South is wrong on 'state's rights' [View all]

[struggle4progress]

By Earl Morgan
For The Jersey Journal
on May 15, 2014 at 4:55 AM

... The South is not the only region of the country espousing a modern declaration of “state’s rights.” Several Western and Midwestern states are resurrecting this doctrine, but it’s in the South where daring new legislative restrictions against an alleged but undetectable voter fraud, aimed at minority voters, is flourishing ...

Presently, the U.S. Supreme Court seems a willing accomplice to this madness, refusing to dial back the craziness of allowing the carrying of firearms virtually everywhere, despite repeated mass murders in schools, movies theaters and even churches.

In the past weeks, we’ve witnessed a Nevada rancher, Cliven Bundy, refuse to pay $1 million he owes in fees for grazing his cattle on federal land. We’ve watched as self-styled white militia types, brandishing automatic weapons, flock to join Bundy’s defiance, forcing a standoff with federal law enforcement officers, who were there to seize a recalcitrant Bundy’s livestock in lieu of payment ...

The saving grace here is that Obama did win the presidential election, then re-election, proving that there’s hope for the country beyond ethnicity, color and “state’s rights.”

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