‘Shame Them’: NAACP Asks U.N. Human Rights Council to Help Fight Voter ID Laws
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NAACP President Benjamin Jealous was part of a delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Council appealing for help in fighting voter ID laws in the U.S. (AP File Photo)
Leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People were in Geneva this week appealing to the United Nations Human Rights Council for help in fighting voter identification laws in the United States.
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous was part of the delegation to Geneva arguing that laws requiring voters to show ID violate civil and human rights by suppressing election participation, particularly from minorities, USA Today reported. Currently, 30 states have voter ID laws, seven of which were enacted last year.
The U.N. has no authority over American states, but Jealous told reporters last week part of the goal is to “shame them.”
“The power of the U.N. on state governments historically is to shame them and to put pressure on the U.S. government to bring them into line with global standards, best practices for democracy,” Jealous said, according to NPR. “There are plenty of examples — segregation of the U.S. to apartheid in South Africa to the death penalty here in the U.S. — of global outrage having an impact.”
He hoped the NAACP’s presentation would spur members of the U.N. to come to the U.S. and “look at the impact of these laws, look at the intent, and actually render their recommendations about what actions we should take with regard to these laws.”
Proponents of voter ID laws say they cut down on voter fraud and point out that Americans are often required to show identification to do even the most basic of tasks. Opponents say obtaining a valid ID can be time-consuming and expensive, and disproportionately impacts minority voters.
The NAACP has been at the forefront of fighting such laws; this week, a Wisconsin judge ruled the state’s law was unconstitutional, and the Justice Department blocked a law in Texas from taking effect. Last month, South Carolina’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for blocking its state voter ID law.
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Akbarjonnie Shaheed
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:37amIf you can’t provide a photo ID…..you must be suspect.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:55amHow much do you figure Obama will allow UN monitors at the elections, which will conveinently be rigged for his renewed election and supported as ‘fair’ by the UN, this november? If that happens I can see the beginning of a civil war…
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:57amLooks like the NAACP is officially an enemy of the United States, like Leon Penetta.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:02pmThey fear voter I.D. … not because it is too hard for those who can LEGALLY vote .. but because it may stop he DEAD and ILLEGALS .. they KNOW THEY CAN’T WIN A FAIR ELECTION!
Report Post »robert
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:07pm“Shame Them’: NAACP Asks U.N. Human Rights Council to Help Fight Voter ID Laws”
There’s one reason and one reason only that the anti-white NAACP doesn’t want voter I.D. laws and that has to do with their widespread voter fraud, which they have promoted and encouraged for years now.
The reason is perfectly obvious, but still these black miscreants are so arrogant they really believe they can spin their reasons as valid ones. Only an absolute fool would believe them.
They had best worry about the deteriorating economy, because that will do more to radical racist and liberal causes than any voter I.D. law that might be enacted.
Report Post »NoNannyState4me
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:17pmSorry, but if an individual in the USA needs an ID to buy a beer or cigarettes, then voting ought to make you responsible to bring 2 forms of ID, Birth Certificate first then a State issued photo ID.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:17pmWhen it comes to voting, if you can’t identify who the F you are, sit down and STFU.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:27pm@Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks},
“How much do you figure Obama will allow UN monitors at the elections, which will conveinently be rigged for his renewed election and supported as ‘fair’ by the UN, this november? If that happens I can see the beginning of a civil war…”
Ultimately, we have to say that it is WE who will have allowed Obama to do such and such. Let’s get the order of authority right.
You know, just from an academic point of view, I find it amazing just how utterly stupid my fellow Americans turned out to be. We had the Left’s strategy laid out before us on a platter by Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart.
What a bunch of morons we are.
Ron Paul 2012!
Report Post »db321
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:32pmSorry to say 17 of the 18 States are screwed. These 17 States will bow down and give into the NAACP, the UN and any other organization that this Administration can throw at them.
Texas is also one of those States and I can assure you this State is going to fight back – the UN is not going to come into Texas and force this State to to a fricken thing.
Texan’s will speak up – Texan’s will Rise up – Texan’s will kick these radicals out and send them back to the States that will allow them to run over them.
Report Post »1chancey1
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:43pmWhat is so hard about producing an ID? They can’t argue the point so they will call you racist and of course the MSM will fall for these tricks. What ever happened to common sense?
