Democrats: It’s OK When We Politicize the Justice Department
Why did political appointees at the DOJ override career prosecutors and drop a civil rights suit against the New Black Panther Party?
The “politicization” of the Justice Department was one of many aspects of the Bush administration which the Obama administration was going to cure. But it appears that while the party of the administration has changed, we are seeing a level of political meddling at the Justice Department which the Bush administration never remotely approached.
First, we had word that Eric Holder overruled the career attorney lawyers’ research on the issue of voting rights for the District of Columbia. Now we learn that political appointees have overturned the work of career attorneys attempting to prevent voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party. The Washington Times reported:
Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.
The incident — which gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube — had prompted the government to sue the men, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, racial slurs and military-style uniforms.
The Justice Department filed a complaint under Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act (which prohibits any attempt to “intimidate, threaten or coerce” any voter) against the New Black Panther Party after months of research and acquiring a sworn affidavit attesting to the intimidation. The affidavit by veteran civil rights attorney Bartle Bull describes the egregious behavior in which armed men appeared at a polling place. Bull explains he “never encountered or heard of” such blatant physical intimidation at the polls in his many years as a civil rights advocate.
Neither the New Black Panther Party nor any of the individual defendants responded to the suit. The federal judge therefore ordered the Civil Rights Division to file a default judgment. However, without providing any grounds for doing so the Division moved to dismiss the complaint — in essence forfeiting the case.
The Washington Times report explains that the injunction was obtained to prevent further intimidation. However, the career attorneys were prevented from proceeding further:
Court records reviewed by The Times show that career Justice lawyers were seeking a default judgment and penalties against the three men as recently as May 5, before abruptly ending their pursuit 10 days later.
People directly familiar with the case, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because of fear of retribution, said career lawyers in two separate Justice offices had recommended proceeding to default judgment before political superiors overruled them.
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94 Comments
1. rickb308:“the public may rightly conclude that “transparency” and the “impartial administration of justice” are merely slogans for those seeking to gain office.”
They may also conclude that precedence has been set. Goose – gander. And we can be uglier.
May 29, 2009 - 11:32 am 2. Sebastian Shaw:It’s a part of the Obama Thugocracy.
May 29, 2009 - 11:40 am 3. karlstro1:Tax cheats hired into the Administration, a President who constantly has lied to the American people, and law abiding citizens unable to find out what the financial institutions have done with taxpayers monies this doesn’t shock me at all. It is now time to say enough is enough. This corruption of the American government is a disgrace!
May 29, 2009 - 11:42 am 4. AThinkingPerson:The Obama Administration and “voter’s rights” do not belong in the same sentence. First it was the abomination of ACORN and now it’s letting the Black Panthers off the hook? Pathetic.
Yet more proof that Obama and his ilk are taking this country into the gutter.
I await a liberal poster’s response to this article and am interested to see how they could possibly defend dropping the voter intimidation by the Black Panthers case.
May 29, 2009 - 11:45 am 5. Meryl:“Why did political appointees at the DOJ override career prosecutors and drop a civil rights suit against the New Black Panther Party?”
Two reasons.
1. They could.
2. They wanted to.
Life for them is very, very simple this way! When you’re not hung up about law, ethics, etc. things move along much, much, much more smoothly for you and yers.
May 29, 2009 - 11:54 am 6. AtheistConservative:You think that’s bad? Check Rasmussen. This idiot President just hit his first +10 approval rating. Why? Because Hispanic poll responders like the ‘first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice’ thing.
Doesn’t matter how incompetent you are at the job, folks. Only matters how you play the game. Get ready for eight years of this mess.
May 29, 2009 - 11:56 am 7. Ozzie:The truly sad part of this is most Americans are too clueless to understand what is happening to the country, one issue like this at a time. One day , like children waking from an afternoon nap, the soccer Moms and sports fan Dads are going to open their sleepy little eyes, and realize they are in a gulag of their own making. The guns will have been registered, outlawed and confiscated. The employers all owned by the central government, employment dependant upon maintaining the appropriate thoughts and opinions. Freedom of speech reduced to your bathroom with the water running like East Germany.
Things like this can happen because the leftists defeated and suborned education first. They waited a generation, and now the average person is too clueless to defend the body politic.
May 29, 2009 - 11:56 am 8. Pat J:There has to be more to this case than meets the eye. It sure looked like a violation of the Voting Rights Act to me.
May 29, 2009 - 12:01 pm 9. Bud:Simple explanation, two words:
“Racial”
May 29, 2009 - 12:12 pm 10. David Thomson:“Politics”
The Black Panthers are victims of white oppression doing the best they can. May god bless them for enduring so much racism and disenfranchisement. Aren’t you aware of the lynchings of hundreds of black voters in Philadelphia by members of the KKK? The U.S. Justice Department simply had to give them a break.
May 29, 2009 - 12:13 pm 11. Bnewb:I know that it is very retro, but go listen to (The Mystic Knights of the) Oingo Boingo, “Only a Lad” album. Especially “Perfect System”.
May 29, 2009 - 12:23 pm 12. zanne:We are on a bad road, foretold 30 years ago.
So, what do we do to fix this? Ride it out? Just stay cool?
I learned early in life that if you want to be left alone, you need to be prepared to fight back against bullies.
I say we be honest and challenge those who seek to take advantage. I don’t care about party affiliation, but I do care about actions taken.
