Thursday, June 27, 2013

What would Dr. King think?

I got to hand it to the five reactionary maniacs on the Supreme Court; by "invalidating" Section Four, the most important provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, they definitively told Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. what he can do with it. "Doc," as Reverend Ralph Abernathy and others called him, must be rolling in his grave. Half a century ago, scores, if not hundreds of people, mostly black, died just to secure their constitutionally-guaranteed right to cast a ballot. Hundreds, even thousands were beaten and tear-gassed. Congress should do something, right? Ah, but didn't 1803's "Marbury v. Madison" Supreme Court ruling confer upon that very same High Court the status of final arbiter of US Laws? You tell me - I'm no lawyer, I just play one on TV. But I DO know that the majority of "justices" on the nations's highest court are WRONG, so WRONG. And I sure as hell don't trust their motives. This is a transparent maneuver to preserve all those unconstitutional "Voter ID" laws, that have sprung up like noxious weeds on America's civil rights landscape. And to enable several states, mostly in Dixie, to continue unimpeded racial discrimination at the polling stations. Yes indeed, the Old South has morphed into the New South, with contemptible servitude and disenfranchisement for millions. It's time to drive a stake into the heart of the "New Confederacy." And don't even get me started on Arizona... http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/06/27/pelosi-mulling-john-lewis-voting-rights-act-to-overturn-supreme-court-decision/

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