Eric Holder Announces Opposition to Election Integrity Laws
PJ Media’s Every Single One series reported on the same story Savage did, except this time on the 113 attorney hires by the Obama Civil Rights Division. Savage only covered a handful of Bush hires — he had to, otherwise his story wouldn’t work because the Bush DOJ hired scores of liberal activist lawyers. But the Obama Justice Department gives no quarter to the enemy in hiring, and hired 113 leftists out of 113 openings. I described in my book Injustice how PJ Media had to sue Eric Holder to extract this information:
During the Bush era, DOJ leaders quickly fulfilled FOIA requests. For instance, in 2006 Charlie Savage, then at the Boston Globe, requested all the resumes of the recently hired attorneys in the Bush Civil Rights Division. The DOJ leadership produced the materials within days, well ahead of the legal deadline—they acted so fast, in fact, that some colleagues and I complained they were rushing. Suspecting we were being set up for a leftwing smear campaign, we urged DOJ officials to protect our privacy while fully complying with the requests. But our concerns were ignored and the information was rushed out anyway, resulting in a slew of slanderous media stories, some attacking us in extremely personal ways, followed by curious questions from our family members about why we were in the news. There was a particularly merciless leftist blogosphere attack on a pair of attorneys who happened to be two of the hardest working and most dedicated lawyers in the entire Voting Section.
After PJ Media obtained the Obama hiring information, Savage, ever the cuddly puppy, wrote a puff piece about the Obama hiring practices. Gone was his outrage over politicized hiring that he exhibited at the Boston Globe for the Bush DOJ. That’s what PJ Media is for – reporting on stories the dying dead trees media won’t. Given the scope of the Every Single One series, perhaps PJ Media deserves a Pulitzer too. If Charlie got one, PJ Media certainly should. Stay tuned.
Well one side wants to up the black vote and the other wants to stop that vote from being used as an iron clad guarantee.
The real problem here is the massive agreement by race of black Americans when it comes to the Presidential vote. There is no excuse for the bloc of people who most loudly cry about racism and race to simply vote by the color of their skin rather than larger issues that address the greater good.
If you read Cornel West and Melissa Harris-Perry, you’d think black America is America and so what happened to the content of one’s character?
In a population that is more than 3 times the size of Portugal or Greece, the lack of diverse interests in the black American community is astounding as it couldn’t field anything like an Olympic team as could those 2 countries. In fact, in terms of diversity of interests, black Americans couldn’t compete with either Portugal or Greece in virtually any arena and so one is a pawn because one makes oneself a pawn by virtue of actually believing skin can create culture, as if skin has a gravitic attraction such as attracts bodies in space and so size matters.
All that is created is massive provincialism centered around empty themes such as race.
This has nothing to do with black people voting or not voting. They are Americans after all. It has everything to do with preventing illegal aliens from voting. It is also about dismantling the schemes that the left uses to cast fraudulent votes in every election.
Here in Arizona there are several laws passed in recent years to ensure the integrity of our elections. Naturally the enemy screamed bloody murder and sued us for having the temerity to demand valid ID of those showing up to the polls on election day. They proclaimed that such standards prevent poor people from voting, a claim that they astonishingly succeeded in making with a straight face. The truth of course is that requiring valid ID prevents illegals from voting and prevents leftist operatives from fraudulently voting in multiple districts under the names of dead people.
I agree that it’s about illegal aliens but since black Americans vote like robots to the tune of 95% this is definitely aimed at them as well. I’m surprised the Dems haven’t resorted to press gangs or illegal aliens voting in their own countries prior to sneaking into America.
Race isn’t entirely absent here because the left complains that voter ID discriminates against poor blacks (why not poor anyone, one wonders). Perhaps they’re just playing the race card, as is their wont, but the allegation that Gore won Florida, he didn’t, was in part based on the claim that black voters were excluded. One wonders, too, if opposition to ID isn’t based on objections to literacy tests.
