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Voter Suppression

04 Wednesday Nov 2020

Posted by in Voting

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            I used to be a Democrat. I changed to being a Republican during late Reagan-Bush years. I thought we had a chance for a third party with Ross Perot and now I vote for the best one of either major party.

            Voting means a lot to me and I don’t do absentee or early voting because it would lose some of the aura. Voting is critical to being a citizen of the United States. My first vote was for LBJ and I have voted for the winner sometimes and sometimes not. That is why I consider suppression so totally reprehensible.

            Over the last few elections the Republican Party has been suppressing votes by keeping people from voting and tossing out votes. A black Democratic woman would have been the Georgia Governor if the Secretary of State (the winner) hadn’t suppressed voting in Black areas. The Republican Texas Governor reduced the ballot drop off boxes to one per county. The vast majority of those in multi-million population cities were Democrats. The Republicans just lost a state and federal suit to not count 125,000 votes from drive through voting in the big cities. Several states have had their absentee votes counting questioned in court. Even more upsetting I when gun toting idiots stand around voting places questioning people they think might vote Democratic.

            I hope the next President jails, for several years, anyone involved with voter suppression or destroying ballots as a Republican did last voting time in North Carolina. It is despicable which ever party or group does it.

Excessive Force

02 Monday Nov 2020

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I would like an answer as to why a law enforcement officer feels the need to shoot for center mass (chest) when a person is standing ten feet away with a pocket knife or no weapon. The same applies when a person is sitting in a car slowly moving or parked. If a person has no weapon or a table knife and is walking or running away, why shoot to kill?

If a real threat arises then center mass makes some sense for an actual defense. So many black people have been shot by ten to twenty bullets from ten feet! Why not take out a leg or two to stop the person? If they are in a car shoot out the tires and not spray the inside and hit little kids.

Training needs to be revised along with laws for cops that are overly cautious, overly excited, poorly trained, or just plain murderers. Has this only been a recent development — No! It has been around for decades and more prevelant with minority populations.

Too many well-meaning people criticize the police protest when they do their job of trying to arrest bad people, and just make matters worse. If the police get rid of the tiny number of bad cops, we have to allow the rest to do their jobs with the training and tools they are given.

Is TicTok Still a Threat?

02 Monday Nov 2020

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            Remember the notorious TicTok social media company that the President said was a Chinese espionage threat? He said he would close it down in the United States if it wasn’t sold and if it was, the government would get a commission.

            So what happened to the great TikTok threat? It is owned by Chinese citizen Zhang Yiming. He has sold 20% of it to Wal-Mart and Oracle. The owners of both companies are heavy supporters of Trump’s campaigns. The “Potential” for espionage is going to be increased when their websites and activities are blended into TikTok, not reduced. The Chinese government has said they like the deal.

            Was it a financial drain to Wal-Mart and Oracle to come to Trump’s aide? Absolutely not since TikTok will go public next year and double or triple their investment! It’s always good to have a President pick his friends to get even richer. Do Larry Ellison and the Walton family really need a few billion more? Wasn’t that tax cut for him and them enough?

            With the Chinese, Ellison, the Walton’s, and Trump happy, the fear of spying has disappeared. Even Trump’s easily deceived base didn’t get as excited as he hoped. Was it a con on all of us from the start or just another of Trump’s fantasies?