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:44pmAnyone not responsible enough to get an I.D.,or too,lazy to get an idea has no business voting PERIOD. Having people of that caliber vote is quintessential to giving dogs a vote. Fact is anyone whose living their lives off the hard work of those who pay taxes shouldn’t be voting as well ID OR NOT.
Report Post »The systematic corruption of welfare electorial bribes has to stop. Representation belongs to those who are taxed. We reached the point where those consuming tax dollars are out voting those who pay them. TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION IS A UNAMERICAN
The_Jerk
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:59pmOnly the uninformed are shocked that the NAACP is an anti-American organization. It was funded and founded by left-wing, communist supporting Jews… I know, this fact will be labeled antisemitic, but the truth is the truth. For the first 70 years a Jew was president… still antisemitic?
The only African American among the organization’s executives, Du Bois was made director of publications and research. W. E. B. Du Bois was an admitted communist and actually departed America because he hated it.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:59pmVoter ID laws are a solution to a non-problem. No one has convincingly demonstrated that the extent of fraud is such as to justify all the fake outrage, or that voter fraud favors either major party.
That said, it is perfectly reasonable to require a standardized voter ID with picture in every state. There is still plenty of time to set up a voter ID system before November, and I would expect both parties to do their best to see that everyone above 18 with a pulse gets one, which will probably favor the Democrats.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:08pmI once lived in a town that was over 75% black, and many were friends. My wife and I went in to vote, and we were both handed multiple ballots. After convening with my wife, we thought it best to return all but one. When we did, they were astonished, dismayed, perplexed… . I say they, because everyone of the polling people were black, and they all knew what had been done and what we had done.
Anecdotal, but I’m sure that it is still going on today.
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:15pmThe National Association for the Advancememt of the Communist Party ( NAACP ) ,are not achieving there racial goal under the Constitution of the United States. So they opted to run crying to the UN. Well! the UN better bring one hell of a big ARMY with them if they come. If that day comes, It will be the day the UN ENDs. GOD BLESS AMERICA and INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:24pmJeez , the Black‘s and Hispanic’s must be smarter up here in CT. We have a Photo ID Law and they do seem to be able to find their way to the polling places. It must be the multiple Ballots they hand out in the Cities. The Truly stupid Blacks and Hispanics must all be congregating in the Non Id states.
Report Post »IIIcorp
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:45pmLlyod- If it is a non problem as you put it, why worry about it? Remember ACORN registering the Dallas Cowboys in Nevada, people in Indiana and Illinois unable to vote because people had already voted using their names, DOJ telling cities that they must identify the candidates with a D (emocrat) so the minority voters would know who to vote for. Motor voter allowed anyone getting a drivers license to become registered voter, no check to see if they are illegal. Ballots in Vermont given to people using the names of dead people in the last primary.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:50pmhttp://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/13/OKeefe%20Video%20Exposes%20Voter%20Fraud-Friendly%20Policies%20in%20Vermont
Report Post »That’s why the NAACP is up in arms about voter I.D. requires.
That and well this too http://www.newsnet14.com/?p=92957
2theADDLED
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 3:02pmVoter ID obviously hits a nerve just how much corruption exist ?
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:30pmYo The_Jerk:
It might not be going on today if you would have reported it to the police, Mayor and Congressman at the time !
Report Post »obfuscatenot
Posted on March 16, 2012 at 9:24amParadoxical quote of the day from Ben Stein:
Report Post »“Fathom the odd hypocrisy that the government wants every citizen to prove they are insured, but people don’t have to prove they are citizens”.
loveliberty83
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:37amvoting is a sacred priledge, if you do not have any ID means you are probably not a citizen & you have no business voting in my country
Report Post »what4
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 3:28pmSince I am a colored person, I see no reason why ID should not be required to vote…..Oh by the way the color is White! Screw the NAACP they dont represent my color!
Report Post »Balthazor
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:37amI wonder if this bozo thought it was racist to show his photo ID to get on the airplane to Geneva?
Report Post »NoNannyState4me
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:17pmhaha, no kidding
Report Post »deano24
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 8:09pmGood point.
