Posted on 09/16/2009 8:45:05 AM PDT by jazusamo
A serious clash may be looming between the Department of Justice and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission about the department's dismissal of a voter-intimidation case against agents of the New Black Panther Party. The commission -- not Justice -- is on the side of the just.
Charges had been filed against two Black Panthers, national Panther Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz, and the party as a whole after the two Panthers were videotaped outside a Philadelphia polling place in paramilitary garb. One of them was brandishing a night stick, while they reportedly made racially inflammatory remarks. The case was already effectively won, by default judgment, when Obama appointees at Justice suddenly dropped three of the four charges and penalized the final one with what amounted to a laughable tickle on the wrist.
After months of stonewalling letters of protest from Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican, Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, and the Civil Rights Commission, the Justice Department late last month opened an internal investigation to look into how the case was handled. The investigation is under the auspices of the department's Office of Professional Responsibility. But the mandate of this office is a narrow one of prosecutorial ethics. The commission, on the other hand, is asking broader questions about Justice's underlying policy choices that the Office of Professional Responsibility is not equipped to consider. Worse, the office reports up the line to the same political team led by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. that made the bad decision in the first place. That's like asking the warden to investigate the sheriff who controls the warden's job.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Imagine if the KKK had shown up at a polling place in Harlem.
That’s exactly right!
...I’m glad this made the Washington Times..people DO read that paper....not as much as the WaPo, but it’s stil better than nothing.
It’s very scary when armed thugs stand in front of your polling place and threaten you. I can’t imagine there’s not more of an outcry on this.
Yep, there’d be investigation after investigation in Congress.
All the worst that you could imagine would come from the inner city jungle....
but the nation is supposed to swallow their export?
Agreed, I can’t believe the Philly PD didn’t act more forcefully when it happened, they basically told them they shouldn’t do that and went about their business.
If goons such as these had threatened and tried to intimidate voters at the polling place I use, national headlines would have followed. Something along the lines of:
Two 'Black-Panther Party' Thugs Shot & Killed at Rural Virginia Polling Place
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I would consider that a perfect analogy.
The results however, would have been quite different, probably with a little gunplay involved.
I guess that means we must arm ourselves to go vote.
When you look at these scum bags you wonder why the President supports them. I would imagine it is because the Black Panthers support the President. Tells you something about where he is coming from. The President also supports ACORN. Has anyone heard a word from the President about ACORN? I haven’t. Race is in play and needs to stop.
When those who apply the law have become corrupt, it becomes the duty, obligation and right of the American people to make certain that future violations are met with swift justice.
Oh I’m sure obama will just say that the fake pimp and faux-ho were “acting stupidly” and have everybody over to the big house for a brewski...
Holder , too , needs to be launched for his poor perspective.....he is way over due for his justice and equality....
How can this man hold that office?
However; I know guys that would love to have a thugg attempt..
The thuggs can be intimated too.. or taken somewhere else and reasoned with..
They definitely deserved a harsh talking to by people other than the Philly PD just to get their attention.
What a disgusting situation. Yet what can Republicans do? they should try to make it a campaign issue in ‘10 and ‘12 but they will immediately be shouted down with screams of racism. The subject is almost untouchable, so the other side can do whatever they want.
When the government makes non-violent justice impossible, violent justice is inevitable.
People won’t take this for too long. We saw this in the case of “Dr” Tiller.
bullshit....
An interesting thing happened to me today. I loked at some results of a MSN poll about the phrase “In God We Trust”on the money. 86 percent said it should stay. To me, this means that 86% of traditional America is alive. This may be a representative sample, it may not be. If it is representative, then the original America is still alive. They just have to show their faces. If and when they stand up... look out.
The question is what is the catalyst to get them to stand up? Are we on the cusp of it now with the Obama experiment?
But Holder is so clean and articulate
Does anyone really believe that if a gang of whites did the same thing on election day that the Black Panthers did; those whites would not be in jail or charges dropped?
This is a racist decision by Holder and the Obama appointees at the Justice Department.
Prove me wrong.
The insideous thing is, these black exploitation bastards are treating black people like the Islamiofascist treat fellow Muslims they hold expendable to further Islam's goals of destroying Israel and the West ... no limit on how many black humans they will gladly sacrifice to reach their utopian wetdreams, as already proven with the tens of millions of alive unborn black children slaugfhtered int he name of empowering the demcorat party, by Jesse and Al and the NAACP, etc. Do we doubt Van JOnes would sacrifice millions of black people to race riots if he could bring down the American Republic and replace it with his dream of fascist utopia he and other positioned black men could run?
From the article: "Mr. Holder's minions appear to be using the Office of Professional Responsibility less as a spade to unearth the reasons for the absurd dismissal of the Panther case than as a shield to block the commission's own digging."
Its a good thing they weren’t the White Panthers.
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