Appalled

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/4/24/184030/954

Appalled

by CabinGirl
Tue Apr 24th, 2012 at 06:40:30 PM EST


So, I just voted in the PA primary today…

For the first time ever, I was asked for photo ID to vote. When I responded that asking for that was just wrong, the suburban white lady looking up my name in the voter rolls actually defended it: "It will keep the terrorists from voting, and we'll give you a free one.""

What? Will you give me a free birth certificate so I can go to the DMV and get the free ID? If I lived in North Philadelphia, would you give me the bus fare to travel to where there is a DMV to get that free ID, because there is no DMV in the ghetto?

Obviously, this woman missed that whole civil rights/voting rights thing in the 60s. Probably shuffling kids to the country club pool in her station wagon instead. She must have missed the whole Citizens United thing too, because if terrorists wanted to influence our elections, they could just fund a superPAC to support their chosen candidate. Much more effective than voting in my suburban township precinct.

And the worst part, is this is the quality of the people working at the polls. I got a sympathetic look from one of the elder stateswomen of the local Dems during this exchange; the rest just didn't get it.

pffft.

[CBGLuthier]

1. some idiot actually said " keep the terrorists from voting?"

This country may be too stupid to endure.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Wonder if McVeigh was a terrorist?

At least in her world. Nah, in her world he was probably some (white) guy who made a mistake.

[liberalhistorian]

3. There are plenty of whites

who actually believe that McVeigh was simply a front for the true masterminds behind the OK City bombing, which were.....wait for it...............you'll NEVER guess...........................are you sitting down?.....................that's right, the Moooooslems!

They just simply cannot accept that a middle-class white guy, a military veteran no less, could be responsible for such a horrendous act of terrorism against his own country.

[Recursion]

5. In my experience the OKC paranoids blame Jews more than Muslims

And McVeigh was into the whole "Zionist Government Conspiracy" nonsense.

[liberalhistorian]

10. Hmmm....hadn't heard the "Jews" one before

for OK City. For 9/11, of course, but not OK. Didn't know McVeigh was into that Zionist nonsense, either, but it doesn't surprise me considering what an ignorant, hateful dumbass paranoid wack-a-doo he was. What's sickening is that there are actually people who consider him to be a "freedom fighter" against the federal government and that the murdered children and non-federal employees were just "collateral damage". Then they'll spout off their "pro-life" nonsense in the same breath.

What's truly scary and upsetting to me is that many current college students, including really smart ones, don't even know about the OK bombing and don't seem to care much when told. NPR had a couple of college professors on awhile ago who were talking about that.

[Recursion]

4. Didn't all 19 hijackers have IDs? (nt)

[onethatcares]

16. and one i.d. was found

conveniently at ground zero.

[JHB]

6. Has that been a big problem in this precinct? How many have you caught?

What is your training in false-ID detection?
What about terrorists who don't have any false ID, like a Tim McVeigh?

[MrScorpio]

7. We're doing voting wrong in this country

We're going backwards

[abelenkpe]

8. Wow

I would have busted out laughing and asked if someone who wasn't completely fucking ignorant was manning the polls. Really, you should have called an asylum to take that lunatic away.

[marshall gaines]

9. sad

sad state of affairs in our country these days. god bless america

[Javaman]

11. some people prefer teh stupid...

it's easier for them than thinking.

[EC]

12. Huh?

Wouldn't a terrorist blow up the place, instead of voting? Did you ask her what terrorists? She likely means union "thugs" or leftys.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. Voter fraud is not a problem in this country.

People not voting is.

[Scuba]

14. Keep the terrorists from voting? No, Republicans will still vote.

[0rganism]

15. IIRC, Tim McVeigh had a driver's license

these new voter ID laws aren't going to stop dangerous people from voting, but they sure as hell will rub a lot of minorities the wrong way, and maybe slow down student and senior votes by 5-10%.

This is not an oversight, this is not a mistake. This is by design.