Posted on 12/31/2011 8:47:39 PM PST by markomalley
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. claims Jim Crow is returning. In a recent speech, Mr. Holder said that attempts by states to pass voter identification laws will disenfranchise minorities, rolling back the clock to the evil days of segregation. He said that a growing number of minorities fear that “the same disparities, divisions and problems” now afflict America as they did in 1965 prior to the Voting Rights Act. According to the Obama administration, our democracy is being threatened by racist Republicans. Hence, the Justice Department must prevent laws requiring a photo ID to vote from being enacted.
Mr. Holder argues that voter ID laws disproportionately discriminate against poor blacks and Hispanics - citizens who cannot afford to acquire a driver’s license, passport or other form of photo identification. The latest victim is South Carolina; its voter ID law has been blocked by the Justice Department. Liberal Democrats - taking their cue from the White House - are portraying the national movement for election reform as an authoritarian assault upon civil liberties. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has even petitioned the United Nations, asking it to declare states’ voter ID laws human rights abuses. For the radical left, America has become Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
This would be comical if the consequences were not so serious. South Carolina’s legislation provides for free ID cards to be given to anyone who needs it. Not one person - white, black or brown - is discriminated against or discouraged from casting a vote at the ballot box. Moreover, the Supreme Court already has ruled on the issue - upholding state voter ID laws.
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Unfortunately it's not illegal. In the voting rights act congress gave the DOJ the right to approve any any changes to voting laws in specific southern states that had a history of discrimination. Now SC will have to go to the courts to get the DOJ's decision reversed, Gov. Haley has issued a statement that she intends to.
Does Barry bend over for Reggie? Is Michelle’s butt bigger than Jupiter? Do Barry, Michelle, and Eric Holder hate whitey? Is the NAACP racist? Does Barry have a lifetime membership at Man’s Country? Is Barry on the down-low? Are all of Barry’s relatives illegal aliens? Do boob-belts run from Michelle?
Just asking too.
I would add to okie's good reply that the Fourteenth Amendment provides only one remedy to complaints of voter suppression, and that remedy is applied by the House of Representatives if needed. That is proportionate reduction of the delegation of representatives from a State so accused, to the House.
How and why this use of a "remedy" against a State, as well as the application of violent coercion to a State by factional owners of the federal government, is all part of the debris left behind by Abraham Lincoln and the Northern business interests' war to subjugate the South.
1. Republicans gave us the Voting Rights Act
2. Democrats gave us Jim Crow.
Thanks to you and to Lentulus Grachus (Salve Te!) for the answer. The State of S. Carolina should still ignore the order and let the DOJ take them to court. Civil disobedience (disobeying an unjust law) in its highest form.
Wow. I didn’t know all that. Thanks.
‘Can somebody explain to me how the Justice Department on its own can block any State law?’
What’s the problem? All the Justice Department has to do is conjure up a “Civil Right”. When black dudes with billy clubs were scaring white folks away from a polling place in Philadelphia, the victims of this intimidation issued a complaint. It got all the way to Holder, who decided that the right to vote was a “civil right”. Since “Civil Rights” are intended to protect black people, the White victims were out of luck and the case was dropped.
Note that in the posted article, Holder specifically refers to the “Voting Rights Act” of 1965, which outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans. From Wikipedia, the act “established extensive federal oversight of elections administration, providing that states with a history of discriminatory voting practices” and “could not implement any change affecting voting without first obtaining the approval of the Department of Justice.”
How goes it, out there on The Mother Road?
Who knows...but Romney is trying to steal the GOP nomination for president. NO ROMNEY
Who knows...but Romney is trying to steal the GOP nomination for president. NO ROMNEY
{Now you now}
Ted Kennedy, the gift that keeps on giving.
You know what if minorites can’t get off their lazy butts and apply for ID - say a birth certificate and then submit that to their local electoral office then they really don’t deserve the opportunity to vote.
In Australia you can’t vote if your not on the elctoral roll and you can’t get on the electoral role unless you provide specific proof of indentity and place of residence and, if an immigrant, your paperwork in regards to your status. If you change adresses you are required to inform the electoral people within three months.
There are other requirements of the electoral act that make it compulsory to vote once you are on the role which would not please many in the USA I am sure and also penalties for not voting.
But I think overall at least we know who it is that is actually voting and that illegal immigrants would not bother trying.
Mel
What's really sad here is that people fall for it. It baffles me how
American citizens buy into this crap.
Solution. Put their pics on thier EBT or medicare cards. Of course they might decline using those federal gifts...lol
Of course they will try to steal this election.You could see that they are already well underway if you understand how they work. They continue to rot the republic from within like termites and borers and other vermin.
Democrats accuse others of what they are actually already doing themselves....no one seems to get that though!
Holder (if he were not already a blind racist) would see that the absence of voter ID laws discriminates IN FAVOR OF poor blacks and Hispanics ( and others whose names will be used to cast fraudulent ballots again in this election).
...”Can somebody explain to me how the Justice Department on its own can block any State law? I expect stupidity from journalists but this is at a level that surprises even me”...
In a nation which has seen it’s Constitution stepped on and set aside to the point that we are no longer free, what can we expect? It seems that our leaders just throw out the most ridiculous thing they can just to see if they can make it stick with the American people, laws be damned! What nation can think that elections are even important if no identification of it’s citizens is possible at the voting booth? Without that, our system disintegrates into a giant criminal enterprise and I think we may be about there, if the last election and ACORN are any evidence. Just remember, evil triumphs when good men/women do nothing.
Let’s review, shall we?
1. Republicans gave us the Voting Rights Act
2. Democrats gave us Jim Crow.
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3. Independants and women gave us BHO.
In Tennessee, you need ID to buy cold medicine.
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