Patrick David reports from Macon, 7 Jan 2011, Quitman 10: New Year’s Day protest march sends message to J. David Miller, GBI:

Approximately three hundred marchers converged onto the steps of the Brooks County Courthouse to send a public message that voter intimidation and voter disenfranchisement will not be tolerated.

This story has flown under the radar of the mainstream media, but the GBI in conjunction with Republican J. David Miller, the district attorney for the Southern Judicial District that represent majority-African-American towns such as Thomasville, Moultrie, Valdosta and Alma, is preparing to move forward in the targeting of ten African-American Brooks County citizens, otherwise known as the “Quitman 10”.

I mentioned the day after the arrests (22 Dec 2010) that it was curious that the local newspaper, the Valdosta Daily Times, seemed to have nothing about that. At least WCTV and WALB reported the arrests, but they don’t seem to be following the story since. Dean Poling did report in the VDT 24 Dec 2010 that Charges won’t keep Brooks school board members from serving: Continue reading →