On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 14:11:01 +0000, Karl Denninger wrote:


I'm won't say voter intimidation is widespread, but to say it doesn't
happen is BS. It's important to note, that many minorities are nervous
around law enforcement due to Jim Crow history.

And lots of people, minority or not, are nervous around law enforcement
because they are (or were) breaking the law but have not been caught.

This is not a racial issue.

It damn sure can be. There are neighborhoods that do not see law
enforcement as protecting, they see it as oppressing. There are
neighborhoods whose elders remember poll taxes, Jim Crow laws, and cracker
cops with dogs.



There is no issue at all with having law enforcement present near or even
at polling places for the purpose of keeping the peace. Since the
Democrats have looted, shot at and broken into Republican campaign offices
this season, it appears that such a presence may be necessary to prevent
such antics from being used on election day in the precincts themselves.

Because you have no issue with it, doesn't mean there is no issue. Why
stop with cops? Why not have tanks and soldiers guarding our polling
places like the rest of the third world?