Why women should vote

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Registered: 09-08-2008
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: 03-26-2003
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 12:36pm

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I went to an all-girls Catholic HS in the 70's and we actually got a pretty comprehensive sex education.

 


 


I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure

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Registered: 10-01-2004
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 12:50pm

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I understand that and I don't have a problem because I always hope an adoptive parent will come along and give them a good home. "

I'm sure those over 130,000 US children who were already in foster care waiting for adoption* in 2007 would agree with you. Do we really want to force more children into a unstable system that already supports 783,000 in total?

http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/afcars/trends.htm
*"For the purposes of this analysis, children waiting to be adopted include children with a goal of adoption and/or whose parental rights have been terminated.


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Registered: 03-09-2007
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 1:21pm

"which means they don't have a problem with the government being in control of our money, our guns, our property, our insurance"


Obama is looking to change how the government currently controls our money, our guns, our property and our insurance.

Jess


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Registered: 06-23-2008
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 2:33pm

MONTANA MOM !

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Registered: 03-09-2007
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 3:26pm

So in your mind it is ok for the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer?

Jess


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Registered: 09-08-2008
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 4:37pm
Today, kids would rather have nintendos, cel

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 8:09pm

WOW, getting a little upset are we?


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Registered: 09-08-2008
Wed, 10-01-2008 - 8:16pm

Ok, how about a lot of women today are far left voters.


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