The Racist Justice Department

**vinnie97** · 07-03-10, 05:27 PM

No excuse for this Black Panther defense after all:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...lack-panthers/

Where is the New York Times? Where is The Washington Post? Where are CBS and NBC? A whistleblower makes explosive allegations about the 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 Justice Department and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. A congressman highly respected for thoughtfulness and bipartisanship has all but accused the 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 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.

Tomorrow, the Civil Rights Commission will hear long-awaited testimony from J. Christian Adams, who resigned from the Voting Section of the Justice Department after the department improperly ordered him to refuse compliance with the commission's lawful subpoena. Mr. Adams first told his story in public in these pages on June 28 and later did two major interviews with Fox News' Megyn Kelly. In those appearances, he flatly accused the Obama Justice Department of adopting an unlawful, immoral policy identified in previous Washington Times editorials - namely, enforcing civil rights laws against white perpetrators who victimized minorities but never against black perpetrators who victimize whites or Asians. If this is indeed the policy, it makes a scandalous mockery of the cherished American principle of "equal justice under the law."

All these allegations stem from what should have been a slam-dunk voter-intimidation case against members of the New Black Panther Party videotaped in menacing behavior outside a Philadelphia polling place in 2008. The Obama Justice Department dropped or seriously reduced all the charges or penalties in the case after it already effectively had been won. Mr. Adams' former colleague, longtime award-winning civil rights lawyer Christopher Coates, has been reported on multiple occasions to have backed Mr. Adams' version of events and of the Obama team's openly discriminatory policy.

If the department's motives are not racial or racist, Justice officials surely appear political. One of the Black Panthers against whom the department declined to press charges was an official poll watcher for the Democratic Party and an elected local party official. The department dropped charges just four days before another election, allowing him again to serve as a poll watcher.

Mr. Adams says the official most directly involved in dropping the case, Steven H. Rosenbaum - whose ethics have been subject to judicial sanction - refused to read his own team's legal briefs before deciding to dismiss the case. Mr. Adams accuses Thomas E. Perez, head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, of providing false answers in testimony to the Civil Rights Commission.

On a parallel track, The Washington Times has reported strong circumstantial evidence suggesting that department officials may have consulted the White House before dismissing the case. That possibility, too, cries out for investigation.

These broad policy questions and suggestions of political chicanery are important. Do we have a nation of laws equally applied to all, or is justice being reduced to raw politics? Investigating such questions is the essence of the news business. Failure to look into such a scandal is evidence of the institutional corruption of the much-ballyhooed "fourth branch of government," a supposedly independent media.

Since this is a dereliction of justice in not keeping the voting process free and open, it's yet more fodder for drawing up articles of impeachment.

How much longer will you "enlightened" libbies sit by silently and defend this? Justice for all only applies to minorities?

**vinnie97** · 07-08-10, 11:16 AM

Yea, just as I thought, there's no defense for protecting this, unless you're too stricken with white guilt.

The hoax and chains continue.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnal...olorblind.aspx

Justice: A former top official charges the Justice Department with practicing racial politics and selective prosecution in the Black Panther voter-intimidation case. Are we a "nation of cowards," or is it just Holder's DOJ?

In February, on the occasion of Black History Month, Attorney General Eric Holder called the United States a "nation of cowards" regarding discussions of race even as his department was failing to prosecute one of the clearest cases of voter intimidation in American history because the defendants were black militants, members of the New Black Panther Party.

Holder said that "we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial." Okay, let's talk, starting with Tuesday's testimony of J. Christian Adams, a former career DOJ attorney in the Voting Rights Section. Adams resigned over DOJ's handling of the Black Panther case and DOJ's refusal to honor Civil Rights Commission subpoenas, including ordering Adams not to comply.

On Election Day 2008, New Black Panther party members King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jerry Jackson engaged in activities that resulted in charges in a civil complaint of violating the Voting Rights Act through intimidation, threats and coercion, as they stood dressed in military garb outside a Philadelphia polling place.

The video of the event, photos and witness testimony presented an open-and-shut case ripe for DOJ prosecution. The Justice Department under President George W. Bush filed criminal charges against the three men. Holder's Justice Department would later drop the charges in a plea deal in which the baton-brandishing thugs promised not to do it again in Philadelphia until 2012. They walked, free to intimidate elsewhere.

On Tuesday, Adams gave the testimony his bosses tried to block, telling the Civil Rights Commission how Holder's department refused to prosecute what he has called "the clearest case of voter intimidation that I've seen since practicing law."

At an April 23 Commission hearing, witnesses testified to how the Black Panthers acted in concert, threatening black Republicans and whites who showed up. Two witnesses testified that they saw some would-be voters turn back and leave without voting after seeing the nightstick and being called "white devils."

Yet Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, testified before the commission in April that "the facts did not constitute a prosecutable violation of the federal criminal civil rights statutes." Say what?

"After reviewing the evidence, the department concluded that there was insufficient evidence to establish that the party or Malik Zulu Shabazz violated Section 11(b)," Perez said in his testimony.

Thomas Perez, the open borders idiot spearheading the charge to sue Arizona.

**zerojunkie** · 07-08-10, 02:13 PM

http://mediamatters.org/research/201007070020

Adams is a long-time right-wing activist, who is known for filing an ethics complaint against Hugh Rodham that was subsequently dismissed, served as a Bush poll watcher in Florida 2004, and reportedly volunteered for a Republican group that trains lawyers to fight "racially tinged battles over voting rights";
Adams was hired to the Justice Department in 2005 by Bradley Schlozman, who was found by the Department of Justice Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility to have improperly considered political affiliation when hiring career attorneys -- the former head of the DOJ voting rights section reportedly said that Adams was "exhibit A of the type of people hired by Schlozman";
Adams has admitted that he does not have first-hand knowledge of the events, conversations, and decisions that he is citing to advance his accusations;
The Bush administration's Justice Department -- not the Obama administration -- made the decision not to pursue criminal charges against members of the New Black Panther Party for alleged voter intimidation at a polling center in Philadelphia in 2008;
The Obama administration successfully obtained default judgment against Samir Shabazz, a member of the New Black Panther Party carrying a nightstick outside the Philadelphia polling center on Election Day 2008;
The Bush administration DOJ chose not to pursue similar charges against members of the Minutemen, one of whom allegedly carried a weapon while harassing Hispanic voters in Arizona in 2006;
No voters have come forward to claim that they were intimidated from voting on account of the New Black Panthers standing outside the polling center in 2008;
The Republican vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which is currently investigating the Justice Department's decision, has called that investigation "very small potatoes" full of "overheated rhetoric filled with insinuations and unsubstantiated charges," and said it has not "served the interests of the commission"; she further said that DOJ has given a "plausible argument" for not pursuing additional charges in the case.

slam dunk alright.

**vinnie97** · 07-08-10, 03:41 PM

MediaMatters, nothing more than a propaganda arm for that capitalist hating billionaire douche, George Soros (the same Presidential comrade who visited the White House at least 4 times last year). The LAST site I'll ever believe for truthful information. The Minutemen bullet alone is a fabrication.

**transplant** · 07-14-10, 09:42 AM

The Fed is opening another probe on the incident in Philly. Well, according to good ole Fox News.

**transplant** · 07-14-10, 09:44 AM

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010...-panther-case/

Adams' allegations have led the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which is investigating the Justice Department's handling of the case, to plan a new round of subpoenas and call for a separate federal probe.

**PETA** · 07-14-10, 12:53 PM

click the "taunted" link for video of the incident (or rather one of them)

Unequal Justice

Team Obama lets the Black Panthers get away with voter intimidation.

Voters at a precinct on Philadelphia’s Fairmount Street witnessed unusual sights and sounds on Election Day, Nov. 4, 2008. Two members of the New Black Panther party, King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, stood within 15 feet of this polling station dressed in military-style black jackets, black berets, and black combat boots. Shabazz wielded a two-foot-long night stick.

“Cracker, you are about to be ruled by a black man,” one of the New Black Panthers told a white voter. They others as “white devils.” Angela and Larry Counts, a black couple who served as GOP poll watchers, told authorities they felt endangered when the Panthers called them “race traitors.”

At an April 23, 2010, U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing, Chris Hill, an eyewitness and roving poll watcher, explained under oath that he spoke with Larry Counts inside the precinct. “When I found him, he was not quite cowering, but he was definitely shook up,” Hill testified. “And he told me that he was called a race traitor by Mr. Shabazz . . . and that he was threatened if he stepped outside of the building, there would be hell to pay.”

A Dec. 22, 2008, Justice Department memorandum states that Mr. and Mrs. Counts “confirmed that they were afraid to leave the polling place until the Black Panthers had departed.” The memo adds that Angela Counts “wondered what might occur next and if someone might ‘bomb the place.’”

full article

**orbit** · 07-14-10, 01:04 PM

I listened to the NPR interview yesterday and they had audio of one of the poll watcher challenging the panther outside, asking them why they have sticks and such.
If this is acceptable behavior now then I'm sure the KKK will be glad to provide their services at the 2012 elections.

**PETA** · 07-14-10, 03:43 PM

four legs good, two legs better

racism is just fine as long as it isn't being practiced by white people

here's of the guy with the night stick saying that if people want freedom they'll have to kill crackers

this shit would be laughed off as unbelievable but for being on film

**orbit** · 07-15-10, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by PETA

four legs good, two legs better

racism is just fine as long as it isn't being practiced by white people

here's of the guy with the night stick saying that if people want freedom they'll have to kill crackers

this shit would be laughed off as unbelievable but for being on film

agreed, I guess "some are more equaller than others"

**johnny861** · 07-15-10, 02:44 PM

From 2:38, cracks me up!

**transplant** · 07-15-10, 04:49 PM

I caught the YouTube yesterday. Fox News is making a huge deal out of this and is claiming that no one else is running the story. I don't know, but it is definitely being investigated. Sorry, but this makes me laugh, “Cracker, you are about to be ruled by a black man.”

Fox News seemed to make this sound as if this type of intimidation took place nation wide, but I only see information of it occurring in Philly at one poll. Anyone else have other info?

**PETA** · 07-15-10, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by transplant

Sorry, but this makes me laugh, “Cracker, you are about to be ruled by a black man.”

Shouldn't. It was explicitly said with great malice. Using racist terms to be self-depricating and ironic in order to mock racism is one thing. Being racist quite another.

Originally Posted by transplant

Fox News seemed to make this sound as if this type of intimidation took place nation wide, but I only see information of it occurring in Philly at one poll. Anyone else have other info?

Just Philadelphia I think. I believe I read somewhere that the NBPP is so racist the old BPP condemned them. Anyway, the leader is subject to a court order until 2012 (I think). He cannot appear within 100 feet of a polling center in Philly.

**vinnie97** · 07-16-10, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by transplant

I caught the YouTube yesterday. Fox News is making a huge deal out of this and is claiming that no one else is running the story.

I haven't seen the other 3 (CNN, NBC, CBS) pay much mind to it myself.

**-m-** · 07-16-10, 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by vinnie97

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