{"id":9413,"date":"2012-08-28T15:01:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/28\/i-was-forced-to-show-my-papers\/"},"modified":"2012-08-28T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T15:01:17","slug":"i-was-forced-to-show-my-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/28\/i-was-forced-to-show-my-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Forced to Show My Papers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voting this morning in the AZ state primary I was put in mind of an old post from a couple of years ago that bears reposting and editing:<\/span><\/p>\n


\n\"AZ\"<\/a>Things are really getting bad here in the fascist state of Arizona.  Why just this morning I was forced to show ID when I went to vote.  I strolled into the polling place looking a fright after several hours of hiking.  I introduced myself as 'King Blog' but that cut no ice with the  old ladies who 'manned' the <\/span>place.  They asked to see my driver's license! What chutzpah!  What bigotry!  A bunch of damned Nazis, if you want my opinion.  What if I forgot it, or never had one? Then the Nazi bastards would have disenfranchised<\/em> me!  The very act of requesting ID is an act of<\/span><\/p>\n

 disenfrachisement and intimidation.  Besides, it prevents me from voting twice, which I have a right to do.  <\/span><\/p>\n

I should have adapted a line from B. Traven's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre<\/em>.  Papers?  I don't need no stinkin' papers!  I'm a human being.  You just hate me because I smell like I spent the night under a bridge.  I have the right to do whatever I want, wherever I want, and vote wherever I want and as many times as I want.
\nYou Anglo bastards are raaacists<\/em> because my skin isn't lily-white like yours and because my name ends in a vowel.<\/span><\/p>\n

I'm gettin' the hell out of this rattlesnake-infested inferno of gun-totin' yahoos, rednecked racists, and xenophobic immigrant-bashers.  I'm going where a man can be free.  I'm headed for Castro's island paradise.  "Live free or die," as I always say.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Voting this morning in the AZ state primary I was put in mind of an old post from a couple of years ago that bears reposting and editing: Things are really getting bad here in the fascist state of Arizona.  Why just this morning I was forced to show ID when I went to vote.  … Continue reading “I Was Forced to Show My Papers!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}