Problem with that idea is that you don’t have to be literate to register or vote. All you need to do or be is be a legal citizen of the country and register to vote. Then go do it. Voter id is about stopping any duplicate voting, voting by dead people, voting by illegal aliens or even legal resident aliens or any other kind of fraud that can be prevented by requiring the presentation of a legal picture id card. You need one to cash a check, to bet welfare, to board a plane, to get a bank account, why not to vote? The only reason anyone can have for not wanting voter id laws is to facilitate fraud. If anyone can show a real, legitimate reason I’ll be happy to apologize.
I have strong reason to believe that the lopsided black vote for Democrats is not entirely legit. In other words, some of it is ballot-box stuffing and ghost voters. It is a lot easier to perpetrate vote fraud in favor of Democrats in minority precincts, because people are not watching out for it to happen there. In Chicago, where Obama has his political roots, minority precincts have long been under the control of corrupt Dem politicians who exploit the people who live there for personal gain.
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That’s the key to it; being able to vote all those non-existent, left district, or dead voters in the Democrat controlled areas, many of which are Black. With postive, government issued ID, the union and non-profit guys (and the Black “churches”) can’t ride around in their safe districts, and some not so safe, and have their crews of voters go in and vote in the name of some guy who blew through town five years ago, signed up for unemployment, had voter registration thrust on him under Motor Voter, and when he didn’t find a job in the urban cesspool and is now in North Dakota making lots of money and voting Republican.
They REALLY need very dirty lists and no ID. If they can get some Democrat judge to hold the polls open or order recount after recount, they can keep throwing in their fraudulent votes until the vote gets counted “right.”
Thanks to the machinations of the white establishment during the late 1960s, there is no other subject but race. Oddly, the universities won’t talk about this co-option, they just adjust the curriculum and their scholarship in the humanities accordingly. I summed it up here: http://clarespark.com/2011/12/02/the-whiteness-of-the-whale/.
That was funny: the Rainbow Coalition does seem to see American history from the same point of view as vintage Pravda or Chinese re-education camps.
Unfortunately that same Rainbow Coalition would’ve disappeared into those camps as bickering moronic pseudo-intellectuals who are not productive would be the first to be taken away for a long ride and lessons in planting rice.
Considering you can’t do much in this country, without a picture I.D., I have no clue how they can get away with this stuff. Why should anyone be required to register to vote? The Democrats know the only way they’ll win the next election is to steal it and they’re willing to do anything to do that.
how do you think a tombstone is going to present an ID card??
That’s the easiest part. I just go over to my polling location with the tombstone data and vote. Nobody askes me for anything. So I vote lots of times. I get entire neighborhoods to go and vote for dead people all the time. Why is that a problem? After all, I am a democrat and I don’t need to identify myself to vote and I don’t need to identify myself to vote for all the dead people whose names we have gotten from obits and even cemetaries.
It’s a wonderful world, eh? We will bury you Republicans.
better yet– get the roles for registered republicans and vote with their identity as a “D”– one more vote for fraud and the simultaneous nix of an enemy vote
If a tombstone can make it to the polling place, it surely can produce a valid ID.
November 2012 can’t get here fast enough.
IIRC, the last time the so-called Voting Rights Act went to the Supremes, they came within an inch of calling it an unconstitutional remedy with no purpose. Looks like Holder wants to roll them dice again, this time with a clear and convincing suite of damages done.
This issue is a lot more compliacated than whether Sec 5 is constitutional. Holder can pursue attacks on voter id even if Section 5 is struck down by pursuing a Section 2 case. I disagree with many of my fellow election lawyers who post here and elsewhere that it is so cut and dried legal. It all depends on the statistical circumstances, and mitigating statutes wherever the law is passed.
The problem with this statement is that lawyers and the courts have come to believe they are the ones that make law; they are wrong. Congress makes law and if this is pushed to the limit, they will write and pass laws to assure voter integrity regardless af what lawyers and the courts say. The courts have the responsibility of deciding if the law is being followed.
The Democrats don’t want the states to require that voters have ID cards SOLELY because such a requirement would prevent dead people or prisoners from voting or prevent people from voting more than once in the same election. How many times can the Democrats find hundreds of ballots in car trunks — with every ballot for the same candidate! It happens more frequently lately. And, of course, the comedian Franken became a Senator only because of “found” ballots and prisoner votes.