I am going to stop reading online. It was predicted that the dropping economy would spike the sales of anti-depressants. Never thought I would need em…do now. How can we cope with this massive political takeover? Somebody throw me a life jacket…we are going down.
May 29, 2009 - 1:01 pm 13. anton:Simple Explanation #2;
We Won
I think I will show up at my next local election with my AR-15 and some scary looking black camos and only let card-carrying Libertarians in……….I wonder how THAT would play out!
May 29, 2009 - 1:02 pm 14. WR Jonas:As we begin to see clearly the Democratic Party is a professional criminal enterprise. It will rule much like Robert Mugabe, a favorite of leftist Black Africans . Only the will of the highest one is sought and acted upon.
May 29, 2009 - 1:15 pm 15. Chuckt:Gone is the notion that a US President is the leader of all of the people regardless of class ,race or ethnicity. The Obama Presidency is now styled after an African tribal chief. His will, not the law is the only thing that matters.
Incidentally , Mugabe was rejected by the voters but he refused to leave and I believe he is still decimating Zimbabwe.
This is just the beginning of people who had nothing to do with racism that occurred from the Civil War until now getting shafted by an administration bound and determined to rectify the ills of the world by redistributing wealth of the achievers and bizzaro-world politics. Up becomes down, black becomes white, inside becomes outside, and more.
May 29, 2009 - 1:50 pm 16. johnt:Sotomayor racist? Not because she’s made racist statements and decisions. Holder politicizing DOJ? Not because he ordered the overturning of career prosecutors’ work on trying to keep things (like voting and elections) fair. These events are just the beginning. By the time this administration ends, we’ll be lucky to be left with our shirts.
Why complain? Liberals are fair, open minded people. Let’s grab our baseball bats and lead pipes next election and follow example. Liberals will understand.
May 29, 2009 - 2:09 pm 17. sheesh:We do have to pick a color to wear however. As our African brothers have cornered the market on black berets & outfit to match may I suggest helicopter beanies & multi-colored knickers. Why should they be the only ones to make fools of themselves.
By that time the Justice Department will be rounding up old ladies crossing the Canadian border with contraband canadian whiskey or rounding up NRA contributors, so we ought not to worry.
Republicans: It’s OK When We Accuse the Administration of Politicizing the Justice Department
May 29, 2009 - 2:12 pm 18. pedro:Bull Sh*t! I WONDER what Eldridge Cleaver is thinking?
May 29, 2009 - 2:13 pm 19. Roderick Reilly:After Barack Obama serves two terms, Michelle will serve two more. I wonder what America will look like in 2024?
May 29, 2009 - 2:17 pm 20. xcontra:“Is the Obama administration serious about impartially and apolitically enforcing federal law?”
ANSWER: No
Mutatis mutandam for the Supreme Court nominee. A court verdict ought not depend on the ethnicity of the judge, but that is no concern to the current pres.
May 29, 2009 - 2:26 pm 21. Meryl:WRJonas.14
“The Obama Presidency is now styled after an African tribal chief”
You may have just uncovered the Rosetta stone: he’s an African tribal chief.
In recent months, I have often thought of the nightmare that Zimbabwe has staggered through over the last 10+ years. Zimbabwe was a beautiful and nicely functioning country. The political tribal chiefs decided it was time to get rid of all the whites (which immediately destroyed the agricultural base of Zimbabwe) and, voila!, complete destruction in no time.
I have pointed out before and do so again: there is nothing magical or nationally genetic that is going to protect the United States of America from complete collapse.
The conditions that led to our prosperity and strength were wise, self-imposed and voluntary conditions, deliberately sought and reinforced by leaders, industries, citizens and leadership. When those conditions are no longer being sought and reinforced, there really isn’t anything that will sustain them.
We’re probably going to implement a move out of the northern climes (with routine 20 below zero for long periods of time every winter) specifically because of what’s coming. This is NOT the place to be if a person does not have dependable heat and transportation.
May 29, 2009 - 2:30 pm 22. Well Educated Cad:You’ll have a shirt- it will just be Brown.
May 29, 2009 - 2:32 pm 23. ED S.:Quite interesting Shabazz has a restrainng order from carrying a weapon within 100 ft of a polling place– Nothing to stop him from going door to door with one
May 29, 2009 - 2:32 pm 24. CAUTION:yes we can!
yes we will!
you cant stop us!
try and you die!
this may be the last straw for me. a friend of mine just came back from the phillipines on a recon mission for an affordable place to flee. making plans, just cant take it any more. going to drink beer, watch the sunset and forget about what once was a really fine country that has been run into the ground.
May 29, 2009 - 2:43 pm 25. AThinkingPerson:Someone mentioned the parallels between the Obama Administration and the travesty that going on in Zimbabwe right now.
I submit this blog from Zimbabwe. Please read the posts from Zimbabwe citizens suffering under their oppressive leadership and note the similarities. We truly are witnessing America being brought to her knees….
http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/
May 29, 2009 - 2:59 pm 26. Raybojabo:“People directly familiar with the case, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because of fear of retribution, said career lawyers in two separate Justice offices had recommended proceeding to default judgment before political superiors overruled them.”
Names and addresses please.
May 29, 2009 - 3:04 pm 27. LeighB:Nothing about the group in office surprises me anymore. As long as Barry and Michelle don’t wear fur, there’s no problem! Of course M’s would be sleeveless to show off those great arms.
This decision sure is going to make it easy for the opponents of the new black panthers to recruit new members. And then what? The Dems are sowing some seeds that are going to produce bitter fruit.
