American Hero: Coates Negates a Year of Justice Department Spin on New Black Panther Case
It has been a very bad week for the dwindling number of people defending the dismissal of the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party by Eric Holder’s Justice Department. Today might have been the worst day of all. Former Voting Section Chief Christopher Coates testified to the United States Civil Rights Commission that Obama political appointees dismissed the case because they are opposed to enforcing civil rights laws in a racially neutral fashion.
And that was just the beginning.
In a dramatic hearing in Washington, D.C., Coates simply destroyed the year-long spin from the Justice Department regarding the dismissal. Coates is the former Voting Section chief, and served as lead attorney on the Black Panther case. He has practiced voting rights law longer than any other lawyer at the Justice Department. His testimony today was the worst possible nightmare for the Obama political officials responsible for the dismissal.
I testified before the Commission in July that Obama political appointee Julie Fernandes made it clear that the Voting Section at the Justice Department would not be bringing any more cases against traditional national racial minorities, like the members of the New Black Panthers. Under oath, Coates corroborated my testimony.
The public has been wondering for over a year why the case was dismissed. Coates testified why today:
[There is a] deep-seated opposition to the race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act against racial minorities and for the protection of whites who have been discriminated against.
Coates verified that the DOJ is infested with racially motivated hostility towards equal enforcement of the law. Like me, Coates testified about the history of open and pervasive hostility inside the Voting Section to protecting the rights of white voters. This hostility first emerged in the case against Ike Brown in Noxubee County, Mississippi, going back as far as 2004:
The opposition within the Voting Section to taking actions on behalf of white voters in Noxubee County, Mississippi, … was widespread.
Coates confirmed that senior managers didn’t even want to open the investigation into discrimination against white voters in Noxubee County:
The Deputy Chief who was leading that election coverage asked me: “can you believe that we are going to Mississippi to protect white voters?”
Coates described how his memoranda were doctored by former Voting Section Chief Joe Rich, confirming my testimony as well as an article that appeared here at PJM this week.
Coates also testified that he was reprimanded by Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King when he asked attorneys in job interviews if they could enforce the law equally. Coates asked them if they were willing to enforce the law in a racially neutral fashion, regardless of the race of the wrongdoer, even if the wrongdoer was black. Naturally, this inquiry into the applicant’s sense of fairness greatly offended the racially obsessed King. Her agenda was quite different than Coates’ agenda. Coates testified he was summoned to the senior political offices for a tongue-lashing by King, and the interview questions Coates was asking had to go:
King took offense that I was asking such a question of job applicants and directed me not to ask it again because she does not support equal enforcement of the provisions of the Voting Rights Act.
King wanted like-minded attorneys who were corruptly willing to turn a blind eye toward racial discrimination committed by national racial minorities. Soon thereafter, Coates was stripped of his power even to interview applicants. King wasn’t taking any chances that fair-minded, law-abiding attorneys might slip through — only the corrupt need apply.
So, I’m assuming that you got a copy of Mr. Coates opening statement, as he hasn’t testified yet this morning.
The opening statement is available here on PJM.
Amen.
A real page one, lead right side column in the NY Times, one inch headline print across half the front page. Stand back for the journalist explosion on this story, dominating TV news, Perkie Katie Couric wide eyed, liberals everywhere repentant, disappointment and chagrin across their noble faces, plans to smear the Minority Leader with phony sex charges shelved, shame now apparent.
I can dream, can’t I?
This is one case that we must keep alive. The corruption within the DOJ is rampant. Anyone who reads memos sent from Perez (head of Civil Rights Div)quickly realizes this man has one agenda and one agenda only; i.e., protect the Latinos while punishing the Caucasians. The DOJ is filled with angry, revengeful, and corrupt people, headed and directed by groups such as LaRaza.
I have lived here in the city of DC for decades. The federal bureaucracy is overwhelmingly left-wing. And it has become worse in the past few decades. Other agencies are worse than DOJ: State Dept, EPA, HHS, Labor, etc. What is different now is that there is the new media to bring this corrupt conduct by federal government staff, which has been going on for DECADES, to millions of Americans. The reason the socialist oligarchs are so angry is because the new media is slowly pulling back the curtain on their decades-long hidden practices for all to see.
Although people of morals, values, ethics , a love of America will keep this going, the MSM will “hohum” the whole process.
No one will pay with their job, jail time, humiliation etc.. We keep electing people that look down on us. Problem is…we keep doing it. I believe that the Obama administration has gotten this far with their blatant “anti white” agenda says a lot for us as a nation, and it’ a sad commentary.
Conservatives need to wake up and take this country back to it’s original values. At present we are a nation of mush.
We are supposed to be a republic…what has happened?
“the case will not be pursued if the victim is white”…Justice is no longer blind.
Julia Fernandes should be called up on charges also.
This is one case that we must keep alive.
Pursuant to burying the myth of the Left as anti-racist. Anyone making that claim nowadays should be considered as having lost all credibility prima facie.
Not that the evidence hasn’t been readily available for decades, but more of it won’t hurt the case.
Seerak, you are correct,the left is emblematic with reverse racism. As long as whites are targeted they are having a good day.
I recall that BHO used some Black Panthers as extra body guards during his campaign. I also recall some connection between Holder & the Black Panthers.
I suggest that intrepid Conservative reporters/bloggers should dig deep into this nexus. More than likely the fish stinks from the head up, hence, Shabazz is noted in the WH visitor log.For what, pray tell?
Curiouser and curiouser….
There is no such thing as “reverse racism”, racism is racism…period. They already have you half way there thinking that only whites can be racists, and if they are the ones being attacked for the color of their skin it is somehow now in “reverse”.
