On Hard Hearts & Bleeding Hearts, & Others

from teaparty.org: 'JUDGE: 'Government has simply chosen not to enforce border security laws' - June 9  (orig. posted at houston.cbslocal.com - June 9)

(More and more children of Illegal aliens who have managed a foothold here are flooding into the country to join their parents - & the federal government is aiding and abetting them in that scenario.)

Stan Stanfield · Top Commenter · Stanford University (June 9)

We really need to bite the bullet on this matter. Which is, actually, simple: Put the lid back on the honey pot that is attracting illegal aliens here.

No more welfare benefits for illegal aliens. No more school for their children; no more medical benefits; no more jobs (with heavy fines and even hard time for shortsighted Americans who employ them); nothing on the taxpayers' dime. And they will self-deport in short order, with Uncle Sugar's tap turned off.

Our sympathies must rather lie with those aspiring immigrants who play by the rules, are waiting their turn to enter legally, and thus demonstrate that they are good potential citizens of this country. Until the spiritual Revolution, America cannot take in the world's economic refugees willy-nilly. We need to put our own unemployed to work on these jobs that the Illegals do. (No work - no pay.) 

What "spiritual Revolution"? Ah. That's another subject. Until then, we need to set things right. And that means that we need to stop seducing Illegals [into] coming here with fat promises on a bankrupt budget.

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Actually, it's a little more 'complicated' than this.  It's worth noting that this illegal-alien business is all part of the statists' Cloward-Piven Strategy to bankrupt the nation, and in the aftermath of the crash, to -  hopefully - establish a socialist 'utopia,' with a 'redistribution of wealth' creating 'equality'.  Although, little do the bleeding hearts on the ground know that they are being used, by malevolent entities, some incarnate and some not, to create the conditions for, not a 'Europrean-style' socialist state, but a totalitarian society, with those who are more like fascists than socialists in charge: a corporate-government complex, hardly capable of waiting to treat the mass of humanity like cattle, in subservience to them, their Masters.  They are now salivating at the prospect, it is so close -

and they will be denied their lustful victory.

Because God will not be mocked.

And we will enter a New Era. based on spiritual principles.

With them.

Or without them.

Their choice.

And yours.


        

On Being Perfectly Clear - 2

In my last blog I appended, among other footnotes, one wherein I said:

"There is a lot of wisdom in the Bible.  But also a lot of error."

Let me be clear; and Note, as Richard Thompson of the Thomas More Law Center has said:

"Islamic clerics around the world have been bragging for a long time that they will destroy America, that Islam will replace Christianity and the Koran will replace the Bible."

But Islam is a religion of The Book as well; and it can be said that all religions of 'the people of The Book' are in error.  To some extent, at the very least.

Know, that the Truth - the whole Truth - will out, and shall prevail.  That is written in the very nature of the universe.

As to Our Times:

There is a war going on, between the Dark and the Light, for our souls.

Choose wisely, friend.

And that's all that I'm going to say on that subject.  For now.

Except to acknowledge a logical question at this point:

'How does one know The Truth?  Separate the wheat from the chaff??'

My answer, at this point:

By deep, inner listening.  By, that is to say:

resonance.

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I am hard on 'religion'.  But I am dedicated to 'spirit'.  To, that is to say: Truth.  And as for approximating, and aligning our efforts with, Truth - and regarding America, and Her role in our sailing that sea, to a new destination, for the world; consider:

The Mystical George Washington

"Do not let any one claim to be a true American if they ever attempt to remove religion from politics." George Washington
(The source for this quote has yet to be found, but as you will see, it is perfectly consistent with the one below. Editor)

"Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

George Washington's Farewell Address, Sept. 17, 1796

Let no one dishonor this country, and its highest purposes for humanity.  We have a destiny to fulfill, with integrity.

As Things Heat Up...

…To Turning Point

Sunday.  The day of a New Day dawning for humanity.  For all of humanity.  Those of the Dark as well.  Since some - most? - of them are just playing parts, in the Drama that has been going on since time immemorial.  To 'catch our consciences'.  To say: to grow us.  In the field of valor that is the Illusion of 3D life - of duality, and separation, from our Source.

Finished.  At last.

