If Sen Helms as such a goodman who cares for his fellow man as his supporters claim, then it is better for him to have died and be with God. Awunganyi

What a great Senator Jesse Helms was. To have never lost a political race is quite an accomplishment. I hope those who have opposed him realize that those who voted him into office are walking along side you even now and are continuing to vote for the values Senator Helms upheld. Knowing this state put him into Senate for as long as they did is only one of the many reasons I am proud to be from North Carolina. If you saw him in a negative light I implore you to look beyond secondhand information and read first hand his voting record (which is public information for those of us who like to make up our own mind about things rather than having our opinions handed to us by a third party). He believed every person was created equal in the eyes of God and voted to protect each one of this states citizens, even those who hated him. As for moral issues, if you disagreed with Jesse Helms and oh so many other more conservative thinkers please don’t take it out on us because sadly we can’t take credit for the ideals we try to uphold but rather look to God and the Bible from which the nation was knitted together. That is definitely who your disagreement is with.

I WAS PROUD THAT JESSE HELMS REPRESENTED NORTH CAROLINA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WE WERE FORTUNATE TO HAVE HIM, HE ALWAYS SAID WHAT HE THOUGHT AND NEVER WAVERED. WHEN JIM HUNT RAN AGAINST HIM, I BECAME OFFICIALLY WHAT I HAD ALWAYS BEEN -- A REPUBLICAN! REST IN PEACE, JESSE...........................

This man was acknowledged and voted the most friendly, curteous member of Congress consistantly. Why, because he was just that. Of course detractors try to make it wrong for him to stand up to those who viciously attacked, placed blocks in legislation he advocated. For them it was being cruel for him to use the same tactics to block thier efforts. Liberals all have the same tac, they will say and do anything to make the USA just like Bangladesh. Read their icon Dr. Rawls. Senetor Helms was stalwart, brave, and bold in opposition to that sort of character. He alone stood up to the UN and got that lame outfit to somewhat be improved. Only a Helms could and would do that, others jjust lay back and let someone else do the heavy lifting. Senator Helms was tuned into the people he represented, and he represented all regardless of race, political persuasion, whatever. if you had a legitimate problem, Helms came to your aid. The Democrats of Charlotte having difficulty with the status with Germans exhaused their impotent and in power fellow democrats, and a last hour appealed to Jesse who helped the airport and NC. It was a legitimate difficulty. Sen. Helms always replied to letters, calls. I found him uplifting, and am proud to call him friend, and my advocate in congress. He will be missed by me and those like me to our own graves. Few men earn the respect Jesse Helms has earned. His detractors can go on and continue to criticize him, and in doing so they admit he was by far the better man. God Bless Jesse and take him into your arms. Nobody deserves it more.

In my country Guatemala, several people cry for Senator Helms.

We have suffered a terrible loss. Senator Jesse Helms will be sorely missed.

After reading some of these post its hard to tell which Jessie you are talking about. Think about it.

I admire Sen. Helms for standing up to the politically correct, anti-life, anti-family people in this country. He stood by his principles, and he knew he would have to answer to God for whatever actions he took, especially on behalf of the USA in his capacity as senator. God will judge him; we do not need hate-mongers to spew their venom in a column that is supposed to honor his memory. There are plenty of other hate websites for that purpose.May his soul rest in peace and my his good deeds stand him in good stead. God almighty is all-merciful, unlike so many in our country today. There is no forgiveness among those who would change the definition of marriage as God intended, as society has honored for millenia, among those who believe their pleasure and their bodies have no boundaries. The ME-FIRST generation will reap what it has sown.

I have never met Senator Helms but know his daughter in law, Kathleen from college. I can only judge the heart of a man who adopted his son, Charles, Kathleen's husband and have the utmost respect for him. May God welcome him with open arms into his forever family. GOd bless Susan Shiflett Ducote Baton Rouge LA

As a native born Tarheel I have lived here all my life and in my opinion there has never been a government representavive from our state that had as much positive influence in politics as he did. I truly hope that one day we will have others who have the courage to vote old time morals and Biblical principles as he did. My heartfelt sympathy to his family and friends.

