Earned Privilege

The Justice Department has turned down the State of Georgia attempt to require citizens to have a form of identification before they can register to vote, citing that the requirement would be a discriminatory system that would hinder minorities in the exercise of their voting rights.

Georgia passed a law last Spring requiring verification of citizenship for all who wanted to register to vote. Of course the ACLU and the Mexican American Defense Fund sued over this and the Department of Justice, Obama’s DoJ, shut the whole thing down.

How dare a state demand that its citizens prove their eligibility to vote? Well according to the DoJ, it is then discrimination to require someone to possess a recognized ID in order to exercise a right that the Constitution affords to those who are United States Citizens.

The ability to vote in America is, in my opinion, an earned privilege, not just a right given to anyone who is going to vote your way. If one is US born, the ability to prove it by having a Social Security card should be an easy way to prove the eligibility of that person to cast a ballot. The excuse is that one may have lost the card, and the answer is very simple: request a replacement. Voting is important enough to warrant taking the time to have all the needed documents available.
If one is an immigrant, like myself, the answer is even simpler, because the privilege to vote is earned by taking the time to become a US citizen, which gives you the ability to have a US passport, which is proof of eligibility.
So what it comes down to is that the burden to prove eligibility to vote should be carried by the citizen not the whole country. It should be up to the individual to follow the law, not to the law to be circumvented to accommodate the individual.

In an age when ACORN has been under investigation for voter registration fraud, investigation which surely will be dropped by Obama’s DoJ anytime, the prospect of voter fraud is an active and disturbing threat to one of the pillars of our Republic. Interestingly, the people most opposed to the verification of voter eligibility are those who are dedicated to give illegal immigrants all the same rights that US citizens have. Moreover, the argument that always works is the racial one, where minorities are always targeted. It appears that applying the laws of our land as dictated by the US Constitution, in the case of voting rights, are racist.

Find any reason to undermine the rule of law, as long as it fits the maintenance of power and the ideology of people control. This is the Hope and Change America voted for.

And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”