If you thought the Florida elections in 2000 were an unmitigated clusterfuck, just wait until November. What we’re witnessing is a naked attempt to steal the Florida election. Nothing could be more obvious. And it’s up to the Department of Justice to step in and aggressively go after Governor Rick Scott’s disenfranchisement campaign that is intentionally targeting Latino and Democrats and illegally striking them from the voting rolls.
I say the following almost literally: the only one committing voter fraud in Florida is Ann Coulter. Of course, what the governor is doing goes way beyond voter fraud. He’s trying to tip the election and change who our next president will be as a result. If he doesn’t back down, he should be put in prison and charged with one count of voter fraud for every citizen he wrongfully disenfranchised.
If he doesn’t back down, he should be put in prison and charged with one count of voter fraud for every citizen he wrongfully disenfranchised.
If CEO’s were treated as mostly the criminals they are, he’d already be in prison. Could he really be charged with voter fraud? Did the legislature pass a law? Or was he allowed to do this by himself? And where is the brain-dead corporate media down there?
He is not the only governor or secretary of state who should be so charged.
There is no better measure of the depths to which both our politics and our political media coverage have sunk than the fact that a coordinated effort to deny the right to vote to millions of people is so widely treated as just another political tactic.
Ironically, the tactic is almost always practiced by self-identified patriots. And here you might well have believed that crap you were fed growing up, that generations of people had fought and died so that we might all have that right.
Jebbie on steroids, eh. Who would have suspected a convicted fraudster to behave like that?
This is what we need be turning out en masse to protest. They stole it in 2000, they rigged it in 2004, they threw it 2008 and now they’re on their game and back with a vengeance.
It has long been my contention that historians will mark Dec 2000 as the end of “America”. This is it. If we don’t stop this now, it’s over.
I have next to zero expectation that Holder will find the sense of justice to intervene in any meaningful way. I wonder if calling in outfits like the Carter Center would at least shine a light on the vermin, and maybe even lay groundwork for a lawsuit seeking to annul the FL election results.
I have next to zero expectation that Holder will find the sense of justice to intervene in any meaningful way.
Good for you! In the meantime, Holder has already used Voting Rights Act Section Five challenges to block the implementation of vote-suppressing laws in several states, and has gone to federal court to block the implementation of such laws in other states.
The question here is why you have such a misperception of Holder’s actions in this field.
Examples:
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/23/nation/la-na-voting-rights-20111224&sa=U&ei=Q5bCT9Ta
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http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/03/13/justice-department-protects-voting-rights-for-minorities-
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http://peoplesworld.org/justice-department-investigating-over-100-voting-rights-violations/
The original post was talking about prosecution, dealing with the FL machinations as criminal activity. That’s what I was responding to. Has the DOJ moved in that direction anywhere? I wasn’t slamming Holder or Obama particularly. It would be a hard and risky move to get so outfront during campaign season. Any AG, any administration is limited in how far it can go when the citizenry is essentially indifferent/unconscious.
Second, Holder knows that whatever he tries to do through to courts will finally go before a deeply corrupt SC, which will decide the case on political, not legal grounds. How does he balance that knowledge with mounting intense pushback? I guess the summary is that I have no faith in the ability of this country to fight for its own ideals; Holder was perhaps a slightly unfair stand in for a suicide nation.