A Gathering of Idiots

A gathering of the usual knuckleheads met in rejoiced in their chronic state of losing to the hated George W. Bush:

A featured speaker at Saturday's civil rights march in Atlanta said the Bush administration and Republican Party leaders are "thieves" who "need to be locked up" for stealing the past two presidential elections and presiding over federal budget deficits and the war in Iraq.

"They all need to be locked up because they are all criminals and they are all thieves," said Judge Greg Mathis, the star of the syndicated television program "The Judge Mathis Show."

That of course is the typical rhetoric spewing forth from the mainstream wing of the donkey party. Why were they gathered, you ask?

Mathis made his remarks to an enthusiastic crowd assembled in Atlanta to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Participants are launching a two-year campaign to extend and strengthen key aspects of the act when it expires in 2007.

For crying out loud, the right to vote is not going to be taken away from blacks. They have a constitutionally guaranteed right. The idea of strengthening and extending it is nothing but a chance for the Democrats to bellow about their support of black causes but essentially means nothing. More:

Entertainer/activist Harry Belafonte also used charged rhetoric during the march when he referred to black members of the Bush administration as "black tyrants."

Mathis, whose speech drew the largest and most raucous reception from the crowd, also chastised the Supreme Court for its role in the 2000 presidential recount. "[The] Supreme Court was an accomplice to the biggest election crime in history in 2000.

And I call it a crime because indeed that is exactly what it was," he said to applause. The Bush administration was equated with past policies of slavery and segregation and labeled "the enemy of our (black America's) progress" by Mathis.

"They shot and missed when they enslaved, segregated and oppressed our people. They shot and missed when they stole the past two presidential elections. They shot and missed when they denied our right to vote," Mathis said.

Um, Judge, the late George Wallace was a Democrat, as were most of the politicians (including Al Gore Sr. who has had a makeover thanks to revisionist history) who oppressed blacks throughout the south. Ever hear of the word "Dixiecrat"? They weren't talking about Republicans. You know Republicans, the party of Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. You would know that if we were allowed to teach real history in the US schools as opposed to the politically correct garbage our kids are learning today.

BTW, here's the real facts about the Civil Rights Act:

Congressional Quarterly reported that, in the House of Representatives, 61% of Democrats (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as opposed to 80% of Republicans (138 for, 38 against). In the Senate, 69% of Democrats (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Act while 82% of Republicans did (27 for, 6 against). All southern Democrats voted against the Act.

Update: More on the repulsive Belafonte here.