I think of him as Sen Al Frankenstein – and yes, I remember the box of ballots found in some election officials car trunk.
Some states should consider a full-on litigation to enjoy the DoD to not interfere in those states voting issues and if they can litigate the validity of the relevant sections of the civil rights act and to overturn motor voting. If gone now, Holder will back down as he already has several hot issues going to the Supreme Court and with no certainty of prevailing.
Nominal Republicans control over half the states and those state governments should have a full-court press on Himmler, er, Holder and the Soros Junta. Unfortunately, most of those Republicans are utter chickensh*ts who wouldn’t dare do anything that might cause them to be called partisan or mean=spirited.
How appropriate that Holder speaks out against voter integrity laws at the LBJ Library. LBJ never won an office that didn’t involve some kind of irregularity. When he ran for the House of Representative, it is widely acknowledged that he stole that electionthrough voter fraud. And when he ran for the Senate, it is widely acknowledged that he stole that election through voter fraud. LBJ’s ascension to President wasn’t through voter fraud per se, but it was rather irregular and unlawful.
I would edit that last sentence, and correct the typing error in the third sentence, if I could.
Townhall’s Guy Benson had an excellent article as well regarding ‘My People’ Holder:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/12/13/surprise_eric_holder_to_challenge_voter_id_laws
The last paragraph of his article is the pièce de résistance:
I wonder if our intrepid, justice-seekin’ Attorney General launch an all-out investigation into this vote-suppressin’ union? Nah, he’s preoccupied with carrying out the people’s business. You know, covering up a lethal gun-running program, suing states for trying to enforce federal laws that his own posse won’t, forcing local communities to adopt Democrat-friendly party identification mechanisms, dismissing already-won voter intimidation cases, and plotting to transfer alien jihadists into US civilian courts for trial.
i read somewhere the other day that there are now 6 states that give driver’s license to illegal aliens. so, apparently it isn’t really that hard to get an i.d., if one really tries. with a driver’s license you can get a voter card, right? guess those new potential voters will mostly be repub’s?
it’s still several months until november, 2012. plenty of time to get all that d.o.j. honesty in place.
no wonder mr. gunrunner pays no attention to repeated calls for his resignation. still lotsa honesty work left to do. (me laughing) could a car full of clowns be any more inept?
It was great to have you back in Texas, Mr. Adams. I always enjoy hearing you speak. Gutsy whistleblowers such as yourself and Ms. Moncrief inspire as well as inform.. We are in the fight of our lives, and it’s good to know we have well-spoken, formidable fighters out there giving the would-be destroyers of America fits and urging fellow patriots to get to their feet to be seen and heard.
In the liberal world making blacks and Latinos use proper ID to vote is Jim Crow-lite. They don’t then say that banks, schools, stores and an endless panoply of other entities must also be practising discrimination. Heck why not make everyone just take everyone, especially blacks and Latinos, at their word?
This is because the Left has race wag the dog. There is no over-arching philosophy evenly and consistently applied but one where race is applied as needed and otherwise ignored. Depraved, cherry picking, racist opportunists best describes the Left not to say plain stupid. The Democratic Party seems to be doing it’s best to mimic Nazis and make white Americans the ones needing a train ticket since it seems that without whites the U.S. would be one big, happy nation.
You wouldn’t even have electric pencil sharpeners let alone computers but there’d be no pencils so who cares?
His first name is “With” and his name really needs to be replaced by a number.
What?
I think the support of voter fraud cloaked in identity politics is risky.
If people get the idea that one group or the other has no respect for democratic process and merely wants to bend the system to its will, then they might experience some serious blow-back.
Holders are very stupid about America. It is not about mobs or threats. Rather, people just walk away from bad deals, and the people pushing them die on the vine.
Look at Prohibition or Eugenics or such the like. No murder no violence, people just turned on it and it died. Same with Jim Crow. It wasn’t the clods from Long Island, but rather the decent locals who quietly showed the beasts that they had had enough.
H and O my see that lesson.
Eric Holder really needs to be fired! Good cartoon at http://drawfortruth.com/2011/12/13/eric-holder/ on Eric and his definition of lying.