As a west virginia born,grandson of coal miners,raised in pennsylvaina by hard working parents,ex-marine,Vietnam vet-I've seen my share of bigotry and racism.I always considered Jesse Helms one of the most dangerous politicians ever.He hated Blacks,gays and anybody else that was not white-anglo-saxon Protestant. Good riddance and may God have mercy on your soul. L.G.O. aka Wva Pr

THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WRITING ALL THE STUFF ABOUT JESSIC HELMS BEING A BAD MAN . ARE WRONG. AS A PART OF THE HELMS FAMILY , WHAT I SEE IS THAT NC IS FULL OF HYPOCRITE AND BIGOT . YOU TALK OF A DEAD MAN THAT SOMEONE IN YOUR STATE KEEP IN OFFICE 30 YEARS . IAM GLAD THAT IAM AMERICAN WHERE ICAN HAVE SOME ONE LIKE JESSE TO BE PROUD OF I WANT MY CHILDEN AND GRANDCHILD TO BE PROUD TO HAVE THE HELMS NAME

Jesse Helms, exemplar of conservatism: As an aide to the 1950 Senate campaign of North Carolina Republican candidate Willis Smith, Helms reportedly helped create attack ads against Smith's opponent, including one which read: "White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races." Another ad featured photographs Helms himself had doctored to illustrate the allegation that Graham's wife had danced with a black man. (The News and Observer, 8/26/01; The New Republic, 6/19/95; The Observer, 5/5/96; Hard Right: The Rise of Jesse Helms, by Ernest B. Furgurson, Norton, 1986) The University of North Carolina was "the University of Negroes and Communists." (Capital Times, 11/22/94) Black civil rights activists were "Communists and sex perverts." (Copley News Service, 8/23/01) Of civil rights protests Helms wrote, "The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights." (WRAL-TV commentary, 1963) He also wrote, "Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact of life which must be faced." (New York Times, 2/8/81) Over the years Helms has declared homosexuality "degenerate," and homosexuals "weak, morally sick wretches." (Newsweek, 12/5/94) In a tirade highlighting his routine opposition to AIDS research funding, Helms lashed out at the Kennedy-Hatch AIDS bill in 1988: "There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy." (States News Service, 5/17/88) And the man ABC News now describes as a "conservative icon" (8/22/01) in 1993 sang "Dixie" in an elevator to Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African-American woman elected to the Senate, bragging, "I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing Dixie until she cries." (Chicago Sun-Times, 8/5/93) Jesse Helms was a hateful bigot who ruined many people's lives, appealed to the worst impulses of humanity, and left the world a worse place for his having been in it. Stop pretending the hateful stuff doesn't matter. It matters. It harmed America.

I am an honest, highly educated, hard-working professional, decorated Vietnam veteran, Christian and true American Patriot. I had the untimely misfortune to work as a very dedicated North Carolina state government employee many years during the terrible reign of James B. Hunt - the 4 term political machine Democrat who brought literal evil and tyranny to the State Employees Personnel System. Jim Hunt and his Hollywood bag men and faggot loving supporters took the State of North Carolina out of God's care and put it in the hands of Satan and his demons. It is still there today. So THANK YOU from God fearing and law abiding Patriots who love thier country and families more than the lifestyle of queers and dykes that claim beaureaucratic power and control today within the state government departments in North Carolina. Jim Hunt set in motion the most left-wing liberal socialist anti-God government machine east of California, Oregon and Washington and south of Washington, D.C. Jim Hunt, his supporters and his hand-picked government descendents can worship thier God Satan and thier extrme liberal causes if they want. But I will look forward to meeting you Jesse in Heaven where we can finally live righteously according to God's commandments in peace, harmony and honor with our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ. Thanks Senator "No" for the over-whelming defeat you gave the most corrupt and immoral governor in the history of North Carolina. We never have to deal with Jimmie Boy as a Senator thanks to the large Democrat majority of voters who knew the real Jess Helms. They wrote off the false Jesse Helms image portrayed by the Hollywood set and the socialist communists controlling the written media today! May God Bless Your Memory and may it live long beside that of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams who share the date of your honorable death. And as you often stated in closing your campaign speeches at grass roots meetings, "Fello citizens, you have a Republic if you can keep it!" May God Bss america! Amen

Friends grandma's opinions are always over the top, and just opinions. Evil or not, anti-Christ like behavior or not., she despised his earlier pro- racist comments.