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/ has been reporting on Obama and his ties for quite some time, maybe theirs some good stuff in there.
Whoa, slow down there. The DOJ is biased in favor of black people, in case you’ve forgotten this is about Eric Holder and the Black Panthers. We don’t want to go mixing our message up or people might realize the case was treated as a non-issue by DOJ before any of Obama’s appointees ever got into office. We don’t want people realizing Coates stayed silent until Obama took office, because that makes it look politically-motivated even though we know it isn’t. The point here is to hammer Obama, who cares if we have to fudge a little? Whatever it takes to defend the country from this Kenyan Anti-Colonialist charlatan.
The Bush DOJ filed and won a civil suit against the Black Panthers. That’s hardly treating it as a “non-issue.” When Holder took office, he promptly dropped the civil suit. That’s why Coates is speaking up now.
It should now be plain for all to see just how bigoted and biased the Obama administration is.
When Congress reverts to Republican control Holder needs to be bought up before the judiciary commite, put under oath, and examined. All of the Justice Department employees who are involved in this out right racist misadministration of justice need to be publicly examined by the commitee and then fired. We will have to wait until January for this to happen. I can be that patient.
Well I am not patient and republicans now in addition should start writing up articles of impeachment to be acted upon in this congress they might not make it now but come January then it is time for wholesale cleansing of the communists that have been ruining this country and back to sane policies.
Like I said at the historic inauguration, this world will only be a better place “when white accepts what’s right”. Just because they are dutifully following my prescription over at Justice shouldn’t be any reason for consternation, especially not among whites, who are still refusing to “accept what’s right”. This is not about equal rights. We don’t care about equal rights. It’s about punishing whites. I mean, I told you all this at the friggin inaugration. Do you people think that my president didn’t know exactly what I was going to say at his “historic” inauguration? LOL. He knew. He loved it. It took him back to his salad days in my brother Wright’s church. So, don’t act so surprised, now, America. It’s not as if we were trying to keep this a secret.
are you for real— i’ll pray for your enlightenment
Matt, that was just a sockpuppet comment, but Rev. Joseph Lowery did, indeed, say the quoted phrase (“we ask you to help us work for that day [...] when white will embrace what is right”) as part of a pathetic poem he read for the benediction at the inauguration.
Stop complaining, you “nation of cowards”.
cowards are those that secret their actions– kinda like you
Please tell me you’re not actually stupid enough to think that’s Eric Holder.
Fired? How about imprisoned for life? Scooter did time for what?
This is the Hope & Change! that Obama promised us. Thanks David Brooks, Peggy Noonan, Colin Powell, etc. for all that you did to get him elected.
I’m waiting for Kirsten Powers, Juan Williams, et al., to apologize for their autopilot defense of the DOJ.
I wonder what Congress can do if the executive department refuses to enforce the laws that are on the books. There are so many laws that it would be impossible to enforce all of them, but, in this instance, it appears there is a deliberate attempt to selectively enforce the law for the benefit of a portion of the population, possibly for political reasons. Other than catching these Justice Department officials perjuring themselves, can they be held in contempt of Congress?
If Congress has no way of insuring their laws are enforced, they are useless pawns of the executive branch and our country is in deep, deep trouble.
I wonder what Congress can do if the executive department refuses to enforce the laws that are on the books. There are so many laws that it would be impossible to enforce all of them, but, in this instance, it appears there is a deliberate attempt to selectively enforce the law for the benefit of a portion of the population, possibly for political reasons.
Justice is currently arguing in court that it not only has the right to ignore whatever laws it doesn’t like, but that it has the right to actively stop States from exercising their own Constitutional police powers, for the State citizenry, so that Justice is not forced to enforce laws on the books (not to mention defending US sovereignty). This is their basis of the insane and idiotic case against Arizona. Of course, in the case of Arizona, we have other arms of the Executive branch piling on, with State reporting Arizona to the UN human rights commission (WTF?), The Precedent lying about Arizona at every opportunity and the federal government aligning with Mexico in an all-out assault on the US State. This is the America we have, today. Yep …
Congress can:
1. not appropriate funds for specific functions or objects. Tricky, the Executive has lots of ways to work around that.
2. Impeachment… not just of the President, but any senior official or federal judge, for that matter.
I fear we are headed into a constitutional crisis. This administration simply does not recognize the law as binding it to anything it doesn’t like (e.g., immigration enforcement and what Obama told Kyl about holding enforcement as a pawn to negotiate over amnesty, or this whole mess at DOJ)
Even if the Republicans gain back Congress, I doubt they will attempt to impeach anyone at DOJ. Probably too much dirty laundry out there, even for the Republicans, and they would not want to stir up anything with DOJ. There is also the stench hanging around about the Clinton impeachment debacle.
The 2012 election and Congressional purse strings appear to be the only recourse.
>I wonder what Congress can do if the executive department refuses to enforce the laws that are on the books.
IT IS AGAINST THE LAW- IT IS DERELICTION OF DUTY- IT IS PUBLIC MALFEASANCE
Could this be the tipping point in the trust of America? The DoJ is the key area of trust in any nation and without it you have a nation in name only. Wake up America, wake the hell up and wake up fast. Happenings such as this turn you into nothing more than another third world Country. I simply cannot believe what is taking place after watching other Countries around the world reject socialism and its insidious ways. Like sheep you are letting this socialist bastard and his cronies lead you down the path of ruin.
When you lose trust, you lose everything.
I, for one, am extremely glad this is happening now — before November.