But there is still some homework to be done.  And 'home' work, only in a relative sense…

As things heat up to boiling point - as they are, with such 'signs of the times' now as the Obama administration/illegal regime cutting off the ability of gun dealers to have customers access their sites to pay them electronically1 - it would behoove us to look at things from a positive point of view, and let the doomsayers have their day in the new sun, without giving them much energy (which only feeds them).  Before we can get to the ultimate stage of our New Age - of individual 'free energy' devices, and replicators for all our needs, and space and dimension travel, and such - we need to set things right.  Consider:

* All illegal aliens need to return to their home countries.  The New will not, cannot be built on a rickety, to say corrupt, foundation.  

     As I say: Things need to be set right first.2  And that includes

* Health measures.  Fluoridation - out.  (It's a scam; long story.)  Various additives in our food supplies - out.  Vaccines (especially the particularly deadly vaccines, engineered for that very purpose) - out.  Drugs with dangerous side effects - out.  Holistic, energetic medicine - in.  Making money no longer the object of the exercise.  

     And speaking of money:

* a) All so-called 'Prosperity Funds' released.  

   b) The dual 'training wheels' of interest-bearing money and fractional-reserve banking - out, on our way to a moneyless system of exchange.  The whole enterprise operating, not on 'the profit motive,' but on spiritual principles.3  The main one in this context: People sharing goods and services with one another - and giving of their best in the process - out of a superior motive.  Out of the highest motive that there could possibly ever be: 

     out of gratitude to their Creator for life with meaning.  Out of, in a word: Love.  

But aren't religions just a belief system?

Yes.  Religions are.  But I'm not talking about religions.  I'm talking about hard Truth.  Enough of which is now in - from overwhelming evidences of the truth of reincarnation, and, therefore, of the operation of a/the Law of Karma,4 to the hard sciences, such as physics (and in particular in that genre, quantum physics) - to give us the basis for a/the New Era.  And which will be enhanced by visits from our galactic neighbors; as we prepare as well to sail those new seas, with America as the flagship of the fleet of Gaian nations to do so, if not the Chosen One.                    

In the meantime, do NOT give up your weapons of self-defense, for reasons of 'national security' or any other rationale or excuse.  They are what is keeping this country from being hijacked totally by the forces that wish to turn it into a mere region5 of their vaunted New World Order, of Total Control over the populace, of both the U.S.A. (the last defender of the concept of self governance/individual rights, as sovereigns in our own right) and the world.

To take it into a long dark night of the soul.  Under the pirate flag of Force.

As opposed to the true, fundamental flag, of - as I say; in a word: Love.

In true alignment with the whole Purpose of our Creator, in giving us the opportunity - as creators in the making/in our own right - to go exploring, in a creation of our own.

And to learn from our mistakes.  

And to prove that we have learned our lessons.  By our actions, now, at this Turning Point, in time and space.  To guide by a new star. 

The star of our higher natures.

Not of our lower, anymore.   

That Day is Done.  Finished.  As I say: At last.  

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footnotes:

1 And how long from this hard-to swallow to their final spring of cutting off patriots' ability to access their own bank accounts, either electronically or over the counter?,  because of the standard excuse for such highhanded activity, of being for reasons of 'national security,' in the lexicon of a rogue federal government, that no longer recognizes the limitations of the Constitution - to say, the rule of law - on its actions??  Said government being governed by not only a Usurper, but a Despot, who has announced, in effect if not in precise words, that, quote, 'I am the law'.

     And I am not talking about Germany here, in the '30's, when Hitler rose to such power as to utter such outrageous words - and got away with it.  By a suitably cowed citizenry; to say, cattleized.

     The only person who should be able to get away with saying that he - or she - is 'the law' is someone who is standing for, and embodying, the real law.  The law of our Creator.  The Law of the Light.  Not of the Dark; which depends on coercion - Force - for its working-out.  More on which, see coming up in the main body of this blog.  

2 As for their children born in this country: They follow the citizenship of their fathers.  Their fathers should have thought about this, when they chose to enter this country illegally.  People need to take responsibility for their own actions.  And learn to.

