Posted on 05/29/2009 12:03:29 AM PDT by JohnRLott
Imagine if Ku Klux Klan members had stood menacingly in military uniforms, with nightsticks, in front of a polling place. Add to it that they had hurled racial threats and insults at voters who tried to enter.
Now suppose that the government, backed by a nationally televised video of the event, had won a court case against the Klansmen except for the perfunctory filing of a single, simple document - but that an incoming Republican administration had moved to voluntarily dismiss the already-won case.
Surely that would have been front-page news, with a number of firings at the Justice Department.
The flip side of this scenario is occurring right now. The culprits weren't Klansmen; they belonged to the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. One of the defendants, Jerry Jackson, is an elected member of Philadelphia's 14th Ward Democratic Committee and was a credentialed poll watcher for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party when the violations occurred. Rather conveniently, the Obama administration has asked that the cases against Mr. Jackson, two other defendants and the party be dropped.
The Voting Rights Act is very clear. It prohibits any "attempt to intimidate, threaten or coerce" any voter or those aiding voters. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Stolen. Thank you.
But we’re not actually going to DO anything until they come for the guns.
They have already come for the votes...the income...the pension...the salary...the employer...the private property...the unborn...your child’s mind...
Now they have menacing figures at the polls, so what? We’ve still got our guns, just you wait ‘til they try to take those! Oooh, we’ll show them then!
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