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1. Chris in Toronto:

Whichever of these two “reform” candidates wins this election, it should be job #1 to reassign the entire division within the department. Since firing them will be difficult, break them up. Move the worst ones to places under supervision of someone you trust to ensure they don’t spread their poison. That’d change things!

Sep 19, 2008 - 3:34 am 2. Ron Murphy:

The whole system of lawyers is the biggest reason that the voters are not representative
in the government. Most of the lobbyists are
lawyers or woarse, ex-politician leaders!

The first cannon of making a law is that it
says what it means and means what it says. In
most of the laws past century have to be interpreted by another lawyer, and he may interpreted wrong.

In the 19Th century America even the non educated individuals could open a business
or be on the streets and know most of the
laws. Today we have banks that are casino’s
that take the peoples money on most bets that
would have been called usury and when they
have over extended themselves they take the
citizens money to bail them out without any
kind of vote.

The economic stimulus checks took a half year
to give the citizens a small taste of the pie;
yet it only takes hours on weekends for the
same crooks to transfer the citizens money
to the wealthy bankers.

“I don’t make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.” (Will Rodgers)
wrong!

Sep 19, 2008 - 7:02 am 3. RPD:

First they talk about trials for the current administration if they win, now some seem to be talking about using criminal law in election process.

This is getting pretty disturbing.

Sep 19, 2008 - 7:32 am 4. The PC division of the US government shows its ugly hand « Full Metal Cynic:

[...] September 19, 2008 · No Comments “…the Criminal Section intends to use the civil rights statutes to criminally prosecute anyone they consider to be engaging in voter “intimidation” or “oppression.” Now, that might sound like a reasonable idea until you realize that Walsh and Kappelhoff’s definition of “intimidation” and “oppression” goes far beyond what you and I would imagine. Walsh stated that because we have an African-American presidential candidate, there would be voter suppression — a baseless assumption that plays on left-wing stereotypes of America as a racist nation. Every single example of wrongdoing that Walsh and other presenters used in their presentations talked about Republicans: there was not a single example of any wrongdoing committed by any Democrats in the entire two-day conference. One cited example of a “criminal” violation supposedly intended to “suppress” voting was sending mailers informing voters that you must be a citizen to vote, a requirement of state and federal law. One of the deputy chiefs, Mark Blumberg, told FBI agents and federal prosecutors that the individuals responsible for such a brochure should be brought before a federal grand jury to ask them if they belong to any “anti-immigrant” groups. Not surprisingly, this deputy chief also did a detail with Senator Kennedy…” Read article here. [...]

Sep 19, 2008 - 7:55 am 5. MarkD:

I welcome scrutiny of ACORN under RICO statutes. Then we’ll know our electoral system is clean.

Waiting, and next year I’ll still be waiting, regardless of which side wins.

Sep 19, 2008 - 8:21 am 6. tom:

Republicans better be taking names and rembering which so called repuclicans allowed this to happen. They better look for jobs in new jersey doing traffic ticket law.

Sep 19, 2008 - 8:40 am 7. Mike in DC:

This story should be rebranded as “whistle-blower identifies government preparations to block free speech.” It should then be forwarded to talk-shows and media outlets across the country.

Sep 19, 2008 - 8:41 am 8. Kurt:

Strange… not a word here about the Republicans’ plan to visit polling places and challenge the residency of voters who’ve had their houses foreclosed on.

Why would Mr. Anonymous omit that very telling detail? Hmmm.

Sep 19, 2008 - 8:54 am 9. SGT Ted:

Kurt: Proof? Put up or shut up.

Sep 19, 2008 - 9:58 am 10. deguello:

Stalinists behaving like Stalinist,How shocking!

Sep 19, 2008 - 10:03 am 11. Mark:

Kurt, perhaps it’s because his information came from the DOJ meetings he described and his article dealt with that issue. If the article was about rumors alleging nefarious plans by Democrats to challenge voter residency, then your comment might be relevant.

