check out this DU post. lol
http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID60/15798.html
Detroit is an armed camp!
I have to make this quick since many of the computer servers in the Detroit area are not working correctly or at all. I cannot receive e-mail, and it took three hours to get back to DU.
Detroit is an armed camp. There are police stationed 500 yards from every polling place I've seen (and I did a tour of several of them). The police are stopping and ticketing drivers around polling places for the most minor of infraction. Of the two dozen (!!) drivers I saw pulled over this morning, perhaps 90-95 percent of them were Black ... and all the officers were white.
Now I understand why the Republicans backed off of sending their "challengers" (or, at least, that's what they appeared to do). The police are aiding in the disenfranchisement! This is an obvious intimidation tactic. There are never these many cops on the street unless they are doing a major bust. There weren't even this many during 2000!
Welcome to GWB's America, post-2002 -- an armed police camp!
Martin
P.S.: Long-distance phone service is working intermittently, and it seems that some shortwave radio signals are also being jammed (according to a HAM operator from Cleveland I know). I guess it's time to wear the tinfoil flak helmet!
edited to remove hotlink