A couple of days ago I heard the great investigative reporter Greg Palast being interviewed on the radio. He theorizes that the real reason behind the Arizona show-me-your-papers law is not to stop illegals from crossing the border, or even kicking them out. The real reason, says Greg, is to discourage, impede or outright prevent Hispanic CITIZENS from going to the polls in Arizona elections. Here is his recent article on the subject, which should be required reading for everyone. As I heard another pundit say yesterday: “ There are going to be an awful lot of ‘reasonable cause’ stops of citizens who look Hispanic made on election day in Arizona when those people are on their way to vote. Gee, a lot of them may never make it.” (Or they will never even set out for the polls for fear of being stopped and humiliated/hassled even though they are legitimate registered voters).
Palast’s theory makes complete sense to me, and it is scary. As the white, rightwing base shrinks father and farther into minority status, they are going to figure out every possible way they can to keep the “people of color” majority from voting and having their votes counted. Even now the white, rightwing base simply cannot accept the fact that there is a black man in the white house. To them, elections that do not go their way don’t mean a thing.
~ Tom
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