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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Steps In To Allow Jim Crow Era Harassment Of Blacks In Ohio
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Tuesday allowed Republicans to challenge voter qualifications at the polls in Ohio, a key battleground state that could determine the presidential election.
Stevens acted on an emergency request shortly before polls opened in Ohio and across the nation. He refused to set aside a U.S. appeals court order that allowed political parties to send challengers to polling places across the state.
Stevens acted on an emergency request shortly before polls opened in Ohio and across the nation. He refused to set aside a U.S. appeals court order that allowed political parties to send challengers to polling places across the state.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6689186
The appeals court ruling allows thousands of Republicans to challenge the eligibility of newly registered Democrats in Ohio, which has 20 electoral votes and is considered a key state in the race between President George W. Bush, the Republican incumbent, and Senator John Kerry, his Democratic challenger. The appeals panel said it had to balance citizens' rights to vote freely with Ohio's ability to root out fraudulent voters.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=agPJ_d4Py0_Q&refer=us
Democrats and civil rights organizations said Republicans are targeting minority voters in an attempt to reduce the number of ballots cast for Kerry and other Democrats.
"All of this activity is racial profiling," said Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
"None of it is aimed at white voters. It is all based on the racist presumption that racial minorities are cheaters."
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041102/w110212.html
The appeals court ruling allows thousands of Republicans to challenge the eligibility of newly registered Democrats in Ohio, which has 20 electoral votes and is considered a key state in the race between President George W. Bush, the Republican incumbent, and Senator John Kerry, his Democratic challenger. The appeals panel said it had to balance citizens' rights to vote freely with Ohio's ability to root out fraudulent voters.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=agPJ_d4Py0_Q&refer=us
Democrats and civil rights organizations said Republicans are targeting minority voters in an attempt to reduce the number of ballots cast for Kerry and other Democrats.
"All of this activity is racial profiling," said Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
"None of it is aimed at white voters. It is all based on the racist presumption that racial minorities are cheaters."
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041102/w110212.html
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The Supreme Court denied the appeal. Ohio is enforcing the law. You just can stand to loose. NOTE: nice try with the Democratic attempt at fraud this a.m. in Philly. 2000 votes cast before the polls open.
One of the major aims of the KKK is to prevent black from voting. There are many Klansmen in Ohio and many are Republicans. Chances are the only Republicans who will take it on themselves to go to African American polling places and harass voters inside the polls will be members of the Klan. If election monitors in Ohio can id the Republican harassers perhaps we can dig up their background and reveal this effort to steal the election for what it is.
History of the Klan
http://www.pointsouth.com/csanet/kkk.htm
History of the Klan
http://www.pointsouth.com/csanet/kkk.htm
Yes, there's a lot of videocameras in Ohio, and it's 2004, not 1904.
I think the Ohio Klavern of the Republican Party is about to get their grubby, pudgy little fingers really, really burnt.
I think the Ohio Klavern of the Republican Party is about to get their grubby, pudgy little fingers really, really burnt.
The 14th Amendment was conceived with the noblest intentions. In the post-Civil War era, blacks were to be ensured equal rights under federal law, even in former slave-holding states in the South. It affirmed the concept of “inalienable rights” for all citizens, demanding state laws never infringe upon the Bill of Rights for former slaves. Though some states initially refused to ratify the 1866 amendment, each would eventually adopt it. Each, that is, save one.
That’s right: While blacks can certainly vote, own property, and purchase handguns in the state of Ohio, the 14th Amendment has somehow managed to evade the state’s books for 135 years. When the measure was first introduced, Ohio adopted it, only to rescind it a year later. According to an 1868 state resolution, the federal protection was “contrary to the best interests of the white race.”
Suffice it to say, when Cincinnati-area state Sen. Mark Mallory introduced a bill this year to correct the long-standing oversight, he didn’t expect any major battles. “We can’t let the last message on the 14th Amendment in Ohio be one of racism,” he explained. The gesture, Mallory said, would be “symbolic but extremely important.”
Granted, race relations isn’t one of Ohio’s marks of pride. Cincinnati, the city which partially comprises Mallory’s district, was in April 2001 the site of the ugliest riot since the Rodney King verdict. The city erupted when police shot and killed Timothy Thomas, an unarmed black 19-year-old. Celebrities from Bill Cosby to Barbara Ehrenreich to Spike Lee have since refused engagements there as part of an economic boycott.
In addition, while African-Americans make up only 11.5 percent of Ohio’s population, they account for half its inmates in prison and on Death Row. Hamilton County alone has 45 people currently facing execution. It’s no coincidence Ohio ranked fourth in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s last analysis of hate group activity, with groups like the World Church of the Creator and Ku Klux Klan actively recruiting there.
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That’s right: While blacks can certainly vote, own property, and purchase handguns in the state of Ohio, the 14th Amendment has somehow managed to evade the state’s books for 135 years. When the measure was first introduced, Ohio adopted it, only to rescind it a year later. According to an 1868 state resolution, the federal protection was “contrary to the best interests of the white race.”
Suffice it to say, when Cincinnati-area state Sen. Mark Mallory introduced a bill this year to correct the long-standing oversight, he didn’t expect any major battles. “We can’t let the last message on the 14th Amendment in Ohio be one of racism,” he explained. The gesture, Mallory said, would be “symbolic but extremely important.”
Granted, race relations isn’t one of Ohio’s marks of pride. Cincinnati, the city which partially comprises Mallory’s district, was in April 2001 the site of the ugliest riot since the Rodney King verdict. The city erupted when police shot and killed Timothy Thomas, an unarmed black 19-year-old. Celebrities from Bill Cosby to Barbara Ehrenreich to Spike Lee have since refused engagements there as part of an economic boycott.
In addition, while African-Americans make up only 11.5 percent of Ohio’s population, they account for half its inmates in prison and on Death Row. Hamilton County alone has 45 people currently facing execution. It’s no coincidence Ohio ranked fourth in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s last analysis of hate group activity, with groups like the World Church of the Creator and Ku Klux Klan actively recruiting there.
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http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/310/
There might be 10 KKK goons left in the entire state. Where have you been for the last 50 years? Cincinnatti riots were about cops aprehending vicious, repeat felons with guns. They are doing their job. Black voter intimindation in hogshit. You just get upset when they are required to follow the same rules as everyone else. No ethnic group gets special rights. Evolve.
takes one to know one.
bet you're a hogshit expert, from the sounds of ya.
bet you're a hogshit expert, from the sounds of ya.
And you're still full of shit.
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