Monday, August 22, 2005

Will we abandon sovereignty in the name of PC?

In many American locales, illegal aliens vote with impunity, sometimes aided by election workers who share the illegals' culture and world-view. Seeing this first-hand in the late 1980's was part of my early education about our illegal alien crisis. We allow law-breakers to affect the outcomes of our elections. Even the illegals who don't vote are counted in our census, thereby skewing congressional and state legislative district lines.

Think about this. Why on earth would a nation based on laws allow growing criminal elements to have such clout? If there were any reasonable level of sanity or clear-headed thinking in Washington, those who aid and abet illegals, the employers and the leaders of organizations like LULAC, MALDEF, the ACLU, the SPLC and the Ford Foundation , would be facing charges under RICO.

The groups I just listed are all opposed to making it a requirement to show a legitimate photo ID before someone is allowed to vote. Here's a piece on it.

John Fund on the Trail
OpinionJournal

"The Voting Rights Act, whose 40th anniversary we celebrate this month, has helped minorities elect 81 sitting members of Congress and thousands of local officials. But the rally civil rights groups held in Atlanta earlier this month to push for extension of the act's key temporary provisions downplayed those gains and instead pushed wild claims that some state laws requiring an ID to vote are the functional equivalent of Jim Crow poll taxes.

Both Judge Greg Mathis, the star of a syndicated courtroom TV show, and California Rep. Barbara Lee claimed that the last two presidential elections had been 'stolen.' Judge Mathis told the rally Republican leaders 'need to be locked up because they're all criminals and thieves.' Other speakers claimed Georgia's new photo ID law would suppress poor and elderly minority voters who might lack such a document. When the bill passed the Georgia House in March, black legislators sang slave songs and one even slammed a prisoner's shackles on the desk of the sponsor.

Juan Williams, a National Public Radio correspondent and author of 'Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years,' is 'stunned' by such vituperation. He told Fox News that it is 'reacting to devils that have been slain 40 years ago.' He says that 'in service to having no fraud elections, I think you could say to people, go and get a legitimate ID. I don't think that's too much to ask.'"
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