As Glenn Reynolds is fond of saying, you get more of what you reward and less of what you punish, because that’s how it works. If thuggishness at the polls is not treated harshly, we will see more of it. That, to me, was the worst aspect of the dismissal of the NBPP case — the near-certainty that if we don’t slap down voter intimidation wherever we see it, we’ll soon see lots more of it.
This may be too little, too late for the November 2010 elections. But I’ll hope that, with DoJ dirty laundry getting a full airing, perhaps the Poll Thugs will find reason to stay home this time.
respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline
I found two quotes in a Fox news forum about this case interesting.
(1)”If I see a guy like this at the polls he will be wearing his asshole as a turtleneck!”
(2)”If I see King Shabazz with a stick in his hand when I get done with him it will not be in his hand, can anyone say colostomy?“
Colonostomy is what needs to happen in Congress and the White House! The sooner the better!
I praise Mr. Coates for his courage!
There truly are still some American heroes. Thank you sirs, Adams and Coates, for your courage, and for your service to our country.
Amen. Unless you have read stories about people who have “blown the whistle” from within an organization or have been in a similar position yourself, you don’t really know how courageous Mr. Coates is. The pressures and hostility such a person faces are almost always extraordinary.
Of course, it is also brave to leave one’s job in protest against unethical practices. Mr. Coates and Mr. Adams both deserve a great deal of support and, more importantly, attention from Americans.
Just watched some of Christopher Coates testimony before the Civil Rights Commission. Shocking how this soft-spoken man, with an extraordinarily successful and award-winning career as voting rights lawyer, almost exclusively in service of minority clients, was effectively marginalized and demoted by Obama’s DOJ thugs because he wanted to go forward with the New Black Panther Party and the Ike Brown cases. Also, when asked if the National Review Online piece
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/192685/coates-speaks-best-he-can/hans-von-spakovsky
accurately reflected his remarks at his going away event at the DOJ, Coates said yes.
I watched Coates’ testimony too. God bless him for the strength and courage it took to be honest when he’d obviously been shut down and moved away from DC in order to be kept quiet! The idiot in the WH, Crooks in Congress, and the DOJ should be stripped of their powers. Come January we need to have a cleansing in DC, the likes of which we’ve never seen before!
I went to all the major news sites I could think of. Only Fox has any coverage of this at all. It is Colbert all the way. I sure hope that changes before the day is out, but I am not optimistic.
Thank you Mr Coates.
And as I click through my news channels for some reason I am seeing nothing on this.
Yeah, our freedom loving media at work…it sucks.
Go to FOX, they have had reports on it. Well, you might just skip O’Reiley, he’s such a suck up.
Mr. Adams is too modest. He was the first to put his career on the line in exposing what is happening at the DOJ. He and Mr. Coates are an inspiration to us and will be to our children. Thank God we have people like these gentlemen who may be instrumental in helping to save our country from the plans of the elite to destroy America as we know it.
Reps. Lamar Smith and Steve King are two of the few men of integrity in our Congress. Hopefully, this hearing will spearhead the downfall of Obama, Holder, et al.
Don’t forget that this is far from the only politically motivated failure of justice from the DOJ.
There’s their treatment towards ballots from overseas military:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/disgrace-doj-fails-to-protect-military-voting-rights/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130013858
And there’s the illegal firing of Inspector General Gerald Walpin, along with the non-prosectution of Obama’s black friend, supporter, and embezzler, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124511811033017539.html
Let’s hope for a Republican takeover of the Senate. Thus all this corruption by Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and the DOJ in general can come to the attention and light it deserves.
Charlie Manson was a homicidal idiot that wanted to start a race war. Being an idiot, he didn’t even come close. The DOJ is now engaging in policies that are certain to increase racial disharmony. Many white people now see themselves as being discriminated against. Affirmative action started this trend, and now with the blatant racism being displayed by the DOJ and the Obama administration, matters are only going to get worse. I don’t see how this benefits anyone, most especially black Americans. All government policies should be race neutral. When the government stops trying to pick winners and losers, we the people can probably working out ways to live and work in peace and equality.
The ‘you know what’ has hit the fan. Now comes the part where we wait and see who gets splattered.
Keep dreaming…
The only slatter will be on ourselves, racist hatemongers that we are for even bringing up this “story”.
The official MSM spin will be about resources…since everyone KNOWS blacks are always victims, (roll the footage of Bull Conner) and we certainly cant investigate ALL acts of voter fraud and intimidation, we have to get the biggest bang for the buck. No harm, no foul, there were simply bigger fish to fry than these “isolated” incidents where no real harm was done.
After all, Obama is fighting SO hard against racism in ARIZONA, dont you see how this is a non-story?
And why WOULD these disgruntled White Guys only bring this up now, now that we have a black president, HHMMMM?
See how this “story” will go nowhere with the beautiful people that ccontrol the narrative?
See how this “story” will go nowhere with the beautiful people that ccontrol the narrative?
Then it’s time to exclude these people from the national discussion, as non-credible.
We did that during the 08 campaign but they were on a roll and couldn’t be sidetracked from their messiah! The MSM has been paid off and will never truly cover anything that this man has done illegally to damage the reputation of America much less the consecration of our Constitution! That’s what happens when your offered Hope and Change and get exactly what you were promised. We definitely got the CHANGE just not the kind we HOPED for or expected. I didn’t buy into his pack of lies and would never do so, I just hope that those who did are now having buyers remorse!
Yep, time to start popping the popcorn…….
When the House goes GOP – people will start going to jail for this.
And, they are going to turn on each other to cut a deal. So, senior
aides will serve time.
Senior aides? How about the most senior person of all: obama? Remember that Harry Truman said “the buck stops here.” It’s still true. obama was, and still is, behind this illegal activity. Impeach, indict, imprison!
