I wondered why Holder dropped all charges against this thug.

 

 

 

 

 

What this administration has made abundantly clear is that only people on the right need to obey the law.

 

On the left... Well, you just "misspoke" or were mis understood...

 

http://biggovernment.com/mroman/2010/05/18/only-in-philly-black-panther-on-the-ballot/ - http://biggovernment.com/mroman/2010/05/18/only-in-philly-black-panther-on-the-ballot/

 

 

Don't worry, the media won't cover this story either.

 

Because they are almost as pathetic as this administration.

 

Elections have consequences. And yesterday shows the feelings of America...

In a few weeks he'll go back to being a weak, empty-suit puppet of the Pelosi admin. 

The talking points are as steady as my dart throw on $1.50 Pabst night. 

 

AT the white house, then in front of the Senate. While the democrats cheered, and Obama said nothing.

 

 

Look at Mexico's laws... And he calls ours discriminating... Come on...

 

Our President has no backbone or pride in America. All he does is point fingers, while further trying to destroy Free Enterprise, or the "greedy" in his terms.

 

It was the first time in my adult life that I was not proud to be an American.

 

Cafferty on CNN nailed it...

 

 

 

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/05/20/jack-cafferty-slams-obama-mex-pres-calderon-az-law-whining - http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/05/20/jack-cafferty-slams-obama-mex-pres-calderon-az-law-whining

Can we go back to dictator fascist again to make the circle complete? 

Do you have another link you got from Free Republic? 

 

 

on fox news channel.

 

 

It will rock your world.

He's taking down the oligarhy one tear-stained chalk stick at a time. 

 

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=XdqGSUnzpr - http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=XdqGSUnzpr

 

totally classic footage from this morning

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/30/justice-dept-lawyer-accuses-holder-dropping-new-black-panther-case-political/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Text+-+Politics%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/30/justice-dept-lawyer-accuses-holder-dropping-new-black-panther-case-political/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Text+-+Politics%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo

 

will this hit the front page of the liberal media?...

 

 

"

The commission has repeatedly sought information from the Justice Department, going as far as filing subpoenas. Schmaler said the department has provided 2,000 pages of information in response.

But Adams says the department ordered the attorneys "to ignore the subpoena, lawlessly placing us in an unacceptably legal limbo."

Adams also says that after the dismissal, Justice Department attorneys were instructed not to bring any more cases against racial minorities under the Voting Section. 

Adams called the New Black Panther case "the simplest and most obvious violation of federal law I saw in my Justice Department career." 

But his allegations go beyond the Justice Department. He wrote that the dismissal is a symptom of the Obama administration's reverse racism and "creeping lawlessness." 

"Citizens would be shocked to learn about the open and pervasive hostility within the Justice Department to bringing civil rights cases against nonwhite defendants on behalf of white victims," he wrote in the Times article. "Equal enforcement of justice is not a priority of this administration. Open contempt is voiced for these types of cases.""

 

 

more examples of corruption in Obama's white house.

 

And these are the people "we've been waiting for"...

 

typical corrupt thugs, the Chicago Way.

 

I too hoped for change... But, not tons more, even worse stuff.

 

We already had Clinton lie to us to our faces...

 

now we have the obamagojevich lie...

 

 

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/06/30/faced-with-the-blagojevich-scandal-did-barack-obama-tell-the-whole-truth/?xid=rss-topstories - http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/06/30/faced-with-the-blagojevich-scandal-did-barack-obama-tell-the-whole-truth/?xid=rss-topstories

 

"The President-Elect had no contact or communication with Governor Blagojevich or members of his staff about the Senate seat. In various conversations with transition staff and others, the President-Elect expressed his preference that Valerie Jarrett work with him in the White House. He also stated that he would neither stand in her way if she wanted to pursue the Senate seat nor actively seek to have her or any other particular candidate appointed to the vacancy."

Typical Chicago style politics...

 

Remain in a position to deny any involvement... Even when you do stuff like this... Which gets it done, but in a way you can deny, deny, deny... Or argue the definition of "is", to quote Clinton.

 

"The Chicago Sun-Time's excellent “Blago Blog” http://blogs.suntimes.com/blago/2010/06/tom_balanoff_obama_called_day.html - summarizes Balanoff's testimony :

This on the back of "don't prosecute black on white voter issues"...

 

And we have a seriously corrupt white house.

 

 

again.

 

 

 

 

In all, corrupt.

 

But, at least when they get busted, they quit, and leave quietly.

 

Then you have the democrats. They lie, cheat, steal, and don't care if they get caught...

 

Then they will tell you how dumb you are, and what the definition of "is" is.

 

Look at this "hearing" for this new supreme court apointment...

 

She is lying with almost every answer...

 

Like she gives a hoot about the constitution. She is a "living breathing" person, and will change the constitution to fit her perceptions about reality.

 

In other words, when she said she would support the second amendment ruling... She lied just like sotomeiyer lied since she said she would support the second amendment and then VOTED AGAINST IT...

 

liberals make me sick.

 

but, what do you expect when morality is relative...

 

Both parties stink. Hence I like the tea party... Who weed out the fake "career" republicans like mccain...

 

aka mccain feingold...

 

 

At this point in our country, we will either get conservative, or the country will end.

 

 

 

and the sad part is...

 

the youth will decide which direction we will take...

 

 

(hmm, no wonder the liberals control education in our country, yeah we got the one we were waiting for... Obama). brought to you by the NEA, and unions all over our great country.