May 29, 2009 - 3:32 pm 28. sheesh:23. ED S.: . . . “Quite interesting Shabazz has a restrainng order from carrying a weapon within 100 ft of a polling place– Nothing to stop him from going door to door with one”
Maybe you should disarm him. Seize his guns.
May 29, 2009 - 3:48 pm 29. Delia:That picture of the Acorn/BP thug gives me the serious willies but, I’d still have voted the way I wanted to. I mean, just because some thugtard is standing there trying to look intimidating would not stop my @ss. I’d flash him a smile and say, “Hi” and walk right in and do my bidness. Screw those thugs!
May 29, 2009 - 3:52 pm 30. misanthropicus:Will Mumia Jabal be pardoned? Considering both ends of the equation:
a) the might of the Hollywood pressure group that pushes for this;
b) the pressure point to apply this force, i.e. Barry Soetero,
… I’d say that one day we’ll see the man walking on the steeet, a wise Latina woman revealing what white men weren’t able to understand, i.e., how Mumia Jabal is a victim, not a criminal…
Sooon, the Mumia Jabal High coming in your neighborhood…
May 29, 2009 - 4:02 pm 31. David S:So let me get this straight. The Bush administration arrests a credentialed poll watcher, and when Obama drops the case he is the one politicizing the justice department? That’s a bizarre assessment.
The decision seems pretty fair to me, given the lack of any apparent impact on voters.
Peace.
DS
May 29, 2009 - 4:06 pm 32. TennesseeVolunteer:I live in the free state of Tennessee but if thing s get bad, we are going to Texas.
May 29, 2009 - 4:08 pm 33. "progressive"watch:Turning these NEW Blach Panthers loose: they want then to disrupt society,create chaos.
Roderick Reilly,don’t worry about what America’s going to look like in 2024. Worry about what it will look like in 2010. Makes you angry from you mind to right down into your guts,doesn’t it?
What’s the difference between Vladimir Putin and Barak Obama?
May 29, 2009 - 4:13 pm 34. Juvenal:Putin is a bad odor in Russia. Obama is really stinking up America.
You’re asking some important questions here, Jennifer–even if the answers are already obvious to everyone.
1.) Is the Obama administration serious about impartially and apolitically enforcing federal law?
/snort
2.) Or is the Justice Department now the handmaiden to the Obama administration’s political agenda?
You mean like the way Treasury and Homeland Security are already handmaidens to that agenda? Gee, I dunno!
May 29, 2009 - 4:54 pm 35. Juvenal:#31 David S wrote:
“So let me get this straight. The Bush administration arrests a credentialed poll watcher, and when Obama drops the case he is the one politicizing the justice department? That’s a bizarre assessment.
The decision seems pretty fair to me, given the lack of any apparent impact on voters.
Peace.”
I realize that you have no argument to make (but you have to do something or you won’t get paid), but really, how dumb do you think people are?
The nerve it must take to sign your post with “Peace” when you’ve just pretended to see nothing wrong with at least three guys (only one of which was a poll watcher) armed with bats at a polling site intimidating voters of the wrong race is astounding. I don’t want to have anything to do with your twisted notion of “peace.”
May 29, 2009 - 5:01 pm 36. whataloadacrap08:#7 Ozzie: You’ve hit the nail right smack dab on the head!
May 29, 2009 - 5:24 pm 37. Well Educated Cad:We’ve raised a few generations now with no sense of history, no idea of the global geo/political landscape, an inability to concentrate or apply themselves to a task for more than 30 seconds, and an inability to perform even the most basic of mathematics without the aid of a calculating device of some sort.
Of course not all of todays youth are this pathetic at life, as witnessed by the young men and women serving in the military for example. But for every bright-eyed bushy-tailed young firecracker out there I reckon there are at least nine others who can’t make the correct change at a supermarket, or even tell you the name of their states second largest city!
All they lack is a ring through the nose for the powers-that-be to lead them around their life with. (I forgot about the idiot body modification types who’ve probably had several ring strategically placed on their a$$inine selves for this very purpose!)
As the late Johnny Cochran would have said
May 29, 2009 - 5:44 pm 38. Khiri:” If the victim is Black, look out Jack!
But if the victim is White, well that’s alright!”
Delia:
just because some thugtard is standing there trying to look intimidating would not stop my @ss
My thoughts exactly! They don’t know who they’re dealing with!
May 29, 2009 - 6:03 pm 39. Zabibi:What doest Neocon scribe J.Rubin has to say about DOJ’s E.Holder dropping the case against Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, in May 09, while letting it stand the case against Defense Department analyst Larry Franklin — now serving a 12-year prison sentence? Franklin was perscuted for passing the Iran file to Rosen/Weissman. If there’s no case against Rosen/Weissman, how could these be one against Franklin? This pales in comparison to the Panther case.
May 29, 2009 - 6:13 pm 40. David S:@35. Juvenal:
Apparently some people are pretty dumb, getting all bent out of shape over the dropping of a case that never should have been brought. The Bush administration was prosecuting an unarmed poll watcher for being at the polling location… on what basis? Did someone actually complain that their right to vote was interfered with? Only one person at the scene had a weapon, and he left the scene when asked to do so. It appears that this person now is restricted from approaching a polling place with any weapons – a very measured and appropriate response to a very minor “incident”.