Noone will go to jail. Those senators and representatives starting to make trouble for the established elite at DOJ (and elsewhere) will get a quiet reminder that there’s things known about them they don’t want revealed to the world, and as long as they play ball those things won’t get revealed.
Simple, direct, deniable, and effective to keep them in line.
I agree that Mr. Adams is a modest hero. He blazed the trail for Mr. Coates, who of course is equally admirable. Thanks to both of these gentlemen for helping save this country from tyranny.
It is very sad that the majority of the population are not even familiar with this major news event.God bless this true American hero and let right be done.
I believe it was Ronald Reagan who said, approximately, that there’s no limit to what you can achieve if you don’t care who gets the credit. We have a good example in J. Christian Adams.
Amen to that, brother!
Root 83,
I suspect “equal justice for thee, but not for me” is not nearly as energizing as “equal justice for all.”
When the media consisted of 3 TV stations, one local paper, the Times and a few news weeklies, the truth did not always come out. Who knew JFK was an ailing, addicted president? Everybody knew about Edward’s affair.
The truth can’t be suppressed anymore. How many people do you know who will stand by and let their government treat them as second class citizens? Don’t forget to pay your taxes on April 15th, but forget about voting. This cannot be hidden. This cannot and will not stand.
At our local State U, I keep receiving emails from our diversity officer that we have to restate our race for new regulations by the feds. What’s up with that? Is DOJ going to sue institutions now for not employing enough minorities?
There should be a total investigation into ALL the Dept.s of the DOJ to see if other dept have the same policy.
there has to be other people in the DOJ ready to spill the beans now….maybe !!!
[There is a] deep-seated opposition to the race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act against racial minorities and for the protection of whites who have been discriminated against.
Why on earth does this surprise people? The American left has always been an explicitly anti-white movement. It’s rather pathetic for the Republicans to rub their eyes in disbelief as the Democrats do exactly what they always do.
I wish you were right but on the one hand so many continue to support that liar in the white house and the dumbocrats in Congress. They blindly believe every bit of hogwash they are told. On the other hand, most Americans are so wrapped up in their own daily lives, concerns of unemployment, decreased housing, etc,. that they don’t even listen to the radio news much less a alphabet news broadcast or FOX. They just don’t care, at least not until it directly affects them. By the time they do start to concern themselves, it may be too late to undo some of the devastation that has been caused by this administration.
The American left was born from the KKK, a hardcore anti-black movement
It’s always been racist, that’s for sure. But its target shifts over time depending on where it can do most good to them when it comes to expanding their power.
Early last century, that was in the south, where people were opposed to desegregation and equal rights for blacks.
Now it’s in the north east and along the west coast, where blacks and latinos are in the majority so they’re shifting their focus towards attacking whites instead.
It’s racism for political gain, not so much for economic or religious or scientific (eugenics, their tool in the 1930s and ’40s to discriminate against Jews…) reasons.
If history truly repeats…..a guillotine should be under construction on the Mall.
Don’t know where you are gettin’ your history, but I do like the human sacrifice taking place by the elite at DOJ that think they are above prosecution.
A guillotine on the mall ? Kinda like the Place Concorde. Who will be serving the wine ?
This is just SILLY! I’m going to be completely surprised is anything happens with this because if the DOJ thought it was a reasonable penalty to not allow someone to carry a deadly weapon around a voting booth for a couple of years we are waaaaayyyy past the point where there are any rational judgements being made there. If this doesn’t scream from the LSM tonight we all know that the country is in serious trouble. Department of Jokes. Not quite as funny as Colbert testifying to Congress but it’s not often you see two colonoscopies presented as evidence in one day.
the colbert testimony today was a contrived circus to draw attention away from this hero– great timing by coates—- when the tea party takes over –people including obamarama are going to jail— they have broke our laws—see you on 11/3 when this thug gets his come upance
Why on earth does this surprise people? The American left has always been an explicitly anti-white movement.
As if they wouldn’t be “anti-black” were the image reversed. You are playing into their hands, you idiot.
The Left’s racism is a consequence of its collectivism, a trait which you share by making it about “whites” rather than about their real goal, which is faction as understood in Federalist 10.
A nation of free individuals is the path to peace; a nation of collectives, regardless of how or where the lines are drawn, must devolve into a state of perpetual warfare between petty little tyrannies; feudalism, in other words.
That’s a superb comment, Seerak!
Clueless. Just clueless.
And you’re calling HIM an idiot?
“We the people” have the opportunity to be a part of a fair voting
process. Each person can volunteer to be a poll challenger. This gives
us the authority to verify each person has the right to cast a vote and
the voting machines are not rigged.
No more Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck votes will be cast.
The really sad thing about all of this is that it gives real white racists the ammunition to claim that civil rights are about hurting white people and will create racism. Of course that’s exactly what the race hustlers want because without any racism, they’d be out of business.
As if they wouldn’t be “anti-black” were the image reversed.
The left could never be anti-black, as you’d understand if you understood the left.
You are playing into their hands, you idiot.
I am accurately describing the opposition, you idiot. That’s a necessary first step to dealing with them.
The Left’s racism is a consequence of its collectivism
The left’s racism is a consequence of its racism. Collectivism is very much an optional agenda for them, simply a useful anti-white tool.
a trait which you share by making it about “whites”
Perhaps you have not read the story you are allegedly commenting on, but it is the left which is making it “about whites”.
their real goal, which is faction as understood in Federalist 10.
In Federalist 10 faction means economic faction. You are desperately deluded if you think that the left is motivated primarily by mere economics.
a nation of collectives, regardless of how or where the lines are drawn, must devolve into a state of perpetual warfare between petty little tyrannies
A nation, by definition, is a collective entity. A “nation of individuals” is a contradiction in terms.