I hear over and over from so-called patriots that we have voter photo id and that voter fraud will stop because of it. People keep their heads in the sand and think that if we elect the right people, the government will run properly. The only thing wrong with that idea is that we have been electing the wrong people.
We need to clean house and take back our country. Unfortunately, there are too many people out there who think that just electing a republican is good enough. Witness Speaker Joe Straus to realize that this is a mistake. He put extremely liberal Democrats as Committee Chairs of important committees (Calenders Committee) this past session, ensuring that conservative legislation would not make it to the House floor. And the same with David Dewhurst. Both are rinos that need to go. Just like anyone but Obama, anyone but Straus and Dewhurst.
Time to wake up, people. The old status quo doesn’t work anymore. Time to sweep them all out.
In further news, on his way to jail, he announces the Constitution null and void.
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“Given the scope of the Every Single One series, perhaps PJ Media deserves a Pulitzer too. If Charlie got one, PJ Media certainly should. Stay tuned.”
But Pulitzers are awarded only to journalists. The courts seem to be taking the position conservatives are not journalists. The rationale is that bloggers are not journalists, but the catch-22 is that the MSM will rarely give voice to conservatives, leaving blogging as their only avenue.
To understand Holder, one must realize that he is the first generation born of immigrant parents from Barbados. His bloodline hasn’t been here long enough to fully assimilate. Holder is still a victim of third world traits. I wonder if he cares that he is held in such low esteem? Hence, there was never more of a need for Voter ID cards than at this point in time. The selection of our next president is so very important, eh?
I have lived in Texas since 1993, and I can tell you that the process Texas uses to register voters is a commonsense, no hassle approach…unless you want to cheat. When you get your first Texas Driver’s License (whether as a teenager or transfer from another state) you are asked as a routine question if you wish to be automatically registered to vote. If you say ‘yes’, after you get your license, a voter registration card complete with your local, state and federal district numbers and other information comes to you in the mail. Every time you renew your license, for whatever reason, you can request the same thing. As long as your license is valid, you get a card in the mail every year. This is what you show to the folks at the sign in table before voting. I voted recently in a local election, and took my Driver’s License along (as I have done for every election I’ve voted in, just in case – I also used to have a military ID card, which works just as well as a driver’s license, my dad is retired military). I was told I didn’t need the license this time, but that for all future elections here in Texas, whether local, state, or federal, it would be required. Perhaps this annoys some people, but since 1)most people carry their licenses around with them every day and 2)if you drive to the voting precinct, you need your license with you anyway and 3)if you do not drive, you can still get a Texas ID card which works just like the DL, only it’s FREE to get one! There is absolutely no reason for a person not to have a picture ID in this state. In addition (I’m not sure how other states do this) Texas makes it very easy to spot a minor by their license. If you are under 18, it says so across the front of your license. When you turn 18, if you want a license that’s up to date, or need a new one anyway, it will say “Under 21″. When I turned 21, I willingly waited in line for my new license even though my old one had not expired yet…I wanted a license with no red print across it stating I wasn’t 21 yet. The regular adult license for age 21 and over has no identifying age info printed across it, but has your birthdate in it’s normal place. Even if you don’t drive, have trouble getting around or only speak spanish, it is easy to vote. Every time you do vote, a volunteer looks at your registration card, matches the number to a list of all voters in that precinct, verifies your name and address, and has you sign on the line with your information on it. This prevents duplicates or people claiming to be someone else. Fraud still happens, but it does not seem to be as rampant here as in some states. The plain fact is that so many people are apathetic about voting (I’ve observed during early voting that the line for Democratic primary voters is almost non-existent, while the Republican line is always long) that it’s easier for people to use fake votes than to convince all the people who COULD vote to actually show up on election day, or on any day of the two-week long Early Voting schedule! If you don’t vote, you have NO RIGHT to complain about the results of an election! That’s it plain and simple.
I am reminded of Angola, where I was sent on temporary duty with the military in support of the UN mission in 1992. I found there were no reported cases of AIDS there. Of course they did not ever test for AIDS.