That's a strange thing to put in a list of negatives. It's part of the accepted and traditional job of representing your district to ask for money to come back to your district. 

What? 

 

what do you mean "what"? everyone realizes that our school systems are run by liberals, that is common knowledge. They indoctrinate instead of educate, and based on the last Presidential election, that indoctrination works.

 

http://biggovernment.com/jdunetz/2010/07/01/former-doj-official-charges-racism-drove-doj-to-kill-black-panther-voter-intimidation-case/ - http://biggovernment.com/jdunetz/2010/07/01/former-doj-official-charges-racism-drove-doj-to-kill-black-panther-voter-intimidation-case/

 

Just to be clear, it is OK to intimidate and prevent people from voting by threatening them, if you are black.

 

Because black on white crime...

 

isn't wrong according to Obama's administration.

Maybe that makes me a bad American or something. 

Of course, I don't want an elected official to be bought by a lobbyist or add in worthless riders into bills to get said money. That's not the right way to go about doing it. 

But I do want my representative to properly represent my district, and included in that is fighting to bring in money and support to said area. 

Of course, I vote in Florida's 8th District. Your head will probably burst when you look up who that is. 

Although, I've not decided if I'm going to become an Ohio resident when I move. If so, I'll be in Ohio's 6th. I don't know a lot about it. I'll have to research before I make the switch. 

But, noo, get some obamabucks, they are free right?...

 

I guess I'm a bit confused by this. Has the act of representatives pulling in money for their districts only happened under Obama? 

 

She has not left, and not gone away quietly, despite being exposed as a bit of a ... well, less intelligent person. 

 

I can see how that could be seen as a "lie," but the term "progressive," has been thrown around in nearly every capacity known to man by nearly both sides of the coin. It's not been until recently that it was turned into a negative by conservatives. 

I can understand her answer. You just don't like the answer. 

If you are looking through an honest political scope, which sadly you do not posses, you'll see that Kagan is not some far reaching leftist. Some have gone as far as to call her a pragmatist. 

You can say that you THINK she'll switch her mind once she is on the court. But until then, she hasn't lied.  

 

You are aware that the U.S. Solicitor General doesn't sit around all day twiddling their thumbs, yeah?

 

What brand of aluminum foil is your preference? 

I like Diamond Brand Extra Strength. 

  

When we become like every other country instead of the place where you can start with nothing and become Bill Gates in one generation...

So, in your opinion, the Scandinavian countries are included in "Every other country?" 

Also, in your brian, nobody becomes billionaires in any other country BUT the U.S.? 

 

everyone realizes that our school systems are run by liberals, that is common knowledge. They indoctrinate instead of educate, and based on the last Presidential election, that indoctrination works.

Oh so many things wrong with what you said, especially an extreme lack of understanding of the Supreme Court, how it works, how it was formed and the thought process that went into its creation. 

Ahem: 

You have Marbury v. Madison to blame for that one. If you actually want to assign blame. 

 

 

and there it is...

 

no citation as requested, just a "journalist" following the hook, line and sinker of the democratic talking points. That is all liberals have, "you are dumb"... Shoot, you guys have told me over and over how dumb I am.

 

Skillet42565 wrote: Liberals control education because they're the only ones who bother to get educated.  Enjoy your bible.

 

 

See stuff like that ^ is the reason people get upset. Why troll like that?...

 

 

Is this the inpartiality you strive for?

 

 

One question.

 

Who is smarter Biden or Palin?

 

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/charlie-daniels/2010/07/01/trouble-career-politicians - http://newsbusters.org/blogs/charlie-daniels/2010/07/01/trouble-career-politicians

 

I guess they couldn't label him as dumb dumb... Since they just promoted him.

 

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2010/07/02/open-thread-doj-attacks-former-employee-over-new-black-panthers - http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2010/07/02/open-thread-doj-attacks-former-employee-over-new-black-panthers

 

 

I'll skip over the sly dig of using quotes to refer to my job, for one. 

For two, it's cute that after everything I've typed on this forum for years you still view me as liberal and a mouthpiece for Obama. 

Now to the point: Is it your opinion sir that in an interview, when she was asked what other Supreme Court cases she disagreed with other than Roe v. Wade and couldn't name another court case, that is indeed not a sign of a lack of political prowess and knowledge? 

Or is that whole Couric interview just part of the gosh durn "Gotcha media?" 

 

Skillet42565 wrote: See stuff like that ^ is the reason people get upset. Why troll like that?...

 

 

Ok.

 

How about this thread... Washington times editorial pretty much nailed it... Proving the liberal media bias on this very story...

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/2/media-blackout-for-black-panthers/ - http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/2/media-blackout-for-black-panthers/

 

"Where is http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/the-new-york-times/ - the New York Times ? Where is http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/the-washington-post/ - The Washington Post ? Where are http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/cbs/ - CBS and http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/nbc/ - NBC ? A whistleblower makes explosive allegations about the http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/department-of-justice/ - Department of Justice ; his story is backed by at least two other witnesses; and the allegations involve the two hot-button issues of race and of blatant politicization of the justice system. A potential constitutional confrontation stemming from the scandal brews between the http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/department-of-justice/ - Justice Department and the http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/us-commission/ - U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. A congressman highly respected for thoughtfulness and bipartisanship has all but accused the http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/united-states-department-of-justice/ - department of serious impropriety. By every standard of objective journalism, this adds up to real news.

Or it would be real news if a Republican http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/department-of-justice/ - Justice Department stood accused. It would be real news if the liberal media weren't mostly in the tank for our celebrated but failing first black president."...