Despite all your efforts to parse his post, he is still correct.
Federalist 10 may have been about economics, but the same exact concept applies to power politics. A system of special-interest groups results in a system of Patronage, Power, and Privilege.
There are all kinds of nations. A nation of individuals is not a contradiction. It might be better to say individualists, but that conveys yet another meaning. Perhaps the clumsy, ugly phrase individualistically-minded? No, I think I’ll go with a little poetic license and accept “a nation of individuals”. There is, after all, something to be said for euphony… and the meaning is clear enough. Only dead languages do not evolve.
Marc Malone is right. Your parsing has done nothing to destroy Seerak’s fine comment. If you use the DOJ to make sure that no white minorities are protected in equal measure to black ones until their socio-economic positions are equal you have the perversion of the justice department being used as a political weapon to steal money from those who have to those who don’t. The poor me white argument is still racist. Blacks and liberals aren’t wrong about that. But now the power has tilted because the soldiers of voter discrimination come from a previous era. That era is now over. Protecting white voters in Mississippi is what I’d call progress, not because they are white but because it shows how successfully the inequities of racism have been redressed. That you concentrate on race instead of principle shows me you are like your enemy and likewise an enemy of justice. Conservatives can do much better without the likes of you and your specious arguments.
Please read the article again, and try to follow along. It’s not brain surgery.
1. The DoJ is refusing to protect White victims of vote abuses.
2. The DoJ is refusing to prosecute “minority” vote abusers. That’s PC-speak for “anybody but White people”. They only prosecute White people.
There. Not so complicated, is it? You may be confused, but the lawyers at the DoJ certainly aren’t. They know that it is most definitely and explicitly about race.
If you are White, you might want to take note. Your government has declared war on you.
Thank you Mr. Adams for your personal efforts to expose the corruption at the DoJ. You have made sacrifices on many levels to pursue authentic justice. Just as you speak kindly about Mr. Coates in your writing, I would like you to know that I speak as highly of you to my friends and family.
You serve your fellow citizens as a beacon of sanity and reason in what sometimes seems to me a time of universal legal and moral corruption. In a world of ambiguity and misinformation, you put your foot down and demand honesty. All at your own personal expense! This makes you a hero to me sir.
Thank you for looking out for the rest of us!
I love watching a human sacrifice by a bunch of privileged felons that think they are immune to prosecution.
Contra Seerak, Madison believed that the cure for economic factions consisted of more economic factions and not individualism, a concept notably absent from his writings.
“The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States. A religious sect may degenerate into a political faction in a part of the Confederacy; but the variety of sects dispersed over the entire face of it must secure the national councils against any danger from that source. A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.”
Yes Mr. Coates, and yourself Mr. Adams, are true Heroes, Thank you so much for standing tall.
How can the Department of Justice be trusted? What has been revealed here originates at the top. What other crimes and travesty’s have been and or are taking place within the inner sanctums of this administrations?
Mr. Coates is a fine candidate to replace Eric Holder and reestablish honor and trust at the Dept of Justice.
After the upcoming elections and a new Republican Congress as well as Senate Holder and Obama as well as Biden will be impeached…the good part is when they are installed into office they get to tell Obama Hey we won and you are now history as well as all your policies!
Well, well, well. Where are the trolls who thought Adams was lying in his previous columns? Here’s your humble pie, guys. Eat up. Bahhahah.
Is it just me? The trolls seem pretty quiet today. I wanted to see how they would defend DOJ after this. I am sorry, I am a glutten for punishment, but I kind of enjoy the trolls.
And now for the truth…
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201009240035
I do hope you had your tongue firmly in your cheek when you called anything emanating from the Soros-funded Media Matters “truth.”
If Media Matters told me that stone was hard, I’d try out a rock as a pillow. That’s how truthful those folks are.
Do not forget the Democrat Party has had CONTROL OF CONGRESS since 2006. And their influence dates earlier than that.
You really must watch or read the full testimony. In truth, the NBPP case (or any other individual case, for that matter) was only small part of the testimony. The damning testimony was about the Voting Rights Section’s racist policies. But MediaMatters won’t be interested in that.
In the end, Commissioner Yaki looked like a flailing fool.
Time: 5:44 PM Eastern Seaboard USA
http://www.cbsnews.com/, http://www.nbc.com/news-sports/, http://abcnews.go.com/, http://www.cnn.com/, http://www.reuters.com/, http://www.nytimes.com/, http://www.latimes.com/
Just finished checking them all, only Fox considers the DoJ bombshell to be Headline news! Lamestream Media, predictable and pathetic as usual. Ugh!
Thank you, Mr. Adams and Mr. Coates.
We’ve waited a long time, and dearly trust that your courage will be the lever that exposes the rot~~in time.
Thank you for putting it on the line. Thank you.
Mark Levin is on a rip re this right now.
Mr. Adams …you too are a hero. I doubt there will be justice in the DoJ but at least the world knows. Welcome to Africa.
…..the P. is for pervasive.
The liberals favorite Bible verse, “Judge not, lest ye be judged” must have been forgotten or not as important to them as they would let on. All along calling Republicans, Tea Partiers, and Arizona’s illegal immigration law racist when all along… they with mold on their cheese and it’s been there since day 1.
damn- the United States Government really SUCKS, doesn’t it?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”
Looking at CNN’s website right now (730pm MDT) and their headlines are “California set to resume executions” and “Air Force ordered to reinstate lesbian”
this story is not on the CNN website at all
The press is ignoring this story as of tonight. The Great One had a segment on Mr. Coats testimony so hopefully the back benchers will get it out over the weekend and carry on into next week. We need to start writing letter to the editor to make sure the Obama boot licking lame stream media doesn’t sweep this under the rug.