It’s NOT about voter suppression. It’s all about VOTER FRAUD SUPPRESSION.
…(Holder’s) opposition to these laws, such as voter ID and even the requirement to register to vote in advance of an election.
Given his apparent willingness to not interfere with fraud schemes in the 2012 election, “the boss” will want to keep Holder around as long as possible, despite multiplying and increasingly vociferous calls for Eric to step down.
Democrats and their minions have a deeply vested interest in the success of their voter fraud initiatives.
The rather brain dead head guy currently heading up the NAACP, Ben Jealous, is on the front lines calling for some kind of UN (!) involvement in US elections.
These craven and duplicitous people need to be stopped while there is still a vestige of the Republic left to be saved.
Everything that’s designed to hurt America, I mean everything, Holder’s for. Everything designed to help America, I mean everything, Holder’s against.
A taste of what I’m talking about.
1. Bragging about Operation fast and furious to Mexican officials 6 months before
it was put into operation.
2. Lying about Operation fast and furious.
3. Lying about danger of terrorist.
4. Calling Ft. Hood terrorist murders; workplace violence.
5. Letting guilty Black Panther voter inimidators go scot free.
6. Working to prevent voter fraud.
7. Letting killers of Marines in Iraq go scot free.
8. Trying terrorist killers in civilian courts so they can make it a circus and
get a shorter sentence.
9. Keeping our borders open as Eric Holder’s lying lips to
accumulate Frequent Liar Miles.
10.Calling white American males racist cowards.
11. Encouraging a mosque be built to ridicule the families who lost members on
November 11.
12. Engineering the pardon of Marc Rich
13. Lying under oath to Congress.
14. Conspiring to cover up corruption in the Obama White House.
15. Attacking Arizona immigration law without reading it.
Anybody who wants to add to this list be my guest. It’s 3 years long.
Have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday,
Rachel Peepers
Merry Christmas, Rachel.
Altho’ I was dismayed to learn you are probably not that 20-year old, blue eyed, college student
I like your list. Short and concise. But let’s not limit to the present criminal in chief.
It’s not like the stage for this hasn’t been set with elaborate schemes and hidden tools by previous administrations, career government types and others.
The direction is clear and has been for a long time. The REAL problem is that conservatives believe people have a right to their opinions and let them. Socialists never slow their activism or their plans to destroy freedom and implement communist government.
Any one familiar with U.S. history, and we have fewer of those every day, knows the internal struggle against communist subversives has been on going for a very long time. And was the “choice” that Ronald Regan referred to in one of speeches prior to his election, that Americans needed to make.
He KNEW at the time the deep and tenacious hold already present inside our government, local, state and federal.
Holder, Obama and the Rainbow Coalition hate the history of this country. They feel they were targeted and left out and now it’s payback and time for their turn in the sun.
The problem is that faith in politically correct pedagogy won’t create female armies, babies from gay marriage, a tech boom in South America or Islamic space missions to Mars.
Today, we’re still talking about what a tiny minority of Englishman did in India 2 centuries ago. In the present day UK, that same tiny minority from the Third World is mostly notable for complaints and a massively conspicuous lack of inventiveness and productivity, of course ignored by the faith-based Left who then offer millions and even billions of dollars of crutches in a bewildering variety of forms, all to no effect.
Holder brought along his puppy, Charlie Savage of the New York Times, from whom we can expect glowing sycophantic coverage of Holder’s announcement at any minute at the New York Times website. Savage is the same reporter who covered purported politicization at the Bush Justice Department. For this he won a Pulitzer Prize.
The good puppy has performed: Peed on the paper
The DOJ says there is no significant identity-related voter fraud, and they may be right. Mr. Adams pointed out the fraud in Noxubee county was mostly people telling voters how to mark their ballots, and we saw probably the same thing in Alabama. Now we see faked signatures in Indiana.
Liberals are generally opposed to IDs. Whether it’s voters, illegal immigrants, or mortgages (see “Reckless Endangerment”).
The exception: Union voting requires I.D.
Here’s one approach to tackling the voter ID issue.