 

this blog also nails it..

http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010070510889/politics-and-economics/the-msm-blackout-of-the-black-panther-scandal-vs-children-with-fingers-in-their-ears.html - http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010070510889/politics-and-economics/the-msm-blackout-of-the-black-panther-scandal-vs-children-with-fingers-in-their-ears.html

 

Evidence that according to the lawyer in charge of prosecution has been covered up by the justice department.

 

so much so that HE QUIT!

 

read if from his mouth.

 

http://community.myfoxphilly.com/numbersix/blog/2010/07/01/adams:_inside_the_black_panther_case:_anger,_ignorance_and_lies - http://community.myfoxphilly.com/numbersix/blog/2010/07/01/adams:_inside_the_black_panther_case:_anger,_ignorance_and_lies

 

"By J. Christian Adams 6:58 p.m., Friday, June 25, 2010. On the day President Obama was elected, armed men wearing the black berets and jackboots of the New Black Panther Party were stationed at the entrance to a polling place in Philadelphia. They brandished a weapon and intimidated voters and poll watchers. After the election, the Justice Department brought a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and those armed thugs. I and other Justice attorneys diligently pursued the case and obtained an entry of default after the defendants ignored the charges. Before a final judgment could be entered in May 2009, our superiors ordered us to dismiss the case.

The New Black Panther case was the simplest and most obvious violation of federal law I saw in my Justice Department career. Because of the corrupt nature of the dismissal, statements falsely characterizing the case and, most of all, indefensible orders for the career attorneys not to comply with lawful subpoenas investigating the dismissal, this month I resigned my position as a Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney.

The federal voter-intimidation statutes we used against the New Black Panthers were enacted because America never realized genuine racial equality in elections. Threats of violence characterized elections from the end of the Civil War until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Before the Voting Rights Act, blacks seeking the right to vote, and those aiding them, were victims of violence and intimidation. But unlike the Southern legal system, Southern violence did not discriminate. Black voters were slain, as were the white champions of their cause. Some of the bodies were tossed into bogs and in one case in Philadelphia, Miss., they were buried together in an earthen dam.

Based on my firsthand experiences, I believe the dismissal of the Black Panther case was motivated by a lawless hostility toward equal enforcement of the law. Others still within the department share my assessment. The department abetted wrongdoers and abandoned law-abiding citizens victimized by the New Black Panthers. The dismissal raises serious questions about the department's enforcement neutrality in upcoming midterm elections and the subsequent 2012 presidential election.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has opened an investigation into the dismissal and the DOJ's skewed enforcement priorities. Attorneys who brought the case are under subpoena to testify, but the department ordered us to ignore the subpoena, lawlessly placing us in an unacceptable legal limbo.

The assistant attorney general for civil rights, Tom Perez, has testified repeatedly that the "facts and law" did not support this case. That claim is false. If the actions in Philadelphia do not constitute voter intimidation, it is hard to imagine what would, short of an actual outbreak of violence at the polls. Let's all hope this administration has not invited that outcome through the corrupt dismissal.

Most corrupt of all, the lawyers who ordered the dismissal - Loretta King, the Obama-appointed acting head of the Civil Rights Division, and Steve Rosenbaum - did not even read the internal Justice Department memorandums supporting the case and investigation. Just as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. admitted that he did not read the Arizona immigration law before he condemned it, Mr. Rosenbaum admitted that he had not bothered to read the most important department documents detailing the investigative facts and applicable law in the New Black Panther case. Christopher Coates, the former Voting Section chief, was so outraged at this dereliction of responsibility that he actually threw the memos at Mr. Rosenbaum in the meeting where they were discussing the dismissal of the case. The department subsequently removed all of Mr. Coates' responsibilities and sent him to South Carolina.

Mr. Perez also inaccurately testified to the House Judiciary Committee that federal "Rule 11" required the dismissal of the lawsuit. Lawyers know that Rule 11 is an ethical obligation to bring only meritorious claims, and such a charge by Mr. Perez effectively challenges the ethics and professionalism of the five attorneys who commenced the case. Yet the attorneys who brought the case were voting rights experts and would never pursue a frivolous matter. Their experience in election law far surpassed the experience of the officials who ordered the dismissal.

Some have called the actions in Philadelphia an isolated incident, not worthy of federal attention. To the contrary, the Black Panthers in October 2008 announced a nationwide deployment for the election. We had indications that polling-place thugs were deployed elsewhere, not only in November 2008, but also during the Democratic primaries, where they targeted white Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters. In any event, the law clearly prohibits even isolated incidents of voter intimidation.

Others have falsely claimed that no voters were affected. Not only did the evidence rebut this claim, but the law does not require a successful effort to intimidate; it punishes even the attempt."

 

 

No way ^ could be wanting to intimidate white voters... naaa....

 

 

 

I wonder what they would have done if I had walked by and picked up the flag they were disprespecting...

 

 

is that video an example of intimidation?

 

 

http://www.mainjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/MG_1536.jpg">

Todd Gaziano is leading the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights inquiry into the New Black Panther Party case (file photo by Ryan J. Reilly / Main Justice).

http://www.mainjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/MG_1554.jpg">

Rep. Lamar Smith (Photo by Ryan J. Reilly / Main Justice).

 

 

Well... what about this video... (this is the same guy who carried the knightstick...)

 

 

 

 

No threats there?... free speech?...

 

Tolerance?...

 

But...

 

I watched the video of the intimidation at the polling place. Which is a clear case of intimidation that mod98 won't acknowledge.

