Liberals Reveal Their Problem With Democracy

Written by: Evrviglnt on Monday, July 28th, 2008

The problem?  Americans might get to vote on issues that the left has been ramming through the courts!  John Fund of the Wall Street Journal has a wicked column unmasking the tactics of leftist who are opposed to Ward Connoly’s Civil Rights Initiative that seeks to “approve race-neutral government policies in public hiring, contracting and university admissions.”  Here in California I worked for the campaign that ultimately passed, called the California Civil Rights Initiative.  It was my first dip into the dirty pool of politics, and after two months of being spit at, called a racist and hollered down in my classrooms when I rose to defend it, I learned a bitter lesson – liberals don’t want to debate you, they want to beat the shit out of you.

Mr. Fund introduces us to  BAMN – By Any Means Necessary – an apt name for a gang of ideological thugs that has physically and verbally harrassed petitioners in five states where Mr. Connoly was trying to get his anti-affirmative action initiatives on the ballot.  He was successful in only 3 of five, and the story of how that happened is worth reading.

 ”The key to defeating the initiative is to keep it off the ballot in the first place,” says Donna Stern, Midwest director for the Detroit-based By Any Means Necessary (BAMN). “That’s the only way we’re going to win.” Her group’s name certainly describes the tactics that are being used to thwart Mr. Connerly. 

Aggressive legal challenges have bordered on the absurd, going so far as to claim that a blank line on one petition was a “duplicate” of another blank line on another petition and thus evidence of fraud. In Missouri, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan completely rewrote the initiative’s ballot summary to portray it in a negative light. By the time courts ruled she had overstepped her authority, there wasn’t enough time to collect sufficient signatures.

Those who did circulate petitions faced bizarre obstacles. In Kansas City, a petitioner was arrested for collecting signatures outside of a public library. Officials finally allowed petitioners a table inside the library but forbade them to talk. In Nebraska, a group in favor of racial preferences ran a radio ad that warned that those who signed the “deceptive” petition “could be at risk for identity theft, robbery, and much worse.”

More thuggery:

The police had to be called when BAMN blocked the entrance of a Phoenix office where circulators had to deliver their petitions. “BAMN’s tactics,” she concluded, “resemble those used by anti-abortion activists to prevent women from entering abortion clinics.”

But BAMN proudly posts videos on its success in scaring away voters, or convincing circulators to hand over their petitions to its shock troops. “If you give me your signatures, we’ll leave you alone,” says a BAMN volunteer on one tape to someone who’s earning money by circulating several different petitions.

What about voters’ rights to sign ACRI’s petitions? BAMN organizer Monica Smith equates race-neutral laws with Jim-Crow segregation laws and slavery. She told Tuscon columnist Denogean that voters are simply being educated that ACRI is “trying to end affirmative action . . . We let them know it’s up on the KKK’s Web site.” Mr. Connerly has repudiated any support from racists.

Read it all.  I recognize the utter hysteria that Mr. Fund writes about.  In an honors political science class I was in I walked in one morning to find a poster taped to the wall comparing anyone who voted for Proposition 209 ( that was the CCRI) with the Ku Klux Klan.  The girl who had put it up was the president of the campus La Raza.  By the time the professor walked in we were in the middle of the classroom screaming at each other – and he being a typical liberal, told me to stop bullying her or he would send for security!  I hadn’t come near her, but she had thrown her pens and anything near her at me, furious that a racist had been allowed to take the class.  I got a lot of that kind of reaction from liberal students and even liberal adults that I met at rallies – those who had come to our gatherings to attack us.  It was wild, and educational.  I never looked at the left the same again…

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One Response to “Liberals Reveal Their Problem With Democracy”

David M Says:
July 30th, 2008 at 10:23 am

The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the – Web Reconnaissance for 07/30/2008 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.

 

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