I’m also curious what evidence you have for your claim. Even if he had written the article you thought you read, Mr. Anonymous probably would have omitted that detail because he’s not aware of the fevered imaginings of your circle of fellow travelers.

Even if there are Republicans planning such challenges, the article you seem to think this should be would have omitted that detail because it’s a stupid idea. Are only Obama supporters defaulting on mortgages? Or do you suppose people are likely to vote for Obama as a function of home foreclosure? If these are the strategies you think the Republican party is going to put time and effort into, good luck with your own planning.

Sep 19, 2008 - 10:21 am 12. tim maguire:

deguello–really. It’s unbelievable how hostile to liberty many liberals are. And look at kurt above–he reads an essay about a real and serious undermining of a basic human right and he immediately jumps to empty partisan accusations.

Sep 19, 2008 - 10:23 am 13. Palin s/b “gangraped by black men.” | The Anchoress:

[...] today’s activity, but not Bush. It’s not surprising. But it is tiring. Krauthammer says History will judge. Well, if the history books are all written from one perspective and the internet becomes heavily [...]

Sep 19, 2008 - 10:37 am 14. rasqual:

Good grief, this is the same kinds of upside-down crap we’ve been seeing in Britain of late.

No. No. Don’t tell me it’s starting here, too . . .

Sep 19, 2008 - 10:47 am 15. ZEITGEIST:

[...] THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, the Justice Department would become a partisan political institution. And they were right! [...]

Sep 19, 2008 - 10:59 am 16. gs:

This will be a serious abuse of power if it’s carried out.

The fact that they allow it to happen is yet another indication that the Republicans are correctly called the Stupid Party.

Unfortunately, the Clinton impeachment might provide a pretext or precedent.

Sep 19, 2008 - 10:59 am 17. timb:

It might shock some of you to note this rant is the fevered imagination of a Right Wing Glenn Greenwald. A lot of “maybes” and “might be possibles”. some smearing thrown in for good measure (”these folks donated to Obama and that violates a DOJ memo”….uh, Anon, no it doesn’t. Federal employees are allowed to make political contributions).

in the end, if you are some GOP shill somewhere sending out “voter caging” letters or hanging around outside a polling place asking all the brown skinned people to “see their papers,” then you should be worried because you are breaking Federal law, despite what the nice Federalist Society partisan hack wants to tell us.

Oh, and for “Chris in Toronto”, the DOJ has already annoyed the career (otherwise known as merit employees) lawyers of Justice badly enough that in one three year period 15 of the 35 quit. I think the GOP/Monica Goodling war against the Voting Rights Division can be called a rousing success for the GOP.

Sep 19, 2008 - 11:12 am 18. proud elitist:

Voter caging and republicans are like babies and crying. It just is par for the course:

Ex 1 – in Virginia 2008

Late last month, as a voter-registration drive by supporters of Senator Barack Obama was signing up thousands of students at Virginia Tech, the local registrar of elections issued two releases incorrectly suggesting a range of dire possibilities for students who registered to vote at their college.

The releases warned that such students could no longer be claimed as dependents on their parents’ tax returns, a statement the Internal Revenue Service says is incorrect, and could lose scholarships or coverage under their parents’ car and health insurance.

After some inquiries from students and parents, and more pointed questions from civil rights lawyers, the state board of elections said Friday that it was “modifying and clarifying” the state guidelines on which the county registrar had based his releases.

Student-registration controversies have been a recurring problem since 1971, when the 26st Amendment lowered the voting age to 18 from 21, and despite a 1979 ruling by the United States Supreme Court that students have the right to register at their college address.

Virginia is not the only state with murky guidelines. South Carolina’s voter-registration site, for example, says students who want to register to vote at their college address must demonstrate “a present intention to remain in the community.”

