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More Racism In Alabama?

Mike

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Updated: Oct 22, 2012 8:16 AM CDT


MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange and Secretary of State Beth Chapman are to hold a news conference to discuss the upcoming general election.
Chapman and Strange will meet with reporters at 2 p.m. Monday at the attorney general's office in Montgomery. U.S. Attorney George Beck of the Middle District of Alabama is expected to participate. They are expected to discuss voting procedures and regulations and warn against fraudulent voting activities.

The news conference comes before Friday's deadline to register to vote for the Nov. 6 election.

The deadline to apply for an absentee ballot is Nov. 1.

Chapman said to register to vote in Alabama a person must use the mail-in registration form or register in person at the Board of Registrars' office. Online registration is not available in Alabama.
 
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Anonymous

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And with Alabama's history that is probably where all the UN election observers will be...
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
And with Alabama's history that is probably where all the UN election observers will be...

BINGO!!!!!! You got one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, it is true that Dems & Blacks have been fraudulent voters in Alabama for years. Dead people vote by the hundreds, maybe thousands in the elections here.

Voter fraud is not easy to spot. Maybe the picture ID will help?
 
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Anonymous

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Yep-- every day I thank Alabama and the response of its Governor and State Police for their handling of the Selma to Montgomery march... Their actions to stop folks from signing up to vote is the reason we have 90% of the Civil Rights, Discrimination, and Voting Rights laws in this country today...

And everytime they play those videos back on a tv documentary- the minorities get more sympathy and gain more power...

ATTA-BOY Alabama-- way to go! :wink: :roll: :lol: :(
 

TexasBred

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Montana seems to have a problem giving Indians access to their voting rights as well:

http://www.nativetimes.com/life/commentary/3613-chavers-no-voting-rights-in-indian-country
 

Mike

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Oldtimer said:
Yep-- every day I thank Alabama and the response of its Governor and State Police for their handling of the Selma to Montgomery march... Their actions to stop folks from signing up to vote is the reason we have 90% of the Civil Rights, Discrimination, and Voting Rights laws in this country today...

And everytime they play those videos back on a tv documentary- the minorities get more sympathy and gain more power...

ATTA-BOY Alabama-- way to go! :wink: :roll: :lol: :(

I was there at the time. I watched the Democrats deny them the right to vote.

But now that the numbers of minorities have gotten large enough to make a difference, they have gone the other way in aiding & abetting voter fraud.

It's all about votes for Democrats. No one is fooled.

:lol: :lol:

“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” Lyndon Baines Johnson

Democrat President John F. Kennedy is lauded as a proponent of civil rights. However, Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Senator Al Gore, Sr. And after he became president, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King.

Contrary to popular belief, Kennedy never made the call to get Dr. King out of jail. The call was made by Harris Wofford, Kennedy’s Civil Rights Advisor, who was a personal friend of the Kings. Wofford said Kennedy was angry about the call because Kennedy thought it would make him lose the Southern vote. However, the call eventually worked in Kennedy’s favor. This revelation is contained in Wofford’s book “Of Kennedys and Kings” on pages 14-23.


Senator Lyndon B Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
In his 4,500-word State of the Union Address delivered on January 4, 1965, Johnson mentioned scores of topics for federal action, but only thirty five words were devoted to civil rights. He did not mention one word about voting rights. Information about Johnson’s anemic civil rights policy positions can be found in the “Public Papers of the President, Lyndon B. Johnson,” 1965, vol. 1, p.1-9.


“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years” – Lyndon B Johnson
Johnson did not predict a racist exodus to the Republican Party – In their campaign to unfairly paint the Republican Party today as racists, Democrats point to Johnson’s prediction that there would be an exodus from the Democratic Party because of Johnson’s support of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Omitted from the Democrats’ rewritten history is what Johnson actually meant by his prediction. Johnson’s statement was not made out of a concern that racist Democrats would suddenly join the Republican Party that was fighting for the civil rights of blacks. Johnson feared that the racist Democrats would again form a third party, such as the short-lived States Rights Democratic Party. In fact, Alabama’s Democrat Governor George C. Wallace in 1968 started the American Independent Party that attracted other racist candidates, including Democrat Governor Lester Maddox.

