Posted on 06/26/2010 1:50:57 PM PDT by jazusamo
On the day President Obama was elected, armed men wearing the black berets and jackboots of the New Black Panther Party were stationed at the entrance to a polling place in Philadelphia. They brandished a weapon and intimidated voters and poll watchers. After the election, the Justice Department brought a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and those armed thugs. I and other Justice attorneys diligently pursued the case and obtained an entry of default after the defendants ignored the charges. Before a final judgment could be entered in May 2009, our superiors ordered us to dismiss the case.
The New Black Panther case was the simplest and most obvious violation of federal law I saw in my Justice Department career. Because of the corrupt nature of the dismissal, statements falsely characterizing the case and, most of all, indefensible orders for the career attorneys not to comply with lawful subpoenas investigating the dismissal, this month I resigned my position as a Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney.
The federal voter-intimidation statutes we used against the New Black Panthers were enacted because America never realized genuine racial equality in elections. Threats of violence characterized elections from the end of the Civil War until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Before the Voting Rights Act, blacks seeking the right to vote, and those aiding them, were victims of violence and intimidation. But unlike the Southern legal system, Southern violence did not discriminate. Black voters were slain, as were the white champions of their cause. Some of the bodies were tossed into bogs and in one case in Philadelphia, Miss., they were buried together in an earthen dam.
Based on my firsthand experiences, I believe the dismissal of the Black Panther case was motivated by a lawless hostility toward...
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Please, that's exactly what Obama and Holder are doing.
I'm sure it is part of the grand scheme with New Black Panther Party and the SEIU union thugs for 2012 mid terms
Ping
‘Sounds like fun...its time to clean house.
Next time they my get there as kicked!!
Next time they my get there as kicked!!
You say that as if you think that is ok.
Do we really want men armed with night sticks, dressed in fatigues standing around looking scary at any polling stations?
you seem to think were going to be able to vote in 2010
Some of my co-workers argued that the law should not be used against black wrongdoers because of the long history of slavery and segregation. Less charitable individuals called it "payback time."
There has always been a very small group of "civil rights activists" who believe that "justice" will not be achieved until the establishment of reverse Jim Crow or even reverse slavery.
I want names.
I was concerned my question might be interpreted that way.
I was primarily wondering if it was “voter intimidation” or actually rose to the level of “assault and battery”.
No we don’t want that.
Of course we’ll be able to vote this year - it will actually be much simpler than in previous years - the ballots will be pre-marked.
I hear you and hopefully some names will come out at the upcoming hearing, there several on the Commission that are really ticked about this.
Others have falsely claimed that no voters were affected. Not only did the evidence rebut this claim, but the law does not require a successful effort to intimidate; it punishes even the attempt.
That, it is.
I’m going to the polls whether I have to go with two fistfuls of 9MM and a mini-14 strapped over my back, or not.
Its all good, my CCL will arrive soon...
To my knowledge, and I have been following this case closer then most, I think, there were no direct physical actions between these men and potential voters.
What is unknown is how many people may have been deterred by their presence and never approached them.
Hmmm...IMHO, it's at least 80-20 we'll be allowed to vote in 2010....However, for 2012 it is under 20%...
OTOH, obamao as a 4-term or 5-term ruler is somewhere around 50% (and increasing)...Of course, for these future elections, we will all be "required" to vote...
Again IMHO...
It isn’t a crime when committed by a preferred race or union. Duh.
Most corrupt of all, the lawyers who ordered the dismissal - Loretta King, the Obama-appointed acting head of the Civil Rights Division, and Steve Rosenbaum - did not even read the internal Justice Department memorandums supporting the case and investigation. [..snip..] Christopher Coates, the former Voting Section chief, was so outraged at this dereliction of responsibility that he actually threw the memos at Mr. Rosenbaum in the meeting where they were discussing the dismissal of the case. The department subsequently removed all of Mr. Coates' responsibilities and sent him to South Carolina.
Maybe some conservative activists should don fatigue pants, t-shirts saying "New White Tigers Party" (or something of the sort) and stand outside polling places carrying truncheons. IOW, parody the NBP by mimicking their actions exactly, and if arrested, make the event into a test case.
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