- Take the emotion out of the “debate”
- Hire a CPA firm to perform a review of internal controls on both the registration process and the voting process. They must look at voting in person and by absentee. They must look at how long voters remain on the rolls. There is so much potential for fraud and that’s before you factor in early voting.
Any first year audit student could identify material weaknesses in the processes. It’s harder to register your child for recreational sports than it is to register to vote, why? Nobody should be able to register to vote by downloading a form and not providing a valid ID (both to register and to vote). What would stop a college student from voting at school under one name and vote again by absentee or in person at home? I’m not saying they do this but there is the potential for fraud and not just with college students, I’m merely using this as an example.
In my state, you can go online and complete a voter registration form and mail it in, a person must attest that:
“I am a U.S. citizen.
I will have been a resident of North Carolina and this county for 30 days before the election.
I will be at least 18 years old by the next general election.
I am not registered nor will I vote in any other county or state.
If I have been convicted of a felony, my rights of citizenship have been restored.”
With early voting, I can go and vote in person, I can then go and vote at a choice of many locations on the same day or different day and simple state the name of a registered voter and provide an address never having to provide an ID. Would I be breaking the law, yes, but it can be done and that’s my point. (How many people speed on a given day v. how many tickets are issued?) It’s very easy to get access for voter information, you can target the names of those who don’t vote often and cast a vote in their name, the voting rolls are a mess, you can find households of numerous voters (likley previous owners who have moved) and cast votes in their name…(having done precinct walks, it was not uncommon to find many voters registered for a small family home. Where is the GOP on cleaning up voter?(for a different thread, I know)
- For a start, I’d recommend State Auditors look at this but to take the politics out of it, hiring independent CPA firms is best. If Holder is really going down this path, the GOP would be smart to get out in front and have experts on internal controls testify. I fully support states paying for ID’s for those voters who are poor and many of them have. Voters in other countries have to provide a photo ID, come on, playing the race card is wrong. We simply want individual votes of citizens protected.
The Federal government requires the banks to have a copy of a valid photo ID in the file for loan applications…Mr. Holder do minorities take out loans, why must they provide photo IDs, you cannot have it both ways?
Only if you register to vote by mail do you ever have to show identification in Oklahoma — the first time you show up in person to vote in a federal election. Otherwise, you never have to show identification. Neat, huh?
Of course voter fraud isn’t a problem to Holder — not since the fraud is committed mostly in favor of those he supports.
“The rally was in response to Eric Holder’s announcement at the same place two hours later of a concerted Justice Department effort to oppose virtually every electoral integrity measure promoted by Constitutional conservatives and Republicans.”
Um…how did you get to OPPOSE VIRTUALLY EVERY ELECTORAL INTEGRITY MEASURE” from this (which of course you did not quote at all here…)
“Although I cannot go into detail about the ongoing review of these and other state-law changes, I can assure you that it will be thorough — and fair. We will examine the facts, and we will apply the law. If a state passes a new voting law and meets its burden of showing that the law is not discriminatory, we will follow the law and approve the change. And where a state can’t meet this burden, we will object as part of our obligation under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.”
Oh I see..you got to it by making up something that Holder never said and counting on your readers to not actually go examine what was said.
” If a state passes a new voting law and meets its burden of showing that the law is not discriminatory, we will follow the law and approve the change. And where a state can’t meet this burden, we will object as part of our obligation under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.” DOES NOT EQUAL “oppose virtually every electoral integrity measure promoted by Constitutional conservatives and Republicans.”
See how that works…?
And you take, at his word, this child to whom lying is simply “a state of mind”? See http://spectator.org/archives/2011/12/08/acorn-visits-obama-white-house
Don’t choke on the irony in this picture
I may regret this, but I must say all of you have the wrong take on this issue. Our Constitution, as interpreted by our highest-ranking law enforcement officer, the AG, tells us that inconveniencing certain people is a criminal activity. Therefore, the AG must prosecute government officials, federal, state and local, for the crime of inconveniencing certain people. Some silly and unreasonable state laws tend to interfere with this process.
Clearly, we need a new government agency at every level to take the polls to certain people, instead of certain people going, under arduous conditions, to the polls. This is not an ID issue. It is an inconvenience to certain people issue that can only be rectified by the elimination of voting inconvenience…for certain people. For God’s sake this is the USA, wise up, people.