Agree,disagree,love him, hate him,it doesn't matter.What Jesse said Jesse did. That's a rare thing in politics.We could use a lot more like him,reguardless of party.I hope that some of the cruel folks that left messages here can some day understand that. This is why we kept sending him back to Washington.

I'm a North Carolina native and I think he was one of the biggest embarrassements this state ever had.

Senator Helms is a man to be honored, regardless of whether or not you agreed with his positions. We should appreciate the fact that as few politicians do, he stood firm in his beliefs. My sympathy to his family.

How anyone can celbrate this heartless man is beyond me. If you are one of thos people, then you seriously need to do some soul searching, because hatred permeated his very essense, and that my frineds in not a value that Christ would hold dear!!

After being contacted by my former father-in-law, Jessie Helms somehow was able to get the IRS to drop a large tax bill owed by my ex. This was a man who at the same time owed back child support. If I remember correctly, he won elections with a very small majority of votes. . As a North Carolinian I'm PROUD to say that I NEVER voted for this man!!

Here's my idea how the NAACP should show their grief.......They should send a delegation to the funeral....and right before they get to the gravesite.....everyone should drink a liter of water.....Once at the gravesite......Release!!!!!!! HAPPY 4TH!!!!!

i am ashamed of you fools that bad mouth a GREAT MAN. This country has far too many fools and democrats like yourselves. i remind you fools that other GREAT MEN have died on the 4th of July most notable Thomas Jefferson & John Adams (ON THE SAME DAY). I Pray you fools find God & a heart. We need more and more Jesse Helms! Eternal est grant unto him oh Lord. and Perpetual light shine upon him. THANK YOU JESSE FOR YOU FEARLESS LEADERSHIP! MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PEACE. William French, North Carolina CPA

It's truely a cause to celibrate Independance day, good timming, should have happend at birth though, but maybe now NC can join us in this century? maybe? lol... stop wallering in stupidity, it's really lame. I was soooo happy to see "it " had died, I hope he sufferd greatly and know he will for eternaty in hell... Happy day, happy day! The world's a brighter place without that Mega UGLY ignorant nasty freak on the plannet anymore. He was ultimently sick, twisted and truely evil, now he can start to pay for it, forever!!!! I'm just so very happy! Made my day! One Evil Slumlord in Raliegh down, hope his whole family follows him to hell soon! Can you even imagine how scanky his wife is, married to that ugly sick freak, ew, mega slumlord devil herself. Free at last, free at last, the worlds free of the sicko freak! I just know he has a special place in hell, what a wonderful thought. Truely the worlds a better place, air sweeter, nature stronger and man kind better off now that it's finally dead! dead dead dead! No more jesse! YEAH!!!!!!!! Happy Day!

You should only speak good of the dead. Jessie helms is dead GOOD!!!!!!!!

People are trying to relate real American patriots to Jesse Helms.... the fact that he died on the 4th of July wasn't soon enough. This man did more to stifle American government than any enemy, he was not an American patriot and it's an insult to Jefferson and others to put Jesse Helms in the same class. I pray that his soul rots in hell and that God shows no mercy to this terrible man who hatedful.