 

as he was claiming there wasn't sufficient evidence that this group (new black panthers) were out to intimidate white voters.

 

This video helps build the case that they are in fact racists, who are out to... well, he said it clearly enough himself on the video...

 

And since it is the same guy that the entire case revolves around... it is important to the discussion.

 

Should he be allowed to say that stuff. Sure. Just like I should be allowed to say what I say.

 

The hypocrisy is that with all the "civil rights" issues we heard about considering the arizona immigration law... Then they let this joker slide... When there are actual civil rights being affected, but they are black on white, instead of white vs ________. (voting is a civil right)

 

on the arizona thing... interesting how the civil rights part was left out of the lawsuit... Guess modeling the law after the federal law wasn't such a bad idea after all.

 

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/breaking-former-doj-officials-stepping-forward-to-support-j-christian-adams/?singlepage=true - http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/breaking-former-doj-officials-stepping-forward-to-support-j-christian-adams/?singlepage=true

 

 

 

Guess we better change "united" to something else...

 

 

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/black-panther-case-who-runs-the-country/?singlepage=true - http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/black-panther-case-who-runs-the-country/?singlepage=true

 

"Today I testified to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights pursuant to a subpoena investigating the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation dismissal. I would rather no such obligation had arisen.

My previous Pajamas Media article comprised much of what I was willing to testify about. In http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/j-christian-adams-you-deserve-to-know-%E2%80%94-unequal-law-enforcement-reigns-at-obamas-doj-pjm-exclusive/ - that article , I detailed specific instances of hostility being expressed towards a race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws, and in particular laws regarding voting and elections.

To the many that have experienced the hostility firsthand, denials of its existence seem preposterous.

To the many who expressed such hostility, often thoughtful but wrong, it would be a help to all of us if they might engage the debate with the respectable tenor which they sometimes did when I was in the Department of Justice. After all, such opponents of race-neutral law enforcement surely weren’t “cowards” about discussing race in those instances, and we might all benefit from a full understanding of their views. So let’s have the opponents of race-neutral enforcement of voting cases come out in the open and tell the American public why they oppose it.

But I’ll start the discussion for now.

I am reminded of a visit to the Voting Section by newly confirmed Attorney General Eric Holder in March of 2009. Attorney General Holder came to the conference room to meet the assembled Voting Section. He was introduced by a political appointee, then-acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King. It was quite exciting. In every federal building, a photograph of the president is displayed with the agency head. So in the Justice Department, President Obama is displayed with General Holder at the entrances.

Loretta King had the honor of introducing Attorney General Holder. She would subsequently participate in the dismissal of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case. And she said something astonishing in her introduction of the attorney general.

She exclaimed to the crowd:

I can’t tell you how exciting it is to go to work every day, and look up at the photos, and see that we now have two black men running the country.

Cheers followed, but not from everyone.

Obviously, I recognize the joy that naturally surrounds the election of the first black president. In 1860, a system of bondage debased the humanity of nearly four million souls in America. Even after hundreds of thousands gave their lives in places like Gettysburg, Stones River, and Battery Wagner, new but still evil ways were devised to oppress a race.

I’ve stood alone in the driveway where Medgar Evers fell in Jackson, Mississippi, and considered the sad heroism that characterizes some of the last martyrs to a cause. How close he came to seeing a sort of Promised Land on Earth, where Mississippi now boasts more minority elected officials per capita than any other state.

I’ve scoured the back streets of Philadelphia, Mississippi, hunting down the half-hidden memorial to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three champions of the right to vote. They were slaughtered after being pulled over by Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price. I wondered why the memorial was not at the jail where they were detained with sinister intent. It would make a more noble witness to what an unrestrained government is capable of doing to humans.

These places moved me to my core. I cannot even imagine how profound the election of Barack Obama would be to me if I experienced the evil injustice of segregation as a target.  I deeply respect the overwhelming joy following the election, even if I cannot understand it in the same way.

But foul history does not excuse foul impropriety.

Electoral euphoria does not justify a racially tinged announcement by a superior, in the presence of the United States attorney general, to her subordinates.

Imagine if in March 2013, the new political leadership of the Civil Rights Division were to introduce Attorney General Jeff Sessions, refer to the portrait of President Mitch Daniels, and say: “What a relief it is to come to work every day and see we once again have two white men running the country.” Not only would the story be blasted on the front pages of the Washington Post, and rightfully so, but the person who made the statement would probably lose their job. At the very least, the attorney general would be sure to take the underling aside afterwards and make it unequivocally clear that such racially tinged comments are completely unacceptable.

Had this occurred at private business, the same Civil Rights Division would probably open an employment discrimination investigation into the conduct.

What are the chances that Attorney General Holder had that discussion with Loretta King?

I’ll bet next to none. But it is certainly something that now-Senator Sessions might ask Attorney General Holder next time an oversight hearing occurs. One thing is for sure — King’s power in the Civil Rights Division did not diminish after her comment. She was held out as the fair, unbiased, and competent civil servant who gave careful consideration to the New Black Panther case.

Despite the defendants waving a baton and yelling “you are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker,” Loretta King decided that a dismissal of nearly all of the case was the only available course of action. Alas, the worm has turned.

I stated on Fox News that it was clear to me that no cases against national racial minorities would issue from the Voting Section during this administration. Let’s hope they change their mind. I testified under oath today, because I had no choice, that those instructions were given by Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG) Julie Fernandes.

