Eric Holder's Voting Rights Speech

Attorney General Eric Holder went to Texas to give a speech about voting rights in the USA. Holder's main thrust was that the Department of Justice is going to do what it can to prevent states from unfairly limiting the right to vote. Indeed, Holder wants the federal government to register all citizens so that they can vote; registration would be done automatically from computer databases.

Holder said that he wanted to prevent everyone from losing the right to vote, but this is just a ridiculous claim. Remember, it was Holder who dropped the case against the New Black Panthers that stood outside the polling place in Philadelphia iin 2008 and intimidated white voters. The New Black Panthers had already lost their case by the time that Holder stopped the prosecution; all that remained was the sentencing. So Holder has no problem with thugs with clubs standing outside a polling place to keep potential white voters from entering. No, Holder is worried that minorities might have to show their drivers' licenses when they go to vote. That's right, armed men menacing potential voters at the polls is no problem, but the need for a picture ID which is the same as is need to fly, to drive, or to gain access to most federal buildings or office buildings across the country is some massive effort at voter suppression.

Think of it this way: if a voter wants to complain to Holder's Justice Department that he was prevented from voting due to the "heinous" requirement for a photo ID, that voter will need to meet the requirements of the Justice Department and produce a photo ID in order to gain access to the building where DOJ is located. Does anyone else see the irony here?

Eric Holder is an embarrassment to the USA. He has failed in most of his efforts: Guantanamo, federal trials for terrorists, Fast and Furious, etc. Maybe instead of wasting time on phony campaigns regarding non-existent voter intimidation, Holder could actually read some of those memoranda about programs like Fast and Furious which he claims to have missed.