A Woman’s Right to Vote

A friend forwarded this story to me and I was outraged. I realize that it was not very long ago that woman gained the right to vote but it never really sunk in. 1920? That really is an embarrassment on society.

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In Canada, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta granted woman the right to vote in 1916. Ontario and B.C. did in 1917 and the rest of Canadian did shortly thereafter except for Quebec who didn’t grant woman the right to vote until 1940. That is hard to conceive. http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/stats/WomensRighttovoteinCanada.html

What’s also hard to conceive is how these woman who marched on the White house asking for the right to vote were arrested and beaten in prison.

Lawful assembly is a fundamental right within the constitution. Being arrested and beaten for exercising that right is insane. It reminds me of how Bush vetoed the bill preventing CIA torture. Not only did they admit the CIA practices torture but George Bush went down in history as the one who vetoed the bill preventing it. That is shameful.

The problem rises with the definition of terrorist. Who is a terrorist? Is it someone who plans on murdering innocent civilians or is it simply someone who disagrees with me? Is it someone they randomly pick and torture until they get a bogus confession for their Operation Northwoods false flag treason?

These are who they called terrorist in 1920:

These women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. 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.'

(Lucy Burns)
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.

(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.

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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 --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

HBO made a movie about the nightmare called Iron Jawed Angels:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StF3_Mj0tBg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMbx7c_5vx4

Men beating women. How pathetic.

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait still deny women the right to vote:

http://www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org/suffrage.htm

If Iraq was allowed to invade Kuwait, would the Kuwaiti women have the right to vote then? Interesting to note that US’s two enemies, Iraq and Afghanistan both let women vote in elections but the US’s two close allies, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are the only two countries left in the world that still don’t let women vote in elections. All hail the almighty dollar. http://www.merip.org/mero/mero021005.html