Tenn. BLM founder voted illegally: sentenced to 6 years

Pamela Moses, a Black Lives Matter chapter founder in Tennessee was busted for illegally registering to vote while she was still on probation for a previous crime.

Moses [not to be confused with the Jewish prophet who led his people out of Egypt and is also credited with writing the Torah, the Jewish. equivalent of the Koran but without all the beheadings and cutting] pleaded guilty in 2015 to felonies including tampering with evidence and forgery, and misdemeanor charges of stalking, perjury, theft under $500, and escape. For some reason, perhaps because it didn't happen in New York or California, this made her ineligible to vote in Tennessee due to her tampering with evidence charge and she was currently serving seven years of probation.

You might think that all these legal problems would have Moses think twice before committing another crime, but you'd be wrong.

"You tricked the probation department into giving you documents saying you were off probation," Criminal Court Judge W. Mark Ward told the founder of the BLM chapter in Memphis, on Monday.

However, Moses said at the hearing that she believed she could vote again despite her criminal past because the corrections department and county election commission both signed off on her voter registration application in 2019. 

And while it was not disclosed which party Moses belongs to, one might hazard a guess that she's on the Left of Bernie Sanders--most felons are.

As one might guess, the officials who signed off on her application admitted they were in error when they said her probation was over, according to the birdcage liner known as the Washington Post.

"I did not falsify anything. All I did was try to get my rights to vote back the way the people at the election commission told me and the way the clerk did," she claimed at the hearing.

Moses founded the local BLM chapter in Memphis. She also ran for mayor in Memphis in 2019, a position often held by criminals, but learned she could not be on the ballot due to her serving probation. It was also learned that her urine test came back angry.

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She is sentenced to serve six years and one day in the slammer, but her lawyer said Moses plans to appeal the sentencing.

"This case is one about the disparity in sentencing and punishment — and one that shouldn’t have happened," attorney Bede Anyanwu told the Washington Post. "It’s all very, very disturbing."

What's also very, very disturbing is that a Marxist ran for mayor and had she not been busted for her crimes, might have won.

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