My understanding of her instructions were that no cases would be brought against national racial minorities by the Voting Section, and if a U.S. Attorney wanted to bring one, it was up to them to do so. Of course, no U.S. attorney will wade into that sort of mess without the help of the experts in the Voting Section, and DAAG Fernandes would know that.

If the Department denies this occurred, then the public and the now-very-interested media should demand that the senior management of the Voting Section in 2009 be made to testify under oath to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Of course this will never happen, because they know by now what the testimony would be.

This was not the first reckless and lawless instruction Julie Fernandes had given to the Voting Section. I will be writing in the future here at Pajamas Media about other ones that could directly affect the outcome of elections.

The Department has come under widespread criticism for the dismissal of the New Black Panther case, and for the fact that many within the Civil Rights Division are openly hostile to a race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws. Notice that the Department has never once denied that widespread hostility exists throughout its ranks to bringing cases against national racial minorities. To do so would be futile, because so many people know it is true.

That doesn’t mean the Department of Justice can’t redeem itself.

The best thing that could happen from the ugly New Black Panthers dismissal and public revelation of the truth is for the Department to change course. The outrage I have heard in hundreds of emails and in calls from around the nation tell me Americans value equal enforcement of the law as much as they cherish the right to vote without men with weapons shouting racial slurs at them. Equality and the right to vote are sacred partners.

If these hearings prompt the Department to reconsider the institutional hostility to equal enforcement of voting laws, then it will be a great day for America. We will all be able to exhale and declare: “Thank goodness they finally followed the law.” If it took attention for them to change course, we can all agree the attention was good.

I actually believe Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez is the right man to do it. He inherited the mess of the New Black Panthers case from Steve Rosenbaum and Loretta King, two lifelong civil servants who should be forced by the attorney general to learn what it is like to find paying clients. Similarly, reckless instructions to the voting section by DAAG Julie Fernandes can still be reversed by Perez. Tom Perez, I believe, is a man who wants to do the right thing, even if we might disagree about particulars. And nothing could be more right and just than making it perfectly clear to everyone — through action, not a press release — that the Department is willing to enforce all the voting laws and protect all victims of racial discrimination.

I’ll be watching and reporting at Pajamas Media on a number of matters where perfect opportunities for redemption are within reach for Perez to undo the damage that Rosenbaum, King, and Fernandes have done to Obama’s vision of a Civil Rights Division committed to enforcing all of the laws with integrity.

So I started the conversation. It would be good if the Department of Justice did more than talk about a commitment to enforcing the Voting Rights Act in a race-neutral fashion.  America would prefer some action.

Your turn, General Holder.

J. Christian Adams is an election lawyer who served in the Voting Rights Section at the U.S. Department of Justice. His website is www.electionlawcenter.com."

 

maybe if you read any of the links I have provided... You would see what is the problem... Maybe not...

 

Any charge is "alleged" until convicted. By not showing up to court, the defendents automatically pled guilty... Until the charges were mysteriously dropped... after the case was won.

 

 

FreeEnterprise wrote: Wow, I had no idea the following were fox affiliates...     http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/us/07rights.html - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/07/us/07rights.html   http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/07/2873836/panther-case-dismissal-needs-explanation.html - http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/07/2873836/panther-case-dismissal-needs-explanation.html    "Here's how a Justice Department complaint filed in January 2009 described those events: Samir Shabazz, head of the http://topics.sacbee.com/Philadelphia/ - Philadelphia chapter of the New http://topics.sacbee.com/Black+Panther+Party/ - Black Panther Party, and party member http://topics.sacbee.com/Jerry+Jackson/ - Jerry Jackson were "deployed" in front of a Fairmount Avenue polling place in "military style uniforms." Shabazz brandished a nightstick. He "pointed the weapon at individuals, menacingly tapped it (in) his other hand, or menacingly tapped it elsewhere." Both Shabazz and http://topics.sacbee.com/Jackson/ - Jackson leveled "racial threats and racial insults at both black and white individuals," and they "made menacing and intimidating gestures, statements and movements directed at individuals who were present to aid voters." The two men, the party and its national chairman were named in the complaint. Since none responded, the case was all but won. However, in May 2009, the Justice Department dropped claims against all but Shabazz, who was merely ordered not to take a weapon to a http://topics.sacbee.com/Philadelphia/ - Philadelphia polling place through 2012." http://www.examiner.com/x-37739-NY-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m7d6-DOJ-race-related-corruption-may-be-cause-of-dropped-New-Black-Panther-voter-intimidation-case - http://www.examiner.com/x-37739-NY-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m7d6-DOJ-race-related-corruption-may-be-cause-of-dropped-New-Black-Panther-voter-intimidation-case   http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/07/former-doj-attorney-alleges-lawlessness-in-civil-rights-division.html - http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/07/former-doj-attorney-alleges-lawlessness-in-civil-rights-division.html   " which is investigating the 2008 incident where two Black Panther members stood outside of a Philadelphia polling location allegedly yelling racial slurs while one of the men brandished a nightstick. "   http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Reverse-discrimination-in-New-Black-Panther-case-97891039.html - http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Reverse-discrimination-in-New-Black-Panther-case-97891039.html   "The evidence at hand in Philadelphia includes video of two thuggish African-American men dressed in military fatigues. As one wielded a baton in a menacing manner, they hurled racial slurs at white voters who understandably were scared away from the polling place. The Justice Department under President George W. Bush filed criminal charges against the two men. After Obama took office, default judgments resulted when the defendants failed to show for their trials. But Holder's Justice Department later dropped the charges following a plea deal in which one of the men agreed not to carry a weapon near the Philadelphia polling place until 2012. Both men are now free to intimidate voters again."   http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/6/black-panther-case-racism-rules/ - http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/6/black-panther-case-racism-rules/   http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704862404575350983196404478.html - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704862404575350983196404478.html   "He says the administration used a racial double standard in deciding last year to drop the prosecution of the New Black Panther Party after members were videotaped in front of a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day 2008 dressed in military-style uniforms, brandishing a billy club and using racial slurs against voters. Mr. Adams says the career prosecutors who pursued the case did their job but were stymied by Obama political appointees, for whom he has harsh words: "To abandon law-abiding citizens and abet wrongdoers constitutes corruption," he told Fox News last week. President Obama's Justice Department continues to stonewall inquiries about why it dropped the voter intimidation case, which Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and former publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, calls "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen." Mr. Bull and others witnessed one Black Panther pointing his billy club at voters and making racial threats. Mr. Bull says he heard one yell: "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!""   http://www.lincolntribune.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=18299 - http://www.lincolntribune.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=18299   and fox canada... eh   http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/25073 - http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/25073

