GOP War On Voting and Tax Equality...Republicans Push Back Against Gains...Civil Rights Advocates Can Never Stand Still...MLK

REPUBLICANS ON FREEDOM...

"...America's founders, having fled the horrors of tyrants' enslavement, wrote down a list of these conscientious, overtly obvious, self-evident truths for a new nation. What resulted was a guideline for life in this new land of the free and home of the brave, just in case anyone would be so foolish or evil as to forget...."

Conservative Republican Icon and Freedom Fighter Romney Supporter Ted Nugent


THIS MORNING...


I was listening too MLK's speech "Speech at the Great March on Detroit".  Over the last few days I've been listening too a collection of awesome speeches by Dr. King.  An awesome collection I found in the SFPL.  That's right my "right wing"  nemesis who want too privatize everything we have in America for profit.  The Public Library allows Americans too borrow great treasures at no cost too Americans and no Profit to the Public Library. It's an awesome place too visit.  You just might find out exactly what "FREEDOM" means, if you borrow a dictionary or an American History book there.

As I've said I've been listening too Dr. King over the past couple of days. As I listened this morning I started too think about the difference between Kings ideology and the modern day right wing LIE which they call "Freedom"

DR. KING EXCERPTS FROM...Speech at the Great march on Detroit

"...But then something happened to the People of Color. ... And even his economic life was rising through the growth of industry, the influence of organized labor, expanded educational opportunities. And even his cultural life was rising through the steady decline of crippling illiteracy. ...."

"...But these events that are taking place in our nation tell us something else. They tell us that People of Color and his allies in the white community now recognize the urgency of the moment... They are telling us over and over again that you’re pushing things too fast, and so they’re saying, "Cool off." Well, the only answer that we can give to that is that we’ve cooled off all too long, and that is the danger. There’s always the danger if you cool off too much that you will end up in a deep freeze. "Well," they’re saying, "you need to put on brakes."... We must keep moving.  ..."  MLK online

THE RIGHT'S IDEA OF EQUALITY...


When the President picked up Occupy Wall Streets mantle of Tax Equality and Financial Inequality The American people were polled and demonstrated unprecedented support for the "Buffet Rule"

"...According to a CNN/ORC International survey, 72% favor the bill, which is named for billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who has argued that it's unfair that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. Twenty-seven percent oppose the measure..." cnn political ticker

The "Right-Wing" Republican response was this... 

"...Senate Republicans shot down a move to open debate ..."truthdig

This is a recent account of the right-wing equality ideology.  Let's look at voting rights...

"...Nothing is as central to democracy -- or held so sacred within American civic culture -- as the right to vote. Yet this basic exercise has become the subject of considerable debate in state legislatures this year. For decades, the federal government has sought to make voting easier, through measures such as the Voting Rights Act, the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, and the motor-voter law, which simplified registration. This year, however, numerous states are rolling back early voting and Election Day registration laws, or demanding that voters show government-issued identification at polling places or offer proof of citizenship...."

"...enough bills are moving forward to lead many Democrats to complain that GOP legislators are seeking to disenfranchise vulnerable groups of voters, including African-Americans and college students. You know, the Obama coalition. Republicans deny any such intention, saying they are merely protecting the sanctity of the ballot. “The goal is to ensure the integrity of the election process and provide a common-sense means of combating voter fraud, and the perception of voter fraud,” Ohio state Rep. Louis Blessing said as his chamber passed a voter identification requirement in March...." Governing

DR. KING ON VOTING RIGHTS...

"...Let us march on ballot boxes, (Let’s march) march on ballot boxes until race-baiters disappear from the political arena. Let us march on ballot boxes until the salient misdeeds of bloodthirsty mobs (Yes, sir) will be transformed into the calculated good deeds of orderly citizens. (Speak, Doctor)..." MLK aclu.blog

In my opinion the current Conservative Right-Wing Republican GOP movement is desirous of nothing more than the politics of reverse and revision.  The politics of propaganda and deception.  The politics of Class-Warfare.  Yes, they accuse the President and Progressives and the Democratic party of "Class-Warfare", but it is they who are guilty of this evil.  Of course they won't turn from this.  They won't turn from LYING with all the strength and Money they can muster through the 1% , Corporate America/Wall Street Funding, Citizens United and Dirty Money, or Karl Roves Network GPS and American Crossroads billion dollar Koch aligned Propaganda machine.  Nothing will help them change except dissenting voices and the real American people standing up in full force at the Polls.  Occupy The Polls.

MLK ON EQUALITY AND CIVIL RIGHTS 1967...






more too come

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