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Don’t suppress voters; Lonzie Cox, Jr.; Beaver County Times; September 26, 2012. At the time of this writing, this letter appeared only in the print edition of the BCT. I apologize for any transcription errors. I am not related to Mr. Cox.
Most of Mr. Cox’s at least 80 letters since 2004 are tinged with race, and all take leftist positions. The most recent previous Cox letter I critiqued was “Reagan lost steel industry.”
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“Growing up in the post-World War II Cold War era, we were indoctrinated to love everything American and distrust everything German or Russian.”
[RWC] “Indoctrinated?”
“We were horrified at the war crimes of the Nazis, but the anti-Russian stuff was harder to understand, especially after learning that our totalitarian socialist Russian allies had helped us so much to destroy Hitler. We knew those countries had the Gestapo, the secret police and the KGB. Daily, we were reminded that we lived in the greatest country in the world. And it made sense … if only we overlooked the misery of living our lives under Jim Crow law, the denial of food and shelter when traveling, and segregated classrooms.”
[RWC] “the anti-Russian stuff was harder to understand …?” The U.S. and the USSR never were friendly because our governing principles were complete opposites. After Germany attacked the USSR, but before the U.S. declared war on Germany, then-Sen. and future-VP Harry Truman (D-MO) said, “If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. Neither of them thinks anything of their pledged word.”
Germany and the USSR signed a non-aggression pact in 1939 that also divvied up Eastern Europe between the two countries. The USSR became an enemy of Germany only after Germany broke the treaty in mid-1941 and invaded the USSR. Though we supplied the USSR with war materiel, it’s a stretch to say the U.S. and the USSR were real allies in WW II; we simply shared common enemies and tolerated each other.
And which political party enacted “Jim Crow law, the denial of food and shelter when traveling, and segregated classrooms?”
“Our schools taught us to cherish the vote. But the fact is that southern black Americans were still being brutally killed for trying to cast ballots. Still, we associated voter suppression with the jack-booted Gestapo, the SS and the KGB – not our America.”
[RWC] And which political party controlled the southern states at the time?
“Recently, I traveled to Harrisburg to protest the right-wing Republican scheme to steal the vote from 758,000 of us. This is Pennsylvania in 2012, not Alabama in 1963. The jack boots of the Gestapo would fit perfectly on the feet of today’s Republicans who conspire to elect Romney at all costs.
“Voter ID promotes unconstitutional voter suppression reminiscent of Cold War Europe. This is Wallace, Thurmond, Hitler and Stalin all over again.”
[RWC] Lefties like Mr. Cox rightly tell us “to cherish the vote” and “The right to vote is one of our most important rights,” then they go nuts when someone wants to protect that right by reducing the potential for voter fraud. Does anyone doubt Democrats required photo ID to enter the 2012 Democrat National Convention?
A “right-wing Republican scheme?” During the summer of 2011, Rhode Island passed a law requiring a photo ID to vote. RI voters reliably vote Democrat and Democrats hold overwhelming majorities in both houses of the General Assembly. The governor is an independent, a former U.S. Senate RINO with high ADA Liberal Quotients. Further, leftist darling former-President Jimmy Carter supports a photo ID for voting. This is info we’re not supposed to know.
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