Posted on 08/08/2005 10:26:19 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
A featured speaker at Saturday's civil rights march in Atlanta said the Bush administration and Republican Party leaders are "thieves" who "need to be locked up" for stealing the past two presidential elections and presiding over federal budget deficits and the war in Iraq.
"They all need to be locked up because they are all criminals and they are all thieves," said Judge Greg Mathis, the star of the syndicated television program "The Judge Mathis Show."
Mathis made his remarks to an enthusiastic crowd assembled in Atlanta to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Participants are launching a two-year campaign to extend and strengthen key aspects of the act when it expires in 2007.
"It is indeed criminal to steal an election and within two years run up a federal deficit of half-a-trillion dollars, send our young people over to Iraq to die for an unjust war. What they are doing is criminal," Mathis said to loud cheers.
The march was sponsored by the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and included leaders from the National Urban League, The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the NAACP, and the AFL-CIO.
Entertainer/activist Harry Belafonte also used charged rhetoric during the march when he referred to black members of the Bush administration as "black tyrants."
Mathis, whose speech drew the largest and most raucous reception from the crowd, also chastised the Supreme Court for its role in the 2000 presidential recount.
"[The] Supreme Court was an accomplice to the biggest election crime in history in 2000. And I call it a crime because indeed that is exactly what it was," he said to applause.
The Bush administration was equated with past policies of slavery and segregation and labeled "the enemy of our (black America's) progress" by Mathis.
"They shot and missed when they enslaved, segregated and oppressed our people. They shot and missed when they stole the past two presidential elections. They shot and missed when they denied our right to vote," Mathis said.
An extension and strengthening of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is imperative to ensure black Americans the right to vote, according to Mathis. "The enemy of democracy continues to attack voting rights here, while they try to fight for democracy in Iraq," he said.
'Intimidation and discrepancies'
Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California appeared at the march and noted that minorities may not have had full voting rights in the last two presidential elections.
"Some changes have to be made so we don't have a repeat of 2000 and 2004 where there was intimidation and discrepancies at the polls," Pelosi told Cybercast News Service during the voting rights march.
"In the state of Ohio, where they had fewer voting booths and long lines in minority neighborhoods and no lines and many voting booths in white neighborhoods, that the balance is not what it should have been," she added.
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) echoed the accusation of many at the march that Bush was an illegitimate president.
"The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about," Lee told the crowd gathered.
Lee also called the war in Iraq "unnecessary, immoral and illegal" and added "our nation was lied to in order to justify this invasion and occupation."
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) made it clear who the marchers were directing their anger at on Saturday.
"We are here to take on President Bush, [Vice President] Dick Cheney. We are here to take on [House Majority Leader] Tom DeLay. We are here to take on the new appointee to the Supreme Court, John Roberts," Waters said from the podium to cheers from the crowd.
'Cause Mother Earth so much pain'
Musician Stevie Wonder addressed the marchers demanding that the Voting Rights Act be extended and strengthened.
"Having to demand that we have a bill that will guarantee the voting rights of all American citizens forever is ridiculous," Wonder said. He also read the lyrics of an upcoming song to be released in September.
"At this time we have a choice to make. Father God is watching while we cause Mother Earth so much pain. It's such a shame. Not enough money for the young, the old, the poor, but for war there is always more," Wonder said.
The Bush administration was also targeted by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), who declared that the president's "record against human rights, civil rights, economic rights, is absolutely terrible."
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said America was being ruled by the "Bush mentality," where "crony capitalism" was supreme.
Jesse Jackson said the Voting Rights Act extension is critical because "the same old enemies of civil rights and voting rights will always keep up their ugly activities.
"Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town," Jackson said.
The organizers of Saturday's march want to strengthen and preserve Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, which maintains that states with a discriminatory past must submit all changes in voting procedures to the U.S. Department of Justice for approval in order to ensure the changes do not have racially discriminatory effects or purposes.
While the Bush administration and House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) have indicated that they would support full reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act provisions in 2007, the organizers of Saturday's march believe they must begin acting now to ensure their goals.
These A$$ Clowns are nothing but a bunch of Step-and-Fetch-Its for the DNC. They're doing the "talking" but it's the DNC's lips that are moving.