BOTTOM LINE: In the 1970s, that same county required Prairie View students who wanted to register to fill out a questionnaire asking, among other things, whether they owned property in the county, had an automobile registered there or belonged to any church, club or organization unrelated to the college. A challenge to that practice led the Supreme Court to uphold students’ rights to vote at their college address.

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Example 2: Michigan 2008

The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Michigan over the Michigan GOP’s plan to use foreclosure lists to challenge voters at the polls, as first reported by the Michigan Messenger.

Bob Bauer, general counsel for the Obama campaign, and Mark Brewer, chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party, announced the lawsuit in a conference call with reporters this afternoon. It was filed on behalf of the campaign, the party and three Michigan residents who have had their houses foreclosed upon in recent months.

Bauer called the GOP plan to use foreclosure lists “a new and especially repellent version of caging.” Caging is a technique of challenging voters where they take lists of addresses, mail to them with a “do not forward” marking and if for whatever reason those mailings are returned, they use this as a basis for claiming that the voter no longer lives at the address at which they are registered.

Bauer noted that using foreclosure lists to challenge a voter’s address is “false and illegal” for several reasons. First, because getting a foreclosure notice is not evidence that the person’s address has changed. In Michigan, homeowners have the opportunity to redeem the foreclosure even after a sheriff’s sale has occurred, which means they can stay in the home for many months after a foreclosure notice has been sent. Second, because under Michigan law a person can vote at their old precinct if they lost their home within 60 days of the election.

Brewer noted that in July alone 11,000 Michigan residents received foreclosure notices. The McCain campaign, he argued, “wants to add insult to injury” by denying those residents their right to vote. “The right to vote is one of our most fundamental rights as Americans,” said Brewer, “To try to strip our fellow citizens of their right to vote is un-American and unconscionable.”

Last week, James Carabelli, chairman of the Macomb County GOP, told the Messenger’s Eartha Melzer in a phone interview: “We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses.” The Michigan Republican Party has denied that Carabelli made the statements that the Michigan Messenger reported, but Bauer said that the complaint includes quotes from Republican operatives in Ohio and other states saying much the same thing Carabelli said and defending the legitimacy of using foreclosure lists and voter caging techniques.

Bauer also said that they expect that the lawsuit will allow them to subpoena emails and memos from the state and local GOP officials that will prove that they had obtained foreclosure lists and were planning to use them for this purpose.

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Example 3: Ohio 2008

Ohio election officials are sending out a mass mailer stamped “do not forward” to all registered voters today (Sept. 5) with an absentee ballot application and other important notices for Nov. 4.

What’s important here is not so much what’s going out as what’s being returned to sender.

Unbeknownst to the would-be recipients, the same mailer – just 60 days before the election – has the potential to determine their eligibility to vote, challenged not by election officials but by partisan opposition.

A similar mailer in March netted nondeliverable mail from almost 600,000 registered voters in just five Ohio counties who could now have their ballots thrown out for voting under the wrong address.

Meanwhile, the sweeping Ohio election law loosens the rules around challenging voters. It also strips much of the ability of voters to know they are being challenged and defend their right to vote before an election judge.

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Example 4: Kansas 2007-2008

Earlier today (12/20/2007)Kris Kobach, chairman of the Kansas GOP, sent out a self-congratulatory litany of accomplishments. Among them was one particularly eye-catching item:

To date, the Kansas GOP has identified and caged more voters in the last 11 months than the previous two years!

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Example 5: R-tardbabies Monica Goodling and Tim Griffin (2007 in front of House Committee)

(a) During Goodling’s May 2007 Testimony in front of Congress

Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., asked Goodling to “explain what caging is,” clarifying that she was unfamiliar with the term. Goodling fumbled around, muttered something about, “it’s a direct-mail term, that people who do direct mail, when, when they separate addresses that may be good versus addresses that may be bad,” then made sure to end with, “I don’t … I believe that Mr. Griffin doesn’t believe that he, that he did anything wrong there and there, there actually is a very good reason for it, for a very good explanation.” Which explanation Goodling did not then provide.

