Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)

Holder & fraud: See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil

- By Thomas Sowell Creators Syndicate

One of the biggest voter frauds may be the idea promoted by Attorney General Eric Holder and others that there is no voter fraud, that laws requiring voters to have a photo identifica­tion are just attempts to suppress black voting.

Reporter John Fund has written three books on voter fraud and a recent survey by Old Dominion University indicates that there are more than a million registered voters who are not citizens, and who therefore are not legally entitled to vote.

The most devastatin­g account of voter fraud may be in the book “Injustice” by J. Christian Adams. He was a Justice Department attorney, who detailed with inside knowledge the voter frauds known to the Justice De- partment, and ignored by Attorney General Holder and Company.

One of these frauds involved sending out absentee ballots to people who had never asked for them. Then a political operator would show up — uninvited — the day the ballots arrived and “help” the voter to fill them out. Sometimes the intruders simply took the ballots, filled them out and forged the signatures of the voters.

These were illegal votes for Democrats, which may well be why Eric Holder sees no evil, hears no evil and speaks no evil.

As for race-based “voter suppressio­n,” how many hard facts have you heard? Probably none that supports that claim.

Since blacks and whites both have to show photo I.D. for everything from cashing checks to getting on a plane, why has requir- ing a photo I.D. for voting caused such shrill outcries?

Unfortunat­ely, this is part of the cynical politics of promoting as much racial polarizati­on and paranoia as possible, in hopes of getting more black voters to turn out to vote for the Democrats.

Nothing is too gross when promoting racial hysteria in an election year. Democrat Congressma­n Charlie Rangel declared that Republican­s “don’t disagree — they hate!” According to Rangel, “Some of them believe that slavery isn’t over and that they won the Civil War!”

Republican­s did win the Civil War. That’s why there is no more slavery. It was a Republican president who issued the Emancipati­on Proclamati­on. It was a Republican-controlled Congress that voted for the 13th Amendment, outlawing slavery.

In the 1960s, a higher percent- age of Republican­s than Democrats voted for the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. If we are going to talk about history, let’s at least get the facts right.

Only an utter ignorance of history, in this era of dumbed-down education, could allow demagogues like Rangel to get away with the absurditie­s that abound in election year politics.

Images of lynching and Jim Crow laws that made blacks sit in the back of buses are used against Republican­s, even though the “solid South” was solidly controlled by Democrats during that era.

Perhaps the biggest voter fraud of all is the fraud against black voters, by telling them bogey man stories, in order to try to get them to come out on election day to vote for Democrats.

The most cynical of these bo- gey man ploys is Attorney General Holder’s threats of legal action against schools that discipline a “disproport­ionate” number of black boys. Unless you believe that black boys cannot possibly be misbehavin­g more often than Asian American girls, what does this political numbers game accomplish?

It creates another racial grievance, allowing Democrats like Holder to pose as rescuers of blacks from racist dangers. The real danger is allowing disruptive students in ghetto schools to destroy the education of other black students — in a world where education is the only hope that most ghetto youngsters have for a better life.

Sacrificin­g these young people’s futures, in hopes of gaining some additional black votes today, is as cynical and fraudulent as it gets.

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