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ADAMS: Inside the Black Panther case Anger, ignorance and lies (OUTSTANDING Article)
The Washington Times ^ | June 25, 2010 | J. Christian Adams

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: adams; blackpanthers; corruption; doj; holder; jchristianadams; justicedepartment; nbpp; obama; perez; usccr; voterintimidation
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Adams will be testifying before the US Commission on Civil Rights on July 6 and could really stir this up.

Ex-DOJ Lawyer Will Testify About Black Panthers on July 6

1 posted on 06/26/2010 1:51:03 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
The dismissal raises serious questions about the department's enforcement neutrality in upcoming midterm elections and the subsequent 2012 presidential election.

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!

2 posted on 06/26/2010 1:56:47 PM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: jazusamo

New slogan at the polls.

“Hold my gun while I go vote.”


3 posted on 06/26/2010 1:57:26 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: jazusamo; Irisshlass; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
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4 posted on 06/26/2010 1:58:54 PM PDT by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
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To: jazusamo

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.


5 posted on 06/26/2010 2:00:21 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: Molon Labbie; Oldpuppymax
“Hold my gun while I go vote.”

That's a real possibility and legal if possessing a concealed carry.

6 posted on 06/26/2010 2:03:19 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Good find, Jaz


7 posted on 06/26/2010 2:05:56 PM PDT by 4woodenboats (Defend America peacefully, vigorously, and swiftly against all enemies before she becomes a memory)
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To: Molon Labbie

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.....


8 posted on 06/26/2010 2:08:04 PM PDT by Feckless (Don't care where he was born. The oath I took said "...against all enemies, foreign and domestic".)
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To: jazusamo

ping for later...


9 posted on 06/26/2010 2:08:20 PM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: jazusamo

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.


10 posted on 06/26/2010 2:10:24 PM PDT by jdub (A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.)
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To: jazusamo

Did the NBPs actually chase away people they thought would vote “wrong”, or did they just stand there and look scary?


11 posted on 06/26/2010 2:12:02 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Oh please try this crap at my poll. It will happen twice, your first and last time.


12 posted on 06/26/2010 2:12:11 PM PDT by bmwcyle (Communism has arrived in Washington)
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To: jdub

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.

Yes


14 posted on 06/26/2010 2:17:22 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: jazusamo
Most disturbing, the dismissal is part of a creeping lawlessness infusing our government institutions.

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.

15 posted on 06/26/2010 2:18:34 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: DuncanWaring

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


16 posted on 06/26/2010 2:19:45 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
Mr. Adams is an authentic patriot.

I couldn't agree more. He resigned so he tell the story and God bless him for that.

17 posted on 06/26/2010 2:22:33 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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bump!


18 posted on 06/26/2010 2:26:47 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: jazusamo

I hope so—Eric Holder needs to be held accountable.


19 posted on 06/26/2010 2:28:37 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: jazusamo

We ain’t seen nothing yet, just wait until voting day, 2010 gets here, the left’s antics will only increase.


20 posted on 06/26/2010 2:37:50 PM PDT by izzatzo
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