Yeah. It doesn't really work like that. First, they have the media on their side. So you'll give them the opportunity to turn the blame on us. The "escorts" will be treated as the violators.
You can't go thug on thug. You have to send lawyers, or some kind of guys in suits. But the problem even then is, no matter how good your organization, sometimes the poll watchers will get run off before your team even has time to get to the polling station.
For example, one of the witnesses testifying in the New Black Panthers Party case, noted that even before that particular event, there had already been poll watchers run out of other precincts that day. Here's some of the testimony from that hearing:
MR. [Bartle] BULL: Yes. I was in a car, driven by a young volunteer, with another volunteer from New York. And we were receiving cell phone messages, saying that in many, many polling places, there was intimidation. Not so much of voters, Mr. Melendez, but intimidation of poll watchers. A very important point, sir, if I may say.
And that was what was going on. Our poll watchers were driven out of the polls in five or six places I went to. And while we were examining those situations, we had a call on the radio -- on the cell phone, excuse me, saying that on -- on -- at Fairmount Street, there were two Black Panthers intimidating voters and poll watchers, as you just heard.
So, we drove there, and there indeed we saw the two Black Panthers, blocking the door to a polling place, one of them armed with a weapon. I may say in my many years as a Civil Rights lawyer -- I didn't mention that. You asked me that question, I'm sorry. I also worked for a group called the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Mississippi. In 1966, I took my summer vacation as a lawyer; went down to Hattiesburg and other towns in Mississippi, and worked as a Civil Rights lawyer there. And even there, I never saw armed people blocking the doors to a polling place.
Yeah. It doesn’t really work like that. First, they have the media on their side. So you’ll give them the opportunity to turn the blame on us. The “escorts” will be treated as the violators.
You can’t go thug on thug. You have to send lawyers, or some kind of guys in suits. But the problem even then is, no matter how good your organization, sometimes the poll watchers will get run off before your team even has time to get to the polling station.
For example, one of the witnesses testifying in the New Black Panthers Party case, noted that even before that particular event, there had already been poll watchers run out of other precincts that day.
THen might I humbly suggest that, in order to WIN the battle for our nation we must CHANGE the rules? It’s time we stop accepting the status quo and start thinnking outside the box!
We now have the ALTERNATIVE MEDIA (FoxNews, the Internet, Blogs, Webcams, Cellphones, etc.) so, it’s not THAT easy for the CNN’s, MSNBC’s and the big three to LIE anymore without getting cause in it. They have REAL competition. We NOW have MILLIONS of motivated and ANGRY Tea Partiers, 9/12er’s and an awful lot of angry patriots, that include some pretty tough dudes, from football players to bikers to special forces vets who’d GLADLY be willing to form an “ESCORT” line for little old ladies and kind old gentlemen to get to the polls and vote.
I’m thinking the Black Panthers might think twice before trying to crack a baton over the head of a 6’4” bandana wearing, leather clad, gotee sporting Hog driver with a sweet old grandma by the arm taking her to her polling place. And what about the Vet who shows up in his old BDU’s, and escorts that older gentleman past the three big Black Panthers with the clubs in their hands while the network AND webcams arfe rolling? Do they try to take out the Iraq war Vet and the old man he’s showing in??
The rules have to change. And we have to change them. We have to turn it around on these manipulationist jack asses who always put US in the position of being the “bad guys.” We MUST put that shoe on the OTHER foot this time. If we do, we win. If we don’t, THEY win. That simple.