For the Next POTUS who may take office would be a very wise man to have Coates named Top COP. Mr. Coates is more than deserving to head the DOJ and is more than qualified to be the AG of this Great Nation Kudos Mr. Coates you have my full support more than you may know you have the full support of most Americans !!! I watched most of your testimony today in shock, I was even more shocked by several of the (D) who were asking question of you especially Mr. Patiek, I think that was his name might have been Yatiek either way he seemed very confused today !!
Having scoured the internet and cable TV tonight, I have the sinking feeling that this story is going precisely nowhere. Please God; please let me be wrong.
Let’s see, other then PJM, Politico, Fox News and Big Government, and a few other bloggers discussing this. Pathetic.
And, you know this was the plan all along, and Colbert will be on the news again tomorrow for “analysis” of how deranged and delusional Congress and the Dems have become.
Spread it yourself.
I doubt if this comment will be published but..
..are you teabots so obsessed with a tiny sliver of half-witted clowns (Blank Panthers?) , that you are wasting your energies on THIS?
The UMMAH is getting armed, increasing its might through numbers and nukes…and hellbent on dominating the infidel.
And you clowns..are focused on…”radical” BLACK americans? you can always sneer at them 10 centuries from now. They aren’t out to GET you..as a civilization
And you clowns..are focused on…”radical” BLACK americans? you can always sneer at them 10 centuries from now. They aren’t out to GET you..as a civilization.
Really? Then please explain the insistence by the New Black Panther Party representative that “lots of cracker babies should be killed” (or words to that effect. It sounded like blacks were being urged to kill whites and, apparently, quite a lot of whites. If taken seriously by blacks, that would be a distinct threat to whites in general.
Mr.Reardon, Understood that those are grand visionary statements expressing genocidal desires. There will always be a tiny number of hitler-wannabes in any “race”, or any kind of “grouping”. Compared to the threat of the ummah, the blank panthers (with a grand total of what, 22 members?) represent merely a nuisance both for blacks and whites in the GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS.
The Ummah, on the other hand, is a mountain descending on all our heads while we are nitpicking on each other..
I would say the same thing to the Black folks worrying about some of these teabots (not ALL, obviously) who are clearly white-supremacists.
UT, your perspective is essentially correct. The cancer that is Islam must recognized for what it is and utterly and completely destroyed if the West is to survive. I highy recommend Lee Harris’ The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the West (Lee Harris) and The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims (Andrew Bostom) to anyone who cares to acquire a sense of what we face as a civilization.
We may argue about what constitutes ‘Western Civilization’, but there will be no one left to debate anything of the sort unless Islam is destroyed. But here’s where I disagree to some extent with your emphasis: we cannot even begin to address the threat to our existence that is Islam unless and until we attend to our own domestic enemies now. And yes, I am precisely aware of what that statement implies: that our current ‘ruling class’ are nothing less than the domestic enemies of a free and prosperus America. They wil lbe instrumental in our civilizational collapse unless we find the courage to deal with them accordingly.
I repeat:
If they’re such a small thing, I really don’t see why you’re wasting your time on it.
You see, I am very suspicious of people that seem to be from the other side of the political spectrum trying to “help” conservatives. Usually it involves dropping something that could be a real political bombshell… typically claiming that it’s just a “minor” issue and that there are bigger things to go after.
You, sir, are typifying that sort of attitude, and I ain’t buying it.
Little fires become big fires. You have to fight all fires.
If this is such a small thing, why are you wasting your time commenting on it? One would think that it would either be too small for you to bother with, or that you’d enjoy seeing the Tea Party waste time on small things, since you seem to oppose the Tea Party, as evidenced by your use of the term “teabot.”
“..are you teabots so obsessed with a tiny sliver of half-witted clowns (Blank Panthers?)”
The last time the Democrats hooked up with “a tiny sliver of half-witted [racist] clowns” known as the KKK, thousands of innocent Americans were murdered in cold blood by the Democrat Party and their henchmen.
We’re going to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
One way or the other.
Armed with 400 NUKES, the ORIGINAL Nazis are on a tear.
I became curious about the Basis of the Jewish “claim” to Palestine, how they were always saying “God gave it to us”,
so I read their claim. Their “claim” to Palestine is based entirely on War Crimes and GENOCIDE.
It is WRONG to compare Israel to the Nazis.
The CORRECT sequence is to compare the Nazis to the Israelis:
The Nazis just copied the Jewish “Manual” point by point
KILL THE SICK and CRIPPLED
Numbers c.5 v.2-4
KILL HOMOSEXUALS
Leviticus c.20 v.13 well, really the whole chapter
KILL ALL DISSIDENTS:
Exodus c.32 v.27
Numbers c.11 v.1-2
Numbers c.16 all
Numbers c.21 v.5-6
Numbers v.26 v.10
KILL anyone who engages in “DIVERSITY” or “INTEGRATION”
Numbers v25 v.4-8
Deuteronomy c.14 v.2
DEHUMANIZE and then EXTERMINATE ALL NON-MEMBERS:
Numbers c.21 v.03 Canaanites
Numbers c.21 v.24 Amorites
Numbers c.21 v.33-35 Bashan
Numbers c.31 all Midianites
Numbers c.32 v. more Amorites
Deuteronomy c.2 v.34 People of Heshbon
Deuteronomy c.3 v.6 really the whole chapter. threescore cities
Joshua c.12 A list of victims of Israeli GENOCIDE
Where are THEIR “holocaust” Memorials!