There was never a strong case here for the government to pursue – and pressing a case against these defendants when they mounted no defense would effectively promote their cause, as it would be seen as government overreacting. There is nothing to be gained by abusing the rights of these men. A designated poll watcher should not be removed arbitrarily when he is trying to monitor the polling.
There is a fine line when it comes to voting rights, and Obama’s team got this one right.
Peace.
DS
The nerve it must take to sign your post with “Peace” when you’ve just pretended to see nothing wrong with at least three guys (only one of which was a poll watcher) armed with bats at a polling site intimidating voters of the wrong race is astounding. I don’t want to have anything to do with your twisted notion of “peace.”
May 29, 2009 - 6:24 pm 41. bobbcat:Delia: “I’d flash him a smile and say, “Hi” and walk right in and do my bidness. Screw those thugs!”
What if you were a white male though? :shrug:
May 29, 2009 - 7:03 pm 42. Meryl:25.AThinkingPerson
Thank you for that link to the Zimbabwe blog. I have checked it out briefly and will read more.
May 29, 2009 - 7:03 pm 43. Jones:I’m sure the decision to drop the case has nothing whatsoever to do with the defendants’ skin color.
May 29, 2009 - 7:17 pm 44. Delia:38. Khiri:
Why, thank you, curtsies and points out ballerina toes in your direction with a deep bow.
The mask has been off and blatantly so, but the kool-aid drinkers have not noticed for fear their freebies will truly end in the dust, they are suffering and with suffering comes obeisance to a GOD of this earth, of this planet and of this plane that denies self-thought, spirituality and the pure essence of life down to the tiniest of beings.
Did your mother question your birth? Sure, she might have been terrified or overwhelmed. Did she have you eventually? Yes, she died. For those of you against abortion, remember one thing: You are a product of someone who was against it.
Love,
Delia ♥
May 29, 2009 - 7:18 pm 45. Roark:Obama’s administration is making a complete mockery of real justice. RIP American justice.
May 29, 2009 - 7:29 pm 46. Delia:41. bobbcat:
What if you were a white male though? :shrug:
Then, I’d arm myself with a Hottie Conservative like me and enter with PRIDE.
OR, if I had no hottie I’d give the peace sign and act like I was on the other team, “Yo dude, peace up, I’m votin’ Borattz bozamba”, Thug dude, “Word up, homey, peace be wiff you, bro and enter the purly gates o’ votin’”
See?
Easy.
May 29, 2009 - 7:30 pm 47. Delia:IN OTHER WORDS
If your granny needs an escort to vote so she don’t ‘hafta’ be intimidated, you do it.
Get our old folk out votin’ and let them mofos know what they wanna do wiff da old folks who paid their ’sociable securities’…best let granny go out with a sing in her and and a “HELL TO THE NO TO GOV’MNT Health care” and let ‘er get her last vestige of humanity out for the world to see her fury.
HELL to the NO, gran-gran!
May 29, 2009 - 7:34 pm 48. Delia:44. Delia:
Correction,
“38. Khiri:
yes, she died. ”
Should have been:
“Yes, she did.”
Huffs some cocoa puffs and calls it a millenium.
May 29, 2009 - 8:16 pm 49. HondaV65:Welcome to Obama’s NEW America …
Where Blacks are all members of the Black Panther Party.
Where Hispanics are all members of La Raza.
And all Whites are members of Stormfront.
Where “equal protection” only applies to the race that occupies the White House.
How fun it will be.
May 29, 2009 - 8:18 pm 50. Banned by Huffpo:“An armed citizen is the best defense.”
No thug would stop me from voting, even if I lived in a cesspool like Philly. Even if it was some big black guy with a billy club and a bunch of tats.
Or did I just describe an NBA team?
May 29, 2009 - 8:22 pm 51. Juvenal:For those of you more interested in facts than in the bizarre prevarications of this “David S.” character:
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Voting_Rights_052909.html
May 29, 2009 - 9:26 pm 52. WhyamInotsurprised?:Let’s look at the big pic folks.
1. ACORN “helping” out with the 2010 census.
2. Black Panthers “helping” out at the polls
3. Barry’s appointees “upholding” the law (for their side)
3. Barry’s Czar’s running business enterprises and not allowing bankruptcy processes to work.
4. Dem’s working to cut free speech of those considered “offensive”
5. Dem’s working to negate the 2nd Amendment and right of those considered “offensive” to buy or possess weapons for self defense
6. Supreme Court nominees (and no, Sotomayor is not the first Hispanic to be nominated to the court) who openly state their goals to subvert the law, not uphold it
7. New Environmental Czar taking action to “cap & trade” global warming” oops, excuse me, “global climate change.”
8. Barry making nice with all our former enemies
9. Barry making enemies of all our former friends
10. ouch, I’m getting a headache! you get my drift …
Voter intimidation by thugs in para-military dress caught on tape? Oh, I see, they are just concerned citizens “observing” the voting process. My, that more Americans would be so interested. Get real HOLDER! You are supposed to be “our” top law enforcement official. But I guess I can see your point. The USA is now broke so we cannot afford to defend basic civil rights. I understand. Yeah ….
May 29, 2009 - 9:37 pm 53. fred:I’m not afraid of some Black Panther goons or La Raza goons or ACORN thugs. The day is coming, and I hope to God we can by some miracle pull off a peaceful and political push back away from this Communist takeover, when those folks are going to be hunted like rabid animals and given the appropriate remedy. Grow a spine people. If the Justice Department is turning into a criminal enterprise (and it is), then name the beast for what it is, without fear. Believe me, their day of reckoning is coming. They will not escape judgment, in this world and in the next.
