Good Grief: High Speed Rail Now A Civil Right; Jesse Jackson Calls For DOJ To Prosecute Gov Walker for Blocking High Speed Rail Project

What is it about liberals and trains? Oh that's right - they're run by unions and to boot they get to control where you go and when. It's to the point now that moonbats like Jesse Jackson are implying that mass transit is a civil right:

Civil Rights Railroad: Jesse Jackson Calls For Holder's DOJ To Prosecute Gov Walker Because He Stopped Minorities Access to Jobs When He Blocked High Speed Rail Project

Yeah - I kid you not!

Video of Jesse Jackson on Tea Party: This is a Civil War struggle

Just when you thought the war talk yesterday at Obama's taxpayer-funded political stump speech in Detroit , prefaced with union head Jim Hoffa declaring "war" on the GOP and Tea Party, was a fluke, think again. Jesse Jackson on Tea Party: This is a Civil War struggle

At a Congressional Black Caucus Town Hall a few days ago in Los Angeles, Jesse Jackson told the audience that the Fort Sumter Tea Party supports the Tenth Amendment, or as he calls it, the slave amendment. Because of this, their fight against the Tea Party is a Civil War struggle. He asks “are you with the Union or the states’ rightists?”

The 10th amendment in fact has and had nothing to do with slavery despite activist judges and slave owners, who by the way also happened to be Democrats, insisting that it did. Funny that Democrats today still insist that it does.

Jesse Jackson Jr: Tenth Amendment = Slavery

It is said that some apples never fall far from the tree. This one never made it off the branch. Via moonbattery:

Amazingly, the race-baiting rhetoric projectile vomited by the Congressional Black Caucus continues to escalate, despite already having jumped the shark. Listen to Jesse Jackass Junior (D-IL) let loose on Rick Perry for supporting the Tenth Amendment:

“[I]t was the Tenth Amendment and states’ rights that protected the institution of slavery. The words ‘slave’ or ‘slavery’ did not appear in the Constitution. The institution of slavery, the Tenth Amendment and states’ rights are joined at the hip.”

The implication is that anyone who wants to reign in federal overreach before our soft tyranny crosses the line into a hard one secretly wants to reinstitute slavery. Therefore the Tenth Amendment should be ignored if not officially repealed.

Ironically, Jackson' policy preferences keep the black community enslavedtothe government: Black unemployment: Highest in 27 years.

It's actually not the first time Jackson made the above assertion. From back in July: Jessie Jackson Jr: All States Rights Are Slavery Or Something

The US Constitution was predicated on states rights and a limited federal government. For instance:

"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State." - Federalist #45

Apparently James Madison was a racist slave master. That was the intent of the US Constitution, and it lasted for the better part of 2 centuries. Until about the 1930s when the federal government went about unconstitutionally exceeding its boundaries. Which brings us to today. What, pray tell, does the federal government do? That question was actually asked, and answered. Actually, most of what the government does today is cut checks to other people: Pic of the day: Federal government spends most of its money (65%) cutting checks to beneficiaries

In the world of reality, we call this redistribution. It's a money transfer punishing those that actually produce and rewarding those that do not. That is the slavery - indenturing producers to provide for non-producers, not states rights.

Jesse Jackson: Voting rights eroding in Michigan

Eroding:

The meme never ends. Requiring photo ID, something that everyone has to do to withdraw a single penny from the bank, is akin to Jim Crow laws. Proving that you are a legal resident is akin to a poll tax. I mean - really. From John Lewis over at The New York Times: A Poll Tax by Another Name (via memeorandum):

Despite decades of progress, this year’s Republican-backed wave of voting restrictions has demonstrated that the fundamental right to vote is still subject to partisan manipulation. The most common new requirement, that citizens obtain and display unexpired government-issued photo identification before entering the voting booth, was advanced in 35 states and passed by Republican legislatures in Alabama, Minnesota, Missouri and nine other states — despite the fact that as many as 25 percent of African-Americans lack acceptable identification.

And they can't get that free government-issued ID because...??? Not long ago, Jesse Jackson wanted to get his racist buddy Eric Holder on the case: Jesse Jackson to feds: Voting rights eroding in Michigan

The Rev. Jesse Jackson today called on the Department of Justice to intervene in what he calls an erosion of voter rights in Michigan because of congressional redistricting and other measures.

Never mind that forcing redistricting by race to guarantee a minority representative is a patent violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. Especially in states that fought against slavery and never had a slave industry. When redistricting, liberals like Jackson insist that too few minorities, or too many, is unconstitutional. The correct number is just enough to get liberals elected. Not less. Not more.

"The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is being undermined, the same forces who sought to deny the right to vote," Jackson told The Detroit News in an interview with other ministers, activists State Rep. Fred Durhal Jr., D-Detroit, at Bethany Baptist Church on the city's west side.

Those 'forces' that Jackson alludes to all came from, ironically, Democrats. Oh but it gets even better. You can tell this whole thing is just a push for more liberalism when voting rights get conflated with union overreach:

Jackson, who appeared in Benton Harbor Wednesday to decry the emergency manager who is running that city, criticized the strengthened law and said it disenfranchises voters from having a say in their government.

In other words, he is against the emergency financial manger law because it rights the bankrupt ship at the expense of the very unions that bankrupted that municipality via their bought and paid for liberal politicians.