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AsmodaisSin -> RE: I am not a racist. (7/14/2010 8:36:48 AM)
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ORIGINAL: rulemylife
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ORIGINAL: AsmodaisSin
You call police about a disturbance, something you feel threatened by, etc. If it makes you feel better that to cops came out, did a report, and went on their merry way, I see no problem here. They're doing their job by aiding the public. I also expect them to explain to those men that the behavior they're exhibiting is disrupting the peace/making people uncomfortable. He was walking around with a friggin' nightstick. I'd be a little unnerved and uncomfortable as well.
Would you be equally as unnerved by someone walking around in front of a polling place with his hand on a holstered gun?
I gave you the link earlier regarding testimony before the Civil Rights Commission, which you obviously did not read.
In the Arizona minutemen case the circumstances were far more egregious and no prosecutions resulted because it is very difficult to make a case based on voter intimidation.
My question is where was all the conservative outrage then?
From a November 21, 2006, Salon.com article:
On Election Day, a posse of three men in Tucson, Ariz., proved that the Wild West still lives.
The group, which was three strong, and allegedly composed of two anti-immigration activists, Russ Dove and Roy Warden, carried a camcorder, a clipboard -- on which, they said, was information about a proposed law to make English the state's official language -- and a gun.
While one man would approach a voter, holding the clipboard, another would follow, pointing the video camera at them. The third would stand behind, holding his hand to the gun at his hip in what activists on the other side called classic voter intimidation tactics in a precinct one local paper had previously declared the bellwether of the area's Hispanic vote.
- From a November 8, 2006, Austin American-Statesman article:
In Arizona, Roy Warden, an anti-immigration activist with the Minutemen, and a handful of supporters staked out a Tucson precinct and questioned Hispanic voters at the polls to determine whether they spoke English.
Armed with a 9mm Glock automatic strapped to his side, Warden said he planned to photograph Hispanic voters entering polls in an effort to identify illegal immigrants and felons. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund reported the incident to the FBI.
- From a November 8, 2006, Tucson Citizen article:
Volunteer election monitors say three men with a video camera and a gun were intimidating voters at various polling stations throughout Tucson.
From about 9:45 a.m. to noon Tuesday, the men approached Hispanic voters as they attempted to enter Iglesia Bautista Kairos, 4502 S. 12th Ave. in Precinct 25, said Diego Bernal, a lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund.
(Black Panther Voter Intimidation: Minutemen Case Even Worse?)
If they were smacking it around in a very intimidating manner, then yes. It would bother me, because I find that kind of behavior very confrontational.
In the Arizona case, I'd call the cops too. I don't think it's appropriate for people to be carrying weapons to a voter site, whether they're white, black, purple or polka dotted. Or all four. O_o Again, that kind of behavior is inappropriate. They should have been punished for intimidating voters as should the two Black Panthers' members. -Shrugs.-
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