Signature Blockers
They’re loud and rude. They’re called signature blockers, people who seek to prevent others from reading and signing petitions to add civil rights initiatives to state ballots. As the video below shows, some want to prevent voters from even hearing about anti-preference initiatives.
I’ll write more about signature blockers next week. For now, think about what it must have been like during the civil rights movement. People feared the idea of equality before the law for everyone, regardless of skin color. They broke laws and violated constitutional rights to keep racial minorities from voting. It’s 2008, and some still fear the concept of equality before the law. Like their predecessors, they’re not above trying to intimidate.
It’s shameful.
