Re: [Politics_CurrentEvents_Group] Tea Party wants to restict more individual freedoms

And the Tea Baggers as us Free Thinkers like to call them in this country, are suppose to be all about freedom. Of course most of them are morons so what they consider freedom is everyone conforming to their warped dogma

You can lead people to knowledge but you can't make them think

--- On Fri, 12/3/10, elaine mckay <glyndon47@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

From: elaine mckay <glyndon47@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Politics_CurrentEvents_Group] Tea Party wants to restict more individual freedoms
To: Politics_CurrentEvents_Group@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 4:43 AM

What a huge step backwards. Next it will be women, and others not allowed to vote.

--- On Fri, 3/12/10, patrick mc govern <mcgvrn_ptrck@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: patrick mc govern <mcgvrn_ptrck@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Politics_CurrentEvents_Group] Tea Party wants to restict more individual freedoms
To: "free" <freethinkersclub@yahoogroups.com>, "dea" <DuanesEverythingandAnything@yahoogroups.com>, "pcc" <politics_currentevents_group@yahoogroups.com>
Received: Friday, 3 December, 2010, 11:00 AM

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Tea Party Nation President Says It 'Makes A Lot Of Sense' To Restrict Voting Only To Property Owners

Every week, the Tea Party Nation hosts a weekly radio program, calling itself a "home for conservatives." Two weeks ago, Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips hosted the program and discussed changes that he felt should be made to voting rights in the United States. He explained that the founders of the country originally put "certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote." He continued, "One of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you're not a property owner, you know, I'm sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners":

PHILLIPS: The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn't you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you're not a property owner, you know, I'm sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.

Phillips is advocating a policy of voter disenfranchisement that has its roots in the 18th century. When the United States was first founded, ownership of property was one of the requirements to vote in most elections. Many of these restrictions were phased out by the 1820s and replaced with requirements that the voter pays taxes. By 1850, these requirements, too, were phased out. Nashville Scene blogger Betsy Phillips calls the Tea Party Nation president's idea a "frivolous proposal designed to stoke intergenerational antagonism — as if the people who are older and can afford a home are somehow better citizens than the 18-year-olds who are going off to war to die for our country."

Unfortunately, numerous major conservatives have advocated for rolling back the voting rights of Americans. Supreme Court justice Anthony Scalia, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), and Sen.-elect Mike Lee (R-UT) have all advocated for repealing the 17th Amendment, which would end direct election of U.S. Senators and return Senate elections to the purview of state legislatures. (H/T: Tea Party Nationalism)

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