This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of Democracy Truth and Justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and Justice, Believers in Peace, Freedom, and The American Way.

I want to get into an article that I wrote that will be up on alternate and possibly

other sites.

My working title for it, as you may know, authors don't control their

titles. So I have a book titled The Crash of 2016 that I thought should be titled

How Republicans Cause Crashes. I was right, the publisher was

wrong, but whatever. Anyhow, my working title for this piece was, if we don't stop voter

suppression, start polishing your chains, and I'll just, you know, I'll give you the punchline first or the chains piece.

This is, you know, at the very end of the article, I talk about how the founders and framers had their own

voter suppression program. It was don't let women vote, don't let African Americans

vote. Although there were in a number of Northern states during the first 20 years after the

revolutionary war in the early years of America there were women who voted there were

free blacks who voted there were poor people who voted there were no property

requirements in some

states I mean but gradually all that kind of went away as the Andrew Jackson

as a nation of America happened but the final quote was Thomas Jefferson and basically what he said he said it seems to this is a letter to Edward Carrington

He says it seems to me that to be a law of our general nature in spite of individual exceptions

and experience declares that man is the only animal that devours his own kind for I can

apply no milder term to the governments of Europe into the general prey of the

rich on the poor.

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