Reply #11: But this report coupled [View All]

[kster]

with the fact that they barred our side from the attending the Baker/Carter commission is only strengthening Freeman's side.

"The lack of a fair and open process like that used by the Carter-Ford Commission was evident throughout. In the last commission, civil rights groups submitted research, reports, and testimony. This time around, civil rights groups were essentially barred from the process. The only input from the civil rights community (Barbara Arnwine from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law) was essentially ignored on this critical issue. It speaks volumes that the public could not participate in a process that would effect their most fundamental right, the right to vote. Moreover, the Commissioners spent only a short time deliberating on these issues"

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0919-04.htm