To recap, Goodling told the judiciary committee that: 1) Griffin was possibly involved in caging; 2) he doesn’t believe he did anything wrong (she is less certain, it seems); and 3) McNulty lied under oath when he downplayed his knowledge of these allegations to the committee.

That would suggest that vote caging is a big deal. Is it?

Vote caging is an illegal trick to suppress [minority] voters by getting them knocked off the voter rolls if they fail to answer registered mail sent to homes they aren’t living at (because they are, say, at college or at war).

(b) MG on Tim Griffin

Monica Goodling referred several times to “vote caging” possibly done by Arkansas’ ex-interim, never-confirmed U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin.

The subject came up in her testimony about former Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty. In saying he had not been forthright with the House judiciary committee in his testimony on the firing of the U.S. attorneys, she cited three areas, one of which was McNulty’s failure “to disclose that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in ‘vote caging’ in the president’s 2004 campaign,” when he spoke to Congress.

There is evidence linking Tim Griffin, then-research director for the RNC, to this caging plot; specifically, a series of confidential e-mails to Republican Party muckety-mucks with the suggestive heading “RE: caging.” The e-mails were accidentally sent to a George Bush parody site. They also contained suggestively named spreadsheets, headed “caging” as well.

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Example 6: 2004 Election

Florida in 2004

The Bush-Cheney operatives sent hundreds of thousands of letters marked “Do not forward” to voters’ homes. Letters returned (”caged”) were used as evidence to block these voters’ right to cast a ballot on grounds they were registered at phony addresses. Who were the evil fakers? Homeless men, students on vacation and—you got to love this—American soldiers. Oh yeah: most of them are Black voters.

In general, 2004

The efforts to purge voters from registration rolls was spearheaded by Tim Griffin, a former Republican National Committee opposition researcher. Griffin recently resigned from his post as interim US attorney for Little Rock Arkansas. His predecessor, Bud Cummins, was forced out to make way for Griffin.

Another set of documents, 43 pages of emails, provided to Truthout by the PBS news program “NOW,” contains blueprints for a massive effort undertaken by RNC operatives in 2004, to challenge the eligibility of voters expected to support Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in states such as Nevada, New Mexico, Florida and Pennsylvania.

One email, dated September 30, 2004, and sent to a dozen or so staffers on the Bush-Cheney campaign and the RNC, under the subject line “voter reg fraud strategy conference call,” describes how campaign staffers planned to challenge the veracity of votes in a handful of battleground states in the event of a Democratic victory.

Furthermore, the emails show the Bush-Cheney campaign and RNC staffers compiled voter-challenge lists that targeted probable Democratic voters in at least five states: New Mexico, Ohio, Florida, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Voting rights lawyers have made allegations of so called “vote caging,” against Republicans previously. These emails provide more evidence. One Republican operative involved in the planning wrote “we can do this in NV, FL, PA and NM because we have a list to run against the Absentee Ballot requests, and should.”

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Sep 19, 2008 - 11:48 am 19. Yawn:

This article scares me for several reasons. One, its a bit unbalanced. The focus on the lawyers and who they are sending money to is a valid point only if we have the flip side of the coin (i.e. how many are supporting the GOP and how much did they send?). Right now, this article as written has a degree of bias. Someone who works for Ted Kennedy and someone who was working for the ACLU are both bits of evidence of a anti-right/GOP bias, but were there ringers for the other side? It doesn’t say, so I can’t be sure. The second part bugs me more. Voter intimidation is something that really irks the hell out of me, enough that should I see something like that happen I think I would respond violently to it. EVERYONE gets a vote if they are a legal citizen of this country. That is how it works, that is the very basic foundation of the US political process. Now, given that ID theft and voter fraud are becoming bigger issues (and have been traditionally problems in the US before, such as dead people voting in Chicago elections to stuffed ballot boxes in Kansas during the 1850s debate on slave versus free state status), requiring a valid ID to vote is not a big problem for me. I have yet to see someone who doesn’t somehow have a photo ID for something. I have 5 myself if you count my passport and how hard is it for even a poor person to get a copy of your birth certificate and therefore a driver’s license?

