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2010-10-24 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-10-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Bull Connor's been dead for almost thirty years, bub.

Posted by tu3031 2010-10-24 00:17|| 2010-10-24 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 The Democrats are always trying to relive their old 'Glory Days' Tu.

Bill Conner was a Democrat.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-10-24 01:09|| 2010-10-24 01:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Irony:

Voting Rights Act being used to deprive people of voting rights.

Posted by gromky 2010-10-24 01:17|| 2010-10-24 01:17|| Front Page Top

#4 The significance of this is that the Washington Post is reporting it. This breaks the cone of silence among the leftist media outlets.

The facts are not much in doubt, although the Post leaves some facts out in an effort to make the DoJ look not-as-bad.

Posted by lord garth 2010-10-24 06:37|| 2010-10-24 06:37|| Front Page Top

#5 So, all along it wasn't about 'equality', it was just about POWER. Well, I'm certainly surprised. /sarc off

Somewhere in their 'education' they must of missed the little point that when you disenfranchise the majority in a democracy/republic, it's no longer a democracy/republic except in name like "People's Democratic Republic of..". So, who are these bureaucrats going to get to defend their power when its challenged, because they apparently missed the fall of their brothers in Moscow when no one came to save them from among the ~~serfs~~ disenfranchised.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-10-24 08:56|| 2010-10-24 08:56|| Front Page Top

#6 "There are career people who feel strongly that it is not the voting section's job to protect white voters,"

Time to clean these racists out of the DOJ and prosecute for civil rights violations.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-10-24 10:13|| 2010-10-24 10:13|| Front Page Top

#7 But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. - 14th Amendment, para 2

So when the number of representatives are assigned based upon this year's census, does that mean court challenges can be initiated against those state who include any group that they fail to protect the voting rights of? Taking out the 'white' population from the calculation will reduce a good number of representatives for a number of states. They're opening a can of worms they don't want to see.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-10-24 12:31|| 2010-10-24 12:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Definitely a can they don't wish to see. A very relevant and little spoken of incident here in Tenn.

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1985/2/1985_2_72.shtml (just in case the URL button is funky.

Posted by Silentbrick 2010-10-24 16:34|| 2010-10-24 16:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Which it was.

Link

Posted by Silentbrick 2010-10-24 16:35|| 2010-10-24 16:35|| Front Page Top

#10 An interesting article, Silentbrick. Thought provoking, indeed.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-10-24 18:17|| 2010-10-24 18:17|| Front Page Top

#11 The time for showing the Left what's in box number four draws closer.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2010-10-24 18:27|| 2010-10-24 18:27|| Front Page Top

#12 Silentbrick: I think the Battle of Athens would make a wonderful movie--released just before election time.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-10-24 19:02|| 2010-10-24 19:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Consider who the bad guys are, such a movie would never be made. I was lucky to come across this elsewhere myself, it wasn't taught in any of my history classes and nobody I've met even mentions it.

Making it known across the US again would /terrify/ the left I'm sure.

Posted by Silentbrick 2010-10-24 19:10|| 2010-10-24 19:10|| Front Page Top

#14 "The 1992 made-for-television movie An American Story (produced by the Hallmark Hall of Fame) was based upon the McMinn (aka Battle of Athens)County War but set in a Texas town in 1945. It was nominated for two 1993 prime time Emmy Awards and one American Society of Cinematographers award." - linky

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-10-24 20:01|| 2010-10-24 20:01|| Front Page Top

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