May 29, 2009 - 9:55 pm 54. Dave Surls:‘The complaint said the three men engaged in “coercion, threats and intimidation, … racial threats and insults, … menacing and intimidating gestures, … and movements directed at individuals who were present to vote.” It said that unless prohibited by court sanctions, they would “continued to violate … the Voting Rights Act by continuing to direct intimidation, threats and coercion at voters and potential voters, by again deploying uniformed and armed members at the entrance to polling locations in future elections, both in Philadelphia and throughout the country.”‘
‘To support its evidence, the government had secured an affidavit from Bartle Bull, a longtime civil rights activist and former aide to Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign. Mr. Bull said in a sworn statement dated April 7 that he was serving in November as a credentialed poll watcher in Philadelphia when he saw the three uniformed Panthers confront and intimidate voters with a nightstick.’
‘Inexplicably, the government did not enter the affidavit in the court case, according to the files.’
‘”In my opinion, the men created an intimidating presence at the entrance to a poll,” he declared. “In all my experience in politics, in civil rights litigation and in my efforts in the 1960s to secure the right to vote in Mississippi … I have never encountered or heard of another instance in the United States where armed and uniformed men blocked the entrance to a polling location.”‘
‘Mr. Bull said the “clear purpose” of what the Panthers were doing was to “intimidate voters with whom they did not agree.” He also said he overheard one of the men tell a white poll watcher: “You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.”‘
It’s easy enough to explain all this. The Democrats are running interference for the New Black Panthers for the same reason they used to do so for the KKK. Intimidating voters with violence or the threat of violence has always been part of the Dem playbook, and they need to keep bully boys around to do their dirty work for them….just like they’ve been doing for generations. KKK in the old days. New Black Panthers nowadays.
From the U.S. Code:
“(b) Intimidation, threats, or coercion
No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for voting or attempting to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for urging or aiding any person to vote or attempt to vote, or intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for exercising any powers or duties under section 1973a (a), 1973d,[1] 1973f, 1973g,[1] 1973h, or 1973j (e) of this title.”
“(a) Depriving or attempting to deprive persons of secured rights
Whoever shall deprive or attempt to deprive any person of any right secured by section 1973, 1973a, 1973b, 1973c, or 1973h of this title or shall violate section 1973i (a) of this title, shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
Needless to say, the trash in the Democrat Party have no intention of enforcing this law against their own bully boys.
“The decision seems pretty fair to me”
You make me want to vomit.
May 30, 2009 - 2:03 am 55. Perry:It’s a new day!!!
“Black Power” in the White House.
May 30, 2009 - 4:10 am 56. Jay701:In the Age of Obama a man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
May 30, 2009 - 4:40 am 57. Anonymous:sheesh: One he didn’t have a gun but the 2nd amendment protects that right what it or any other amendment doesn’t protect against is thugs threatening the peoples right to vote. Just like there is no law against stupidity or the jails would be full of liberals.
And Junvenal I did not know a billy club is called a credential
May 30, 2009 - 4:55 am 58. Tomp:obama will set back race relations 20 – 30 years.
May 30, 2009 - 5:25 am 59. Tomp:Unbelievable:
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/
May 30, 2009 - 6:51 am 60. Anonymous:As the Democrat’s slogan should be: Tyranny– it’s okay when we do it.
May 30, 2009 - 7:49 am 61. gordo:Insanity is the new normal.
May 30, 2009 - 8:57 am 62. trapper:Nobody has pointed up that Obama’s web site once showed the New Black Panther party as one of his supporters. Obama rewards his friends–it is the Chicago way!
May 30, 2009 - 8:58 am 63. Slider:54. Good post.
Remember the dems complaint about voter intimidation in FL in 2000? It was uniformed police at a traffic stop over a mile from the polling place. Yet racist, threatening thugs IN a polling place are no problem.
libs have but one principle and that is to advance their own self interest. Amazingly, they have no shame over that.
Trouble is brewing.
May 30, 2009 - 10:29 am 64. Rachel Peepers:“It is true that every administration is entitled to its own priorities and policy agenda. But each and every administration must faithfully and vigorously enforce existing laws, especially those which protect fundamental rights such as the right to vote. The appearance that the administration would rather not set an example and exact appropriate penalties in a case of egregious voter intimidation raises serious and troubling questions.”
These are the words of Rep. Lamar Smith, outraged by the Justice Dept. firing another round across the bow of the good ship of State, the USS Constitution when they decided not to pursue the open and shut case against the Black Pather voter intimidation acts on election day, last.
Not only are the pro-Obama forces attacking the sacred right to vote, but they’re doing so with the cavalier attitude that befits a burgler who checks to see what’s in the refrigerator before he leaves.
At the same time, Zogby tells us that the polls place Barack’s approval rating somewhere in the sixty percentile. Which doesn’t make sense.
Obama’s attacks on capitalism, the wealthy, the first and fourteeth amendment, his heinous plans to set a new unborn slaughtering rate that breaks 1.5 million per annum, his sanction of Holder’s claim that white people are cowards, his co-opting of a free press through the offer of jobs, and or the threat of reprisals (losing licenses, his plans to raise a cornacopia of taxes, (capital gains, energy, estate) which will soon begin to kill jobs at the rate he’s killing the unborn; his scheme to create a rationed federally funded and managed healthcare system, his refusal to drill offshore and use nuclear power and pursue clean coal initiatives that would make us energy independent; his plans to neuter the military, and let China and Russia move ahead of us technologically; where is it all leading?
