Bye Bye Voting Rights Act by Palast

[lonestarnot]

VOTING RIGHTS ACT NAILED TO BURNING CROSS

Behind the "Delay" in Renewing Law is Scheme for Theft of '08
White Sheets Changed for Spreadsheets

by Greg Palast
For The Guardian
June 23, 2006

Don't kid yourself. The Republican Party's decision yesterday to "delay" the renewal of the Voting Rights Act has not a darn thing to do with objections of the Republican's White Sheets Caucus.

Complaints by a couple of Good Ol' Boys to legislation has never stopped the GOP leadership from rolling over dissenters.

This is a strategic stall - meant to de-criminalize the Republican Party's new game of challenging voters of color by the hundreds of thousands.

In the 2004 Presidential race, the GOP ran a massive multi-state, multi-million-dollar operation to challenge the legitimacy of Black, Hispanic and Native-American voters. The methods used broke the law -- the Voting Rights Act. And while the Bush Administration's Civil Rights Division grinned and looked the other way, civil rights lawyers are circling, preparing to sue to stop the violations of the Act before the 2008 race.

Therefore, Republicans have promised to no longer break the law -- not by going legit . but by eliminating the law.

The Act was passed in 1965 after the Ku Klux Klan and other upright citizens found they could use procedural tricks -- "literacy tests," poll taxes and more -- to block citizens of color from casting ballots.

More at link...


Greg Palast is the author of Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War. Order it here.


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[MadMaddie]

1. 2006 Jim Crow laws....yes it's alive and black America

knows it....

[lonestarnot]

2. 2006 Any Jim They Can Laws.

[itzamirakul]

8. OK: The Democratic outrage about the Voting Rights Act will

last for....oops! It's over...time to move on to something more important than the black vote.

[dogday]

3. Racist Warmongering Bastards

I cannot stand them...

[CanOfWhoopAss]

4. Many Black people are finding out late that their kids and grandkids

will have to march like their parents and grandparents did. All because they refuse to get involved.

[lonestarnot]

6. Unless they just kick back and are reborn into slavery with the rest of us

that just kick back and watch it happen. I for one am not just watching it happen.

[cantstandbush]

5. Is it fascism yet? Wake me when you get the word. n/t

[librechik]

7. next--rollback Women's rights, then on to the jews--the new Republican

agenda is not at all like Hitler whatsoever.

:sarcasm:

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Can we get the message across to all the Dem voters to call in

to their election's officer and ask if they're still eligible to vote?

[CanOfWhoopAss]

10. Great idea but that won't stop them from screwing you on election day.

You must write in and get a written response so you have proof of your right to vote at the polling station. This may not be enough.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Well, why don't we suggest to everyone to send postcards to their

elections office just to do that? In fact, why don't the black communities come together and encourage their people to do it since they're the ones who have been targeted in the last two elections?

[lonestarnot]

12. Jan Brewer? Hmmmf. Waste of a postcard!

[CanOfWhoopAss]

15. That and I even prefer absentee voting by certified mail

I really think everyone should vote in Republican Primaries so they have to steal that one 2. This way the loser will be furious at his own party and possibly become a whistleblower.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=108x123095

[orleans]

13. gotta link? n/t

[jazzjunkysue]

14. Found the link. Here it is.

http://www.gregpalast.com/voting-rights-act-nailed-to-burning-cross-2

[Wilms]

16. K&R n/t

[Nothing Without Hope]

17. K & R - n/t