State Senate Tries To Ban Guns At Lousiana Polls

Here's a big surprise: racist gun owners intimidated voters...

"BATON ROUGE, La. -- Election day commissioners and poll watchers wouldn't be able to carry a gun to the polls, under a bill approved Monday by the Senate in an attempt to stop intimidation of voters trying to cast their ballots.
"There's no reason I can think of why a poll watcher would need a weapon at his side," said Sen. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, the bill's sponsor."

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0404/06pollguns.html

Why don't you pull another "fact" out. Ever hear of anal glaucoma?

Care to point out the part in the article about racism? Or did you pull it our of an unlit orifice?

and figure out who gets intimidated at polls in the state David Duke calls home...and why.

Or tell where evidence can be had. Like I did when I directed you to the Speaker of the House in KY.

There's a fucking laugh.

I'm not surprised. Can't back it up? Just like you couldn't back up the taggants in smokeless powder in Europe. Of course, you should never let facts get in the way of your opinions. You never do.

just because YOU want to pretend there's no racism in Louisiana....

I asked you to cite the "fact" about racist gun owners intimidating people at the polls. That was in your 1st post. Are you going to do this, or continue to pull "facts" from dark orifices without documentation? :hi:

I'm not the one pretending that blacks aren't being intimidated at the polls in David Duke's home state. That would be you, for whatever peculiar fucking reason you seem to think it's not a FACT.

Cite this statement made by you in the first post.

"Here's a big surprise: racist gun owners intimidated voters..."

You wrote it. Back it up. Or are you incapable of doing that?

http://www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester1/010301/010301nedavoting.html

(Just the first thing on a results list for louisiana voter intimidation african-americans.)

Wesley Clarke says:

http://www.clark04.com/issues/voting/

Since the 2000 election, significant Republican efforts around the country to suppress minority voter turnout have been documented by the media. In 2002, suppression tactics were reported in Louisiana, New Jersey, South Carolina, Arkansas, and several other states. For example, Republican poll watchers in Arkansas reportedly drove away voters in predominantly black precincts by taking photos and improperly demanding identification during pre-election day balloting in 2002.

Uh oh, New Jersey. But then it probably isn't legal to carry firearms at polls in New Jersey.

Speaking of which -- New Jersey, that is -- you might want to reconsider your position on firearms in the home, Benchley.

... Durn, I think it must be in the April Harper's Index, which isn't on line yet. But it goes like this:

Number of instances of bears breaking into homes in New Jersey last year: 53 (or 56, I forget).

One o' them assault weapons might come in handy ...

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as every state does...It wasn't until last year that a bill against feeding bears was actually put in. Until then we had pinheads feeding bears in their backyards.

And the gun/hunting lobby fights hard against any proposal to limit bear/deer/etc. populations that does not involve armed drunks in the woods to kill animals that are NOT encroaching on settled areas.

The sponsor of the bill:

http://www.blackseek.com/bh/2001/106_CFields.htm

Cleo Fields, was born November 22, 1962 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He graduated from McKinley High School in 1980 and earned his bachelor's degree in1984 from Southern University in the field of Mass Communications. In 1987, he obtained a law degree from Southern University's School of Law

... Following his completion of law school, Cleo was elected to the Louisiana State Senate. At the age of 24, he became the youngest person ever elected to the State Senate in Louisiana's history and, at that time, the youngest in the nation.

In 1995, Fields made a bid for the Governor of Louisiana at which time he made a historical mark by being the first African American to successfully win a run-off spot, and became the democratic nominee. He went on to serve two terms as Congressman.

In the fall of 1996, he decided not to seek reelection due to redistricting. Fields then began a general consulting group known as Cleo Fields and Associates where he serves as President and C.E.O.

On December 13, 1997, Cleo Fields was elected to the 14th Senatorial District of Louisiana, returning him to his political origin as State Senator. He is serving in the Senate simultaneously with his younger brother, Senator Wilson Fields, marking the first time in Louisiana history for two brothers to serve at the same time.

One of those important African-American role models, it seems.

Just skimmed this and am not recommending it as authoritative on anything in particular. (From the front page -- http://www.weeklystandard.com/ -- it doesn't exactly look like my cup of tea. Its Republican slant, of course, is what makes it interesting for our purposes.)

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/971epvqa.asp?pg=2

It seems that the Republicans in Louisiana are mighty wary about African-Americans actually voting.

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not to see WHY voters were being discriminated against in David Duke's home state....and WHICH voters were on the receiving end.

"It seems that the Republicans in Louisiana are mighty wary about African-Americans actually voting."
They are in lots of states...and in many states they're actually intimidating and harassing black voters at the polls, as pretty much everyone else knows.

Effective self defense may require a gun. Shouldn't we encourage minorities to go to the polls armed, so they can protect themselves and their right to vote? If you can expect to be intimidated at the polls and are forbidden to bring a weapon, what recourse do you have?

and if not, it degenerated rapidly.

LB, DU Gungeon Schoolmarm