Voting Rights Act Nailed To Burning Cross Greg Palast

Reading Palast always makes me drag out the tin foil hat, because I know he is right, and that kinds puts me on the thin edge of insanity, but here goes anyway. No one ever reads this blog but the NSA anyway. They should be used to my weird rantings by now.

Anyway, what if the Republicans don't have to blatantly discriminate anymore. What if they could challenge blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians, what have you, evenly across the board?

With all of the data they have collected on Americans in the last 5 years, I would be willing to bet that they could put together a list of white folks, from red states and blue states, who seem to be a bit too blue to vote.

I don't think that the Republicans have said that they won't challege a voter, did they? Maybe they are going to be even more sohphiticated than last time. Perhaps there will be no difference in challenges for racial reasons, just political issues. They are gonna challenge Blues.

But maybe the Republican feel secure enough to allow the Voing Rights Act to become history, a Palast believes they will.

My personal opinion is that that is stupid in the extreme, on their part, if that is their plan.

Hell, this may well be what really reunites that old 60s crowds and clans.

Nostalgia.

Voting Rights Act Nailed To Burning Cross Greg Palast:

"New York] 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."