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A Politicized Justice Department Strikes Again
National Review ^ | August 17, 2011 | Hans A. von Spakovsky

Posted on 08/20/2011 6:48:54 PM PDT by rhema

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1 posted on 08/20/2011 6:48:58 PM PDT by rhema
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To: rhema

The criminal Holder has got to go.


2 posted on 08/20/2011 6:53:09 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans need to wean their government off of its dependence on foreign money.)
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To: rhema
What is it that the Reverends say? . . .

Oh yeah . . .

No Justice . . . no peace.

3 posted on 08/20/2011 6:55:03 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“The criminal Holder has got to go.”

The Beria of this age, this administration.


4 posted on 08/20/2011 6:55:42 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Fed up with both Obama AND Congress? GET IN LINE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhkyRZoHlTM


5 posted on 08/20/2011 7:14:40 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (The 2012 election is coming. Seems we have MORE TRASH TO REMOVE!)
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WASHINGTON (CN) - The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division sued a man it calls one of “the most vocal and aggressive anti-abortion protestors,” who has targeted patients at the Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington clinic for more than 10 years.

According to the federal complaint, Maryland resident Richard Retta has violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act by intimidating and interfering with patients for more than a decade.

“Defendant Retta has been among the most vocal and aggressive anti-abortion protestors outside of the clinic.

“Defendant Retta frequently walks very closely beside patients as they walk to the clinic. ...

“Defendant frequently follows patients to the clinic entrance and continues to yell at the patient as the door closes.

“On one occasion, defendant walked so closely to a patient that he stepped on the patient’s shoe and broke the shoe strap.

“Defendant frequently follows patients and/or their companions as they leave the clinic and walk down the block.

“Defendant frequently follows patients or their companions into the street and oncoming traffic.

“On January 8, 2011, Mr. Retta physically obstructed a patient from entering the clinic, and physically obstructed clinic escorts, such that the patent was only able to ultimately access the clinic with the extraordinary assistance and intervention of another clinic escort and staff,” the complaint states.

While blocking a “visibly upset” patient and her escorts from the clinic entrance, shifting and weaving to block them repeatedly, Retta “shouted at the escorts and yelled to the patient, ‘Don’t go in there. Don’t let them kill your baby,’” the complaint states.

Uncle Sam wants Retta fined $10,000 for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, ordered to pay compensatory damages of $5,000 apiece to three victims, and enjoined to stop violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Act himself and in concert with others.

The government says Retta “attempted to, and did, by physical obstruction, intentionally intimidate or interfere with persons because they were or had been providing or obtaining reproductive health services, or in order to intimidate such persons from providing or obtaining reproductive health services at the Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington.”

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/07/19/38257.htm

>>> The Beria of this age, this administration.

Yeah I guess that’s a pretty close parallel. After all Beria was infamous for asking courts to consider fining people.


6 posted on 08/20/2011 7:19:03 PM PDT by tlb
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To: rhema; Impy; GOPsterinMA; Liz; metmom; JulieRNR21

Letting in illegal aliens who get on welfare, breed like cockroaches, and commit violent crimes is OK, but a non-violent senior citizen who hands out literature is a national security threat. This is Alice-In-Wonderland justice.


7 posted on 08/20/2011 7:20:57 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens collect welfare checks that Americans won't collect)
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To: tlb

He was infamous for going after anyone who displeased Stalin. Holder is not disappearing people into secret prisons and torturing then killing them, no, but it looks like the target in this case was not doing anything wrong except displeasing the pro-death forces in the United States. $25,000 is not trivial.


8 posted on 08/20/2011 7:27:10 PM PDT by DBrow
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...After all Beria was infamous for asking courts to consider fining people.

Maybe not so much.
Perhaps infamous for supporting institutionalized murder, and oppressing those that would oppose it.

9 posted on 08/20/2011 7:30:39 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: rhema

Better headline:

Kindly Grandfather prosecuted by racist obuma


10 posted on 08/20/2011 7:31:39 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Thomas E. Perez is an easier target than Eric, plus he’s a fascist pig.


11 posted on 08/20/2011 7:41:34 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Isn't it Perez who got into a mind numbingly stupid dispute with a university and the electronic reading device company Kindle?

He's very unsophisticated ~ a regular backwoods type when it comes to high tech. I think of him as a sort of high class hillbilly ~ he got his Harvard degree but he's unemployable outside the government ~ part of that is undoubtedly due to sucking up too close to Ted Kennedy.

12 posted on 08/20/2011 7:45:26 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: DBrow

One doesn’t need secret prisons when one can use the threat of economic ruin silence and punish one’s opposition. It’s tyranny in a softer form for the new age.


13 posted on 08/20/2011 7:55:18 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Bad is easy. Anyone can do bad. Good, OTOH, is work. It takes discipline.)
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To: DBrow

One doesn’t need secret prisons when one can use the threat of economic ruin (to) silence and punish one’s opposition. It’s tyranny in a softer form for the new age.


14 posted on 08/20/2011 7:56:20 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Bad is easy. Anyone can do bad. Good, OTOH, is work. It takes discipline.)
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“Isn’t it Perez who got into a mind numbingly stupid dispute ...Kindle”

The case where the univ had to stop giving Kindles to students because blind people couldn’t use them, as opposed to printed paper books? I thought we had gone from the world of Orwell into the world of L Frank Baum when I read that.


15 posted on 08/20/2011 8:02:11 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: rhema

Obama is anxious to kill all newborns; some of them might vote for a Republican.


16 posted on 08/20/2011 8:42:53 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The criminal Holder has got to go.

If letting the New Black Panthers off the hook for voter intimidation didn't get him out as AG, only Obama losing in 2012 will.

No administration has done more to politicize the justice department.

17 posted on 08/20/2011 10:12:24 PM PDT by Kazan
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No, he is focusing on blacks. This is Planned Parenthood, after all.

"So many black fetuses to kill, so little time."

18 posted on 08/21/2011 12:56:25 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: rhema

Are any legal groups defending Richard Retta in this case?

I sure hope so!


19 posted on 08/21/2011 3:43:45 AM PDT by DB
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Why isn’t the woman who pepper sprayed him being charged with assault?

You don’t get to pepper spray people just because you don’t like what they’re saying.


20 posted on 08/21/2011 3:45:47 AM PDT by DB
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