     Now, I grant that many illegal aliens were seduced into that way of coming here by the siren song of those pernicious ideologues who came up with the idea of 'anchor babies' - and that needs to be set right as well.  (The idea is fallacious.  Only children born here and under the jurisdiction of this country and its states are born (native) citizens.  Illegal aliens are under the jurisdiction of - to say, are citizens of - their home countries.)  So, Love needs to enter this equation, as we deal with such anomalies.  But Love needs to be balanced out with Truth.  

     And sometimes, Truth can cut, like a sword.   

3 The fundamental one being a spiritually evolutionary advance on the Golden Rule; to say: 'As you do unto others, so do you do unto yourself - literally.  For, We Are All One.  And All IS One.'

4 The Christian religion, as is true of some other religions, is in error on this point.  I won't speculate on the reason(s) for that error.  But it is a fundamental one; and the religion needs to be rejected on that basis alone.

     This was one of the basic reasons why I 'read my way out of' the religion of my birth.  I was born in the 'Mormon' Church, aka the LDS Church.  And it had/has some excellent spiritual tenets. (Among them: the concepts of a) free moral agency, and b) 'There must needs be opposition in all things' - polarity/duality, in this classroom, where Choice is the main subject.)  But it - as all other Christian religions - falls at this fundamental hurdle.  They are all, simply, man-made institutions.    

     There is a lot of wisdom in the Bible.  But also a lot of error.  I can't speak for other religions.  But basically, we need a clean slate, to progress from this point in our spiritual evolution.

     Which evolutionary energy is pressing on us as we speak; to move out of the tension between the thesis and the antithesis stages of the process, which tension is coming to a head, and rapidly now.   Forcing us into the Synthesis - the last - stage, of marrying the 'right' of the two - i.e., the aspects of each aligned with Truth.    

5  and a suitably subdued one at that; not 'exceptional' in any way, except in its capitulation to the Dark forces who have had a covetous eye on it since its founding, for its being of the Light, and in a special, destiny-filled way: of leading humanity out into the Light of a New Day, someday.  This Day.

An Affirmation

I WANT

I want
The darkness to dissipate
                        the Light
To prevail
And us to return
Home, again

         or at least
As many of us
As can manage the Return -
               to say
    the vibrational exodus -
At this time.

So be It.

And speaking of 'it':
I want
What God wants
And that's it.

And God wants
What is best
For Us All.

                To say
I want to fulfill
My purpose in being here
At this time
In our long climb out
Of Time
And into
The Whole of It All.

And that is all.

As Thou art That
And That art Thou.

And speaking of
Who is what:
         Now that Obama
Has raised the ante
Of history -
                   to say, of
The historical process -
            to the level of
The imperial presidency
Of America, I
Can now enter
The equation.
And all is Done

except for those
Who don't make it this time
            because
Of a lack of integrity
In their makeup.

Too bad they can't drink
The full cup
This time around.
           But that is
The Law.
And I affirm
That which Is.

And this is my country
                and nobody
Has a right to take it
Away from me.
So I will now inherit it
Fully
              before
Any more damage is done
To it
Than has already been done
By both the Left
And the Right
Seemingly

In the play
That has been going on
For some time

To test us

for the leap
in consciousness
that is about
to take place.

Hold fast.
     It's going to be
An exhilarating ride

here

at the end

Of a major Era.

A Night

To remember

and mark well

For the future

that is already

Past

in the Eternal

Now.

On Being Perfectly Clear

Where I Stand - In Spades

* To the Heritage Foundation - May 16:

'Dear Jim,

'Speaking of the rule of law - as you did in your covering letter to your request for my Membership Renewal - since the Heritage Foundation has failed to call the Usurper on his ineligibility for that thus-dishonored office, you give me no choice, but to turn down your request.

'Regretfully,'

(signed)

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* To the Republican National Committee - May 17:

'Dear RNC,

'Since you folks have caused the Constitution to become a dead letter by allowing an ineligible candidate to run for the presidential office,* I have nothing more to do with you wreckers of the rule of law.'

(signed)

* BHO is NOT a "natural born citizen". He was not born of two U.S. citizen parents.

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* To the National Republican Senatorial Committee, under a covering letter by Jeb Bush - June 6:

'Dear Jeb,

'No, the NRSC's "top priority" should be removing the Usurper from the Oval Office - forthwith.

'Shame on the Republican Party for allowing this outrage to happen.'

