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Flip flopping
Silencing the American people
By John W. Whitehead
“There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid ofthepoll tax and all the Jim Crow
burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today. Why
should we disenfranchise people forever once they’ve paid their price?” -BILL CLINTON
DESPITE THE PROPAGANDA being advanced by the government, the purpose of vot-
er ID laws is not to eliminate voter fraud and protect the integrity of elections. Rather,
their aim is to silence and suppress as many American voters as possible and increase
the already widening chasm between the electorate and our government representatives.
In fact, voter ID laws are the icing on the cake when it comes to public officials shutting
Americans out of the decision-making process, silencing dissent, and making sure that
those in power stay in power and have the last word on government policy. In other words,
voter ID laws are the final step in securing the American corporate oligarchy, the unchal-
lenged rule by the privileged and few.
Voter ID laws which have swept the nation since 2011 effectively erode our system of
representative government by blocking access to the seats of power by those who need it
most: the young, the old, women and minorities. For example, Viviette Applewhite, who
marched with Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement, has cast a bal-
lot in almost every presidential election since she first voted for John F. Kennedy in 1960.
However, as a result of Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law, which requires voters to present
a photo ID to election officials on Election Day, this may be the first year the 93-year-old
is not able to vote because she, like many others, does not have access to the required legal
documents necessary in order to acquire a photo ID.
This is not the first time in American history such tactics have been used to suppress
the populace. For example, the South after Reconstruction was a textbook example of
voter suppression, from poll taxes to grandfather clauses. At the same time in the North,
immigrant voters were being suppressed via literacy tests. These were not formal barri-
ers which said “no blacks” or “no immigrants” may vote, but requirements which while
ostensibly aimed at preserving the integrity of elections were in reality meant to silence
average Americans, much like today’s voter ID laws. During that same time period, the
state of New Jersey, which had for 17 years allowed women to vote, pulled the plug on
women’s suffrage. In contrast, as Judith Browne-Dianis of the Advancement Project not-
ed, today’s voter ID laws are “the most significant setback to voting rights in this country
in a century.”
The Philadelphia Delegation of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives recently
issued a Voter Identification Education Guide in order to help voters navigate the state’s
new voter ID requirements. Incredibly, at 112 pages, the guide may prove to be more off-
SILENCING THE AMERICAN PEDPLE...CDNTINUED DN NEXT PAGE
GOD NEVER FLIP flops His word. Mt. 2f:35 “Heaven and
earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”
The sin of homosexuality (all sin) was judged, condemned
and nailed to the cross of Christ so that we are no longer slaves
to the lower nature. Godly sorrow that leads to repentance and
the confession of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour exonerates
us from God’s judgement.
If we are truly born again, we will not wallow in sin. 2nd Cor.
5:17 “Therefore if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the
old has gone, the new has come!” 2nd Cor. 5:21 “God made Him
who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become
the righteousness of God.”
I find homosexuals to be self-deceived, deviant and confron-
tational only by the grace of God.
DAVID H. YOUNG
Where have all
the soldiers gone?
“WHERE HAVE ALL the soldiers gone?” is a line from a song
penned in 1955 by Pete Seeger which (with added verses) be-
came a Viet Nam-era protest song. But the question is relevant
today as Memorial Day, May 28th is upon us. VFW Post 7469
and American Legion Post 56 (assisted by non-affiliated veter-
ans) has conducted a Memorial Day ceremony since shortly af-
ter World War I.
The VFW Post HAS ceased operations and the Legion Post
only has about 20 members, the majority of whom are physi-
cally unable to participate. The “Greatest Generation” was in
their sixties when I started in 1980; most of them are gone.
Most participants now are in their sixties or seventies.
About this time each year, I began calling veterans who pre-
viously participated and those whom I have heard about. Each
year it is more difficult to find enough veterans. For some it is a
holiday with family plans. For others it is another work day.
I was pleasantly surprised when Nick Thomas contacted me
to declare his availability. Nevertheless, there will be a time
when the traditional ceremony cannot be done unless younger
veterans participate.
I would love to hear from younger veterans who can partici-
pate. My office phone is 806.323.6542 and it has an answering
machine.
CHARLES L. KESSIE
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