OCCUPY YOUR VICTIM’S DWELLINGS/LAND
Numbers c.21 v.25
Numbers c.32 v.39
Numbers c.33 v.53
(just to name a FEW)
GENOCIDE CODIFIED IN THEIR RELIGION
Numbers c.33 v.31-34
Deuteronomy c.7 v.2
Deuteronomy c.12 v.28-30
Deuteronomy c.20 v.11-16
TERRORISM CODIFIED IN THEIR RELIGION
Deuteronomy c.2 v.2
Deuteronomy c.7 v.1
Jews SELF-anointed “The CHOSEN People of GOD”
Nazis SELF-anointed “The CHOSEN People of GOD, GENETICALLY”.
And this has exactly what to do with the content of the original article?
Corruption & conspiracy in the DOJ is a bigger deal than a pair of thugs, just like it was when there were a pair of bugs in the Watergate Hotel.
There is a clear link between the NBPP and radical islam. Both groups want to dominate the world, bring down America and kill those who look or believe differently from themselves.
I’m so sad…I don’t know how else to say it. Thank you Mr.’s Adams and Coates, your bravery knows no bounds. It is sad to say that your brave testimony will be attempted to be turned into something despicable by the MSM. What makes me sadder are the good people I know and love that are totally deluded by the liberal media and mindset (and will actually look you straight in the eye and call themselves compassionate conservatives, if it weren’t for the fact they were my family I would laugh) and will believe their twisted garbage. I don’t know how these people, liberal media and DOJ social activists can sleep at night knowing they are tearing at the very fabric of our constitution. It’s obvious they just don’t care….well here’s my basic thought on the whole situation…
America as it was created and has stood for over 200 years….love it or leave it!
Our Department of Selective Justice
. . . Adams’ charges needed no collaboration; his record and reputation spoke for themselves. However, now they have been seconded in spades by an equally-well respected DOJ prosecuter, Christopher Coates.
Coates ”defied his superiors by testifying at a U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing Friday, where he leveled an explosive allegation: Top officials in the department gutted a voter intimidation case against a fringe African American militant group [the New Black Panther Party] because the suspects were black and their alleged victims were white.”
Coates went even further, saying that, “the downgrading of the case against the New Black Panther Party was evidence of a Justice Department culture which discouraged ‘race neutral’ enforcement of civil rights laws, frowned on prosecuting minority perpetrators and folded under pressure from black and Latino rights groups. After President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder took office, the culture intensified.”
In Coates’ own words, “They [the Department of Justice] have not pursued the goal of equal protection of the law for all people:” http://tiny.cc/jihx8 . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1960)
Everyone who has eyes and ears could already see this was happening, but it’s just another thing that couldn’t be spoken, you know, sort of like how bho is hiding his birth certificate.
And the media covered it up with the help of colbert. And they’ll keep covering it up, just like they keep covering up the scandal with obama never having proved, with any legit evidence, that he’s a nbc.
Let the Comissioner know that you are watching to see what happens.
Abigail Thernstrom
“The TURNER DIARIES” ……… coming to life.
I’m looking forward to the FOI results. This is looking like Watergate. Thanks Mr. Adams. You were the first man through. Good block for Coates. Let’s see the rest come through. The opposition’s hands are tied for a short moment!
What a few people have been saying about the other media outlets ignoring it, I want to add something.
Seerak, who commented some time ago, made a comment that intrigued me. I just wanted to mention that like this story is ignored by those who don’t want to face it, many contemporary anthologies of philosophy do not include even a single reference to Ayn Rand or Objectivism. Some do, but many that do mention her in passing but don’t include much, even when they include whole chapters on collectivist writings like John Rawl’s “New Theory of Justice” (or whatever it was called), an contemporary whose book she did a review of.
To be fair, they also do not mention various libertarian writers, no matter how great the quality or popularity of their work (omitting the fact that many libertarians plagiarized Rand). The only advocates of individualism that they include are Aristotle (and he was unfortunately inconsistent in this), and Nietzsche, who accepted and promoted individualism as defined by altruist/collectivists.
Is there a connection, maybe?
Otherwise, Great job Coates and Adams. That took more courage than I will ever know, and so I will leave you with a quote:
“I’m not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.” -Ayn Rand
wE ARE DEMOCRATS but since we are living very close to that
area that the NEW BLACK PANTHERS were at to intimidate any
white voters…………….WE JUST WON’T VOTE FOR Joe Sestack
as we had intended. To be honest we usually vote straight
Democrat but we will not be voting because no one wants to
make sure we will not be harmed. OBAMA you have not been
honest with the people that voted you into office!
It is clear that Obama and his administration think that many of our current laws and regulations have simply institutionalized rich white advantage in America. So they feel no particular duty to enforce certain of them. Which ones? They will let us now as we go along. They do not understand the criticality of equal enforcement and of honoring the constitutional processes by which laws change and evolve.
I am most upset at the millions of left liberals who cannot or will not see this clearly and keep voting these people into power. It is a direct assault on the liberty of the rest of us.
I like the statement “America has only heard from two of us, there are many more that know the truth.” This is so true and unfortunately we will never hear from the others in fear of jeopardizing their cush careers in the DOJ. Atleast not until they retire and expose the injustices and corruption in a tell-all book but by then those responsible will be long gone.
I like the statement “America has only heard from two of us, there are many more that know the truth.” This is so true and unfortunately we will never hear from the others in fear of jeopardizing their cush careers in the DOJ. Atleast not until they retire and expose the injustices and corruption in a tell-all book but by then those responsible will be long gone.
