Thief in the Right

A Thief in the Night is a 1972 film about a young woman who knows and has heard the Christian gospel, but dismisses it due to her satisfaction with secular life. One morning she wakes up to discover that her husband, a Christian, and millions of others have disappeared.

The National Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States and 35 years later 1million black citizens of this nation awoke to realize that they too had disappeared, that is...from the voting rolls.



While the Republicans continue their onslaught of McCarthy era attacks on Barack Obama in the court of public opinion, they also have waged a war in judicial courts on one of the most sacred of American Freedoms... voting.

This attack comes in the form of "spoiling" votes.

Spoilage can occur by a faulty machine, lack of proper identification, registered name and actual name not matching up and some of it is the product of old machines, new technology and even honest mistakes.

However, Civil Rights Commissioner Christopher Edley, Dean of Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley, took a nationwide study and found that half of all ballots spoiled in the U.S.A. -- about 1 million votes -- were cast by nonwhite voters.


In the movie the lead, Patty, realizes that the Rapture, mentioned in the Bible, has happened and she is living in the last days of the Antichrist. A government system is set up and those who do not receive the mark identifying them with UNITE will be arrested. Patty wakes only to realize it was all a dream. She then reaches to turn on the radio and hears that all she dreamed was in fact about to happen.

In 2000 when Pat Buchanan won an African American dominated Florida county in which he never even campaigned, we were told it was our imagination. When voters in Ohio were disenfranchised in 2004, we were told that the votes were insignificant to the outcome.

We cannot wake up the morning after the election, as a McCain supporter mentioned last week, to find that this election too has been stolen by the right.

Go to stealbackyourvote.org so the only disappearance that occurs is that of this administration and the policies of the thieves from the right.