Report Post »babylonvi
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:57pmBarry probably sent him on a government plane, no ID needed.
Report Post »Watcher11
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:37amI wonder why jealous and shabozz don’t go to their brothers in africa and whine about voting rights in africa whille the murders of say millions of their comrades are being eaten and butchered by those great african leaders they are so happy with, calling themselves african americans! wow what a cause of justice and equality!
Report Post »loveliberty83
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:34amthis is the most racist group
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:33amLEGAL photo voter ID of LEGAL US Citizens.
No black or pink panthers at voting places.
No union thugs at voting places.
No ows filth at voting places.
No dead people voting.
ALL SERVICE PEOPLE AND EX-PATS VOTES in and counted. Use finger prints if need be on vote.
No LEGAL photo ID of the voter presenting the identification who IS A LEGAL US Citizen?
NO VOTE!
That negates obummer’s vote right there!
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:32pmAmen.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:32amGetting a little sick of folks dragging the U.N. into things. They will never be able to shame me into NOT wanting voter I.D..or for wanting only living American citizens to be able to vote and then only one time.
Report Post »What next? Blue helmeted forigners keeping tabs on us at the voting booth?
Balthazor
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:36amYes, that is what’s next.
Report Post »Onowicit
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:19pmBring the blue helmets here. We are armed for a reason.
Report Post »loveliberty83
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:31amI feel voting is a sacred priledge that women died for in this country, the suffergettes are my heros. Since I began voting I proudly show some ID like allmilitary, welfare,all airfares.buses. buying alcohol ,all children going to school have to show BC even playing sports, You also have to prove who you are to get SS so if you are not eligible for thes IDS you should not vote. Also I think it should be against the law to take people on buses & tell them who to vote for this sounds like slavery
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:31amSounds like yea protest to much. What is the harm in letting all know that we have the proper voting count? To go to the UN is chicken way of doing things. I am one honest voter that would not be ashamed to show my honest and legal ID. How about you?………. Truth defeats lies.
Report Post »Balthazor
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:31amWell I guess there’s nobody in the world more familiar with shame than the United Nations.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:31amPolitical correctness is about shame. That whole movement to make all of us willing and complacent subjects with political correctness and shame has about run its course, has it not? I am ready to abandon the political correct way of life. No one is going to shame me for a common sense stance.
Everything is a word game with these people. Change everything to a Right for Someone and they think they have a winner. WRONG! You are not winning! Winning the Future campaign is a disgusting play on words whereby Soros, Obama and the rest of them think they can poke fun at what they are doing with a wink wink and no one can see through it.
No Shame back at ya!
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:31amI have absolutely no problem with requiring photo ID, EXCEPT that due to federal law against a poll tax, it will be necessary for the government to pay for IDs for those who do not have them (approximately 11% of citizens of voting age). I think the cost may justify the assurance of proper elections, but it’s still another expense.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:39amIt is okay by me to pay for ids. Most will already have them. It is just a ploy to say they don‘t have them and can’t afford them. Most people have a birth certificate already as you need that to go to grade school. They can get an id with that. What they were saying would cost was the $15 for a copy of the birth certificate. Alot are driving. That driver’s license is id. This is a con job.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:44amYou have to have ID for a frickin can of dip, pack of smokes, or 40 oz beer, but too much trouble to get the slackers proper ID to vote? Yeh, we have no issues or problems as a people at all. It is now racist to be responsible, like math and economics and good credit are racist too.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:15pmIf voting is important ,people can pay for their own ID..Why should the tax payers foot the bill for everything.If you care enough to vote, a few bucks is a small price to pay.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:18pm@McDave
“If voting is important ,people can pay for their own ID..Why should the tax payers foot the bill for everything.If you care enough to vote, a few bucks is a small price to pay.”
Yes, how dare we follow that pesky Constitution! The 24th amendment is BS!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 1:36pmYou can pay for these cheapskates ID’s, and their condoms, their ABORTIONS, their food stamps, their Sec 8, their WIC, their Cellphones, . Do DEMOCRATS ever pay for anything themselves??
Report Post »HKS
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:29amIgnorance at it finest. Pitiful just pitiful.
