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(Editor’s Note: I said No. 100 would be my last posting for 2011. Apparently, the year is moving considerably slower than the pace of my outrage.)

CIRCUMVENTION

to bring about

ABSTENTION

The old bugaboo is back: What laws can we come up with that will keep away from the polls those who may be less inclined to vote for us?  Auguring possible, similar action by the U.S Justice Department in the future, Attorney General Eric Holder recently sued the State of South Carolina. The action obligates the state to defend in court its recently passed law mandating the use of certain identification documents for voting.

Fortunately, Eric Holder – who has first-person knowledge of this type of bias-based, sleight-of-hand skullduggery -- is the AG at this time. The Republican Party currently is going all out to devise schemes to keep African Americans and other minorities – both racial and economic – away from the polls. This is not just the case in South Carolina. The Republican governors have a pact to devise all sorts of legalistic shenanigans in order to gain and retain power via other than direct-franchise means. For this, the Republican Party should be ashamed of itself! Abraham Lincoln -- the first Republican president – certainly would be.

For some remote, idealized notion of American freedom, many of our citizens are alarmed at the idea of a national identification card. Obviously, those who think thusly have not kept up with the accelerating ability of the government – or anyone else, as a matter of fact – to track or locate anyone, anywhere in the world. Also, they are oblivious to the federal government’s mounting attempts to circumvent the Bill of Rights by restructuring the control the government has over citizens of the United States. Its current attempts to legalize the imprisonment of citizens – permanently and without counsel – for as long as the government may deem necessary. In contrast, a bio-tight, national identification card appears to be a puny incursion upon one’s liberty.

A national ID would make SC’s and other states’ grossly overstated cases of voting fraud and poll violations non-issues – as well as the matter of illegal immigration, illegal employment, etc.

Racist trends from our dark past

Dig like moles and seem to last.

So, when they pop up, just like moles,

You’ve got to whack ‘em in their holes.