A disgusting display by the ‘justice’ Department. From the same entity who will strongarm taxes 3 + years before Obamacare kicks in.
Hasn’t the ‘universal coverage’ types come to the lucid conclusion of more government involvement the poorer the final product..?
Scary stuff.
Too many lawyers, too many judges with too much power. Look what a rotten corrupt judge did to an actual honest judge in Ca. They can start by weeding out the foul rotten ones if possible. Those in DOJ must go to jail for their racism.
It’s sad how stuck in the past the supposed Progressives are.
“The Deputy Chief who was leading that election coverage asked me: “can you believe that we are going to Mississippi to protect white voters?””
Isn’t it great how far we’ve come since the 60s when the concept that white voters could need protection was unimaginable?
The only comment I will make here about voting rights is -
I am a white woman, registered unaffiliated voter.
I truly invite the New Black Panthers to stand in front of me at my polling place and try to intimidate me to vote their way. I also extend this invitation to any Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians or Tea Party members – anybody.
I will go into that booth. You cannot put fear in me. I will cast my ballot as I believe, and as is as my right.
To stop me, you will have to physically hurt me badly or kill me. And if this should be the case, I hope that someone has a video camera running.
My gloves are off. Come on – I dare any of you.
Intimidation at the voting booth by anyone – repeat ANYONE OF ANY COLOR – should not be arbitrarily dismissed by our government because they fear they might offend someone. By trying to intimidate voters, me for example, they DO deserve to be offended.
Tough
An older, a more inexperienced voter, might not even vote because of these people being around a voting place. There is not place, none, nada, for anyone that tries to intimidate, hints at intimidation or coercion of any type are unfounded and there is no place for them.
Coates testified on a Friday…a really bad news day when people, once again, do not pay attention to how their country is going down the toilet.
FOX news is one of the only places we have been able to actually find out what is going on. Otherwise the cover up for this administration is “un-American”. Look for fraud in the next vote, it is a form of intimidation..it disengages the voting public…”why vote when they are going to do what they want to anyway”…
If equal justice under the law does not exist in the Civil Rights Division, then it should be disbanded.
Should people now bring guns to the polling places to protect their own voting rights? Will it be necessary for us to take the law into our own hands, now that the DOJ refuses to enforce the law of the land? American citizens are already patrolling the border with semi-automatic weapons, ready to shoot illegals because the federal government refuses to enforce immigration laws, so the next logical step is to do the same at the polls. What is the alternative? Wait and hope for the law to protect us? When there is no law enforcement, it is up to the people to protect themselves. Any violence perpetrated over voting rights, illegal immigration, islamic jihad, or any other issues ignored by the government, will be on the hands of an administration that has abandoned the people. When the Attourney General, as well as the President himself, are in clear violation of the law, ignore the Constitutiion of the United States, and use their positions to impose their own socialist agenda on an unwilling and law-abiding citizenry, it is up to the people to defend themselves by whatever means necessary. It is time for a real change, and if the government refuses to allow that change via the established means of free elections, if they abandon the rule of law, then anarchy or totalitarianism are the only alternatives. Which will it be, Mr. President? Will AG Holder uphold the Constitution, as he swore to do, or will the fabric of American civilization be shredded and our society collapse? I truly hope that they do the right thing.
This is a sign of how close we are to disintegrating. We have lots of urgent problems, but this is symptomatic of serious disease.
Which federal departments are free of related symptoms? Education? EPA? Most likely none of them.
We have got to be in this for the long haul, and hold together. If we conservatives dissolve into disputing factions, or let up, it will flush the USA down the toilet.
Post everywhere about this. Many thanks to Mr. Coates and Mr. Adams.
I want to hear more about Adams assertion that Acting Asst. AA King said in front of a crowd in referring to Obama and Holder that it was good to see 2 black men running the country. This is devastatingly racist and should result in an immediate firing as it would were the person white and speaking of whites. This woman needs to called to account for that statement and the story given wider play.
Great job. This story can’t be allowed to wither and die, no matter what the pressures. Can’t wait to hear details about the individuals involved.
I wonder if any reporter-types will think to start asking candidates their views on the emerging details of the NBPP case?
The MSM, the DoJ, and the Death of Integrity
Anyone who has ever harbored any doubts that the mainstream media is a left wing media, that it censors and distorts stories that conflict with its established liberal biases, that it’s a shameful embarrassment to the fundamental purposes of decent journalism should have had those doubts dispelled by the coverage, and lack of coverage, of the story that broke last Friday.
Indeed, the story has been out there for months, starting in July when Department of Justice attorney J. Christian Adams first revealed the seamy tale of black racism at the DoJ and that executive department’s disgraceful mishandling of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case.
Most of the MSM intentionally missed the boat on Adams’ revelations and compounded that grave journalistic sin of omission by skipping the new revelations by another Justice attorney, Chris Coates.
Coates went before the United States Civil Rights Commission and, defying the orders of his superiors, testified under oath to a whole host of negative charges against our Department of Justice. Coates swore under oath that: . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2007)
Are the Black Panthers (protected by Eric Holder) the new “Civilian Security Force” that Obama said that he wanted to develop? Remember when he said that during his campaign? There was something very fishy, too, about the visit of Black Panthers’ leader, Malik Shabazz, to the White House on July 25, 2009, coincidentally, at about the same time that the charges against the Black Panthers were dropped. Which might lead one to suspect that Obama was directly involved in a white wash and cover up after the intimidation of white voters by those thugs under his control. This is one scary president. Does he remind you of anyone, like perhaps Idi Amin? Read the short story and play, The Emperor Jones, by Eugene O’Neil. It was written before Obama was born. But it has chilling parallels to Obama’s presidency.