(signed)

[His letter referred to the Republicans' "top priority" as being "economic growth".  Poor Fella, My Country.  No sense of priorities.]

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* To White House Watch - June 6 (who wanted big money to push for Obama's Impeachment):

'Dear Floyd,

'No - he must not be impeached.  (He is not a legally sitting president.)  He must be removed.  And forthwith.  Before he does any more damage to the constitutional republic than he already has.

'If White House Watch instead came out - in time to help effect the condition - for his removal from the office outright, for occupying it illegally* (not being a NBC, and for committing a crime inits coverup), then I will authorize a $200 contribution to you.  And that's a promise.'

(signed)

* And that way, all the legislation that he has signed into law, and all the E.O.'s and P.D.'s that he has issued, and all the appointments that he has made - including to the Supreme Court - go with him.  As the illegal occupant of that office that he has been from the very beginning.
     God will not be mocked.

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Do I want the Democrats to win, in my uncompromising stand?

No.  I want integrity to prevail.  And it will only do so when we demand that it be so - NOT by dancing with fraud, and chicanery, and deceit, and outright criminal activity.

I for one will not be compromised.

And thus I stand.

Incognito

I was just on the verge of cutting the Imposter a little slack when I found out about a little more of the despotic activity that he has been engaged in.

The first attitude came about last night when I came across a report in my emails of a propagandic attack on him.  Apparently engaged in by elements of the Secret Government that was put in place under the Bush W. administration, for the return to power of the NeoCons - after Obama and the Democrats/Marxists did a lifting job, of preparing the way for the Cabal's inheritance of a 'total state' - it consisted of taking some remarks that Obama made in a prepared speech at a meeting in Belgium and splicing them together, in a video, in such a way as to make it look and sound as though he were saying something of a derogatory nature about 'people,' who need to be subjects of someone or something, as in a New World Order, when actually he said just the opposite, took the 'traditional' point of view of Americans and America, in honoring the individual, as opposed to people being mere subjects of 'the state'.  I had never heard him say such a thing, and was impressed that he considered, and even extolled, such a fundamental fact of life.  And then the true nature of this con artist came out, and in spades, with actions speaking louder than words.

It came about when I read today an article in the May issue of Whistleblower magazine.  Titled 'A Lawless President And A Sleeping Congress,' subtitled 'Obama's breathtaking violations of the Constitution are met, mostly, with yawns' by former judge Andrew Napolitano, it is a litany of the brazenly dictatorial things that the Usurper has been engaged in, and how Congress has failed in its constitutional duty to hold him in check, by the Constitution's rule of law.1

Item.  "Obama bombed Libya without a declaration of war from Congress.  This arguably brought down the Gadhafi government, which led to the current state of lawlessness there, which produced the environment in which our ambassador was murdered in Benghazi in 2012 and established a dangerous precedent because Congress remained officially silent."

Item.  "He has told the 11 million illegal immigrants who are here and subject to deportation that if they comply with a new set of rules they will not be deported.  The constitutional problem is that the president wrote those rules.  Only Congress can craft such rules [my emphasis], and by the [de facto] president's doing so, he has schooled [such illegal] immigrants in how to avoid compliance with federal law."

Item.  "The [de facto] president has used drones to kill Americans, but claims he has done so lawfully because he complied with secret rules that he crafted.  Under the Constitution, if the president wants someone dead, he must afford the person due process or ask Congress to declare war on the country housing the person.  No worries, he says - he has followed the secret rules the he wrote to govern himself when deciding whom to kill." [my emphasis]

Item.  "One recent assault on the Constitution consisted (until it was canceled due to public alarm) of a plan by the Department of Homeland Security to effectively follow us as we drive on public roads by photographing the license plate of all motor vehicles.  This, too, was formulated without congressional approval or constitutional authority."2  

"And while all of these things are going on," Napolitano continues, "Congress largely sits as a potted plant…"  Just so.  And he wraps up his article thusly:

"These are dangerous times because this is a lawless presidency and a pliant Congress.  The [de facto] president's willingness to violate the Constitution publicly calls into question his fitness for office.  And the deafening silence from Capitol Hill manifests a spineless refusal to preserve constitutional government.