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They tremble at my name...

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/08/mainstream-media-coverage-slim-nasa-black-panther-stories/?test=latestnews - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/08/mainstream-media-coverage-slim-nasa-black-panther-stories/?test=latestnews

 

"In the New Black Panther case, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is a year into its investigation and on Tuesday heard groundbreaking testimony from a former official who claims the Justice Department dropped it in part because it refuses to go after black defendants in civil rights cases. "

 

 

This justice department is racist plain and simple. They feel they can manipulate the law to whatever they want if it is white on black... But, black on white, gets a pass.

 

for example.

 

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news%2Flocal%2Feast_bay&id=7545102 - http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news%2Flocal%2Feast_bay&id=7545102

 

So, now in America, if the justice department doesn't like the verdict in a case... They can retry you for the same crime... I wonder if all the people arrested in the rioting after this verdict will be charged with "hate crimes"...

 

Oh, yeah, NO!

 

"The Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney's Office, and the FBI have an open investigation into the fatal shooting and, at the conclusion of the state's prosecution, will conduct an independent review of the facts and circumstances to determine whether the evidence warrants federal prosecution."

 

 

 

so much for race relations moving forward with the election...

 

 

 

Nancy was just 9 months too early with this news conference...

 

 

oh, wait, she was talking about the tea party...

 

Not the new black panthers who just advocated killing cops...

 

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/07/09/imagine-if-conervative-had-said-it-child-and-cop-killer-edition - http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/07/09/imagine-if-conervative-had-said-it-child-and-cop-killer-edition

 

 

hmm... riots...

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/08/BAFL1EBKII.DTL&tsp=1 - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/08/BAFL1EBKII.DTL&tsp=1

 

"A boutique called Spoiled was spared. It had a sign outside and pictures of Oscar Grant with the words, "Do not destroy. Black owned. Black owned." "

 

 

 

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/07/suspect-charged-in-officers-shooting-death.html - http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/07/suspect-charged-in-officers-shooting-death.html

 

 

"The 11-year police veteran was still in uniform in the facility's parking lot when Brewer approached him from behind and reached for the officer's weapon, according to police.

During a struggle, Brewer grabbed Soderberg's handgun and shot the officer, authorities said. Soderberg was shot three times--in the head, back, and face, said assistant state's attorney John Dillon, in the hearing before Ocasio. Brewer then crossed the street, weapon still in hand, and shot at Richard Mints, a contractor sitting on a nearby porch."

 

 

 

 

I am speechless.

 

 

Ohh, it's Glenn Beck... We can't watch that... Even if he is right on all of his points.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please enlighten me on all the points where he was incorrect.

 

Or in the next segment. Of course there must be glaring errors.

 

AMIRITE!

 

 

typical.

 

At least get your facts straight. James O'Keefe was convicted of a misdemeanor. For entering a federal building under false pretences (in other words undercover..., that is illegal if you are a conservative journalist now... oh wait, or covering the gulf... $40,000 fine and felony in those cases... So much for transparency)

 

There is no way to edit the acorn tapes to make things seem "worse" than they actually were... That outfit was the way to organize crime, at the taxpayers expense.

 

 

At least get your facts straight on your slander.

 

Because O'Keefe editing out the portions where he was telling the ACORN workers that he was rescuing the females from an abusive human trafficker and trying to set them up in a home wasn't manipulative. 

At least get your facts straight on your slander.

lol

 

 

any video for air is edited. That is the nature of video "packages". You take the clips that are important you edit them together, and cut out all the boring stuff.

 

At least be intellectually honest, we all realize that video's are edited. Otherwise they are boring. As a culture we expect stuff to be edited so we can quickly get to the point.

 

 

The problem with your argument, besides it coming directly from media matters... Is that it is intellectually dishonest. We all realize that they would put together an intro... As the video's went on, the intro got more outrageous. I guess if you came late to the story... And missed all the first video's and started watching towards the end... You would think that he wore the pimp costume.

 

 

And this is typical of a leftist argument. Don't look at the crimes being advocated, ignore the blatent disregard for the law, and instead attack the person who pointed out the problem.

 

 

FIND A NEW TACTIC. Attacking the whistle blower is getting VERY tired. Hey, why don't you call him a racist too. oh wait.

 

But, anyone who watched the video's in the order they were released wouldn't make such a ridiculous assumption.

