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To: NorwegianViking
I sent the link to a liberal family member who is gay down in Fl. We argue politics all the time and he has been going further and further to the left as he is morphing into the out of closet gay activist mimicking his new friends there. His response to that link as follow:

B.S. Non-citizens can't vote. This is totally associated with the Voting Rights Act ... which if the Jim Crow south hadn't abused the power of the majority to deny voting rights to the minority blacks ... there never would have been a need for Federal intervention. This has nothing to do with allowing non-citizens to vote (because they can't and the administration is trying to let them) ... this is slight of hand / smokescreen for the real issue which is how much longer is the "special dispensation" allowing the Federal government the authority to approve voter registration and voting rights laws in a select number of former Jim Crow states. A couple years back Congress already voted to extend the program another 25 years or something like that. Just because the Administration won't approve a change for GA procedures doesn't mean they are trying to let non-citizens vote. If the procedures stay as is ... non-citizens still can't vote. So to say that just because they won't approve a change doesn't mean they are trying to give non-citizen. The Supreme Court has already ruled that Indiana's driver's license / photo ID is constitutional, particularly since there are provisional voting procedures in place. This is just another example of a deliberately INFLAMMATORY remark that obscures the truth in other to mischaracterize and paint the other side as being for something that they aren't. So let's focus on the real issue which is that the special federal dispensation was admittedly appropriate in 1970's and 1980's ... but it's time to decide how much longer such federal intrusion should be allowed to continue. There's no doubt that the special dispensation was constitutional since the constitution is VERY EXPLICIT in Article IV Section 4: "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion." So the federal government certainly has the power under extraordinary circumstances when evidence reveals the state is not acting as a republican form of government.

It is kind of fun arguing with him, any good ideas are welcome.

227 posted on 07/20/2009 11:11:28 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

What can I say? He obviously is beyond learning anything since he already knows it all. But, best of luck and please keep trying. Everything you add will be like planting little seeds for thought. Eventually, those roots will start growing! Best wishes to you, Patriot!


232 posted on 07/20/2009 2:59:11 PM PDT by NorwegianViking (Organizing for America)
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To: Abathar

Ask him if he supports non-verified voting.

Ask him if he can see ‘abuses of power’ on both side of that coin.

Ask him if he supports abuse of power, or if he supports equal treatment under the law.

Finally, ask him if a society can ever be compassionate that doesn’t follow some kind of rules, some kind of rule of law that we can all agree with/sign off on..


234 posted on 07/20/2009 3:27:03 PM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Country & the Tea Party! Take America Back! The TRAITORS in the enemedia are corrupt.)
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