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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Not the least bit surprised…
That’s what I am. Those of us that pointed out that there had to be some dirty and politically motivated directive for the dismissal by Obama DOJ of the Black Panther voter intimidation case that was reported during the 2008 elections at a Philadelphia polling station, seem to be vindicated. My only surprise is that the so many of the incriminating underlying details and facts are coming out so early. Let’s set this up.
The clear and indisputable crime:
The case is straightforward. On Election Day 2008, two members of the New Black Panther party (NBPP) dressed in military garb were captured on videotape at a Philadelphia polling place spouting racial epithets and menacing voters. One, Minister King Samir Shabazz, wielded a nightstick. It was a textbook case of voter intimidation and clearly covered under the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The follow-up:
A Department of Justice trial team was assigned to investigate. They gathered affidavits from witnesses—one of the poll watchers was called a “white devil” and a “cracker.” A Panther told him he would be “ruled by the black man.” The trial team, all career Justice attorneys and headed by voting section chief Chris Coates, filed a case against the two Panthers caught on tape. Malik Zulu Shabazz, head of the national NBPP, and the party itself were also named based on evidence the party had planned the deployment of 300 members on Election Day and on statements after the incident in which the NBPP endorsed the intimidation at the Philadelphia polling station.
A slam dunk case goes awry, and justice is sqaushed:
The trial team quickly obtained a default judgment—meaning it had won the case because the New Black Panther party failed to defend itself. Yet in May 2009, Obama Justice Department lawyers, appointed temporarily to fill top positions in the civil rights division, ordered the case against the NBPP dismissed. An administration that has pledged itself to stepping-up civil rights enforcement dropped the case and, for over a year, has prevented the trial team lawyers from telling their story.
Insult to injury in typical “social justice” progressive fashion:
The Panthers like to tout their “victory” and parrot the Obama Justice Department’s line that the case was unmeritorious. The party held a national convention in Atlanta over Memorial Day weekend (sponsored and attended by the once mainstream Southern Christian Leadership Conference and a grab bag of socialist and anti-Semitic figures). Its website boasts: “The New Black Panther Party has been embroiled in a battle between Republican Congressmen and the U.S. Department of Justice over a ‘voter intimidation’ scandal for the last 18 months. During these 18 months right wing and Republican Newspaper and Electronic media have gone to exhaustive lengths to discredit and slander the New Black Panther Party and its Chairman and Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz.”
With me so far? Here’s the recap. After a quick investigation of the allegations of voter intimidation, the DOJ determines there is a clear case of voter intimidation, and basically points out they have a slam dunk. Obama’s appointees take over, and they immediately begin to rail road the process. Eventually they dismiss the case and continue to pretend it is done on the merits and there are no political reasons or any of Obama’s people in the loop forcing tat decision. Then after the clear case is dismissed, and emboldened NBPP starts boasting and crowing about how what they did was just fine and dandy. The usual suspects in the MSM drop the ball and go along. After all, these progressives won’t say so, but they all believe that discrimination can only go one way, anyway. And these scumbags all think they have won and that they got away with the crime.
But then the shit hits the fan:
But on June 4, J. Christian Adams, a veteran lawyer in Justice’s voting section and a key member of the trial team, resigned. His reasons were spelled out in a letter that also noted that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which was investigating the dismissal, had subpoenaed him and Coates, but their superiors, in violation of federal law, had ordered them not to testify. He noted that “the defendants in the New Black Panther lawsuit have become increasingly belligerent in their rhetoric toward the attorneys who brought the case. . . . Their grievances toward us generally echo the assertions [by Justice Department officials] that the facts and law did not support the lawsuit against them.” Coates, too, has left the Voting Section, moving to South Carolina to work in the U.S. attorney’s office. Last Friday, the civil rights commission’s general counsel, David Blackwood, announced that he had received an email from Christian Adams’s attorney stating that Adams is now available to provide information to the commission. Commissioner Todd Graziano said they would schedule Adams’s appearance at a public hearing as soon as possible as the commission had been seeking his testimony for many months.
It now looks like the Obama administration member’s roles in squashing this investigation are going to come out if these proceedings are allowed to go on. And while I am afraid that most people might never hear about it considering the complicit media is likely to cover for them in this election year, the facts will emerge, and the clear disregard and outright contempt by these scumbags will get out there. The Weekly Standard article in question does a fascinating and great job of breaking down the sequence of events, but one thing becomes obvious, and that is that the dismissal of this clear cut case smells.
The actions of King and Rosenbaum were unprecedented in the collective experience of the trial team. They were not alone in that assessment. A former associate attorney general for the civil division Greg Katsas testified before the civil rights commission on April 23, 2010, and termed the Panthers’ actions a blatant case of voter intimidation. He said it was a “straightforward and overwhelmingly strong case” and that the Panthers’ conduct was “egregious and intentional.” As for the party itself and its leadership, Katsas said that under “general principles of agency law” they were liable.
We have been told that the people responsible for the dismissal had no ties to Obama, but this article again points out that’s all bunk. Even more damning is the fact that it now comes out that yet another claim of an investigation by the Obama team claiming there was no problems turns out to be peddling falsehoods.
The administration’s internal investigation also appears to have been fraudulent. Under ongoing pressure from Representatives Smith and Wolf, an investigation by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) was finally ordered to commence in July 2009. Until a few days before Adams’s resignation, however, none of the trial team had been interviewed by OPR investigators.
And they got away with it because nobody could get to the truth until recently. The facts are coming out, and while I expect the usual suspects to try and downplay these Obama administration appointee’s roles in dismissing a clear case of voter intimidations in order to protect yet another one of the democrat machine’s criminal enterprises, they are damning. Even more frightening is this revelation:
While the interference by political appointees in the NBPP case has been egregious, there is a critical issue with implications far beyond this single case: Whether the attorneys who populate the civil rights division of the Justice Department believe that civil rights laws exist only to protect minorities from discrimination and intimidation by whites. In a farewell address to his colleagues before his reassignment to a U.S. attorney’s office, Coates spoke about this widespread sentiment and why it was antithetical to the department’s mission to seek equal enforcement of federal laws.
Literally we have the leftist careerists at DOJ championing discrimination. That should frighten us all. Our government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers. Hopefully, as the article indicates, when Congress and the country finally stops being held hostage by the criminal democrat machine in November, we might get some real light shone on yet another instance of real and undeniable heavy handed government abuse. Bush was accused of being a Hitler like fascist on made up accusations. Demcorats take government abuse to a new level, and nary a peep. No wonder the left feels obligated to brand all others that are not from their own party as evil racists and fascists. They have to give themselves cover.
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