Report Post »imsteph
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:29amWHAT IS THE RUSH TO HAVING THE UN (a long time corrupt and bankrupt of the soul full of tyrants, dictators, human rights violators, and OUR ENEMIES) become the KING OVER US. The reason why our ancestors came to this ‘new world’ was to GET AWAY FROM THESE soulless, godless, ba**ards in the first place! And we are looking to THEM to JUDGE US???
The United States of America needs to not only kick these hypocrites, demigods, and mafiosos out of our country and to the curb-but declare them to be what they are—EVIL.
We are a sovereign nation and they have NO claim over us. We are ‘One Nation, Under God’ NOT under the despicable, salivating, vampires of the UN.
Report Post »qzz
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:29amI think this moves totally discredits them. Americans disagreeing with each other is one thing, but involving the international community –especially the UN –is something the vast majority of Americans on both sides recoil from.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:27amUm, isn’t the bigger issue that the NAACP is attempting to involve the UN in domestic U.S. issues? We are hitting the breaking point in this country.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 2:49pmDing. Ding. Ding. Right on.
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 7:44pmIt’s called desperation, they are so desperate for their evil ways they will do anything, like a starving animal, and to most of us sane people it is painfully obvious. I pity their self delusion and unwillingness to change in crying out for anyone to help them even at the loss of their own freedoms.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:26amIndividual States are Sovereign… except for Sovereing Laws passed by their Representatives in the Federal Government of the Nation.
The Freedom that you surrender… affects others!
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:25amShame them? What a joke that is. No shame going on here with that Obama media marketing UN inclusive move. IDs can be given out FREE to all minorities and poor people if they don’t have them already. They should have them already because you need them to buy alcohol or cigarettes, or cold medicine, or to travel or go into a court building or use a check to buy something…..absolutely everything requires id. Obama and his crooked people want voter fraud and can’t stand to see that option being taken away.
Id should be required for everything ~ including food stamps and other entitlements.
WHY THE UN? We are not a global government yet. WE ARE STILL THE USA!
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 12:07pmAgreed.
Hmmmm……why is it the lefties want to provide free contraception/abortifacients but not free ID cards?
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:24amWH outplacement to the UN could be damaged by the visit of NAACP President Benjamin Jealous.
Report Post »Inlandmar2
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:23amMaybe Mr. Jealous should direct his efforts towards educating the minorities on how to get a valid ID instead of trying to convince them how down-trodden they are. What a buffoon!
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:28amSeriously, that dude is an attorney. You would think the first thing he would do is change his last name. “Jealous”y does seem to be fitting though.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:44amThey already have id. This is a game they are playing to change what is common sense into preserving voter fraud. You need a birth certificate to go to grade school. Take that up to the DMV and get a photo id. I’ll pay for the processing. Most already have id if they are legal. This is another word game changing what already exists into a “right”. Women already have access to contraceptives and they used that as a women’s “right”. Minorities already have id and they are just playing the same old games.
Report Post »Mark0331
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:22amHey NAACP..you need an ID to get blunts, 40 oz., cash a welfare check, etc…voting? Nah..thats racist…I live in Jersey, DO NOT tell me otherwise…why doesn’t the NAACP care about black on black murders as much as this?
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:22amThe international chapters of the NAACP should gather in Syria for its annual convention.
Report Post »yanki161
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:21amSo we are depriving minorities of IDs now? Why can’t they get an ID and vote?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:30amThey have to get an ID to do just about anything else. This is simply the lefts attempt to keep voter fraud alive. They have evenscreamed bloody murder regarding the cleansing of voter lists to remove the names of the known deceased and persons who have moved out of the districts. Logically thinking, just what is the purpose to keep such names on the lists?
Report Post »PapaJohannesPatriot
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:21amNAACP fighting to keep Dems in power through voter fraud.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:33amExactly!
Report Post »tesla V
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:50amThe Democrat party is a joke.ANYTHING you disagree with them about is answered with the charge of racism.There can no longer be any doubts about the depths of their corruption.Even 63% of Dem VOTERS are in favor of a voter I.D. law.Notice how I capitalized VOTERS.I still believe that many old school Dems have no idea how left -wing crazy their party has become.
Report Post »Minonkman
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:20amPhoto ID is the only way to vote. Nothing else will work.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on March 15, 2012 at 11:26amAgreed!
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