedos and driving a vehicle smeared with white-power bullshit.
