HarperLee

Caging is illegal! The Republicans are quite happy to pay the fines and accept the sanctions -- after they have stolen the elections.

From the RFK, Jr., investigative report on the 2004 election:

To stem the tide of new registrations, the Republican National Committee and the Ohio Republican Party attempted to knock tens of thousands of predominantly minority and urban voters off the rolls through illegal mailings known in electioneering jargon as ''caging.'' During the Eighties, after the GOP used such mailings to disenfranchise nearly 76,000 black voters in New Jersey and Louisiana, it was forced to sign two separate court orders agreeing to abstain from caging.

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RK77

It is illegal---but while your mind is mulling this over consider NOW the significance of the changes that have been made in the DOJ!!!

Get it! In order to be flagarant and rampant enough to make a HUGE sweep and disenfranchise african americans everywhere----they need to be able to control the consequences for those who do it........

Since 2001 NO cases in the DOJ have been brought regarding all the various attempts to disenfranchise black voters.

The criminal changes made to the DOJ were ESSENTIAL to a party intent on doing such things.

AND YET-----there are those who insist that there is NO SUCH THING as institutionalized racism......

Those racist feel it is their duty to disparage everyone in any conversation that informs people about these things. It is the DISCUSSION of these things that they see to be problematic----not their existence!

Can you get next to the concept that the same people who CLAIM that they prefer strict constitutional interpretation and states rights (based on that strict interpretation) would leap at the chance to IGNORE any and everything the constitution says about equality?

AND adding insult to injury---- they call that "patriotic" or "love for nation".

They rely on others to provide them with cover (and they get it). They rely on others to share their denial. It is ESSENTIAL to them that everyone give them the greenlight by being willing to maintain that white privilege green light which includes a right to be as racist as they want.

HarperLee

There was talk that Bradley Schlozman, the Rove lackey who replaced the U. S. Attorney in my district who balked at indicting ACORN days before the 2004 election, would be indicted for prosecutorial misconduct. Didn't happen.

Karl Rove took over and corrupted the Department of Justice and no one cares.

You can see that intelligent posters here are dubious about methodical disenfranchisement of black voters by the United States of Department
of Justice -- which is charged with protecting
voters' rights.

There is no hope for this country.

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RK77

There is always hope...... .... at least I hope there is.....

HarperLee

Schlozman Leaves Justice Department

By Paul Kiel - August 20, 2007

Bradley Schlozman, a former Justice Department official who was at the center of the U.S. attorneys scandal and is under investigation by the Departments inspector general for his alleged efforts to politicize the Civil Rights Division, has finally left his post at the Department.

After he left his position as the U.S. attorney in Kansas City this April, Schlozman moved to the Justice Department office that oversees all U.S. attorneys. Reached on his cell phone today, Schlozman confirmed that he'd left the Department last week, but refused to say anything more and then hung up.

That makes Schlozman the latest in a long line of Department officials to leave in the wake of the firings scandal, including former White House liaison Monica Goodling, chief of staff Kyle Sampson, Acting Associate Attorney General William Mercer, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, and his chief of staff Michael Elston.

Before being tapped as the U.S. attorney for Kansas City in March of 2006 (after his predecessor Todd Graves was abruptly fired), Schlozman oversaw the voting rights section of the Civil Rights Division with an iron hand. Former employees say that, in tandem with Hans von Spakovsky, Schlozman gutted the voting rights division's efforts to protect African-American voters and made sure that the group did not oppose voter ID laws. The two also punished lawyers and other employees who did not toe the line, former employees say, sometimes changing performance evaluations to add negative comments.

TPMmuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Bradley Schlozman

I repeat: Schlozman gutted the voting rights division's efforts to protect African American voters... It does not say "all poor voters" or "all probable Democratic voters."

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W.M.DEEEZ

OMG...my head is spinning.

This must be why I stay out of this election crap.


So...what is the answer? Does Obama address this publicly? Can't we blow the lid off of this?







Fines for caging??? I believe we should be talking about jailtime. This is fraud, at the federal level.

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