Behind closed doors, Johnson said: “These Negroes, they’re getting uppity these days. That’s a problem for us, since they got something now they never had before. The political pull to back up their upityness. Now, we’ve got to do something about this. We’ve got to give them a little something. Just enough to quiet them down, but not enough to make a difference. If we don’t move at all, their allies will line up against us. And there’ll be no way to stop them. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”
 
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TexasBred said:
Montana seems to have a problem giving Indians access to their voting rights as well:

http://www.nativetimes.com/life/commentary/3613-chavers-no-voting-rights-in-indian-country

I don't think its as much of a problem as that bleeding heart makes out- not in our part of the state anyway..The counties have set up numerous polling places on the reservations with native election judges - many of the local public officials are "tribal"...As pointed out in the Democrats convention- MT has a "native American" Supt of Schools....And even tho I don't live on a reservation- I'm in a Congressional and Senate districts that encompasses parts of 3 reservations and where all the candidates again this year are tribal members....

Now the elections that get interesting are the tribal ones for tribal government... There is where they should have the UN observers as they could get an eyeful on votebuying at some of the pre-election feasts... :wink: :lol:
 

Whitewing

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Oldtimer said:
Yep-- every day I thank Alabama and the response of its Governor and State Police for their handling of the Selma to Montgomery march... Their actions to stop folks from signing up to vote is the reason we have 90% of the Civil Rights, Discrimination, and Voting Rights laws in this country today...

And everytime they play those videos back on a tv documentary- the minorities get more sympathy and gain more power...

ATTA-BOY Alabama-- way to go! :wink: :roll: :lol: :(

Did you also thank the good folks of Boston who tried to block desegregation of their public schools a year or two AFTER we had desegregated in Louisiana?

Thought not.

If I recall correctly, the good folks of Boston sent their share of reps to the south to right the wrongs down there.
 

Mike

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Oh boy. Montana has an Indian "Supt of Schools.............

That certainly proves that Montana is diverse! NOT! :lol: :lol: :lol:

I hate to tell ya. But Alabama had a U.S. Secretary Of State that is a black woman.

Man are you behind.......................................
 
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Anonymous

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Whitewing said:
Oldtimer said:
Yep-- every day I thank Alabama and the response of its Governor and State Police for their handling of the Selma to Montgomery march... Their actions to stop folks from signing up to vote is the reason we have 90% of the Civil Rights, Discrimination, and Voting Rights laws in this country today...

And everytime they play those videos back on a tv documentary- the minorities get more sympathy and gain more power...

ATTA-BOY Alabama-- way to go! :wink: :roll: :lol: :(

Did you also thank the good folks of Boston who tried to block desegregation of their public schools a year or two AFTER we had desegregated in Louisiana?

Thought not.

If I recall correctly, the good folks of Boston sent their share of reps to the south to right the wrongs down there.

Its not the Boston videos that get played every few weeks on tv-- with big helmeted cops taking nightsticks to and kicking women and guys laying on the ground- with tear gas in the air and dogs chasing down people running away...Unarmed people that were doing nothing but marching to register to vote...

Nope Alabama will always be remembered as the straw that broke the camels back- and got every civil rights or voting law passed that came along for 20 years...
For years folks up north like me had heard loads of storied of the violence against blacks and minorities- but didn't know if it was true---BUT with TV and these acts of racist obstructionism and unnecessary violence against black persons being shown live to us -- thats what flipped the thinking of the majority of the country...

