Posted on 09/25/2014 12:39:32 PM PDT by jazusamo
What can be said about Eric Holder’s six years as attorney general that PJ Media hasn’t already said? The news that Holder is going to resign should be bittersweet to anyone who cares about racial equality and the rule of law. The damage he has already done to the country leaves a turbulent wake that is ill-matched to the financial reward awaiting him at a shameless and large Washington, D.C., law firm.
Our country is more polarized and more racially divided because of Eric Holder. He turned the power of the Justice Department into a racially motivated turnout machine for the Democratic Party. That was his job in this administration, and he did it well.
When I first reported on the racially motivated law enforcement of Holder’s Justice Department, it seemed fanciful to some. But after six years of Holder hugging Al Sharpton, stoking racial division in places like Florida and Ferguson, after suing police and fire departments to impose racial hiring requirements, after refusing to enforce election laws that protect white victims or require voter rolls to be cleaned, after launching harassing litigation against peaceful pro-life protesters, after incident after incident of dishonesty and contempt before Congress — after all this, it was clear to anyone with any intellectual honesty that this man had a vision of the law at odds with the nation’s traditions.
Why would it surprise anyone he behaved as he did? As I made clear in my book Injustice, he carried around a quote in his wallet for 40 years about race that, he explained to the Washington Post, indicated that he had common cause with the black criminal. That’s a fact. That’s who he is.
And few in the House knew how to hold him accountable. Some who did are Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), Rep Frank Wolf (R-Va), Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Rep. Daryl Issa (R-CA). Unfortunately, too many others failed to understand what they were up against.
Eric Holder was a radical progressive who used the power of the federal government to impose his progressivism on the United States. He loved big interventionist government that took sides based on your politics and your race. He was a menace to the rule of law.
So he exits. But instead of being shamed into obscurity as he ought to be, he will cash in. He’ll abandon the tools of dividing Americans between black and white and worry about a new color: gold. When Holder lands at a big and shameless lawfirm in Washington, D.C., it will say as much about the country in 2014 as Holder’s rancid tenure said about the modern Democratic Party.
That someone like Eric Holder can find a lucrative career in this town, and be feted at all the right cocktail parties, says a great deal about what we have lost as a nation. In another era, a man like Holder, unmoored from the law and the truthm would not have a future. Instead, I suspect Holder has a very bright one.
Those of you clamoring for “indictments” or “prosecution” of the man can give up. It isn’t going to happen. Nothing is going to happen to him, except that he will move on to a job that even most “1 percenters” wouldn’t recognize.
Holder’s tenure represents the beginnings of a post-Constitutional era, where the chief law enforcement officer of the United States serves to dismantle legal traditions. Holder is the first attorney general to whom law seemed to be an option, a suggestion on the way to a progressive future. Most folks, and most lawyers, who didn’t devote daily attention to him might not have noticed the ground shifting during his tenure. But shift it did, and very deliberately.
Law, like liberty, is a tenuous thing. Failing to understand the sources of domestic tranquility, the sources of your relatively good life, usually also means failing to recognize the threats to that pleasant tranquility. Holder used his time at Justice to do things that corrode the rule of law. Law and liberty are precious things, and Holder did enormous damage to both.
Thanks for that reminder. Nevertheless, the House should commence indictments for everything they can think of, starting with contempt. Citizens should sue him. He should be subpoenaed to appear every other day from here on, a blizzard of paper.
Make him spend some of that money we paid him. Tag-team him. Exhaust, impoverish and smear him before he finds safe harbor.
Some speculate that he's lining up to grab Ginsberg's chair when she departs, so we'd better get going.
Here is a little about Deval Patrick..
MILTON, Massachusetts — President of the Autonomous Federated Soviet Republic of Massachusetts Deval Patrick announced through the Ministry of Propaganda that, “I will play the race card to its limit in the upcoming election, to ensure the workers of Massachusetts another four years of Stalinism.”
The state-level prototype of U.S. President Barack Obama proclaimed his intention to capitalize on being an African American, in part, due to the success of this strategy during the last Presidential election. He also intends to downplay his literacy, intelligence and other personality traits which can make blue-collar workers nervous.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/UnNews:Mass._Gov._Deval_Patrick,_%22I_will_play_the_race_card%22
Maybe a black Muslim who hates whites, Hispanics, Jews, and Christians could be next... Whoever it is they need to look down on the law, not just the country...