But that aside,my point on this is that this issue about voter intimidation is way to important to try and slant. EVERYONE should be freaked out about this, left or right. The second someone starts to say that someone shouldn’t be allowed to vote or should be intimidated by threat of law for a legal action that they don’t agree with, that second should trigger a cross-party tar and feather party for the moron saying it. If this is going be be raised as a potential problem, this topic needs to be fully balanced. If there are zero pro-GOP lawyers on this team, then it needs to be stated. THAT is a problem as that is an immediate inbalance. But this article doesn’t come out and state that, it hints that is the case. This topic is way to important to hint about.

Sep 19, 2008 - 11:54 am 20. Rubicon:

The article does represent the viewpoint of someone who feels Republicans are being targeted. However, based on the history of voter fraud, it is not unreasonable for ALL of us to be concerned that we may see a candidate elected who was not legitimately elected by legal voters.
American citizenship is the world’s “gold standard” of citizenship. While many are equally proud of & plan to stay in their own country, there are also many who seek to come to America.
One of the responsibilities that go with American citizenship, is voting. It is a responsibility of each & every qualified citizen to cast their votes for candidates for elected offices. And in doing so, each citizen should cast their votes extremely carefully.
In short, voting matters! Take it seriously!
If any party operatives or partisans are out there trying to intimidate voters or potential voters, they need to be stopped. If any party operatives or partisans are out there trying to stop anyone from making sure each & every voter is legally qualified to cast votes, they should be stopped.
This deal that requiring everyone to have legally acceptable identification in order to cast their votes is racist, or biased, or some other construct, is BULL!
If we permit votes to be cast by those who are not eligible to vote, we cancel out legal votes & we seriously undermine our democracy.
If I seriously believe someone is voting who is not legally eligible to vote, I intend to challenge that vote, vociferously. And if I am hauled before some kangaroo court to answer for supposed civil rights violations, I intend to make so much noise the Department of Justice will wish they never heard of me. Even a little guy can make BIG noise.
Now, I would never contest a vote based on mere supposition. BUT, if I know or have reasonable evidence a voter is illegal, is casting more than one vote, is on parole at the time, or is an illegal alien…. then hold your hands over your ears cause I’m shouting out loud & clear that person should not be voting.
If I speak out, you can bet I can prove what I am saying. If I can prove it & DOJ or any nut-job decides to take me to task for alleged civil rights violations, I too will scream violation of MY civil rights.
I know nothing of “caging” or other tactics used by partisans. But to assert ONLY Republicans use such tactics, is as disingenuous as it gets! Both parties have a history by some idiots within those parties of attempting to pull off “stuff” during elections.
No party is exempt. And anyone from either party who thinks its wrong of me to say we need ID to vote, or we need clarification of citizenship of any we suspect attempting to vote who is not a citizen…. then you are advocating we surrender our nation, just so we do not offend some schmuck who is more interested in partisanship & probably money, than they are the existence of their nation!
If you care about America, you too would demand all voters be legal voters!
Otherwise, you are a jerk!

Sep 19, 2008 - 12:52 pm 21. Jesus Warrior:

This is something I deal with on a firsthand bases. I am African American Christian Conservative; drugfree, deviantfree, diseasefree, ABSTAINER FOR CHRIST, yet every civil right that can have been taken by political corruptots from United States Senator John Cornyn and United States Congressionwoman US Rep. Shelia Jackson-Lee, they are as political opposit as it gets.
As a minority I should not become the political pun of no party, I am a founding member of United We Stand America, the Reform Party and will be a founding member of Michael Salvage new Nationalist Party. It is time to curtail both political parties and all political unions. Any civil servant committing fraud should never be in aposition of public trust it is already in the constitution. Pentions should be reduced to whatever the smallest social security check of the elderly across the board in all three branches of government. Paygrades not union contracts should determine wages.
No elected official should be able to negotiate from actions causing immunity to be violated to avoid United States Courts for violations of federal ethic laws, federal regulations, and federal codes. Neither should ignoring the United States Supreme Court rulings to violate anyone civil rights. Social workers and all other licensed professional violating federal ethic laws should not be protected by partners in public office nor law enforcement friends benefitting from their discrimination and prejudice. As for me I will take a DNA test, testify before Congress, sit down with Hannity to expose the defrauding of the United States. I am called everything but what I am, I am a Christian Conservative that was born African American, I wear the flag proudly and listen to the national atheme on a regular bases. God bless
America. Brooker T. Washington warned of Obama, Rev. Wright, and all the other racebaiters that exploit being African American.

Sep 19, 2008 - 1:48 pm 22. deguello:

Kurt: Why should republicans want to prevent people suffering closures from oting,when it was a camarilla of democrat sleazebags who sold them mortages they could not afford.These are not the people they want to vote;they prefers the homeless, the witless, the welfare shiftless,criminals,and other social parasites championed by a terminally corrupt party.Incidentally,while discussing alleged republican voter suppression, I recall democrats lawyers giving themselves high fives for throwing out military ballots in Florida,back in 2000.But I forget, soldiers don’t fit into the above categories

Sep 19, 2008 - 1:59 pm 23. sestamibi:

I am a long-time GOP activist and locally well-known right-wing reactionary, but I have always been puzzled by the controversey over student voting at school vs. home.

Most college students attend school their home states, so what difference would this make in terms of the outcome of the presidential election? A vote at home or at school wouldn’t alter the statewide total for either candidate.

The only differences would be perceived at the local level under these assumptions:

1) Most students are liberal Dems.

2) They come from conservative GOP home districts.

Therefore, they would tend to enhance the chances of local GOP candidates in their home districts by their absence there, while only piling on the vote totals in liberal Dem college town districts.

And these are VERY simplifying assumptions. To the extent that they’re NOT true, that would only work in favor of the GOP.

Sep 19, 2008 - 3:53 pm 24. rcd33b:

If this report is true, then we are in for a world of hurt. I believe in protecting our borders, deporting illegal aliens, having to be a citizen to vote and in getting these facts out to would-be Americans who want to stack the deck in anybody’s favor. I also believe in God, the Bible, Jesus Christ, Old Glory, the United States Marine Corps and firearms ownership by citizens. I am a white, anglo, conservative, American male (you know, the same kind of guy whose ancestors fought in WWI, WWII, etc. and made this country as great and as free as it is). So….you may as well come and get me now DOJ/FBI, I’m obviously a danger to myself and America. Man, law enforcement has sure changed since I was a cop. In those days we actually went after criminals, not law-abiding citizens, and the ACLU WAS the enemy, not our instructors. 1984 here we come, lights on and siren screaming and in a four wheel skid headed for disaster.

Sep 19, 2008 - 6:55 pm 25. Judy, NYC:

I guarantee this will be an exhausting exercise in voting this election. every piece of leftist crap will be out there attempting to do something that interferes with the process. be prepared with a cell phone to call police and make sure that all polling rules are followed (handing out literature too close to the polling site, and electioneering of any sort in that zone). Barry Obama’s thugs kept clinton’s supporters from entering caucuses, as we well know, and the leftist creeps’ idea is third world politics, so be watchful and be sure to press charges.

Sep 19, 2008 - 9:00 pm 26. Brian Richard Allen:

United States of America’s President and Armed-Forces Commander-In-Chief, George Walker Bush will likely be remembered by History as one of the greats.

But by those of us who have lived through the past sixty-odd years, several of his weaknesses will at least occasionally rise in our gullets and dominate our thoughts and recollection of him.

His total abrogation of his duty to protect our sovereign borders and to guard us against foreign invasion stands out.