You should have seen the fawning coverage given by the Atlanta TV news last night. Pelosi, Belafonte, Jackasss Jackson, Bawbawa Boxer, Barbara Lee, John Lewis marching arm in arm.
I thought, Who said 'Send in the clowns.'?
I wonder who Judge Mathis thinks denied black Americans their voting rights for 100 years? Here's a hint judge, they were not Republicans.
Democrats held the White House for 18 straight years and a majority in Congress for 16 straight years in the 1930s and '40s, and they did nothing about voting rights AFAIK. When voting rights legislation was introduced in Congress in the 1960s it was Democrat Senators who tried to block it with filibusters, and Republicans who pushed it through both houses over Democrat obstructionists. Does that sound like anything we have seen recently?
If these moonbats want to be taken seriously they need to slip a bit of truth into their rhetoric every now and then.
Dude, check your history books. That was the Democrats. Slavery was Democrat policy. Jim Crow was Democrat policy. Race repression was Democrat policy. Race obsession was and continues to be Democrat policy.
Republicans were the party of color-blind citizenship, and continue to be. Republicans beat back slavery, beat back Jim Crow, and continue to oppose the kind of race obsession that still afflicts a significant number of Democrats to this day.
I consider it a good thing that the party of race repression has been seized and occupied by black voters. But it is a shame that rather than change the party, they have adopted the race obsession of that party rather than help to erase it.
Sadly it is still true, that if you believe in color-blind citizenship, whatever the color of your skin, you are probably a Republican. If you consider yourself a person first, and an American first, a Christian or a Jew first, and your color last or not at all, you are probably a Republican.
And if you are obsessed by race, and find your identity in the color of your skin, you are probably a Democrat.
I still can't get used to these people claiming that every conservative is a criminal. And .. with no proof or evidence whatever they want us to be carted off to jail.
It's really stunning - they're stupidity!
But .. they don't care that Sandy Berger went into a govt building and stole classified documents. Still amazes me.
It's in the addendum to the Bill of Rights. It guarantees the right of slugs who won't get an education and won't work to pick the pockets of people who will do those things. I think it's called the Welfare Amendment, but no one seems to remember it being ratified by the people.
I think the judge Mathis needs to blow off steam before he goes back to work deciding if deadbeat A is more entitled to sexual and economic rights than deadbeat B, which, with an eye to such disparity amongst his court practitioners, parasites and anomalies, he be the right person to decide de story, because he be de man, and gangster hoodlum, yo, he be the ho damn thing...
Barbara Lee at least put her nutball self on record.
U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) echoed the accusation of many at the march that Bush was an illegitimate president. "The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about," Lee told the crowd gathered.
It is so much easier to cultivate ignorance than to educate people with facts. If course this the last standing block of people willing to be lead around like a herd. The plantation hierarchy is sooo afraid that these folks are about to start thinking for themselves.
*snicker*
Actually, someone covered all that in the Bill of No Rights, as follows:
ARTICLE I -- You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV or any form of wealth.
More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.
ARTICLE IV -- You do not have the right to free food and housing.
Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generations of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes.
ARTICLE VII -- You do not have the right to the possessions of others.
If you rob, cheat or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big screen TV or a life of leisure.
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Guess these yahoos (Jackson, et al.) never heard of the above. :)
Black racist demagogues. Race baiters. Clowns. Buffoons. Jackanapes.
I'm sure they mentioned what party fought against the voting rights act. I get sick of hearing them talk about it. /sarcasm
Isn't that the truth........LOL.
Because he's a better man than any of them could ever dream of being, not that they'd dream of that.
And they know it.
And that's why they hate him.
but really, is there no good moment for us to return fire?)
Certainly not over a dead man.
I agree. Leave that loathsome tactic to the DUmmies, they're well practiced in it.
Are you as surprised as I am at the vitriolic language being used about this man on this forum?
The right track wrong track polls mean absolutely nothing. As pointed out by a few rational leftist commentators during the last election, Democrats were foolish to emphasize right track wrong track polls. If a majority of respondents believe the country is on the wrong track that doesn't mean that a majority supports a more a leftist approach. It's quite possible that many of the respondents believe that the country is on the wrong track because they belive in a more conservative approach. The same applies to the President's approval ratings.
Good point
Economic rights = statism
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