Posting Guards at Polling Place
I am a blue-eyed Caucasian residing in the United States of Orange County. And I’m scared!
Reading the article “State Assails GOP’s Posting of Poll Guards” (Nov. 9) leads me to believe that the mostly one-party Republican political machine in this county did not learn a lesson from the recent, and long overdue, apology and reparation payments made to Japanese-American citizens interned during World War II.
The last time I saw people challenged because they looked like aliens was when war hysteria took over and my American schoolmates who “looked Japanese” were taken away to the internment camps.
With the election just over, I wonder whether the political zealots of Orange County already have plans to intimidate another group of Americans who want to vote on future ballots. And who will they be? Blacks? Latinos? Blue-eyed Caucasians?
MARTHA ABELL
Seal Beach
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