Senator Helms was a true patriot, a man whose independence of spirit and love for our Nation will always be held by we who knew him best as a true thing of beauty. He struck a nerve in the hearts of his villifiers. They weren't going to make Jesse to be a liberal so they hated him all the more. But in 1972, 1978, 1984,1990 and 1996, the people of North Carolina, who knew him best, gave him their renewed confidence in keeping him in the United States Senate. Despite all the bad words describing him. His place in American history is secure and it is high. Sorry, guys. Take up your grievances with the people who kept returning him to the United States Senate. The people's verdict will always hold sway in this country. Rock on, Senator Helms. Rest in peace, dear friend.

My condolences to the Helms family. Jesse Helms was a true American that stood for what was right. God bless his family.

I WOULD NEVER HAVE RECIEVED AN HELP,UNTIL I CONTACTED HIS OFFICE,THE VA [DOCTORS AND AND OFFICE JUST GAVE ME THE RUN AROUND UNTIL MR. HELMS ASKED THEM TO LOOK AT MY CASE. GARY BRATCHER DAV [LIFE TIME MEMBER]

My sincere condolences to the Helms family. God Bless America and God Bless Jesse Helms. From a fellow North Carolinian. Go Heels!

Good riddance to a sham and shameful example of an American. At least he will always be warm.

to all yall people so full of hate. iam make sure to add you in my pray ! the one thing i wasnt to say is iam proud to be a HELMS . god make A FEW GOOD PEOPLE IAM GLAD TO BE a helms just like him

How refreshingly ironic that a man so dedicated to denying freedom and liberties to many Americans would die on the day we celebrate our freedom and liberties as a nation. Jesse Helms WAS NOT a patriot or fine American. He was a hate-filled bigot and his death on the 4th of July shows that God does indeed have a sense of humor. I hope and pray that Jesse Helms burns in hell forever and a day!

I hope God knows you better than most of us. I hope He knows the man you really are. Not the kind of man we've seen over so many years, a racist, a homophobe (misspelling), etc. Although your love of country, and the deeds you've done for "your" people will leave sweet memories in the minds of your supporters such that you will be hailed a hero. But to many, many others--those of us still living and those precious souls you will see in the hereafter--to us, you are an evil man. But it is God who knows you best. So I pray that you are not the man "we" think we know, but someone much more beautiful in the eyes of God.

May the rest of evil in the world follow you, and take all your hate,anger,and bitternes with you.

The passing of Jesse Helms recalls a poem from a North Carolina magaine in the 1950's: "Here lies the remains of Dorothy Proctor Who had a cold she couldn't doctor. She couldn't stay; she had to go. Praise Good from whm all blessings flow.

Papa, Can You Hear Me? clip from Yentl

A Negro Communist

15 years ago

Could you feel it? Emotiions are real things. We all have them. (Come to think of it he was probably burked)

just that - a perfect day. Love the song !!

A man who kept racism alive in NC espically with WRAL editorals using the N Word like it was his first language. He frequently used racial fear tactics to win elections. He kept racism alive with these unfair and decietful tactics. He did absloutely nothing to ehance race relations in NC. NC could have been further along in the 70's and 80' in race relations if it were not for Helms. Jesse Helms certainly leaves a legacy of hate which was more damaging to this country than a dispised filabuster in congress.

My sympathy goes out to the Helms family; but I think his stubburn stances on many issues will cause him to go down in the pages of history as an joke not a patriot. Its a terrible thing to be remembered as a hate monger. Everything good he did as a representative for NC is way overshadowed by his hate speach.

Death couldn't come to a more worthy guy. We don't need anymore of his kind.

will be sorely missed.stood up for all americans rights and family values.gays and others hated him because he had the courage to stand and say it was wrong!

Sen. Helms was an uncompromising pillar of conservatism that will be greatly remembered and missed! The legacy he leaves will hopefully reverberate through the halls of the senate for years to come...

Senator Helms had a wonderdul way about him. Nobody's fool, certainly. He made me feel like I had a Dad in office. He stood up (and worked hard) for what he believed. There are so many of us that are truly thankful. I pray that we will again have a man of his integrity and leadership to help keep our country safe and free. God Bless YOU, Senator. God Bless YOUR family, and GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Sen. Helms will be remembered as a leader and a patriot