Well, one of the places is a point where Barack, a dispicable socialist character to the bone, announces that The U.S. can no longer afford to be a world power.
People, he’s out to kill this country, and everything good it stands for.
Of course, his most insidious actions are his attacks on the constitution. With the brazeness of a Lee Harvey Oswald sizing up his target through an open window, Obama and his lockstep minions have nominated for the supreme court a marxist, liberty hating, white-man-hating, bill-of-rights despising left loon whose highest calling is the end of personal gun ownership in the United States.
This turdsmith of verbal anti-American venom and vile, armed with the mindset of any foreign terrorist, is preparing her attack on the second amendment with the devilish fervor that Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939.
American hunters will become the hunted, part of the end game, of course, being the dissolution of the politically powerful NRA.
For now, though, simple gun owners are the targets. Barack hired snipers are training their sights on anything that could interfere with their plans to politically, socially and economically destroy America.
A sociopathic socialist fiend, Barack Obama, bankrupt of a moral compass, is visiting morally indefensible attacks on the United States of America with the fervor of a banzi charge.
And many of your neighbors, like the Jews in western Europe during the thirties, are going along with the program like lambs to slaugther.
Martin Luther King’s Freedom Train has been placed on a side track. Forgotten. Deminished. Left to rust. Even, by Michelle in her college thesis,(considered hidden from public consumption) the object of abject Black Panther like derision.
Today and in the ensuing months, Father freedom and Mother liberty will be prodded like cattle onto hot, oxygen-starved railroad cars that takes them to the death camps.
Friends, my personal line in the sand has been crossed. I cannot abide by evil incarnate; can’t sit idly by and see the land of the free and home of the brave being torn asunder by the brown eyed handsome fraud.
Fellow Americans, the law of the land is being twisted and transfored before our eyes.
If you’re not ready to see freedom die, get ready for the fight of your lives.
May 30, 2009 - 11:40 am 65. Houdini:Hmmm I think I will start a new website that is something along the lines of Veterans and Law enforcement for protection of voters rights and will escort potential voters into the polls and by our mere excessive presence that would overwhelm any activist group like the “New Black Panthers” and if necessary remove them from the premises ourselves.
May 30, 2009 - 12:49 pm 66. David S:@54. Dave Surls:
The only evidence you’ve shown me of any intimidation is an affidavit that was not submitted to the court. In other words – there was no evidence of any crime before the court.
Moreover, nobody came forward to claim that they were intimidated or blocked from voting – not one person.
If anybody had been intimidated, threatened, coerced – or if someone had clearly attempted to do so – there would be a case here. But that’s not what happened.
Given that nobody had any rights violated, the decision is completely fair. Your lack of intestinal fortitude is thankfully not shared by the justice department.
Freedom of speech and association are rights, too. Not to be taken lightly.
Peace.
DS
May 30, 2009 - 3:40 pm 67. Delia:64. Rachel Peepers,
Sing it, Sista! Great rant, hon.
~
65. Houdini,
AMEN! It would be wonderful for us to band together and protect each other from intimidation tactics. Good call!
May 30, 2009 - 4:51 pm 68. Войска ПВО:59. Tomp writes:
“Unbelievable: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/“
An excerpt from the column at Tromp’s Pravda link:
“The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.”
Man, things have turned around in this country when we have to go to Pravda to read the truth about what is being perpetratd on our economy.
May 30, 2009 - 5:45 pm 69. maurice:“What role did the change of administration play in the unusual resolution of voluntarily dismissing a case on which the Division had already prevailed?”
I believe the answer would be ‘pivotal.’ I haven’t seen this kind of racism in America for decades.
I’m sure they think they’re just ‘getting a little back’ for themselves.
Very dangerous and (typically) deluded thinking.
May 30, 2009 - 5:49 pm 70. Войска ПВО:6. AtheistConservative writes:
“You think that’s bad? Check Rasmussen. This idiot President just hit his first +10 approval rating..Doesn’t matter how incompetent you are at the job, folks. Only matters how you play the game. Get ready for eight years of this mess.”
AC, I wouldn’t panic just yet. If you look at the totality the Rasmussen’s numbers — especially the trend — you will see that, since his inauguration, he has been over the 10% mark a number of times, from a high of +30 percent to a low of +1 percent and the numbers have trended downward to the 5-10% range since May 1st.
To me, this smacks of mood swings and I believe that — if the bad economy persists — over time, people will grow tired of his perpetual campaigning and his inability to actually solve the problems he was hired to address.
Already, the cracks in his left-wing support are beginning to show; check out this post by Cj over at The Illistrated Conservative. It is a great, undervisited blog, by the way. CJ comes up with some really good gems — particularly the current top entry about Ted Rall, a noted liberal cartoonist, who’s fit to be tied with The Dear Leader and thinks he should resign.
So, patience, dear one, America will tire of this charlatan sooner or later.
May 30, 2009 - 6:10 pm 71. Войска ПВО:..er..I blew the HTML link to The Illustrated Conservative but still you should give it a look-see from time to time. It’s great stuff!
May 30, 2009 - 6:12 pm 72. Bilgeman:#66 David S:
“Given that nobody had any rights violated, the decision is completely fair. Your lack of intestinal fortitude is thankfully not shared by the justice department.
