Bush is suing a Black Man for Violating the Voting Rights Act...

[mikelewis]

I guess this must be some sore of payback for the Coretta Scott King Funeral.

Voting Rights Act pointed in a new direction

Brown has no time for moderate white Democrats who might get elected but who would then support Republican policies. "To hell with 'em," Brown says of people he calls "Dixiecrats." "They're not doing me one bit of good."

Brown's lawyer, Wilbur Colom, says he is simply "a tough politician." But the U.S. Justice Department says Brown's take-no-prisoners brand of politics has crossed the line into discrimination against white voters and candidates.

The Justice Department has launched a landmark lawsuit against Brown — the first time the federal government has used the 1965 Voting Rights Act to allege racial discrimination against whites.

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"What they complain about Ike Brown doing, I see whites do in every county in Mississippi in every election and the Justice Department does nothing about it," Colom says.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-04-03-voting-lawsuit_x.htm?csp=34

Isn't it ironic that we had almost the same scenario here in Ohio in 2004, only the people here were brown. I remember the long lines here in Cleveland where brown faces stood in the rain for 10 hours to cast their ballots. I remember the goons that the Pukes here hired to intimidate people in poor precincts. I remember the voter roll purges and the registration "thickness" debate delivered by our soon to be selected Gov. Blackwell. Funny, when a brown man does these things to white people, he goes to jail. When a brown man does these things to brown people.... They make him Governor. God Bless America.

[DLnyc]

1. Gee, the Republican "Diebold not our fault" campaign

is off to an early start. Something in the wind, perhaps?

[mikelewis]

2. What the hell are you talking about?

I fail to see how this article exonerates Diebold in anyway. It has nothing to do with Diebold. Are you just pissed that I didn't mention Diebold? From now on, I will mention Diebold in every sentence and try to include the words, "Sucks", "Blows" and "Smells". Would that satisfy your Diebold obsession? And just for the record, I hate Diebold too, they suck, blow and smell.

[DLnyc]

3. Gee, sorry, didn't mean to offend.

I really thought I was trying to applaud your post.

I guess my mental state put out something cryptic, I'm still trying to decipher it myself.

I think I meant that it sounds to me like a frivolous suit who's only likely purpose is to make some political hay from the uproar.

To be honest, I hadn't really read the whole article. I just read it, and I am now fairly convinced that the suit is friolous, it's filing is deeply, profoundly, absurdly ironic ( as you quite nicely pointed out in your comment ) and in short, pretty much as I imagined, only more so..

In short, I agree completely with what you're saying, and please post exactly as you choose.

I'm really sorry for the reaction I caused, even if my somewhat burnt out brain doesn't quite see why my post would cause such a reaction. But I have no quarrel with your right to react that way, just don't quite get it. Sorry

(on edit: move parenthesis . . . and, again, sorry)

[DLnyc]

5. Translation of my post:

Meaning, I get the feeling this is a political move on the part of shrubco designed to kick up emotions, and useful later in case they start getting seriously tarred by their inumerous, intense, pervasive efforts to skew the voting process by gerrymandering, vote suppression, registration elimination, withholding assistance in a disaster zone and so forth.
Which thought, having floated through my brain, made me think that perhaps there is something afoot that makes them see they ARE getting tarred from the whole pervasive, intense, inumerous pattern of, and obsession with, wantonly corrupting the voting process.

Sorry if misinterpreted.

[kevinbgoode]

4. Gosh...I thought Repukes respected this kind of behavior?

After all, those southern white boyz invented it. . .