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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
The quote was: 'The Right will scream "voter fraud" everytime a Hispanic person votes, and the Left will be screaming about voter intimidation and voting machines.'
How does the governments focus on electoral groups for homeland security issues have anything to do with a suggestion that the Right will later scream something everytime a Hispanic person votes. Sorry, but that is just a shrill and absolutely repulsive charge to level without support. Either people should explain what they are talking about (even you haven't explained what he might be talking about to the point that I or anyone would understand it), or they should keep these comments to themselves. Its no wonder someone in Texas would get a pit in their stomach reading it.
That said, what homeland security efforts are you talking about? What are they doing?
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I honestly don't know exactly what Atrios is talking about, and since he's far to my left I'm not sure I'd be able to explain it to the likes of the Right.
What I did a poor job of describing is that I have read a few articles that homeland security types are hassling voter registration in Hispanic neighborhoods and outside of naturalization ceremonies for new Hispanic citizens. In other words, not cracking down on Hispanics in general (this is not a profiling issue) but rather
voter registration. Here's an
article from the WaPo, although it is not the one that i read at the time.
Those protesting asked the good question of why would voter registration be a target for homeland security law enforcement activities. Some (including Atrios, I would suppose) think it's setting the stage for such a voter fraud charge, as in "the huge number of illegals we found by staking out the voter registration table indicate that there was more widespread fraud."
I agree the charge is shrill, and even based on the above is probably excessive. I was just observing that it wasn't necessarily the gratuitous "Bush is a Nazi"-type insult you see on the lefty blogosphere, and probably had a place in a blog post predicting a protracted partisan fight after the election.