(Snark bell, ding ding)
This was also posted by me under Ray Hartwell’s piece.
“…instead of certain people going, under arduous conditions, to the polls.”
Some people have asked me what I meant by arduous conditions in my 9:30 post. I would define arduous conditions as: hot sun, cold wind, walking more than the distance from my TV room to the kitchen, taking a bus, darkness, brightness, and carrying a photo ID.
Excuse making by social status, (i.e. appropriate race, gender, failed nation), is the main tenet of politically correct pedagogy on the liberal Left.
Once we understand that, all becomes clearer. This will eventually destroy America by immigration since this ideology embraces and even celebrates failure and depravity and attempts to silence and demonize success.
What can you say about a society that even THINKS about a double standard for Muslim versus Christian prayer in public schools.
I love the chutzpah of the “True The Vote” folks. Having their rally at the LBJ Library is like having a “Club For Growth” meeting at Lenin’s tomb. After all, for those who recall, LBJ was the absolute master of voter fraud. There are numerous examples especially in 1948 and 1960. Way to go “True The Vote”! Great choice!
And LBJ’s misdeeds have exactly what to do with the issue? Sometimes a building is just a building.
At this point in time – given Holder’s very transparent history – anyone that hasn’t figured out that Holder suffers from “the oppressed become the oppressors” syndrome, and evn more; he willingly and deliberately attacks every moral fiber of our Constitution. He’s a moron … and outside of the office he holds, he’s an insignificant little tyrant and Soros sycophant.
Ignore the bum and impeach him NOW … I don’t give a rats hind end what he does or does not agree with; enough is enough!!!!
THE REAL ISSUE HERE IS SELECTIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT. Law enforcement discretion is an abomination. Enforcers of the law should have NO discretion. They are duty-bound to enforce EVERY law in EVERY case. The reason law enforcement discretion exists is due to the enormous size of the monstrous steaming pile of federal laws, often contradictory, which only invites corruption. Repealing laws is just as important as passing laws. The list of federal laws needs extreme culling. Repealing about half the federal laws would be a good start. There is NO ONE who is able to obey all laws all the time. There are simply too many of them. The situation is ridiculous.
Moreover, the US federal system of government is broken beyond any kind of incremental repair. It needs to be reconstructed, incorporating direct and immediate feedback mechanisms.
The discovery of fundamental mathematical principles concerning self-regulating systems is a recent development, less than sixty-years-old. This is new information which needs to be integrated at every scale into every facet of government, which sorely needs it. All systems: mechanical, electronic, biological, and social have a strong tendency to spiral out-of-control. Well constructed systems have well constructed systems of immediate self-regulation based on feedback. Think of your ability to sweat to cool off or the switch in your toilet that keeps the water from overflowing the water closet tank. What we are witnessing at nearly every level of government, but especially at the federal level, is the complete breakdown of the self-limiting effects of what few feedback mechanisms are present in our system of governance. No branch of government is free from it. This breakdown can be seen in the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government.
The results of this breakdown has as led our US federal system into deeply entrenched corruption, seeking only to perpetuate and expand that corruption. ALL Democrat and Republican government politicians at the federal-level, and sporadically at the state-level, are only serving to increase corruption, whether they want to do this or not and whether or not these individuals are decent people or not, because there are no longer any effective mechanisms of self-regulation in any branch of government. Every self-regulatory mechanism of government that I can bring to mind has been effectively bypassed, and increasingly so.
Again, the principles of immediate self-regulation based upon direct feedback are new discoveries, with which most people are not familiar. Implementing what is known about these principles is fundamental to good engineering and construction today.
This same dire need for feeback-regulation applies to a great number (but not all, due to good design) of US capitalist enterprises in existence today, which we are watching as they spiral out-of-control as well. These loose cannon businesses have bypassed the market mechanisms meant to provide immediate limiting self-regulation based upon feedback. Far too many of them exist today for anyone to feel comfortable.
