Minority rule in the name of "justice"

Saw a rather interesting news item on Fox today. Not headline news, really, but alarming.

Apparently Port Chester, NY, has a population that is 46% Latino, many if them being non-citizens legal or otherwise, and many kids under voting age.  Somehow (and I don't know how this issue arose), the feds determined that Latinos were under-represented in local government. So a federal judge named Robinson devised this scheme to give every Latino voter six votes each to allow for greater "justice" in representation. That is, a Latino votes once, and the vote gets counted as six votes.

You know, we did something like this before in the USA. It's even in the Constitution, although it's been removed. It was called the "3/5ths clause." And it didn't really relate to voting, so much as to how the population was counted to determine the number of representatives in congress.

Under the 3/5ths clause, every slave was counted in the census as 3/5ths of a person.  This was because many slave states had rather large populations of slaves -- or "persons in bondage" or whatever, the Constitution never used the word "slave" -- and the slaves weren't considered to be citizens, or even whole human beings, for that matter. Planters and slave owners believed that  because slaves were not and never could be citizens, that their owners would be "under-represented" in congress, so they required this 3/5ths clause to even things out for themselves and allow them greater "justice."

The 3/5ths clause didn't give the slaves any votes or representation.  It only gave their masters more weight in the House of Representatives. In other words, it supported their role as "master" and also cushioned them from any adverse effects resulting from the practice of slavery. In effect, it gave the slave owners much more power than they should have had.

The clause was amended and removed from the Constitution after the Civil War. The clause was, in fact, indirectly one of the causes of the Civil War.

Now it's regarded as "justice."

This Port Chester thing is actually like something out of the novel "1984," which proclaimed, "All men are created equal, but some are more equal than others."

And who's to say that Latino voters, even armed with six votes each, wouldn't vote for the Gringo? In which case, wouldn't the feds regard them as STILL being "under-represented"?

This six-vote system is an assault on the concept of individual rights, substituting it with representation based on race, ethnicity, or whatever. This is what liberals think of as "justice." They are tragically misguided and demonstrate the danger of their ignorance.

Don't these idiots ever read history? I mean, really, are they that stupid? Not that it matters, really, but Federal Judge Robinson is black. Perhaps he should consult the spirit of his ancesters-past about how this type of representation worked for them prior to the Civil War.

By the way, by accident heard the first few minutes of the Comrade's speech last night, sort of as background noise while I was doing something else. Heard him say something about how China's energy policy should serve as a model for the USA, nearly vomited, and turned it off.

Apparently the merry marxists believe we should follow China's model of individual rights as a model for own government, too.

Save the republic.