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Prosecutor: DoJ bias against whites
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Posted on 09/24/2010 8:40:39 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Prosecutor: DoJ bias against whites By: Josh Gerstein September 24, 2010 10:52 AM EDT

A Justice Department prosecutor, defying his superiors by testifying at a U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing Friday into the department’s handling of a voter-intimidation case against a fringe African American militant group, blasted “senior political appointees” at Justice for “gutting” the case.

In his opening testimony, prosecutor Christopher Coates also suggested he was working against a dominant Justice Department culture which discouraged enforcement of civil rights laws in a “race-neutral” way that would protect whites as well as blacks.

Coates, a 13-year veteran of the civil rights division who was chief of its voting section until early this year, charged that his supervisors systematically downgraded the case against the New Black Panthers, which was accused of trying to intimidate white voters at the polls in Philadelphia during the 2008 general election. When he objected to his supervisors, Coates said, the Justice Department’s attempt to silence him was part of what he called “the hostile atmosphere that has existed within [Justice’s Civil Rights] Division for a long time against race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.”

“I did not lightly decide to comply with your subpoena in contradiction to the DOJ’s directives not to testify,” Coates said. “If incorrect representations are going to successfully thwart inquiry into the systemic problems regarding race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act by the Civil Rights Division, problems that were manifested....in the New Black Panther Party case that end is not going to be furthered or accomplished by my sitting idly or silently by at the direction of my supervisors while incorrect information is provided. I do not believe that I am professionally, ethically, legally, or morally bound to allow such a result to occur.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhodoj; blackpanthers; coates; democrats; doj; dojisajoke; elections; fail; holder; holderisajoke; holdertruthfile; nbpp; newblackpanthercase; obama; voterintimidation
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To: Sub-Driver

can’t be true .. color me surprised ... /s


21 posted on 09/24/2010 9:31:44 AM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This guy & Sheriff Joe need to be treated to dinner together.

They seem to have the same ethics.

Something the NObama administration cannot say.


22 posted on 09/24/2010 9:33:23 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Sub-Driver

So the occupant of the oval office and his chief cop are racist! What a surprise!


23 posted on 09/24/2010 9:40:57 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: Gabrial

Under the “New Order” DOJ in America, if you are a white Christian your rights are toast.


24 posted on 09/24/2010 9:48:48 AM PDT by Armaggedon
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To: freespirited
Typical RATmedia bias. The only reason he's in South Carolina is because DOJ exiled him there for his views.

Actually, the DOJ sent him there because they assumed he would be outside the jurisdiction of the Civil Rights Commission as long as he wasn't in DC, and could avoid the subpoena that way.

25 posted on 09/24/2010 9:54:19 AM PDT by CA Conservative
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To: Sub-Driver

Excuse me, I thought the Rev. Wright was the head of the Justice Department, but now you tell me it’s this Holder fellow?


26 posted on 09/24/2010 10:18:11 AM PDT by mojito
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To: Armaggedon

Clear for all to see. The Obama administration is racist. Obama’s trinity of America’s destruction, Islam, Marxism and the Chicago Gangsterism.——

And I will not forget the Mother of it. Oprah Winfrey.


27 posted on 09/24/2010 10:21:42 AM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: Munz
can’t be true .. color me surprised ... /s

Was that a racist remark?

28 posted on 09/24/2010 10:32:18 AM PDT by JEH_Boston (Never give up.)
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To: JEH_Boston

>>can’t be true .. color me surprised ... /s<<

>Was that a racist remark?<

only if your a liberal .. a sane person wouldn’t think so. It certainly wasn’t meant to be as such.


29 posted on 09/24/2010 11:23:17 AM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: pepperdog
Am I understanding this correctly? The man was subpoenaed to testify, but was told by his employer (the DOJ?) not to testify? Is that correct?

Conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor is a felony.

Conspiracy to commit a felony is also a felony.

Somebody in Obamanation' Holderville is gonna do at least a nickel on the inside for this.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

30 posted on 09/24/2010 11:33:39 AM PDT by The Comedian
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To: Oldpuppymax

>>Hussein and Holder making the RULES, yet our DOJ is biased against WHITES!!! Wow...seems IMPOSSIBLE doesn’t it.<<

The American voter elected these people. America deserves the government it has. The empathy of 75% of the people who are too f’ing lazy to even vote is disgusting.

Look at how many people would reelect Bush. The same for Clinton. Sickening!


31 posted on 09/24/2010 12:19:10 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Conflict is inevitable; Combat is an option. Train for the fight.)
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To: Mountain Troll

Nobody is stupid enough to testify that Obama had any knowledge of any of this. Not even me and I am pretty darn stupid at times.


32 posted on 09/24/2010 12:21:56 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Conflict is inevitable; Combat is an option. Train for the fight.)
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To: Armaggedon

>Under the “New Order” DOJ in America, if you are a white Christian your rights are toast.<

Wouldn’t invisible be a better word than toast?


33 posted on 09/24/2010 12:23:38 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Conflict is inevitable; Combat is an option. Train for the fight.)
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To: freespirited

Holder belongs in jail alongside his marxist muslim homo pos thug boss.


34 posted on 09/24/2010 12:37:00 PM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: Sub-Driver

So it looks like Beck was right when he said that he suspects Obama is a Black racist who hates White people based on Obama’s chosen minister. O’Really should be appologizing to Beck.


35 posted on 09/24/2010 12:57:50 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

bttt


36 posted on 09/24/2010 1:02:38 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Philadelphia Eagles!)
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To: Freddd
How does Oprah feel about the “One” now? It cost her, her ratings. Obama is poison.
37 posted on 09/24/2010 1:32:15 PM PDT by Armaggedon
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