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| Black Panthers voter intimidation scandal plagues DoJ |
| 2010-07-07 |
| J. Christian Adams, a former career Justice Department official who resigned over the Obama administration's failure to pursue a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party, will finally get a chance to tell his story in public today when he testifies before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Mr. Adams will make some explosive charges. He says the administration used a racial double standard in deciding last year to drop the prosecution of the New Black Panther Party after members were videotaped in front of a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day 2008 dressed in military-style uniforms, brandishing a billy club and using racial slurs against voters. Mr. Adams says the career prosecutors who pursued the case did their job but were stymied by Obama political appointees, for whom he has harsh words: "To abandon law-abiding citizens and abet wrongdoers constitutes corruption," he told Fox News last week. President Obama's Justice Department continues to stonewall inquiries about why it dropped the voter intimidation case, which Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and former publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, calls "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen." Mr. Bull and others witnessed one Black Panther pointing his billy club at voters and making racial threats. Mr. Bull says he heard one yell: "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!" Nonetheless, the Justice Department moved to dismiss most of the charges a month after winning a default judgment against the Black Panthers when the party failed to appear in federal court. The move came after Justice secured an agreement from one Black Panther member not to carry a "deadly weapon" near a polling place until 2012. In a written statement, the Justice Department now says it acted in good faith, adding: "It is regrettable when a former department attorney distorts the facts and makes baseless allegations to promote his or her agenda." But the Washington Times has reported that six career lawyers at Justice, including Christopher Coates, former chief of the Justice Department's voting section, also favored pursuing the case. One of the career attorneys, Appellate Chief Diana Flynn, had urged in an internal memo that a judgment be pressed against the defendants to "prevent the paramilitary style intimidation of voters" in the future. All of the career attorneys were overruled by Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, an Obama appointee. Rep. Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican, says his efforts to require Justice to make the career attorneys available for questions have been rebuffed. Mr. Adams is able to testify today only because he voluntarily resigned his career position. It will be interesting to see if his public testimony finally stirs the broadcast networks to cover this outrage. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #17 And oh how I wish I could spell.... |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-07-07 23:49 |
| #16 Already happened. Ruby ridge, suspected white supremest's wife shot and killed by FBI sniper, with her baby in her arms. After all the media outrage over the terrible "white" supremest they found the truth. Randy Weaver found the Arayan church to be full of crazies and had quit months ago. Our DOJ has needed an overhaul for years. Oh well, better to jail a bunch of Arizona bigots that want the law enforced then to go after a black panter that called whitey a cracker and calls for the death of their babies. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-07-07 23:47 |
| #15 I think it might be stated instead: "You are going to KEEP being ruled by the white man" Nah. They're going to be replaced by Mexicans soon. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-07 22:59 |
| #14 Other Beldar, Re. "You are about to be ruled by the I think it might be stated instead: "You are going to KEEP being ruled by the white man" - or at least that would better fit the narrative. Other than that, the contrast is clear. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-07-07 19:00 |
| #13 The Obama Administration Protected Black Panther Who Advocates Killing White Babies |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-07-07 15:10 |
| #12 Question: Would there be a media firestorm and accusations of racism at the President and his Atty Gen? If the scenario you describe was the case, I would say there would be burning, lootings, shootings and murder in the cities. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-07-07 13:33 |
| #11 A cloud of pepper spray from mysterious origins would probably clear out any Black Panthers that were loitering around a polling station. Just make sure you are upwind and there aren't any voters walking through at that particular time. If the police won't/ can't act on b.s. like this, it surely must be time for a little good ol' vigilantism from a few concerned citizens to protect the rights of everyone. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-07-07 13:31 |
| #10 I don't see what the big deal is. It's not like they were trying to prevent illegal aliens from voting. Now THAT's a hate crime! |
| Posted by: AuburnTom 2010-07-07 11:39 |
| #9 Let us do a thought experiment, followed by a few questions: The case filed against them and their organization is ordered dropped by a Question: Would there be a media firestorm and accusations of racism at the President and his Atty Gen? Question: Why is there no media firestorm of outrage about the racism if the struck-through language were used instead? Bonus: Posit and discuss prima facia proof that larger print and broadcast media are no longer reporting news but are merely propagandists for a given political view. (Hint: A starting point would be the Media's suborning themselves to deliberate dissembling and lies of commission and omission in furtherance of their chosen political viewpoint instead of the truth and facts). Extra Credit: Discuss ways of limiting or correcting the press use of itself as a distorting organ of propaganda rather than a source of facts for an informed citizenry. |
| Posted by: No I am The Other Beldar 2010-07-07 11:11 |
| #8 Black Panthers voter intimidation scandal plagues DoJ It should be a concern for all Americans. It is one of the most blatant cases of institutional racism and lack of justice I've seen outside of the O.J. Simpson murder acquittal. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-07-07 10:33 |
| #7 I wonder what would happen if any other groups would show up right after the Black Panthers did brandishing similar weapons. My bet is you won't have to wait long to find out. This is one of the unfortunate ways Bambi will set this country back 50 years. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-07-07 05:04 |
| #6 Because you know that, after this, they are going to go all out in November because they know they can get away with it. I wonder what would happen if any other groups would show up right after the Black Panthers did brandishing similar weapons. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-07 03:59 |
| #5 Hear, hear, CF. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-07-07 02:54 |
| #4 Exemption from the rule of law? After 40 years of quotas, class entitlement. and racial privilege, I can't understand why anyone should be shocked or surprised at this. Next time you fly Delta, check out the employee demographics. Even in so-called "Right to Work" states like Georgia, large business and industry has caught on to the political and economic insulation provided by a affirmative action and a massively diverse work force. Delta Airlines, a voting block too big to fail...... and they know it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-07-07 02:14 |
| #3 Holder has contracted the legal version of gonnorhea. He already had an advanced case of syphilis when he took office. The move came after Justice secured an agreement from one Black Panther member not to carry a "deadly weapon" near a polling place until 2012. If this isn't a smoking gun, I don't know what is. I was floored when I heard this on Fox tonight. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-07 01:18 |
| #2 The move came after Justice secured an agreement from one Black Panther member not to carry a "deadly weapon" near a polling place until 2012. Just in time to do it again in the next presidential election. Because you know that, after this, they are going to go all out in November because they know they can get away with it. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-07-07 00:54 |
| #1 Holder has contracted the legal version of gonnorhea. It's gonna drip and drip and drip. And burn... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2010-07-07 00:36 |