Freedom of speech and association are rights, too. Not to be taken lightly”
Oh good…then you won’t mind a bit when the local klavern shows up in robes and carrying baseball bats down at the polling place in the ghetto next election, right?
You really ARE a clit-lipped piece of sh!t, you know that?
Had those three dirtbags been klansmen in robes, it would have led the coverage on all three networks.
And if a Republican’s Justice Department had declined to prosecute there’d have been plans afoot for millions to march on DC.
And everyone knows it, even you. Despite your sickening excuses here.
May 30, 2009 - 6:50 pm 73. Rob Crawford:This “Dave S.” fellow must be on someone’s payroll. No one can be that stupid on a volunteer basis.
May 30, 2009 - 7:46 pm 74. Bushwhacko:This must be the new and improved Empathy thing Obama was talking about.
May 30, 2009 - 8:35 pm 75. laura:My, my, my. It is clear the commenters on this site lack empathy. We need to EMPATHIZE with Black Panthers carrying weapons at polling locations. That’s what we need – empathy. If people just show the right empathy at polling locations in Philly, probly the Black Panthers won’t crack their skulls open. Probly. Not sure. Because if they do, empathy dictates the DOJ drop the charges. It’s all about empathy. Who do you empathize with determines the new “justice”. Obama believes like a dictator that his feelings determine law.
May 30, 2009 - 8:46 pm 76. HonestJon:A thought experiment: What if a person dressed in a KKK uniform attempted the same thing that these creeps were doing? There would be a lot more trouble for them without doubt.
A New Black Panther member was “credentialed” to observe a polling place? WTF? He should be credentialed right off to the hoosegow! Pronto!
regards
May 30, 2009 - 9:53 pm 77. HonestJon:Damnit! 72. Bilgeman: You bastard! Beat me to the punch!
May 30, 2009 - 9:56 pm 78. Ken Hahn:There is a culture of corruption in Washington. It’s called the Democratic Party.
May 30, 2009 - 10:16 pm 79. Concerned:Nothing to see here, move along – nothing to see here, move along – Another triumph from the same people who brought you Government Motors and those other great feats of spending !!!!!!
Did I forget to add that was supposed to be an open administration that operated above board (well maybe it was below board), anyway, this is sure a good example of Chicago politics on the Potomac.
May 30, 2009 - 10:17 pm 80. Dave Surls:“The only evidence you’ve shown me of any intimidation is an affidavit that was not submitted to the court.”
Duh. The racists in the Obama administration aren’t going to “submit” anything that will hurt their racist friends in the NBBP. That’s the whole idea.
And, you make me want to vomit.
May 31, 2009 - 1:06 am 81. susan:david s (as for stupid)
if you allow intimidation in favour of your god obama, you should be enough intellectually honest and morally sound to allow the same thing from the opposite side.
If you don’t know the meaning of the concept “intellectually honest” and “morally sound” nevermind, after all you are a leftist, we cannot ask too much, for people like yourself it’s a miracle already to walk and talk at the same time.
I was saying, if you allow the same from the opposite side, be careful because the face (of people to be intimidated) of the retards that would vote for obama are pretty easy to distinguish. Think about it (if you have enough neurons to do it, which I doubt)
May 31, 2009 - 1:49 am 82. Rachel Peepers:Monday, my superiors are contacting all commands of the armed services to inform them in a legal opinion that if they believe President Barack Obama’s commands and directives are unconstituional, that they are under no duty to obey them.
At the same time, they and others in government will be so informed that Fed Jur decisions are in agreement that a President who knowingly and overtly tries to subvert original intentions of the framers of the United States consitution is prima facie evidence of lying under oath of office, and constitutes reasonable belief that the President might be unfit for duty.
Forthwith, the Vice President will take over the President’s duties until the President is found to innocent of any wrongdoing. If found guilty of wrongdoing in a wartime situation, the people’s remedy extends from impeachment to the President’s remandation to a federal corrections institution to await federal trial.
Consequently, we, the people, are recommending that the Justice Department temporarily remove President Obama of his responsibilities until these matters are decided by the Federal United States Court process.
Barack Obama’s own words constitute ample evidence that not only is he unfit to command, but of such mental capacity and state that he could unknowingly weaken the United States by both neglecting its military as well as by unlawfully tracing the whereabouts of former military experienced in a hostile war environment who might decide to lead armed insurrections against the United States of America.
Until these crucial matters are resolved, certain sensitive duties commonly referred to as controlling the football will no longer be in President Obama’s purvue and control.
Naturally, all nominations to a possible supreme court opening are hereby frozen until further notice.
May 31, 2009 - 2:45 am 83. Juvenal:#57 Anonymous wrote: “And Junvenal I did not know a billy club is called a credential”
Well, that appears to be where we’re headed, doesn’t it?
Barack Obama and George Wallace: Same party, different skin color, same attitudes and philosophies.
May 31, 2009 - 4:46 am 84. RebeccaH:If white men had stood outside a polling place and intimidated voters the way these Black Panthers did, they’d be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and rightly so. What we have here is a blatant double standard instituted by a black president and a black attorney general, and NO, because blacks suffered racial discrimination in the past does not make racial discrimination right now.
May 31, 2009 - 7:38 am 85. Delia:84. RebeccaH,
Black people want to be racists now too. See? It’s not about ending racism…it’s about ‘who’ gets to be the racist now. Hatin’ whitey is the new beige. Isn’t that extraaaaaaaa special?
