This is really the last straw. It is time to get out
of the United Nations: “UN rights council
delves into US voter I.D. laws.”
The United Nations Human Rights Council is investigating the issue of American election laws at its gathering on minority rights in Geneva, Switzerland. This, despite the fact that some members of the council have only in the past several years allowed women to vote, and one member, Saudi Arabia, still bars women from the voting booth completely.Officials from the NAACP are presenting their case against U.S. voter ID laws, arguing to the international diplomats that the requirements disenfranchise voters and suppress the minority vote.
The NAACP had scheduled two American citizens to present their claims at the U.N. panel who, the group says, worry they will be disenfranchised by the requirement to present a photo ID to vote.
This is hilarious, in a black comedy sort of way:
The civil rights group says
one, Kemba Smith Pradia, was convicted of a drug-related offense and is
concerned that if she moves back to Virginia from the Midwest, state law will
block her voting because of her record, even though she was granted clemency by
President Bill Clinton.
So this is the best the NAACP can do: Kemba Smith
Pradia lives in the Midwest and has a criminal conviction on her record. Can
she vote? Yes, because the state where she lives either doesn’t bar felons from
voting, or doesn’t have a voter ID law, so she can vote fraudulently. But she
worries that if she should move to Virginia, she will have to present identification.
In that event, if Virginia law doesn’t allow felons to vote, she won’t be able
to get away with breaking the law! Is that a human rights violation, or
what?
The NAACP provides this “book synopsis:”
In this long-awaited memoir, Kemba Smith shares her dramatic story, as it has never been told. Poster Child: The Kemba Smith Story chronicles how she went from college student to drug dealer’s girlfriend to domestic violence victim to federal prisoner. Kemba shares her story of how making poor choices blinded by love and devotion can have long-term consequences. Kemba’s case drew support from across the nation and the world. Often being labeled the “posterchild” for reversing a disturbing trend in the rise of lengthy sentences for first-time, non-violent drug offenders, Kemba’s story has been featured on CNN, Nightline, “Judge Hatchett,” Court TV, “The Early Morning Show,” and a host of other television programs. In addition, Kemba’s story has been featured in several publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, Emerge, JET, Essence, Glamour, and People magazines.
I am sure she will be a popular witness
at the U.N. The Human Rights Council delegates from China and Cuba will be
especially sympathetic to the oppression she has suffered here in the United
States.
... additional info from Mark Steyn
... additional info from Mark Steyn
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The NAACP have asked the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva to investigate U.S. voter ID laws.
The U.N. Human Rights Council includes such paragons of human rights — and free elections — as China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Libya (elected to the council under its late dictator-for-life) and Burkina Faso, whose citizens are required to carry government photo ID at all times, or risk highly mercurial spot fines. Oh, and let’s not forget Djibouti, whose current president, the nephew of the previous president, won an impressive 100 percent of the vote in his 2005 reelection campaign.By the way, if, after they’ve finished testifying on America’s institutional racism, the NAACP are minded to accept any dinner invitations from the council members, I’d be wary of the chaps from Mauritania, a country where blacks are still kept as slaves. |
