Edgetho
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Yeah, talk about 'voter suppression'
Road side bombs, car bombs, drive-byes with machineguns, .
THAT is voter suppression.
Asking people to show a picture ID?
Not so much.
BTW, in a muslim Country, women who vote are LITERALLY risking their lives. Wouldn't be the least bit surprising for her to be murdered by one of her male relatives.
The left's stance on that? the silence is deafening
Here, people squeal like stuck pigs if they have to go five minutes out of their way to vote.
Photo IDs Fail To Suppress Afghan Vote Never Mind The Suicide Bombs
Even the poor people in Afghanistan can get photo IDs
Via Allen B. West
Talk about voter suppression! Voters in Afghanistan have had to dodge drive-by shootings and suicide bombings, but theres not a word about the indignity of carrying a photo I.D. to the polling place.
As the Associated Press reports, The run-up to the election was troubling: the Islamic radicals of the Taliban, reviled by many but still popular in some areas, view the entire enterprise as the work of outsiders and infidels, and they vowed to disrupt it by targeting polling centers and election workers.
To drive home the threat, insurgents in recent weeks stepped up shootings and bombings in the heart of Kabul to show they are capable of striking even in highly secured areas. A restaurant popular with foreigners and one of the capitals main hotels were hit, killing many. Suicide bombers struck relentlessly.
On Friday, veteran Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus was killed and AP reporter Kathy Gannon was wounded when a local policeman opened fire as they sat in their car on the outskirts of Khost, in eastern Afghanistan. The two were at a security forces base, waiting to move in a convoy of election workers delivering ballots apparent victims of an insider attack in which the very people tasked with protection turn out to be insurgents.
Road side bombs, car bombs, drive-byes with machineguns, .
THAT is voter suppression.
Asking people to show a picture ID?
Not so much.
BTW, in a muslim Country, women who vote are LITERALLY risking their lives. Wouldn't be the least bit surprising for her to be murdered by one of her male relatives.
The left's stance on that? the silence is deafening
Here, people squeal like stuck pigs if they have to go five minutes out of their way to vote.
Photo IDs Fail To Suppress Afghan Vote Never Mind The Suicide Bombs
Even the poor people in Afghanistan can get photo IDs
Via Allen B. West
Talk about voter suppression! Voters in Afghanistan have had to dodge drive-by shootings and suicide bombings, but theres not a word about the indignity of carrying a photo I.D. to the polling place.
As the Associated Press reports, The run-up to the election was troubling: the Islamic radicals of the Taliban, reviled by many but still popular in some areas, view the entire enterprise as the work of outsiders and infidels, and they vowed to disrupt it by targeting polling centers and election workers.
To drive home the threat, insurgents in recent weeks stepped up shootings and bombings in the heart of Kabul to show they are capable of striking even in highly secured areas. A restaurant popular with foreigners and one of the capitals main hotels were hit, killing many. Suicide bombers struck relentlessly.
On Friday, veteran Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus was killed and AP reporter Kathy Gannon was wounded when a local policeman opened fire as they sat in their car on the outskirts of Khost, in eastern Afghanistan. The two were at a security forces base, waiting to move in a convoy of election workers delivering ballots apparent victims of an insider attack in which the very people tasked with protection turn out to be insurgents.
Talk about voter suppression! Voters in Afghanistan have had to dodge drive-by shootings and suicide bombings, but theres not a word about the indignity of carrying a photo I.D. to the polling place.
As the Associated Press reports, The run-up to the election was troubling: the Islamic radicals of the Taliban, reviled by many but still popular in some areas, view the entire enterprise as the work of outsiders and infidels, and they vowed to disrupt it by targeting polling centers and election workers.
To drive home the threat, insurgents in recent weeks stepped up shootings and bombings in the heart of Kabul to show they are capable of striking even in highly secured areas. A restaurant popular with foreigners and one of the capitals main hotels were hit, killing many. Suicide bombers struck relentlessly.
On Friday, veteran Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus was killed and AP reporter Kathy Gannon was wounded when a local policeman opened fire as they sat in their car on the outskirts of Khost, in eastern Afghanistan. The two were at a security forces base, waiting to move in a convoy of election workers delivering ballots apparent victims of an insider attack in which the very people tasked with protection turn out to be insurgents.