FOOTNOTE: Greed is NEVER good. This is why greed has been considered a sin to Christians for thousands of years. Enlightened self-interest is not necessarily the same as outright greed, and does require limits to be generally useful to both society at large and even the individual in the long run.
That correction control you write about was included in our Constitution. The three branches of our republic were each to scrutinize and restrain the power of the other two. The problems started when people began changing the form and format of our governmental system. We have been slowly transitioning into a democracy while still attempting to retain the trappings of a republic.
Our founders had studied all of the various forms of government; those in force at the time they were writing the Constitution; and all the governmental types from their past, why they worked, and why they failed. What they setup was a completely new system, a grand experiment. An Experiment that worked; until other men came along, selfish men that were seeking power and control for their own personal gain and ideology.
Selective enforcement of the law means we are living in a lawless nation. And we are the group that is out of power.
I doubt if A.G. Holder will ever resign his position. He’ll hang on to it for dear life, because he’s a mosat important cog in Obama’s vote-cheating effort.
The only way Holder will be gone is by loss of his office via Congress after evidence is produced of criminality.
Imagine that! Eric Holder is a communist. ’nuff said.
Voter fraud is not new, its been around forever; but now fraud is not just being sanctioned but promoted by this Obumbo Admin. and, as usual, the Democrat Party. Voter fraud is treason…period, and should carry the same penalties.
Why does no that supports voting without an ID or transferring weapons to drug cartels adding sections to legislation that incarceration without due process is legal. All violations of freedom are up for abuse.
Maybe just a little too much speedy, Pete.
This is the most corrupt, reckless, hypocritical, irresponsible, and incompetent administration in United States history. What this administration has been doing to the country the past 3 years is outrageous and how they’ve managed to destroy America’s standing in the world is sad – you couldn’t even make this stuff up. It is so disgusting.
Sure I’m an outsider- but my tuppence worth.
The problem seems to be that politicians of one party are keen to ensure that only those entitled to can vote, and that those who aren’t cant. The other party says its a small problem not worth pursuing.
If the first mentioned party organised sufficient intelligible votes for itself that the matter got noticed, then I have a feeling that the second party would begin to find the problem significant.
Holder also said that voter fraud “isn’t a huge problem,”
Holder is telling the truth, since voter fraud is usually perpetrated by dems for the benefit of dems, it is NOT a problem for dems. They are perfectly happy to have lots of voter fraud, and are probably counting on it for an edge in 2012. Of course if you are not a dem, you might consider it to be a problem.
Mr Adams,
I’m confused by Mr Holder’s actions. It’s obvious to me that
a) he’s disregarding the 2008 Supreme Court decision (Crawford v. Marion County Election Board) which was 6-3 decision, with Justice Stevens writing a majority opinion.
b) Rhode Island’s new non-photo ID requirement takes effect January 1, 2012. On January 1, 2014, a photo ID requirement will replace the non-photo ID law. The law, signed by Gov Lincoln Chafee (I) and introduced/passed through Dem controlled legislature.
c) Former Alabama Congressman, Artur Davis (D), acknowledged that he looked the other way on voter fraud while in office – writing so in an op-ed (http://tinyurl.com/bu849e4)
Wonder if there is anything he would recognize as voter fraud.
Many mistakenly thing Crawford is a blanket approval of voter ID. It isn’t. Voter ID does not live on Crawford alone.
Holder is a disgrace as a human being as well as AG. Holder is just a racist punk who needs to b e capped.
We all know that Holder is not a fair person and he is not for protecting civil rights. We all know that from the way he handle the two Panther who violated all of our civil rights.Holder is not a good AG. LOOk at his pass record. He allowed gun to walk and he laundry money for the drug dealers. Why should any american believe him. He is a thug and a criminal. Obama do not even have the guts to make him accountable . He had failed us also. We need to get rid of the trash. I am so ashamed of our leaders.
Black is not arace. Most asian Indians are also black in skin color,but are certainly not part of the ‘African American” ethic group. IObama is also not part of that of that ethnic group,even thogh his skin is the right color and they have adopted him almost 100%. While he is literally African American, with a Black African father and a White American mother, Obama has no American or British West Indies slaves in his family backround as do almost all of the ‘Black’ communitty.