"The whole purpose of dividing and separating governmental powers is the preservation of personal liberty by preventing the accumulation of too much poster in one branch or, heaven forbid, in one person.  Whoever permits this to take place lacks fidelity to the Constitution, is unworthy of holding governmental power in a free society and should be removed from office."  [my emphases]

And that's why not only Obama must go.  But the sitting Congress.  For not abiding by the rule of law.

It is, then, the end of the exercise.  Obama - out.  Not only for ruling in a dictatorial fashion.  But because he was not eligible for that office in the first place.  And the sitting Congress - out.  Not only for not doing their constitutional duty in this imperial-presidency hijack of the federal government going on.  But because the nation's Congress (and both major political parties) colluded in the sitting of this illegal candidate for that office in the first place.

And on this disappointing - but apparently necessary - note,3 The Drama ends.

And I will take over now.  To guide us - America, and, via this particular ship of state (chosen for this purpose), the world - to our highest destination.        

For, this is my country.  And I will not have this low-consciousness sort of thing going on in my country.

We have better things to be about, now.

We have a New World to co-create.

It's time -  and nearly past - to get to it.

Before one aspect of the historical process that humanity has been engaged in, in getting here, tilts us over into disaster.4

We are walking a fine line, between the Scylla of socialism and the Charybdis of fascism.        

Steady as she goes.

And along that line (so to speak), and further on the 'voting' subject of my last blog:

I did as I said I would - refused to vote in the elections today in my state - and will continue to refuse to do so until the whole voting process is cleaned up.  If refusing to vote just allows 'the opposition' to waltz into power from the way you want it to be, then that's what it takes, for an educational time.  But I for one will not be compromised.  I operate my life by a strict standard; by absolute standards.

If things 'as they are' - to say, in this process we are still embedded in - are going to continue a little while longer: for state elections, you can do in your state whatever you choose to do in this regard.  (Although your state's citizens are also citizens of the United States; and I could get bolshie about this.)  But for federal elections, you will clean up your act.  I will not tolerate your running a shoddy ship.

As I say:  This is my country.

Hands off.  Or all hands on deck, as we weather the storm we are about to enter.

Your choice.      

And you will have to choose.  It is that stark of a situation, now.

The Light.

Or the Dark.

No Gray any longer.  Because

we are at the end of the line.  Going, neither to the 'Left' nor to the 'Right'.

But Up.


It is a time for celebration.

But also, for Completion.

Planetary.  And personal.

Here, at our long-awaited destination.

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footnotes:

1 Which means he could in reality be a sort of devil's advocate; just playing a part, and a vital part at that, here at The Play's completion.  But we have to take things at their face value, for now. 

2 This illegal initiative is in partnership with the NSA's wholesale recording of all our emails and texts and phone calls and monitoring of our activity online.  There is no constitutional power for the executive branch to do this.  It is gross in more ways than one. 
     I will not live in, or allow, a police state.  Got that, NSA??  Do you want me to repeat it, for further clarity's sake???

3 As these things go…by way of theses, and antitheses, and momentary syntheses, which become - until the process is totally completed - the theses of the next stage of historical development.
     Now at an overall end.  Having come to the end of the line.  Meaning, that we move into either a global government of the Dark.  Or of the Light.
     And the Light, in the end, wins.
     Because we live in a universe of Light.
     And Love.
     The Love of the Creator for Its Creation.  And loving Us enough to give us free will.  To choose to return to the Whole at the end of our adventure in the testing land of illusion.  Or not.
     Our choice.

4 America could tilt over into civil war, as part of the potential of the unfolding spiritual evolutionary process.
     It is part of our tuning in to our better natures to see that that potential doesn't eventuate into reality.        At least, the reality of the Illusion; thus, a relative reality.
     Illusion, because, in real 'reality,' there is no separation from our Creator.  No Duality.
     We Are All One.  Facets, fractals, aspects, points of view, of the All That Is.
     Blessed be Our Name.

And Another Thing

Elections are coming up tomorrow, and because I am a good citizen, I refuse to take part in them.  Because I refuse to take part in a charade; and especially one done to such a vital civic act as voting in a democratic process.

The evidence is overwhelming that the electoral process in this country is corrupt, seemingly beyond salvaging.  It's worth salvaging; but it would take similarly overwhelming numbers of the electorate to boycott elections until they are cleaned up, to make it happen.

