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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This just paves the way for more Acorn-type crap in the upcoming elections. In Lake County, Indiana, dead people not only vote, they vote multiple times!
New slogan at the polls.
“Hold my gun while I go vote.”
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It will be up to the American people both this year and especially in 2012 to make certain that Black Panthers, SEIU members and other thugs do NOT engage in voter intimidation at the polls.
That's a real possibility and legal if possessing a concealed carry.
Good find, Jaz
At the King Baptist Church near Gatesville where I vote I’ll hand my .45 to one of the little old ladies running the polling place and for a short time she’ll have two guns.....
ping for later...
The fact that the Panthers didn’t even bother to respond to the suit tells me that he fix was in before Obama was ever iin office.
Did the NBPs actually chase away people they thought would vote “wrong”, or did they just stand there and look scary?
Oh please try this crap at my poll. It will happen twice, your first and last time.
The fact that the Panthers didnt even bother to respond to the suit tells me that he fix was in before Obama was ever iin office.
Yes
Mr. Adams is an authentic patriot.
So many government employees have the attitude that "it all counts toward 30."
If they speak out at all against "a creeping lawlessness infusing our government institutions" it will be after they've secured their pensions and by that time . . .
By that time the 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus revolutionary rabble and their ideological issue, already arguably the Establishment, could be our totalitarian masters.
There’s video but not of them actually running anyone off that I know of. It was said that they were making racial slurs at some voters and of course one had a nightstick.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU
I couldn't agree more. He resigned so he tell the story and God bless him for that.
bump!
I hope so—Eric Holder needs to be held accountable.
We ain’t seen nothing yet, just wait until voting day, 2010 gets here, the left’s antics will only increase.
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