But for me his very very worst falling short was seen in his oligarchical reinstatement to respectability of the impeached and disbarred recidivist, treasonous, lying looting co-serial-rapist Billy-Jeff Blythe ‘Cli’ton’. And in his abject failure to rid the richly Cli’ton activist larded ranks of every Cli’tonized and politicized feral gummint bureaucracy of its every un-and-anti-American, DNC/Cli’ton-appointed and/or employed rotten apple.

Brian Richard Allen
Los Angeles – Califobamacated 90028

Sep 20, 2008 - 1:44 am 27. Bluecaper:

Oh Boies,
Here come the election attorneys again buoyed by the realization that in opinion polls they have crawled over Congress and investment bankers in popularity.

Sep 20, 2008 - 10:34 am 28. J Richardson:

Richard Nixon had a good way to deal with obstructionist bureaucrats (no – not shoot them but it is tempting sometimes) – he’d have them promoted to a job that they couldn’t refuse in places like Bismarck or Fargo or Tulsa. It was either take the promotion or quit. I think I seem to remember that a number quit because they just couldn’t fathom life outside the Beltway.

Sep 20, 2008 - 11:15 am 29. glasater:

College students should be encouraged to vote in their home counties–not in the counties where they are going to school. Plain and simple and there should be no argument period.

Sep 21, 2008 - 1:34 am 30. Commentary » Blog Archive » Flotsam and Jetsam:

[...] this stuff  about voting fraud you wonder what the Justice Department is up to. Unfortunately, it is not preventing [...]

Sep 22, 2008 - 5:21 am 31. What I Think:

Too damn many “everybody knows” assumptions. You only have to read the first paragraph to know where this thing is going.

I bailed at the third paragraph.

Sep 22, 2008 - 7:20 am 32. THE CRIMINALIZATION OF CONSERVATISM « Texas Hold ‘Em Blogger:

[...] know? Because two members of the Bush Justice Department are doing The Messiah’s bidding by threatening to prosecute Americans for exercising political free speech by classifying it as voter intimidation and pursuing it as a [...]

Sep 22, 2008 - 8:51 pm 33. Johnnie:

As a federal agent I know personally of the bias of the Civil Rights Division. Most are lazy and refuse to take actual cases where there are real civil rights violations. They prefer politically motivated cases. Just witness how they refused to prosecute Mike Nifong and the cops who lied to get grand jury indictments of the innocent students at Duke University and compare it to the young man who was prosecuted for civil rights violations for tying a noose on the back of his pick up. I guess burning an American flag is legal and a noose is not. Lying to a grand jury is legal when you are prosecuting white men, but not ok when prosecuting blacks?

Sep 23, 2008 - 8:40 am 34. BlueRidgeForum » Silent DOJ Coup Against Legal Voting, Political Speech?:

[...] Here follows a troubling report “Justice Department vs. Republicans: Partisan career lawyers twist civil rights statutes to suppress perfectly legal political activity,” published last Friday on Pajamas Media and written by a lawyer specializing in election law: [...]

Sep 24, 2008 - 4:38 pm 35. Dan Tana:

Anyone who serves in public office, elected or appointed, should be banned for life from lobbying for foreign governments and any corporations.

Term limits must be imposed on those who chose to serve and their family members.

The era of the professional political class must be end.

Sep 25, 2008 - 8:22 pm 36. Bud:

The real issue with college kids voting at school has not been mentioned- it’s far too easy for them to participate in “Chicago” voting: early and often. They obviously have all the documentation needed to register in their home district, and allowing them to register and vote at school, without positive means (and there are none) to guarentee that they don’t do the same at home will produce some number of them doing exactly that. Their motivation for doing this has to be high, which pretty much defines the “Obamessiah” college voter. Were the shoes reversed, and the Reps have a charismic candidate with a big college following, you can bet that the Dems would be trying to “surpress the college vote”.

