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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Will there, definitely, be a ‘12 November general election? Between now and then, anything can happen, especially if the left is in any danger of losing their power over everybody else.
Oh, there's many folk about on FR who get that. Psychologically, it's called 'projection.' When we yell at each other about it instead of yelling at the Progressives, that's called 'displacement.'
I wondered what Hollywood was thinking when they totally rewrote The Manchurian Candidate; then Obama ran for President. They ALWAYS TELL US, man. ALWAYS. We need to listen.
“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.”
Thats funny, they sure as hell can afford cigarettes, alcohol, multiple cell phones, gold teeth, the latest threads and shoes, the biggest rims, and loudest radios in their cars but cant afford the $25(+/-) for a license.
In most places you have to show a photo ID to buy cigarettes, alcohol, cash checks, etc, etc. Yet these slackers cant whip out an ID before casting a ballot?
That idiot holder is so full of crap that its literally dripping out of his ears
It appears that the Democrats believe it is not discrimination when citizens given up the right for their vote to actually matter, that it be diminished, awash in a sea of illegal and illegitimate votes.
Just to get into the Houston BARC animal shelter a photo id is required.
Photo id and drug test SHOULD be required EVERY month to get a welfare check.
LOL! It wouldn’t be the first time for South Carolina!
Some crazy socialist-Marxist took over the steering wheel and he's hell-bent on driving us over the cliff, eh? It's getting complicated trying to pick out the best replacement driver, so why don't you just take a poll of the '98ers and get back with me on which one we should go with. It sure would make my life easier! Just as long as it's not Romney. Besides being obama-lite, that phoney shyster really gets on my nerves.
It's really good seeing you again!
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