Palast: Democracy in Chains 6/23/06

Democracy in chains
Greg Palast

June 23, 2006 05:03 PM

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 have never stopped the GOP leadership from rolling over dissenters.

This is a strategic stall that is meant to decriminalise the Republican party's new game of challenging voters of colour by the hundreds of thousands.

In the 2004 presidential race, the GOP ran a massive, multi-state, multimillion-dollar operation to challenge the legitimacy of black, Hispanic and Native American voters. The methods used breached the Voting Rights Act, and while the Bush administration's civil rights division grinned and looked the other way, civil rights lawyers began circling, preparing to sue to stop the violations of the act before the 2008 race.

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

>more
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/greg_palast/2006/06/voting_rights_act_nailed_to_bu.html

edit: related thread posted earlier
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x435935

I understand that once there were US papers worth reading.

:patriot:

We'll take these treasonous, rat bastards down. We have to.

not be able to do all this if it wasn't for the DEMOCRATS SILENCE. Do we have a 2 party system? I don't think so, If the Republicans can't win an election in a state, the Repubs just take that state over Davis and Shelly come to mind. Wake up, the Government and the media is not on our side. WE DO NOT have a two party sytem any longer. Its time to fight, and fight hard, for our kids future.

about it. They're afraid that it will be used against them.

But we have to get posted on google like this did (I think) http://www.progressiveu.org/115540-republican-national-strategy-of-voter-discrimination-want-to-see-somethig-horrible

Because then it sometimes gets to peoples' emails who don't have time to keep up. And we have to tell everyone to get involved in election reform (not voter reform).

I was thinking the other day, they are going to lose MILLIONS of votes that way -young people and lower income. They're going to do it again, I'm reading Armed Madhouse and read how they did it the last two times, they'll have it perfected by then.