Oh and one more thing - the pick must be a person with limited ability and delusions of greatness - a person who's nose is ALWAYS in the air...and a brain feeding on gutter grievances - - a hater with attitude.
All this inflamatory reporting of confrontations between black youths and authority was ruthlessly designed to keeping the black segment of Obama’s political support riled up so that any thought of instituting a richly deserved impeachment proceeding goes nowhere.
This regime and its supporters don’t give a damm if some poor black women or anyone else used all their resources to set up a business in those communities only to have it destroyed through blacks rioting resulting from what democrats created through their propaganda. Such blacks are viewed as eggs that must be broken to make their omlet.
That includes the whites,”hispanics” (note quotes) and asians. They are the other victims who have been maimed, assulted, and murdered by blacks citing those Florida manufactured episodes as their excuse for retribution.
This POTUS (president of the United States) signaled the clever direction to take through his use of “The Bully Pulpit”. And continues to rely on the constitutional office of The US Attorney General to conduct activities and investigations which promote division rather than supress it. Two examples of this used in the Florida case were Holder’s support of the Black Panther’s protest activity and the reward for the demise of the alledged murderer George Zimmerman of the “child”, Treyvon Martin. Which got a wink and a nod
With Ferguson beside sending in 40 DoJ prosecuters which remain to be seen what they come up with. (The Washington Post sent in 4 reporters to work over officer Wilson). Holder demanded witholding the devastating release of the video showing the “victim”was a 6 foot 4 inch 295 pound Michael Brown assulting a dimunitive asian store clerk, who was being portrayed as a just turned 18 year old black”kid” innocently walking home to grandma’s house shot in the back by a white police officer, Wilson, just because Brown was black.
That video was released according to press reports by the police chief of Ferguson responding to FOIA (freedom of information act) requests. But had that video been released earlier there was a decent chance there might have not been 4 days of rioting looting, and destruction of property.
The POTUS has yet to acknowledge and decry those other results, of killings and assults by blacks of whites, “hispanics”, and asians, in retribution for what a “white” hispanic did to a black kid.. Let alone be urged to do so by “news” members of the democrat propaganda army known as the media. They have yet to suffer as their victims the same or any conseqences. They like him are being held unaccountable . It’s time both are. .
Patrick will be in the top tier of replacements for no other reason than his skin color...count on it!
Lol. Eric “Takeover”Holder getting out while the getting good.
Who the hell wants to be AG when the 2nd Battle of Ferguson is in the very near future...
That’s an excellent question, plus who would want the job when they know they’ll have to bow to 0bama and carry out his every wish as Holder did.
Holder’s the most corrupt AG in my lifetime as is 0bama as president.
He is bad press for them with upcoming investigations
Holder’s racism is notable, of course, but might be overlooked to some extent by folks who feel he is just putting his thumb on the scales of justice on behalf of his racial amigos.
However, his actions in subverting the law for his poiltical cronies in the Democratic party are indeed corrosive to the rule of law. He first came on my radar as a political crook when, as Deputy Attorney General for Clinton, he refused to prosecute a perjury referral by Federal Judge Royce Lamberth against Ira Magaziner, Hillary’s WH operative on the aborted Hillarycare task force.
It’s almost unheard of for a federal prosecutor to ignore such a referral. The judge was so angry that he fined the US government $250,000, the maximum amount he could levy on sanctions.
And then there was the Marc Rich pardon in the waning days of the Clinton administration, giving the largest tax cheat in history a pardon after he had fled the country to escape prosecution. Rich’s only recommendation for a pardon seems to be he was a huge contributor to Clinton and the Democaratic Party.
Whoever replaces him will be joined at the hip with Obama politically. Don’t expect and improvement.
Make him spend some of that money we paid him. Tag-team him. Exhaust, impoverish and smear him before he finds safe harbor.
Turnabout is fair play. This is the exact tactic the Left has used on Sarah Palin and Tom Delay. So it is our turn to stick it to Eric Holder and the rest of the Left. It’s time that we use Alinsky on the Left, before we have to use Pinochet.
I was unaware of the Magaziner thing and can see why the judge was beside himself.
The Marc Rich thing was indeed pathetic, pure politics of the corruption type.
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