By being "cleaned up," I mean

* the registration rolls in the country being regularly and certifiably cleansed;1

* the electronic voting machines outlawed if they can't be made in a way that can guarantee a true result; and

* photo ID required at the polls, and to have been required to obtain mail-in or early-voting status.

If you are going to act like children, you need to be treated like children.  And if it as well takes dipping the voter's finger in purple dye, to prevent duplicate voting, so be it.

This is my country.  I will not have such garbage as has been going on here, in the voting procedures (as in other subject areas), to continue to go on here.  And if your response to such a cleansing is to say that requiring photo ID cards is 'voter suppression,' the most polite word or thing that I can think of to say in response is:

Bollocks.2

And while on the subject of corruption, just a brief word about another area of its application in our civil life.  It has to do with the attack in general on 'Family' going on, in particular by the 'radical  feminist' crowd, in conjunction with their male statist cohorts.  To take just one example of that battlefront:

Where the hell do you get off holding the gun of the state to the heads of strangers and thereby forcing them to let you have babies on your own and their dime, and then continuing to live off of their income??  It is as if you were born with no or low consciousness, and I know that that's not the case.  You were born with the ability to know the difference between right and wrong, and you have chosen freely to walk on the dark side, in support of the compulsion of the state over its subjects.  Read my lips:

No one owes you anything.  People can support you in your chosen lifestyle out of the goodness of their hearts, or out of pity, or sympathy, or whatever, in exercising their free will in the matter.  But no one owes you.  So, stop voting to put a gun to their heads, and thinking that you are in the right in doing so.

You may think that you have a right to do so.  And that's true.  But you are here to grow, spiritually.  Not to play games, get caught up in the drama.  So stop wasting your time, in low-connsciousness activity.

You can do better.

 Because you are a spark of your - our - Creator.

Not really just a creature of the state; corralled to do its bidding, in its attempts to take over this country, of formerly free men and women - sovereigns in their own right; beholden to no King or Pope or Oligarchy or outright Dictator over them - and have it be ruled by Dark forces.

America has a destiny to lead the world out of the Darkness, of its making.

Get with the Plan and Purpose of the Creation.

Or rue the day you ever chose the Dark side to walk on.

Because your days - living in that state of consciousness - are numbered.  And you will not be with the rest of us, as we continue with the program, and start going

Up.  Into the Light of a new Day for Humanity.

Having learnt our lessons on this level, of the School of Life.  And graduating, to the next stage of The Great Adventure of experiencing, and co-creating, Creation.            

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footnotes:

1 certified by a panel of members of both main political parties and at least two independent voters - so that they can't be 'voted' down by the two major political parties who are responsible to begin with for the fraud and deception that has been going on.


2 What's going on now is pure farce.  In my home state, all we citizens are required to do when we show up to vote is to sign our/a name against our/a name on the registration rolls.  When I queried the efficacy of this minimal identity requirement, the precinct officer in charge told me that 'they compare the signature against that of the person when they filled out their registration form in the first place'.
     After every election, someone goes through the reg rolls and does this comparison job?
     I don't believe it.  Plus, it would be far simpler, and secure, for the person to show their state photo ID when they sign their name on the reg roll, which contains not only their photo but their signature, for an instant identity check.
     Duh.
     As for the charge of 'voter suppression': Even in a state where the state will allow a (certifiably) poor person to obtain a photo ID free of charge, the Obama Department of Justice still goes after them in the court system, to try to force them to delete the photo ID requirement to vote.
     Go figure.
     And some even stronger words are beginning to come to me, in response to all this chicanery and deceit going on, by the Obama administration, and its minions in those states where voter-system corruption is rampant.
     I'm not letting the Republican Party off the hook in this subject area.  It has certainly engaged in corrupt practices itself (apparently in particular involving electronic voting machines being programmed to come up with a wonky result).  But the Democrats have raised the whole process to an art form.  Which figures.  With the Saul Alinsky 'Rules for Radicals' community-organizing tactics at work and in play, the voting system has become so corrupt - with the end justifying any and all means - that the system would almost appear to be - as I say - beyond repair.  Absent a major clean up and clean out.