The Census, GOP and Latinos: Bye Bye Latino Vote!
Miguel Guadalupe's article on the huffpost hits the mark, people. These tactics have the potential of creating a lot of fear. An educated voter is the way to go.
The Census and the GOP Latino Strategy: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Don't Count 'Em
The amendment to the fiscal 2010 Commerce-Justice-Science spending bill (HR 2847) being proposed in the senate right now to stop funding the 2010 Census until they change their survey to include questions about citizenship may be the final nail in the coffin of the GOP/Latino relationship.Fresh from their successful assault on ACORN, who incurred the wrath of the GOP not because members gave bad advice to pretend pimps, but because of their ability to register millions of poor people ahead of the 2008 elections, the radical right now turns on the revered and apolitical institution of the Census Bureau, in the hopes of intimidating future generations from the most basic of social participation -- being counted.
Specifically, Republican Sens. David Vitter of Louisiana and Bob Bennett of Utah have proposed to require all those who fill out the surveys to affirm their citizenship status, and then attempt to discount millions of people who peacefully live, work and contribute to America. The justification is that the undocumented should not be counted because they can't vote. However, there is no question of whether people are ex-cons, another population of people who do not have voting rights in many states, but are counted within the census numbers. The amendment gets even narrower as they consider making the choice "citizen" or "non-citizen" seeking to discount even further those who are "legal" residents or have visas but haven't yet become full citizens.
Read the whole article on the huffpost
Apologists: Iran then. Venezuela and Honduras now.
Following is my comment on the Huff Post:
Apologists of the Iranian Revolution 30 years ago received the message loud and clear this past Iranian Election: Your revolution is a fraud, after all.
I know many Venezuelans, a mayority, keep fighting to prevent the Bolivarian Revolution to be around for 30 long years. Many, a mayority, already know that the Chavista regime is not up to the part in conducting our res publica. A fraud is a fraud is a fraud. Irán or Venezuela.
30 years is a lot of time to waste. We want a REAL Progressive Venezuelan Goverment and Society. Anything else is out of the question. Chávez wants to be 'el gerdarme necesario'. Venezuelans keep telling him: 'we don't need such a man'. A false left, misguided and criminal, like the one Chavez and Co., are trying to spread, is an anachronistic remnant of 18th century Caudillismo. It is a total affront to a 21st century individual.
The Club 'President Forever' is getting away with trampling constitutions, civil liberties and plurality all based on the idea of saving the people from the oligarchy. Is soooooo tired. Specially when the gap between talk and action in real life is so insulting. For a Progressive Venezuela.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
