Alabama sends message: We are too broke to care about right and wrong

[Stuckinthebush]

http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/09/alabama_sends_message_we_are_t.html#incart_river_home

Alabama might as well just send an invitation to the Justice Department. Come on in guys. Come on down.

No need to reply with an RSVP. Because we know you'll be here. How could you resist?

Because Alabama just took a giant step backward.

Take a look at the 10 Alabama counties with the highest percentage of non-white registered voters. That's Macon, Greene, Sumter, Lowndes, Bullock, Perry, Wilcox, Dallas, Hale, and Montgomery, according to the Alabama Secretary of State's office. Alabama, thanks to its budgetary insanity and inanity, just opted to close driver license bureaus in eight of them. All but Dallas and Montgomery will be closed.

Closed. In a state in which driver licenses or special photo IDs are a requirement for voting.

It's not just a civil rights violation. It is not just a public relations nightmare. It is not just an invitation for worldwide scorn and an alarm bell to the Justice Department. It is an affront to the very notion of justice in a nation where one man one vote is as precious as oxygen. It is a slap in the face to all who believe the stuff we teach the kids about how all are created equal.

[Jerry442]

1. People need drivers licenses to, y'know, drive, too.

Look for an increase in reports of "blah" people driving irresponsibly without a license.

[liberal N proud]

2. Many people don't drive - So does that mean they can't vote either?

Unlicensed drivers is not an issue related to voting and should not be.

Every citizen should be compelled to vote and not be restricted from voting because they don't have a "drivers license"

Don't confuse the issues.

[Jerry442]

3. Didn't mean to minimize the voting issue.

Just pointing out that the State of Alabama is shamelessly screwing people in other ways too.

[Aristus]

4. Hey, Alabama! Want to stop being broke? Here's how.

Stop praying to God to give you your slaves back. Instead, get up off your lazy white asses, and put in an honest day's work for a change.

Oh, and BTW, 'an honest day's work' doesn't involve sheets, white hoods, or burning crosses...