 

Here are all the video's

 

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=veritasvisuals#g/u - http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=veritasvisuals#g/u

 

Here is one where they were told all kinds of ways to lie, as well as multiple ways to break laws, without being caught, including prostitution, money laundering. Notice what they are wearing in the beginning of the video...

 

Notice what they are wearing in the shots where his arm goes in front of the camera.

 

hmm. same outfit... Well, he must be a racist as he is wearing a WHITE shirt!

 

 

 

glad to see you guys paid attention to all of these video's back when I posted them...

 

 

Very typical, ignore the facts, and attack the person who points out the major corruption and lawlessness.

 

 

And this...

 

mbro wrote: And not to mention that an entire non governmental organization aimed at helping the poor rise from poverty got shut down. It's ok though because poor people in urban centers tend to vote democratic, we wouldn't want them advancing at all.

 

wow...

 

Guess this representative gets his news from the same sources as you guys, he knew nothing about this story...

 

Present the facts, liberal ignores the facts, and makes up pretend "facts" then blames Bush...

 

So similar to this forum...

any video for air is edited. That is the nature of video "packages". You take the clips that are important you edit them together, and cut out all the boring stuff.

That's fine, I'm well aware of the process of TV news posting video packs, but the problem is when "All the boring stuff" is actually the explanation as to why you are watching what you are watching then there is a problem. 

Especially when the part you cut out is you explaining to the poverty center worker multiple times that you are trying to rescue girls from an abusive pimp human trafficker. That seems like an important element of setting up sympathy that seems to be missing. Also the dubbing in of paraphrases. Also the dubbing in of things that were not said. Also leaving out the fact that the worker called a family member in law enforcement asking them what to do, and then having them contact the local police. 

But no, this is not manipulative. Not at all. 

I'm not saying that the ACORN worker should have been telling anyone how to launder money. 

 

However, thinking that the worker was doing it because she was a big fan of prostitution, and not because O'Keefe said repeatedly that he was rescuing violently abused prostitutes is daft when you watch the legit unedited video. 

Oh, and I know this will get passed off as another example of Barney Hussien Fartbomba's Chicago thug politics or something, but: 

http://www.alternet.org/news/147248/acorn_totally_vindicated_of_all_wrongdoing_--_what_was_that_scandal_all_about/?page=entire - http://www.alternet.org/news/147248/acorn_totally_vindicated_of_all_wrongdoing_--_what_was_that_'scandal'_all_about/?page=entire

The GOA couldn't find any wrongdoing with the taxpayer's money.

Hopefully others here will read that at least. 

And not to triple post so I will just add this on the bottom of this post, but this one is on the topic of the thread itself: 

Meanwhile we wade through "DOES OBAMA HATE GULF STATES FOR NOT REACTING QUICK ENOUGH?" stories like they did with Bush during Katrina. 

But no, kid gloves for Obama. Sure. 

 

 

 

Look at my post again... I posted 1 video from the list. In that video go to 5:00 in...

 

 

Maybe it is just me, but he clearly states that they are doing this to get away from an abusive pimp, so your entire (media matters) argument is FALSE.

 

 

but, you would have to look at what I post to see it... Which you don't, because you have already made up your mind. (again proving your journalistic bias).

 

So trust them... The same people who loved acorn found nothing wrong. Reminds me of the IPCC report where they too found nothing wrong with anything they did. Or Obama looking at his handling of blago and finding "nothing was wrong". Or the oil spill, where the government did nothing wrong.

 

You may not see a pattern...

 

 

I love how you brought up yet another media matters lie.

 

Only the far left would spout off something like that, and yet you jump right onboard as usual.

 

I know you won't even read anything I post as usual, but here for anyone else who wants to see how easily you are manipulated into your "freedom of thought"... is a well presented dismissal of your media matters spin on this story.

 

http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2010/07/14/the-msm-playbook-to-suppress-story-leftist-media-attempts-to-swiftboat-doj-discrimination-scandal/ - http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2010/07/14/the-msm-playbook-to-suppress-story-leftist-media-attempts-to-swiftboat-doj-discrimination-scandal/

 

 

1) Editing it down to small mentions when that had been the key talking point is indeed manipulative.

2) For someone who cries "Personal attack!" all the time, you sure don't mind doing it yourself. 

Hey look at that. I was right. 

I didn't post that link because I thought that it absolved Holder. I don't agree with his decision. I also don't live in OMG OUTRAGE land, so this wasn't an OMG OUTRAGE. I can disagree with something and think it wasn't the right thing to do in the situation and not be COMPLETELY OUTRAGED. 

For those of us who like to have rational, calm debates on here, it presents the side of the argument that Holder and his DOJ crew were not the only ones who thought the case against the New Black Panthers was a weak one. It introduces a new point to discuss. 

That's all. 

It's not some secret tactic. It's not brainwashing. It's not anything other than something new to discuss. 

Deep breath: Take one. 

 

Ignore that you were completely wrong about the video (which you clearly never watched...) never saying that they were fleeing a violent pimp... When the video did show them saying that. And saying I didn't respond, except where I responded that you quoted...

 

Me right.

 

Ignore the facts that this case violates civil rights, and a push by the administration to promote a clear violation of law, and sets us back to the 60's... Where one racial segment gets a pass on any crime, and the other racial segment has no justice.

 

me right again.

 

And turn the entire discussion into another ad hominem attack about me.

 

In liberal land, that must mean you won!

 

congrats.

 

 

 

 

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usccr.gov%2FNBPH%2F05-14-2010_NBPPhearing.pdf%23page%3D17 - https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usccr.gov%2FNBPH%2F05-14-2010_NBPPhearing.pdf%23page%3D17

 

 

Oh, we discuss some doozies on here... Had a whole thread about the liberal activist supreme court nomination...

