Lake County to remove former sherriff's name from street name

[jlc--mamacita]

douglas wrote:

<quoted text>No-- Cool Hand Luke was not about Willis McCall. go to www.dc.state.fl.us/oth/tomeline/1966-1969.htm... -- goalmost to the botom of the page and there is an article about the subject,author,and film maker.

I only said that I had "heard" it because I have not done any research on either the book or the author. It made for an interesting "old Florida Yarn" as it were, so I never thought to look beyond that.

The very idea that McCall could stop one book from being published by an entire state seemed far reaching. A man that powerful should have been governor or even President, not a county Sheriff.

[douglas]

jlc--mamacita wrote:

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I only said that I had "heard" it because I have not done any research on either the book or the author. It made for an interesting "old Florida Yarn" as it were, so I never thought to look beyond that.
The very idea that McCall could stop one book from being published by an entire state seemed far reaching. A man that powerful should have been governor or even President, not a county Sheriff.

I didnt mean to sound accusing. I just thought you may want to look up the facts about the book. Looking up facts is something most of these blogers dont take time to do. They rely on the "opipionated and embelished views" of liberal reporters, that just copy and repeat.As one of the blogs refers to Corsair's book for facts.It is a fictional novel based on a real event.Corsair takes journalistic license to embelish for affect. It's a book. He wants it to make him money.He is selling controversy, hoping to make even more money if he can make low budget movie out of it. Rely on it about as much as you would the National Enquirer.

[bob]

im sure you will sleep better at night knowing they are selling crack just down the road from you house

[no pc guy eather]

you are correct in your observation of the fine law man when we completly loose the streets it will be to late then if attacking a dead mans sign is on the top of important things to do we have already lost !!!

[RAY]

what we got here is a failure to communicate okay

[Gatorbait]

Good and Bad. Winners and Losers. Thats the way it is. Lake County stays broke. Crime is triple. Jails are full. Rapes, murders child molestings amoung other things are up. Which is worse? Iron Fist or what we have now?

[mike]

goodriddens wrote:

How anyone supports this guy is insane...great move Lake County. "Handcuffed" black men killed with their cuffs on...

What I remember him saying on national TV, was in referrence to a black man that had been bound, gagged, shot repeatedly in the back, and then thrown off a bridge....He said, on TV, "Worst Case of Suicide I have ever seen" That was the beginning of the end for Mr Mcall

[ENation]

NO PC GUY wrote:

SO WE STRIP THE NAME OF A FINE LAWMAN FROM A ROADNAME. FOR GOODNESS SAKE HE SHOT TWO ESCAPING RAPISTS!! MAYBE WE SHOULD NAME A ROAD AFTER THE CRIMINALS NOW!!!

That SOB pulled a gun on my Dad, a white man who tried to organize the black labor for better wages from the citrus growers. The Citrus growers PLACED McCall in office to be their minion, intimidating the black population, ignoring the calls for help when black workers were beaten or shot at, and ignoring the intimidating threats to those who would stand up to the KKK. My father had a bomb planted in his apartment. It did not go off, but when My father called the sheriff, he did not showed up, only the FBI came to his help. This was 1955. Additionally, you need to inform yourself on how these so called "rapists" were indicted and about how they were shot. If you did not know McCall, inform yourself.

[Willie McCoy]

If one Otis Grady Nation was really your father perhaps your memory fails you or he withheld facts
from you regarding his life. When he represented the CIO as its top Hatchet Man and Agitator, he was actually fired for "DISHONEST DEALINGS" along with his assistant Arthur Leary. The Southern Labor Journel exposed his Communist connections.
As his criminal history was exposed the Union decided his involvement was a detriment to their cause. Among other things he was arrested Oct nineteen-forty-three for adultry. He also spent a year in forty-seven in the Federal Detention Camp at Camp Cook, Ca for "DESERTION OF ARMED SERVICE."
Recorded records never die like humans. Actually
while McCall was not always one of my favorite people, when dealing with you "Dad" he should have
used two guns and pulled both triggers. Decent honest people of this country would have been better off. The strugle of the black population has always suffered and been extorted by rotten White People like "Your Dad." PUT THIS IN YOUR PIPE AND SMOKE IT! THE TRUTH NEVER DIES!

[tired of the dirty dozen]

I guess thats where our fine upstanding members of the county, including oh so sweet Gary, get there tradition to be scum. I didnt have the chance to know the doings of McCall, but take the racist factor out and add in money, greed, and power and we are right back where we started. Lake County will not overcome this ideaology untill the 50 somethings are to old to hold any power in city or goverment. Untill then things still havent changed much.

[Willie McCoy]

tired of the dirty dozen wrote:

I guess thats where our fine upstanding members of the county, including oh so sweet Gary, get there tradition to be scum. I didnt have the chance to know the doings of McCall, but take the racist factor out and add in money, greed, and power and we are right back where we started. Lake County will not overcome this ideaology untill the 50 somethings are to old to hold any power in city or goverment. Untill then things still havent changed much.

That's a pretty good overview. In reality McCall
treated everone about the same, unless you were his cronie. He probably took a little kickback on the Bolita money to turn his head. And done favors for his grove owner friends. But, he was not sick and he did not condone sick things. What we have now is an enviroment of sickness which is used by many employees as an excuse to do whatever they want.The news is full of people like this falling everyday. Their day will come.

[Livinnear it]

[Should be called drug alley,more drug deals go on on "450-A" than on Mary Street in Eustis.Put that in your pipes and smoke it!You should hear the police helicopters that wake the surrounding residents up at least 2 times a week.They need to learn respect for each other before demanding it from anyone else!

[just checking]

No it wont, nobody is going to a damn thing about lcso.

Willie McCoy wrote:

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That's a pretty good overview. In reality McCall
treated everone about the same, unless you were his cronie. He probably took a little kickback on the Bolita money to turn his head. And done favors for his grove owner friends. But, he was not sick and he did not condone sick things. What we have now is an enviroment of sickness which is used by many employees as an excuse to do whatever they want.The news is full of people like this falling everyday. Their day will come.

[LCSO Historian]

I understand your frustration. Good people have a real hard time understanding how this corruption and sickness can survive. All I have to say to you is be patient, it will not survive forever. Borders sick homo lifestyle mirrors governor Crist. The powers who controlled the last elections in this country helped to place these sicko's in office as a means to destroy the fibers of the country. They can control these sick idiots and they know that. This will not stand. The sickness and corruption in Lake County is being looked into. It is ironic to me that people who seem to know so much about Willis McCall and what he stood for actually kow nothing about him at all. The corruption in Lake County led by Bob McKee and cronies will soon come to an end. The over one half a billion dollars they have put us in debt for has been squandered and for that we and our children will suffer if we remain in Lake County to repay the debt. God help the honest folks of Lake County who were working, trying to raise their children and did not have the time to watch what these crooks have been doing. Hopefully soon they will all be wearing bracelets and ankel irons. Corruption breeds corruption just like garbage breeds garbage. Many years in prison will cause the taxpayers to forget these times when they had to work while their elected officials stole them blind.

[MEE]

Lake County SUCKS....Lived there all my life and couldn't leave fast enough......Glad I'm gone all of you can deal with the Ignorance, Drugs, Rapes, Murders, Child Molesters and just Plain Shitty People...............Good Luck........I will never set foot in that town again.....Everyone is crooked....F'off Lake County.............

[Fantom from Monticello KY]

goodriddens wrote:

How anyone supports this guy is insane...great move Lake County. "Handcuffed" black men killed with their cuffs on...

Whats wrong with that?