Posted on 12/03/2009 3:04:21 AM PST by reaganaut1
When the Bush administration ran the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, career lawyers wanted to look into accusations that officials in one state had illegally intimidated blacks during a voter-fraud investigation.
But division supervisors refused to “approve further contact with state authorities on this matter,” according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office auditing the activities of the division from 2001 to 2007.
Congress is set to release that report, which did not identify the state in question, on Thursday as the House of Representatives takes up its first oversight hearing of the Civil Rights Division under the Obama administration.
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Republicans have signaled that they will use the hearing to accuse the Obama administration of politicizing the division in its own way. They are focusing on a decision to downgrade voter-intimidation charges stemming from an incident in the 2008 election in which two members of the New Black Panther Party stood outside a Philadelphia precinct in militia uniforms, one of them holding a night stick. The charges were brought in the final days of the Bush administration and were downgraded and partially dropped in May.
At Republicans’ request, the Justice Department’s internal ethics office opened an investigation into the decision, which is continuing. But in a joint statement on Wednesday, Representatives Lamar Smith of Texas and Frank R. Wolf of Virginia, both Republicans, accused the department of a “cover-up,” saying officials have refused to answer questions [...].
“If the Justice Department had any credible reason for dropping these charges, what do they have to hide by providing those answers to Congress?” Mr. Smith and Mr. Wolf asked. “The continued refusal of this administration to answer these simple questions is proof wrongful political considerations were behind the administration decision to drop charges against their political ally.”
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How very “post-racial”. [/s]
WTH, another fake but accurate report?
Can any one say New Black Panther Party and Philadelphia? My only wish is that this house organ dies a painful death.
I don't know about any of you, but I am sick and tired of these Marxist and Obama Fatigue set in about six months ago.
Time for the Marxist to be sent packing and bleed someone else dry, “NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE”.
Stop The Presses !...The NYT is at it again
http://www.theusmat.com/
Hey, it's the New York Times the CBS of the newspaper world.
Has anyone seen Dan Rather lately? He maybe working as an editor for the NYT
Somebody should consider the towns in Mississippi which sometimes not only have more voters registered than there are voters, but which have more voters registered than there are people.
One career lawyer from the Civil Rights Division who went to Noxubee County admitted to another lawyer that if he had seen that kind of illegal activity perpetrated against black voters, he would have been outraged. But he wanted nothing to do with a suit filed against black voters.
And—purely anecdotal— it has been said (third hand) that the career lawyers in the Civil Rights Division have a mind-set that makes Jeremiah Wright look like a conservative. (Conspiracy theories which elsewhere require the donning of a tin foil hat are accepted there as the stuff of reality).
And, of course, we get the classic quote:
“Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of White Men and do not apply to them.”
—Mary F. Berry Chairman of the US Civil Rights Commission (and a member of the Commission for 24 years)
And that mind-set is so pervasive among professional civil rights activists, that the city of Durham, in response to being sued by the three falsely-charged lacrosse players, could say:
“White Duke lacrosse players are not a protected class recognized as needing protection by the government under federal civil-rights law.”
(Does that mean the city thinks black Duke lacrosse players would be constitute such a protected class?)
Also, the federal government had actually to consider in 2008 whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (and its predecessors) could be extended to Jewish persons because they might be considered a religious “group” rather than an “ethnic” group (and so the civil rights laws, designed to protect race and ethnicity, might not cover them.)
The conclusion was that they (like Sikhs, Arab Muslims, etc.,) would also be covered, “regardless of whether [they] may be Caucasian and American born”.
IOW, it was just assumed that being Caucasian alone would rule out their being protected by the civil rights laws.
IOW, there is a mind-set which assumes that there are two tiers of law in this country, one for one group, and one for other groups.
Which is the same situation as existed in the segregated South, except that the colors have now been reversed.
The racism in America today resides 99% in the black community and 100% in the Whitehouse.
LLS
Yes, remember all those hundreds of thousands of war protestors who were all rounded up and thrown into prison? Remember the evil Bush personally supervising the arrests and beatings? Remember the media lib columnists whose papers were shut down? Those lib tv talking heads who had their programs cancelled? The millions of average libs and Dems who were arrested in their homes for reading lib rags and watching lib programs? Me neither.
I so look forward to the NYT front paging a report on civil rights under the Obama administration.
“civil rights”
A more fluid and bastardized word I can’t imagine. It has been used as a batter ram of destruction in this country by Marxist, multicultualist, white haters and nation destroyers. Just like the term “racism”.
Civil rights my ass.
You know. Florida - Where GWB stole the election. Where none of the blacks were allowed to vote.
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