 

Which reminds me, I need to bring back up Obamacare since two states "high risk" plans were just outed as full funding of abortion... Guess that group of no abortion with government money, democrat holdouts feel real good about getting played by "the man".

 

Looks like the NAACP defense fund was trying to use it's power to get the charges dismissed against the black panthers...

 

No wonder they called the tea party racist... good way to get this swept under the rug...

 

 

I love how they respond not by declaring the new black panther party racist, but that the NAACP legal defense fund is different than the NAACP...

 

hahahhahahhahhaha Nice spin racebaiters.

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/jul/14/naacp-direct-tie-black-panthers/ - http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/jul/14/naacp-direct-tie-black-panthers/

 

 

 

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071604081.html - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/16/AR2010071604081.html

 

"Thursday's Post reported about a growing controversy over the http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/14/AR2010071405880.html - Justice Department's decision to scale down a voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party . The story succinctly summarized the issues but left many readers with a question: What took you so long?

 

(What is it Scoobie?... Do you see a problem with the DOJ?)

 

Wray Wried!

 

"Who lied, Scoobie?"

 

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/proof-new-records-show-doj-lied-about-new-black-panther-dismissal/ - http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/proof-new-records-show-doj-lied-about-new-black-panther-dismissal/

 

"Judicial Watch made an explosive announcement today about the Justice Department’s stonewalling in the New Black Panther voter intimidation case dismissal. Forced to bring a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit after DOJ rebuffed its public records request (so much for transparency), Judicial Watch obtained a privilege log from the DOJ last week.

It shows — in a rather dramatic way — that the DOJ has been untruthful about who was involved in the dismissal of the case.

In July, I complied with a subpoena and provided testimony to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. I did so in part because inaccurate statements had been made about the case by DOJ officials. Some of these statements falsely claimed that ethical rules mandated the dismissal of the charges against the New Black Panthers. This was nonsense.

But the real whopper? DOJ’s claim — repeated over and over again — that career civil servants were wholly responsible for the spiking of the case.

Today we learn, from the Department’s own records, that this claim is demonstrably false.

The privilege log produced in the FOIA litigation contains stunning entries. They show regular discussions and deliberations between the highest political officials inside the DOJ, including the deputy attorney general and the associate attorney general, about what to do with the case. This contradicts numerous statements made to Congress, the Civil Rights Commission, and to the public.

Some of these statements were under oath.

For example: on May 10, 2009, the third highest-ranking official inside the DOJ — Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli — emailed Sam Hirsch, one of his deputies:

Where are we on the Black Panther case?

The description of the email contains a bombshell:

asking for update on the NBPP litigation between officials in the [Associate’s office] and noting the [deputy attorney general’s] current thoughts on the case.

The deputy attorney general is the second highest-ranking official in the Department. The use of the term “current thoughts” infers that there were prior thoughts and ongoing discussions with the second highest-ranking political official at DOJ about how to handle the case.

Further, the logs show dozens of communications between senior DOJ political officials in the two weeks prior to the dismissal of the case.

Congress and the public have been told — for over a year — that the dismissal of the New Black Panther case resulted from nothing more than a dispute between lowly career civil servants. Lapdog reporters have repeated this lie, if they even covered the case at all. The documents uncovered by Judicial Watch expose the ruse.

Rarely in our nation’s history have officials in the Department of Justice engaged in a dishonest misinformation campaign to Congress, the public, and other fact-finding tribunals. Thankfully, these few episodes have been confined to the darkest and most corrupt eras of the republic."

 

Anyone want to bet which media outlet trumpets this news?

 

And will the network news ignore this little tidbit as well?

 

http://www.news.com.au/business/breaking-news/us-government-hiding-true-amount-of-debt/story-e6frfkur-1225926567256#ixzz106MjZzOz - http://www.news.com.au/business/breaking-news/us-government-hiding-true-amount-of-debt/story-e6frfkur-1225926567256#ixzz106MjZzOz

 

"The Government is lying about the amount of debt. It is engaging in Enron accounting," said Laurence Kotlikoff, an economist at Boston University and co-author of The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future.

"The problem is we're seeing an explosion in spending," added Andrew Moylan, director of government affairs for the National Taxpayers Union."

 

First is King Samir we have all seen his hate filled tirades against "white" Americans.

 

King Samir beat a man so severly with a stick in 1995 that he changes his name to the current "king" moniker. (real name Maruse Heath)

 

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=55095929 - http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=55095929

 

 

Oh, lookie, he brandishes firearms... Isn't that illegal for felons?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/electionjournal/3674314250/ - http://www.flickr.com/photos/electionjournal/3674314250/

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/electionjournal/3674314292/ - http://www.flickr.com/photos/electionjournal/3674314292/

 

Jerry Jackson, Democratic precinct committeeman. ( http://www.electionjournal.org/2010/05/18/only-in-philly-black-panther-on-the-ballot/ - http://www.electionjournal.org/2010/05/18/only-in-philly-black-panther-on-the-ballot/  )

 

Here we have a convicted felon, ( http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=55096177 - http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=55096177  ) who is brandishing firearms (illegally) but the justice department is ignoring this... Because clearly he is above the law (19 U.S.C. 922 ) and a honored member of the democratic party.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/electionjournal/5012660074 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/electionjournal/5012660074

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/electionjournal/5012056921 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/electionjournal/5012056921