Panther Politics: White House interference derails Justice?

Washington Times ^ | Jan/19/2010 | Washington Times

[mudblood]

The Justice Department insists that only "career employees" made a controversial decision last May to drop voter-intimidation charges against members of the New Black Panther Party. An analysis by The Washington Times, however, suggests good reason to ask if the White House itself interfered in the case.

[mudblood]

After reading the short article, be sure to also check out this Annotated Timeline, also published today: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/19/annotated-timeline/

[castlegreyskull]

This case really moves race relations forward. /sarc/

[AAABEST]

Two members of the New Black Panther Party, wearing black berets, black combat boots, black dress shirts and black jackets with military-style markings, were videotaped at a Philadelphia polling place as one brandished a 2-foot-long nightstick. Multiple witnesses complained that they felt intimidated, and several filed affidavits attesting as much. One witness said that one Black Panther told a white man, "Cracker, you are about to be ruled by a black man."

[opentalk]

..reason to ask if the White House itself interfered in the case.

From Newsmax, Sep,08
Obama had close ties to top Saudi adviser at early age

New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers.

[SkipW]

If you put fifty New Black Panthers in a room their combined I.Q. would be a single digit. They are thugs and criminals.

But you could say the same thing about the Obama Administration. Consider the SEIU. They are on the ground working on behalf of the Democratic Party and Barack Obama. They stomped that man in St. Louis in front of cameras. Two of them were arrested. What happened to them? As far as I can tell, nothing.

We are dealing with a criminal administration. To be fair though, there are more than a few criminal Republicans loose in Washington too.

[LoveUSA]

The last line of the link you posted...

Yet the Justice Department continues to insist that there was no political interference involved in the decision - despite...the long-simmering ideological dispute within the Justice Department about whether the department should indeed aggressively fight for civil rights protections for white voters, or just for minorities.

You're f-in' kidding me!!!!!

[TexasCajun]

Don't forget about the Kevin Johnson scandal as well, his case of embezzlement & fraud was all wrapped up with paying a fine and reimbursing the fund from which he stole from.

With Inspecter General Gerald Walpin getting fired without notice or a hearing.

[Bender2]

Re: Ms. King otherwise is best known for issuing the decision last year that refused to let the majority-black town of Kinston, N.C., by its own choice, hold nonpartisan municipal elections - with Ms. King effectively ruling that Kinston's blacks were too ignorant to know how to cast their votes if the Democratic Party label weren't on the ballot.

Mr. Rosenbaum's previous history on voting rights included energetically carrying a case stemming from a 1990 incident in which the Republican Party of North Carolina mailed misleading postcards to black voters saying they would be ineligible to vote if they had moved recently from one precinct to another. That incident puts him in the odd position of arguing that postcards are "intimidating" but a physical presence at a polling place - while wearing paramilitary garb - is not.

Yes, sir, ree Bob! No more race based politics... under the Øne & Ønly!

Still in store for the near future: