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DOJ not Blind but Hopelessly Corrupt
There was evidence that the New Black Panther Party intimidated voters on Election Day in November, 2008. Many Americans can still remember the video of the two NBPP members, dressed in military style para uniforms outside a polling place near downtown Philadelphia.
Former civil rights lawyer Bartle Bull, who is publisher of the Village Voice, calls the NBBP intimidation in Philly "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen." Mr. Bull happened to be there that day, along with others who witnessed the two Black Panthers intimidate voters. One of them, they say, brandished a nightstick at the entrance and pointed it at voters. They say both men made racial threats. Bull says he heard one yell: "You are about to be ruled by the black man, Cracker!"
Any voter intimidation story presents an upsetting scenario to most Americans, especially those like Bull who worked and fought for civil rights. Americans worth their salt believe in the sanctity of democratic elections. Ours is a representative government, and we should embrace and take pride in the fact that we elect our government leaders. Last we’d heard, racist organization cannot send their people to polling stations with weapons to intimidate voters. We thought that battle had been fought and that ugly war had been won.
In the first week of 2009, the Justice Department (under the Bush Administration) filed a civil lawsuit against the NBPP and three of its members, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The suit alleged that New Black Panther Party members scared voters with a weapon, uniforms and racial slurs. In March, Bartle Bull submitted an affidavit in support of the lawsuit at the request of the Justice Department.
During the weeks that followed, the three defendants did not file a response to the complaint and no one appeared in Philly’s federal district court to answer the suit. Justice lawyers, obtained an entry of default after the defendants ignored the case against them, which made it look like the scales of justice had found the right balance (but looks can be deceiving). Before a final judgment could be entered, their superiors at the DOJ ordered dismissal of the claims. In May of 2009, the DOJ allowed the New Black Panther Party and two of the three defendants to walk. It did seek an injunction against Panther Leader King Samir Shabazz, which barred him from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of a Philadelphia polling place for the next three years (an illegal action under current existing law).
Congressional Republicans, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and the Justice Department's own Civil Rights Division voiced condemned the DOJ's action, when it became public knowledge that one of the former defendants (who walked) was Jerry Jackson, a member of the 14th Ward Democratic Committee. He is a credentialed poll watcher for the Philadelphia Democratic Party.
On July 30 of last year, the Washington Times released a story by reporter Jerry Seper that covered the news of the six career lawyers at the DOJ, who had recommended continuing to pursue the case and were overruled by Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli. The story said one of the career attorneys, Appellate Chief Diana Flynn, had urged in an internal memo that a judgment be pressed against the defendants to "prevent the paramilitary style intimidation of voters" in the future.
EXCLUSIVE: No. 3 at Justice OK'd Panther Reversal
“...The department's career lawyers in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division who pursued the complaint for five months had recommended that Justice seek sanctions against the party and three of its members after the government had already won a default judgment in federal court against the men.
Front-line lawyers were in the final stages of completing that work when they were unexpectedly told by their superiors in late April to seek a delay after a meeting between political appointees and career supervisors, according to federal records and interviews.The delay was ordered by then-acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King after she discussed with Mr. Perrelli concerns about the case during one of their regular review meetings, according to the interviews.
Ms. King, a career senior executive service official, had been named by President Obama in January to temporarily fill the vacant political position of assistant attorney general for civil rights while a permanent choice could be made.”
In August of 2009, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights made its statement on the NBPP intimidation case via a letter to the DOJ demanding more complete answers.
"We believe the Department's defense of its actions thus far undermines respect for rule of law.”
The letter noted "the peculiar logic" of one Justice argument, specifically that defendants' failure to show up in court was a reason for dismissing the case:
"Such an argument sends a perverse message to wrongdoers—that attempts at voter suppression will be tolerated so long as the persons who engage in them are careful not to appear in court to answer the government's complaint."
After last August, the NBPP voter intimidation story seemed to die, because most of the the MSM just purrs at the feet of Obama and his administration. Many reporters only print what they receive in daily briefings, so they didn’t cover the story. Months passed and nothing new was revealed, when lo and behold a former DOJ attorney stepped forward out of the mist of denial and pushed the story into the national spotlight this week.
Civil rights attorney J. Christian Adams (photo, right) stepped up this month during a Fox interview and shared his first hand knowledge of DOJ events. Mr. Adams
resigned from the Justice Department this year in protest of the DOJ's handling of the NBPP case. Adams claims the DOJ backed off the voter intimidation case for racial reasons. He says the DOJ abandoned a slam-dunk case of voter intimidation and that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez gave false testimony before the US Commission on Civil Rights meeting in May.
During his interview, Adams said the administration has failed to prosecute non-whites when it comes to voting intimidation cases and that the NBPP case demonstrates that fact. Adams told Fox News: “I don’t think the department or the fine people who work there are corrupt, but in this particular instance, to abandon law-abiding citizens and abet wrongdoers, constitutes corruption.”