Sep 25, 2008 - 10:37 pm 37. Missouri Citizens: Criticize Obama, Go To Jail | Democrat=Socialist:

[...] Thugs on parade. Will the U.S. Department of Justice investigate? Or are they compromised? [...]

Sep 26, 2008 - 7:32 am 38. Cincinnatus:

And in the State of Missouri, the Obama campaign has formed a “Truth Squad” consisting of prosecutors, State troopers and other law enforcement personnel to target and arrest anyone saying anything, including in TV ads, that the Obama campaign disputes the veracity of.

I wonder if they’ll wear black armbands.

Source: KMOV TV 4

Sep 26, 2008 - 6:13 pm 39. Obama: Censoring Free Speech « Sooshi Soo:

[...] Partisan career lawyers twist civil rights statutes to suppress perfectly legal political activity [...]

Sep 27, 2008 - 8:31 am 40. “Change” for Obama: gut the 1st Amendment | Jason Hayes - Musing:

[...] Pajamas Media article, describing how Obama-supporting, Dept. of Justice lawyers are gearing up for the election will [...]

Sep 28, 2008 - 3:41 pm 41. Paul Revere:

Today one of the partisan hack Obama donors at the Justice Department, James Walsh, indicted a Republican because of a flyer the Republican put out saying it was a felony for illegal immigrants to vote in an election. Don’t believe it? See for your self at:

http://humanrights.einnews.com/article.php?nid=12328

Oct 1, 2008 - 6:33 pm 42. Obama’s Assault on the First Amendment & his DISH Network station « Creeping Sharia:

[...] There is a troubling report that the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Section, top officials of which are Obama [...]

Oct 2, 2008 - 5:50 am 43. Baraccounting:

[...] Obama says Hans von Spakovsky’s partisan influence within the Justice Department’s Civil… and his prior roles as a Republican appointee make him unfit for the job. [...]

Oct 2, 2008 - 5:53 am 44. Pajamas Media » Justice Dept. Targets GOP Activists Warning of Illegal Voting:

[...] I reported on September 19 that partisan career lawyers in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice were [...]

Oct 16, 2008 - 1:46 am 45. DOJ Prosecuting Those Who Enunciate the Law:

[...] this when he made his prior post on this issue, and it didn’t garner much attention: When I reported on September 19 that partisan career lawyers in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice were [...]

Oct 16, 2008 - 7:44 am 46. BlueRidgeForum » Feds Indict Candidate Over “Latino Voters” Letter:

[...] declares: “When I reported on September 19 that partisan career lawyers in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice were [...]

Oct 17, 2008 - 12:59 pm 47. SansPretense » On Education, Part II: Exploitation through Indoctrination:

[...] the arming of the population to prevent revolt (2nd amendment), control the courts, police, and justice divisions, control the competing institutions of power (religious institutions, for example), raise the State [...]

Oct 21, 2008 - 11:17 pm 48. Obama’s America: No criticism allowed. « One American Voice:

[...] Partisan career lawyers twist civil rights statutes to suppress perfectly legal political activity [...]

Oct 28, 2008 - 3:21 pm 49. Commentary » Blog Archive » Flotsam and Jetsam:

[...] to criminalize common political activity. (Indeed a number of the attorneys who have been identified as Obama donors brought the [...]

Jan 13, 2009 - 4:39 am 50. Instapundit » Blog Archive » OUR “NON-POLITICAL” JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. You were warned….:

[...] OUR “NON-POLITICAL” JUSTICE DEPARTMENT. You were warned. [...]

Mar 26, 2009 - 3:15 pm 51. Remember The Intimidation? Celebrate Today’s Courage and Energy! : NO QUARTER:

[...] There is a troubling report that the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Section, top officials of which are Obama [...]

Apr 15, 2009 - 5:35 am 52. Obama will Harass you! «:

[...] There is a troubling report that the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Section, top officials of which are Obama [...]

Sep 4, 2009 - 12:10 am

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