Voter Discrimination - So Easy Even A GOP Caveman Can Do It . . .

Discrimination so blatant that even GOP appointed judges were easily convinced by the evidence:

By Robert Barnes, Published: August 28

A federal court on Tuesday threw out Texas’s redistricting plans, saying the maps drawn by the Republican-led legislature undermined the political clout of minorities who are responsible for the state’s population growth.

The three-judge special panel in Washington said Texas could not prove that plans for the state’s congressional districts and both houses of the legislature were not drawn without intentional discrimination against the state’s burgeoning Latino population. In addition, it said new district lines removed the “economic guts” from congressional districts now held by African-Americans.

“The only explanation Texas offers for this pattern is ‘coincidence,’ ” wrote U.S. Circuit Judge Thomas B. Griffith. “But if this was coincidence, it was a striking one indeed.”

Griffith was joined in the decision by U.S. District Judges Rosemary M. Collyer and Beryl A. Howell. Griffith and Collyer were nominated by President George W. Bush; Howell is an Obama nominee.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/texas-redistricting-discriminates-against-minorities-federal-court-says/2012/08/28/f6e6a2e0-f156-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html


This story truly highlights the level of desperation that the GOP is gripped by, and the underhanded lengths to which they are entirely willing to go to in order to keep themselves in power.  It's not sinister enough that, in states where they are in political power, they are using the legislative process like a bludgeoning weapon to pass all of these fraudulent voter ID laws, to address as they smugly claim, a problem (in person vote fraud) that they cannot even provide evidence that it exists.  Anyone with half a fucking monkey brain knows goddamn well that these laws are intended for one singular purpose - and that is to prevent as many minorities and Democratic leaning voters as possible from exercising their constitutionally guaranteed right to participate in the American electoral process.  I have no shame in stating that this kind of chicanery is eerily reminiscent of the pre-WWII fascist/totalitarian regimes of Germany and Italy and if anyone can disprove that claim, please feel free to take a whack at it.

What truly needs to be noted though is that these anti-American tactics are being used primarily because the right wing knows that this modern conservative movement, spearheaded now by the extremist Teabaggers and the corporate authoritarians who make up their leadership, are morally, intellectually, spiritually and ideologically bankrupt to the core.  Therefore - they have no choice but to cheat to compete in the marketplace of ideas.

This election is not even about Obama or Romney at this point.  It's about whether or not America is going to embrace the fair and just principles of it's constitutional forefathers or the corruption, greed and avarice of a small group of moneyed elites who believe they own America and have the right to ignore constitutional law and precedent whenever it is contrary to their financial interests.

It's a simple choice.


----TFG