Adams accused the Justice Department of not continuing the case for political and racial reasons. He called the case “a slam dunk,” telling Fox News “nobody thought there was any doubt that this was the clearest case of voter intimidation that I’ve seen since I’ve been practicing law.”
Since that Fox interview, MR Adams has given more specifics. (Others have stepped forward to support his views or simply to support him as a principled ethical man.) Mr Adams does not mince words in his recent Washington Times story. It is there that we find that the DOJ has a racist nature.
Mr.Adams writes: 
"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 NBPP 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....
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 US 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."
Please read the rest of Adams' story and find out the truth about the culture of corruption that exists at the DOJ. It is within his story that Adams brings up the corruption of the Democratic Primaries. (“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.”) You can find the story at: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/25/inside-the-black-panther-case-anger-ignorance-and-/
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Progressive Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder gives voter intimidation a pass, as long as the group doing the intimidating is sanctioned by the far-left .
We are a "Nation of Laws". Our laws can't apply to some while ignoring others. President Obama, as a former law professor who specialized in voting rights, is aware of how important even-handed application of the law is to election integrity. In 2007, as a US Senator, Obama introduced a bill to protect Americans from voter intimidation, which increased the criminal penalty for voter intimidation to five years in prison from a formerly set penalty of one year.
President Obama must demand that the DOJ provide a full explanation for why the NBPP case was dropped. If he does not, he sanctions the breaking of our laws and the corruption of our legal system.
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http://dailyradar.com/beltwayblips/story/j-christian-adams-you-deserve-to-know-unequal-law/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574361071968458430.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/25/inside-the-black-panther-case-anger-ignorance-and-/
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Now we can only hope it all doesn't get swept under the rug again and that all of the fetid abuses in caucuses are given the light of day.
this from a Brit friend who does not see what all the fuss is about re voter intimidation.
Cover up does not begin to describe it - at the time it happened and now that the msm is kicking in to kick it under the rug.
readersupportednews.org/opinion/42-42/2432-the-new-black-panther-party-is-the-new-acorn
Here's the first few paras.
The story is not from that website, it is from the ("consistently in the bag for Obama) publication,
NewsweekNewsweak. The story was written by David Graham. You can find it here: http://www.newsweekinteractive.net/2010/07/14/the-new-black-panther-party-is-the-new-acorn0.html?from=rssGraham pretends The ACORN case was nothing but fluff, when in fact it was a case of voter fraud, theft of taxpayer money, and corruption; abetted by the likes of the Senate's Mortgage gurus, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank. ACORN went out of business very quickly to stop legal investigation into its practices, but it is reappearing under new names around the country.
Graham can write what he likes, but most of the country that saw the video remembers the ACORN workers telling the "pimp" how to set up a house of prostitution that would house underage illegal aliens. (Oh, they also gave advice on how to get tax credits for the "business.")
NPBB is a racist organization, and it was involved in voter intimidation. It is on tape and a respected Democrat is a witness against them. (Former civil rights lawyer Bartle Bull, who is publisher of the Village Voice, calls the NBBP intimidation in Philly "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen." Bull, is former civil rights lawyer.)
Isn't it interesting that the far-left in this country gives the NBPPa pass. Why? I thought they cared about the sanctity of the vote? (Oops, there I go confusing them with Democrats I once knew; I forget the Democrat Party is dead.)
Kristin Powers tried to whitewash the NBPP story when she was on Meghan Kelly's show. Powers came out of that argument, looking like the dullest knife in the drawer:
that is pretty much how I replied to my friend - but not with such perfect style. I also noted that the polling place showing the BPs with billy-clubs was in a mostly black district and that it was mainly blacks that were intimidated both via acorn largess and BP muscle.
As I noted, cover up does not begin to describe the Graham article - at the time it happened and now that the msm is kicking in to kick it under the rug. Nor can they hide forever all the voter intimidation that went on in the states who didn't have voting but had that idiotic caucus system where people came in and stood in groups for their candidate and got pushed around. The "officials" also frequently misrepresented the counts to favor Obama.
There were people at Partizane like Creeper, who wrote about the things they witnessed during the campaign.
The NBPP is important, because the Obama campaign and Obama supporters manipulated the system using every trick in the book including voter intimidation and fraud. Now we are left with a sadly weak leader, who works to transform America into a lackey for the rest of the world.
I will never forgive this administration for its tactics during the primaries. I will never forgive the Obama supporters who bullied and censored to shut down dialogue that defended Clinton during the primaries and McCain during the national election. I will never forgive the publications that pretend they are part of the fourth estate, but in actuality just copy and paste from Federal Government briefs.
We live in the greatest country in the world, and we cannot sit back and allow people to destroy it from within.
I am glad you set your Brit friend straight. I hope s/he starts looking at her/his own government, because strange things have been happening across the big pond. Brits need to tend to their own government.