Do Voting Rights only apply to Democratic Voters??
By bobmnu
@bobmnu (8157)
United States
May 30, 2009 12:31am CST
It seems that the Attorney General has decided that charges should be dropped against the Black Panther Party and some of its members because it is not a big enough violation of the Voting Rights Act. This after the defendants did not answer the charges and were found guilty by a default judgement. The men were charges with showing up a a polling place on election day dressed in the Black Panther military style uniform carrying night sticks (defined as a weapon under the law) and were yelling at people at one or more voting places.
According to Attorney Bartle Bull, a self describe Kennedy liberal and very active in the movement to get the voting rights act passed and in the movement to get minorities registered to vote, this was the most outrageous example of voter intimidation and may have been blocked by the Attorney General because the Black Panthers were an early support of President Obama.
Is this what we can expect from the Democrats in Office that such things will be swept under the rug and not investigated because it might look bad for the president. Will we see these people at all polling places in 2010 to prevent people who might be opposed to the President from voting. They know they will not be prosecuted.
It was reported on Fox News that this was a political decision made by Political Appointees over the objection of career lawyers at the Justice Department. I keep hearing the Democrats saying we are a nation of laws when it comes to the treatment of terrorists. Don't the laws apply to citizens who want to express a different point of view?
2 responses
@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
30 May 09
The laws only apply when it benefits the democrats.
Maybe next election some of the voters will be armed, and some panther hunting will take place.
Since the liberals want to turn us into Kenya, well that can be a two way street.
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@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
1 Jun 09
If the people want to change it they can. We did it with the Emmigration Bill and we can do it again. We need to forget the party label and vote for the candidate who will cut the spending and reduce government. This needs to be done at every level of government.
@khayshenz (1384)
• United States
1 Jun 09
I agree with Bob - this whole labelling thing has gotten wayyyy out of hand.
At this point we need to focus on what needs to be done to stabilize the economy, reduce debt and spending,etc.
With that said, I still do not approve of what is going on with the polls and how the "minority" reacts when their proposition do not win (I'm talking about CA State Prop.8).
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@matersfish (6306)
• United States
30 May 09
It's just too much of a mess for them to deal with.
In liberal land, nothing in America has changed. Black people and still being lynched, still being denied rights, still being made to drink at separate fountains, and are still entitled to their 40 acres and a mule.
My personal belief, and it could very well be wrong, is that Holder, Obama, and every other political liberal feels as if the presence of those men was actually needed outside of the polling area. They're so hell-bent on the belief that ALL white people (who aren't leftist wing-tips) are racists that they never even attempt to count whites as Americans.
If you notice, they like lumping up white, Christian, conservative-leaning people into the "traditional" category. And as they've publically stated, time and again, this "tradition" is something America needs to move away from.
I know people like Holder aren't going to change their minds. My only wish here is that the public could see this gross display of hypocrisy from the left. Ironically, and it's a matter of recorded history, if one cares to look, the breaking point in Civil Rights--as in, the South's treatment of blacks--came when the DEMOCRATS left!
You can't play politics with voters' rights. These guys are either guilty or not guilty. This "not a big enough violation" crap is doubletalkin' horsesh1t that can and should be interpreted to say: "We cannot rightly hold black people responsible for voting violations, because of what their predecessors have endured in generations past. We owe them a pass."
Hey, as wrong as that may be, at least they'd be telling the truth--as they see it--for once, and stop with this meaningless rhetoric and the under-the-rug style of handling minorities compared to the national display of their white counterparts.
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@bobmnu (8157)
• United States
1 Jun 09
It seem to me that voter intimidation was making people wait in lines to vote. It is making them show a photo ID to vote. Voter intimidation is requiring people to a government building to register in person to vote. I guess AG Holder does not see Black men wielding weapons as intimidation. It is just like others in the Administration who feel the laws apply to everyone else but them.
