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"The Goal Was to Scare People, but It Could Boomerang." (Pamela Moses)
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Taniel
@Taniel
I talked to Pamela Moses, the Memphis activist who was sentenced to six years in prison for registering to vote. She spoke about her ordeal & what it says about how Black voters are targeted in Tennessee. I hope you read it:
boltsmag.org
“The Goal Was to Scare People, but It Could Boomerang.” - Bolts
Pamela Moses, a Memphis activist sentenced to six years in prison for registering to vote, talks about the prosecution and suppression of Black voters in Tennessee.
9:48 AM · Mar 14, 2022
Taniel
@Taniel
I talked to Pamela Moses, the Memphis activist who was sentenced to six years in prison for registering to vote. She spoke about her ordeal & what it says about how Black voters are targeted in Tennessee. I hope you read it:
boltsmag.org
“The Goal Was to Scare People, but It Could Boomerang.” - Bolts
Pamela Moses, a Memphis activist sentenced to six years in prison for registering to vote, talks about the prosecution and suppression of Black voters in Tennessee.
9:48 AM · Mar 14, 2022
https://boltsmag.org/pamela-moses/
A Tennessee state agency told Pamela Moses that she was eligible to vote, in writing no less. But the Shelby County District Attorney then prosecuted Moses for following that guidance and registering to vote, and in January a Memphis judge sentenced her to six years in prison.
Two weeks ago, Moses was granted a new trial after The Guardian revealed errors by state officials in her case, though the charges still hang over her head. Moses was released on bond on Feb. 25.
Moses spoke with Bolts about her ordeal and what led to it—Tennessee’s harsh disenfranchisement rules, a punitive and discriminatory local court system, and the suppression of Black voters. Moses, a Black Lives Matter activist in Memphis who was barred from voting after a 2015 guilty plea, has denounced these practices long before her recent prosecution.
More than one in five Black adults are barred from voting in Tennessee due to criminal convictions, compared to seven percent of the rest of the state’s population, a number that reflects vast racial disparities in who is prosecuted and how severely. Last week a local group of advocates demanded a racial equity audit of Shelby County DA Amy Weirich’s office, pointing to past scrutiny into its practices; Weirich responded by calling their demand “divisive and inflammatory.” In addition, people seeking to regain voting rights are faced with Tennessee’s notoriously confusing and burdensome process of even determining eligibility, let alone actually restoring their rights.
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In retrospect, that was a bad idea. 
I did exactly as you mentioned in 2006. I called the IRS hotline, used the information they gave me to prepare my taxes, and three years later I got a letter from them saying I owed them over $23,000 in penalties and interest for improperly preparing my taxes three years earlier. 
The thing is, they knew exactly where I was all that time, and could have contacted me at any time, but they waited for three years, accruing interest and penalties compounded daily before contacting me. 
I ended up paying slightly over $12,000 because of their incredibly wrong tax "advice".
The IRS sucks.
