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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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 9:30pm

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



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Registered: 09-08-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 9:40pm

Actually this is what you said


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



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Registered: 09-15-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 9:48pm
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Registered: 09-08-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 9:54pm

Diversity is not something I admire, sorry.


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Wed, 09-24-2008 - 9:54pm
Amen.




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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 9:42am


MONTANA MOM !

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:01am

MONTANA MOM !

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:09am

I was not putting down your source, I just said that I would not use that particular source if I was trying to prove a point. Just like I wouldn't use a liberal blogger(or any blogger for that matter)

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:13am


MONTANA MOM !

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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 10:16am


MONTANA MOM !

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