Michigan GOP

On 10 September 2008, the Michigan Messenger published a report the Michigan GOP plans to challenge voters at the poll based on residence. This action within itself is both legal and practical; something that all parties involved in electoral races should adhere to in order to keep it clean. However, at no point should we as citizen allow either major party to allow such practice to be a tool to disenfranchise voters.


As I stated in the pervious paragraph the Michigan GOP, plans to challenge voters at the poll based on residence, however what I intentionally did not mention is the method this determination shall be based upon. One would believe this challenge would arise from either lack of proper ID, lost paper work, or some other logical reasonable explanation. Sadly, this is not the case; the GOP will attempt to use housing foreclosure listings as an excuse to challenge voters. Is using foreclosure listings truly a factual basis for a challenge to the voter? I am not a legal expert; therefore, I cannot answer this question, I can only give my opinion. Without foretold knowledge as to the status of the foreclosure process of each individual voter on the list then there is no basis for a challenge.

However, in my opinion this is not about ensuring that there is no voter fraud but in fact follows a pattern of actions taken by the GOP to disenfranchise voters that are not members of the Republican Party. It is easy for me to claim that this is a racial issue because an overwhelming larger portion of those whom were con by the sub-prime loans are American of African descendants but this is not the case for all American that were unfortunate enough to fallen prey to such practices were all the same. Either poor or middle class people looking to provide a home for their families. They are hard working, law abiding, good people whose families, their children are facing a major crises and the GOP want to take advantage of it, as they allowed the sub-prime mortgage companies to do.

I cannot stress enough the importance of every citizen to stand up and denounce actions such as this regardless of your party affiliations. To my Republican brothers and sisters I say “Stop chanting country first and place it first for once” and to my Democrat brothers and sisters I say “Stop hoping for change and make the changes” to all I ask, “if you are not your brothers and sisters keepers, then what are you?”


Source: http://www.michiganmessenger.com/4076/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote

Taken for Granted

We as Americans tend to take far too much for granted, is too trusting of our government and believe the rest of the world knows nothing. Americans believe that the world revolves around us and if the rest of the world complains it is something that they are doing wrong not us. It has become so bad, that our government can openly break international laws while attempting to mislead the world of why it is taking such actions. Not only did we allow our government to lie to the entire world, we allowed them to lie to us. I find that to be truly sad, for we all have become so complacent with our government that we have forgotten the meaning behind these 110 words. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” As most of my fellow citizen, I have heard this part of the Declaration of Independence recited many times and never paid much attention to the meaning of the words. I doubt if many of us have in the last three decades, for as I said we take things for granted.