Seems an incredible slap in the face, but its true.  8 of the 19 Hijackers had used phoney documents or loopholes in the state law to obtain drivers licenses, and under the Motor Voter act had also been allowed to register to vote.

Makes you feel real secure in our system, doesn’t it?  Because nowit is easier then ever before to do both.

Eight 9-11 Hijaacckers Were Registereed to Vote: Will MSM ‘Drive’ Story?

The fact has been out there for some time, but never garnered much media attention. Now, in the context of the current debate over the granting of driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, will there be renewed focus on this chilling reality? Could this be the factoid that changes a presidential election? As John Fund wrote in his Wall Street Journal column today and discussed during his “Morning Joe” appearance:

After 9/11, the Justice Department found that eight of the 19 hijackers were registered to vote.

View video of Fund’s “Morning Joe” appearance here.

And what made it so simple for them to register? As Fund explains:

It is a serious question and one I am admittedly bothered by.  Let me explain, but first I want to make it clear that I abhor Phelps and his protests at Soldiers funerals, and his entire anti gay campaign.

To be double clear, Phelps and his church are among the most vile extremists to ever call themselves Christians.  For those who are not in the loop, Phelps and his church are on a campaign against gay people.  In their infinite insanity, they decided that God hates gays, and there for anything bad in American is God punishing America for tolerating gays.  This includes the war in Iraq, so they put 2 and 2 together, split it 6 ways till Tuesday then multiply the result by the number reasons they think God hates fags, and they take to the streets.  Their goal?  Military funerals for soldiers killed in Iraq.

Now would someone tell me how it makes sense to protest a funeral of a dead straight Marine and claim that God hates fags, and that’s why the Marine died.

No, I do not think I am overstating the actual reality of the UD’s program.  It was an attempt to use the accusations of bigotry and racism to promote bigotry.

The program counted on the notion that whites continue to have a system designed to keep minorities suppress, and I just don’t buy it, not any more.

Sure once upon a time that is precisely how things were.  But Governments no longer restrict by Race, and if anything offer so many advantages to minorities that the playing field has become unbalance the opposite way in compensation.

And likewise, corporations are subject to constant scrutiny and litigation for even the appearance of racial injustice.

So a program that takes the sins of the past and attempts to present them as still just as bad of not worse, and ignores the advances made is useless.

In short, the way to combat racism is not to create even more racial distrust with over generalized accusations, coupled with standards that are not only fallacious, they are so slanted as to create racism out of whole cloth.