I always wonder how much history would have been changed if the Governor and Mayors hadn't called in the state police and National Guard-- and instead would have met with the marchers right away at the first march and set up a booth and started registering voters... :???:

A little proactive action may have stopped a whole lot of reaction- which as usual leads to overreaction...
 

Whitewing

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Of course you'll never see any stories about the racists of Boston, who after inciting trouble in the South, decided that they themselves didn't have to abide by the same rules they wished to enforce on everyone else.

Racism is racism regardless of who commits it.

There was, and still is, racism all over the US and the rest of the world for that matter. It's a fact of human life and will never go away completely. I bristle at hypocites like you who point to the South as though it was the only area of the country that suffered from problems related to racism.

Now, having said that, if you've never said a negative word, or had a negative thought about a Native American, simply because he was obviously a Native American, then please forgive me.
 

Mike

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Unarmed people that were doing nothing but marching to register to vote..

Actually, that's not true. But no surprise coming from you.

They were marching from Selma to Montgomery to stop commerce from traveling through central Alabama. U.S. Hwy 80 was a two-lane thoroughfare at the time that most all trucks traveled west & east intra & inter-state via 80.

Plus voting registration had already begun for those that could pass a literacy test. Yes, whites had to take it and some of those were denied.

The first time the march was attempted Wallace couldn't allow it to happen from fear of accidents on the highway with hardly any shoulders. It was really that narrow. Plus traffic would have been backed up for miles and much of the alternative route bridges weren't rated for the weights of the trucks.

Wallace offered an alternative route but it was a few miles longer without all the traffic. They said no but he did give them an option.

By blocking traffic, they figured they would get more media exposure.

What was funny, when the march started in Selma there were thousands of marchers. But just a few miles down the road, King and his entourage got in their limos & buses and rode the rest of the way.

I have pictures I took when they passed our place. There was less than 100.

None of the celebrities, Charleton Heston, Joan Baez, etc. walked the route. They joined the crowd in Montgomery.

:lol:

Yes, this was when the Democrats put them on their plantation and the failure called the "Great Society" began.
 

Mike

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Alabama Secretary of State Beth Chapman said Monday that she will pursue legislation to increase the punishment for fraud in next year’s legislative session.

Chapman said at a news conference on voter fraud that she was concerned with the high volume of absentee voting in some rural counties, which frequently outstrip state averages.

“Anyone with an eighth-grade education who has seen what I’ve seen knows there is voter fraud in Alabama,” she said.

Sen. Bryan Taylor, R-Prattville, who will sponsor the measure, said the bill will raise the penalty for voter fraud from a Class C misdemeanor to a Class C felony. That would increase the punishment for voter fraud from up to three months in jail and a $500 fine to up to 10 years in prison and a $15,000 fine.

A nationwide study published in August by News21 found 16 instances of alleged voter fraud in Alabama between 2000 and 2010. The charges were dismissed in two of the cases; the defendants pleaded guilty in 12 cases and were convicted in the remaining two. Three-quarters of the cases involved absentee ballot fraud; a single 2002 case was the result of voter impersonation.

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, who attended the news conference, declined to discuss specific instances of voter fraud that may bring about prosecution.

Chapman did say a voter fraud line established in her office had received “hundreds” of complaints.

According to the Tuscaloosa News, Uniontown in Perry County has a population of 1,775 but a total registered vote total of 2,587. The town’s voting in August municipal elections, in which more than 80 percent of the town’s population reportedly cast ballots, and where absentee voting was 10 times the average state rate, drew attention from state officials.

The news conference, attended by Chapman, Strange, George Beck, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, and Randall Hillman, executive director of the Alabama District Attorneys’ Association, was meant to warn those who might commit voter fraud that they run the risk of prosecution.

“This is a federal election, and since federal elections are on the ballot, the federal government has very strong jurisdiction over voter intimidation and fraud,” Beck said.

Hillman said the state’s district attorneys would push for prison sentences for anyone found guilty of voter fraud.
 
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