Jeremiah Tolbert

Driving back from gro­ceries tonight, I heard an NPR inter­view about voter supres­sion tac­tics that appar­ently have been going on for years.

Let me speak plainly on this issue.  I don’t care what your polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tion is.  Every mem­ber of this democracy/​republic should hold it to be morally repug­nant to ever, ever attempt to mis­lead qual­i­fied vot­ers from exer­cis­ing their right.   It is the absolute foun­da­tion of our sys­tem, and I con­sider it the most vile of crimes.  That it con­tin­ues to occur each year, with­out any­one being pun­ished for the crime sick­ens me.  It is not an issue in which I see shades of gray.  It is absolutely wrong.  Those who are respon­si­ble for it have the unique dis­tinc­tion of qual­i­fy­ing as truly evil in my opinion.

Here’s what I think.  We find the peo­ple respon­si­ble for lying to vot­ers about vot­ing rights in an attempt to keep them away from the polls.  We find them and we try them in a court with a jury of their peers as the sys­tem allows for.  And if they are found guilty, they should be exiled.  Anyone who wishes to deny the basic rights of democ­racy from their fel­low cit­i­zens is an enemy to that democ­racy and should be removed.  Send them to the coun­try of their choice, and shoot them if they ever attempt to step on American soil again.

This will prob­a­bly be the last polit­i­cal post from me for a while, so don’t worry about me mak­ing a habit of this. My blog is not a polit­i­cal one.  I have strong polit­i­cal opin­ions, but I don’t feel the need to share them most of the time.  This is an exception.

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Tags: crime, democracy, voter supression