Why women should vote

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Why women should vote
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Wed, 09-24-2008 - 9:24am
WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE.

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.

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Remember, it was not until 1920

that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
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The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed
nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking
for the vote.
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(Lucy Burns)
And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.

Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing
went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of
'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above

her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping
for air.
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(Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her
head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate,
Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.
Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging,
beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

Thus unfolded the
'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917,
when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his
guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because
they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right
to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their
food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.
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(Alice Paul)
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf

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Registered: 07-05-2006
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 12:46pm

Thanks for posting this.

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Wed, 09-24-2008 - 1:09pm

Sad part is, women being allowed to vote has caused us to have to deal with this far far far left liberal, Obama.


I don't particularly like what women have become.

MONTANA MOM !

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Wed, 09-24-2008 - 1:18pm
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Wed, 09-24-2008 - 1:24pm
Are you not, at least in part, "what women have become"?

 


 


I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure

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Registered: 07-05-2006
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 1:26pm

Are you not, at least in part, "what women have become"?

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 1:33pm

>>>Sad part is, women being allowed to vote has caused us to have to deal with this far far far left liberal, Obama.

I don't particularly like what women have become. Seems to me they want to have someone take care of them instead of them being independent or they wouldn't vote for someone like Obama.<<<<

I can't fathom your ignorance.

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Wed, 09-24-2008 - 1:37pm

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I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure

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Registered: 01-31-2001
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 1:38pm

I think that this is the reason women have struggled so much in attaining equality with men... because we can not accept the differences that members of our gender have. For years we were told that "real" feminists burned bras and got jobs outside of the house and hated men and never gave in to a man, etc. etc. It turned off women who liked staying home and taking care of their families and didn't mind making dinner and doing the laundry. So, the women were split instead of joining together to say, "all we want is to be treated equally with men, to able to make our own choices in line with our convictions". It wasn't right, and it wasn't good for women. It would be better for all women if we could respect the choices other women make, even if it is not consistent with our own convictions. It is possible to disagree (even abhor) the POSITION of another without vilifying the actual person.

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Wed, 09-24-2008 - 1:46pm

Nicely stated, Veronica.


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Registered: 07-23-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 1:49pm
Great post. I am so grateful for the women who came before me and stood up for themselves so that now I have a voice. Unlike a pp (who shall remain unnamed as I am tired of sparring with her ridiculous views) I support and encourage any woman's right to vote no matter who they vote for. I would rather 1,000 women get out and vote for the candidate I am not supporting than not vote at all.




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