The unfortunate thing is that these whack jobs make people of color who don’t think this way look bad. Remember the O.J. trial and how they showed the reactions from black vs. white people? It was horrific to see black people jumping up and down and cheering a man for getting ‘off’ on a clear cut case of MURDER in the FIRST degree twice over.
Sickening.
May 31, 2009 - 8:57 am 86. AKD:Is Dave S. not aware that there IS other evidence of this incident? Like it was filmed? Like it was on Youtube?
Besides, I’ve been a pollwatcher and we work INSIDE.
May 31, 2009 - 9:11 am 87. sheesh:72 BM3K . . . “You really ARE a clit-lipped piece of sh!t, you know that?”
Congratulations. The right should be proud to have you in their midst . . . so measured and thoughtful and eloquent. It’s always been a hallmark of conservative discourse to represent elevated analysis and speech, and you have distinguished yourself and your clan yet again in these matters. Why can’t ALL conservatives be more like you, instead of just MOST of them? Thank you, oh grizzled and bitter one, for your leadership, your calm and calming demeanor, and your unmatched ability to nullify all the good this country has fought to achieve. You’re a great American. Your tickets to Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concert are in the mail. And I have it on good authority that if you bring your confederate flag and white hood, you might get back stage. Say hi to Ollie North for me.
May 31, 2009 - 10:02 am 88. David S:@72. Bilgeman:
I’d have a good laugh at their expense. ‘Round these parts they would simply be surrounded by a cordon of non-violent activists. If they intimidated anyone, charges would be appropriate – but so long as they are peaceful and orderly, I’d prefer the government leave the people alone. Isn’t that the basic rule of limited government?
If you had something intelligent to say, you just lost your chance. When your argument is nothing but a personal attack, keep it to yourself.
Perhaps. But unless they interfered with a voter, I’d be there along with the ACLU to fight for their freedom of speech. Your support for government suppression has been duly noted.
Peace.
DS
May 31, 2009 - 11:18 am 89. Dave Surls:“And I have it on good authority that if you bring your confederate flag and white hood…”
Typical Dem supporter…apparently unaware that The Confederacy and the KKK are their creations.
But, then that’s the Dems and their supporters…racist, and ignorant.
May 31, 2009 - 9:35 pm 90. sheesh:82. Rachel Peepers:
Be sure to contact Star Fleet Command too, they’ll want to know how to respond when you ascend to Queen of Narnia.
May 31, 2009 - 9:57 pm 91. Bilgeman:#88 David S.
“Your support for government suppression has been duly noted.”
Does anyone on this board truly believe that the Justice Department bringing charges against these scumbag thugs would constitute “government suppression”?
“If you had something intelligent to say, you just lost your chance.”
In reponse to your mealy-mouthed apologia for the Zimbabwification of our electoral process, I’d opine that my response was at a higher level of discourse than your comment deserved.
“But unless they interfered with a voter, I’d be there along with the ACLU to fight for their freedom of speech.”
You lie like a newspaper.
” ‘Round these parts they would simply be surrounded by a cordon of non-violent activists. If they intimidated anyone, charges would be appropriate – but so long as they are peaceful and orderly, I’d prefer the government leave the people alone.”
And ’round THESE parts, three bruthas dressed in their pathetic “Black Militia” uniforms at a polling place on Election Day or Primary Day would be in the cross-hairs of so many deer rifles that they’d be jumping into the back of any Fuzzmobiles in the vicinity for their own protection.
Whether they’d jump fast enough, is an issue that would remain to be seen.
And y’know what?
That would be rightfully the way it rolls….since the Federal government has obviously non-feasanced the authority that it arrogates to itself.
I’ve actually been in touch with my senators on this issue. They are the bluest of “Blue Dogs”, and I pointed out to them that if the Feds decline to take care of this blatantly racist violation of civil rights, then the militia will take care of it for them.
Jun 1, 2009 - 4:26 pm 92. nedarc:It can all be summed up in one word ‘CHANGE’ Remember my friends…Change for changes sake is not always good. Life changes into death…You wanted “Change, baby you got it!”
Jun 1, 2009 - 8:01 pm 93. David S:@91. Bilgeman:
“I’ve actually been in touch with my senators on this issue. They are the bluest of “Blue Dogs”, and I pointed out to them that if the Feds decline to take care of this blatantly racist violation of civil rights, then the militia will take care of it for them.”
Do let us know how that works out.
Peace.
DS
Jun 6, 2009 - 12:14 pm 94. Just look at Canada:Canada started it’s war against conservatives and Christians two generations ago when they elected Trudeau – who was regarded as a communist by the US administration. In Canada, conservative bloggers are hauled before the Human Rights Commission, the media is exclusively liberal and anti-American, taxes are the highest in the world, industry is mostly controlled by the state, all guns are illegal, immigration has imported crime, poverty and liberal voters, Christianity is marginalized, Christmas decorations and celebrations have been replaced by “the carnival of lights”, traditional family values have been eradicated and replaced with “pride parades”, police forces have had their budgets cut so dramatically that you rarely if ever see a cop, corruption at every level of government goes unpunished, Toronto has over 150 known criminal and terrorist organizations because of an excessively lenient justice system…. Canada has been hijacked by anarchists pretending to be socially conscious political activists.
Obama’s agenda is to destroy everything that once made America great. The democrats are now the communist party of America.
Jun 7, 2009 - 3:06 pm