Black Panther Case Draws Scrutiny
Then on Friday, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which previously sent a letter of inquiry demanding to know why a case of blatant physical intimidation of voters was dropped, took the extraordinary step of voting to send a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday which will take the Justice Department to task for its “largely non-responsive” reply to the commission’s prior letter. The Commission on Civil Rights pointedly concedes that it was a “mistake” to direct its previous correspondence to Acting Attorney General for Civil Rights Loretta King, who is now at the center of the controversy as to who made the decision to dismiss the case. The Commission therefore insists that Holder answer the letter personally or appoint an attorney who is not hobbled by a conflict of interest.
In addition, the Commission demands that Holder turn over information which will allow the Commission to, according to a draft letter, determine the facts giving rise to the case, why it was dismissed, why the remedy sought against the single remaining defendant is so narrow, whether the decision in the case is consistent with policy in prior investigations or amounts to a change in policy, and whether the Justice Department’s conduct is consistent with the Voting Rights Act. In no uncertain terms, the Commission reminds Holder:
In addition to our authority to subpoena documents and witnesses in aid of our mission, the Commission has even broader authority to require the cooperation of federal agencies. The Commission’s organic statute provides: “All Federal agencies shall fully cooperate with the Commission to the end that it may effectively carry out its functions and duties.” 42 U.S.C. § 1975b(e). The Department’s previous response does not answer our most basic questions, which impairs our duty to investigate potential voting deprivations and federal enforcement policies. We trust that your response to this letter will provide us with the information necessary to make significant progress with our investigation.
The Commission is requesting a list of materials from Holder to assist in its investigation and is advising him that the case is now “one of the commission’s top priorities.”
Commissioner Todd Gaziano explains that this sort of case is very much in keeping with the “historic mission of the Commission.” It was after all, he reminds us, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights which “laid the groundwork for the Civil Rights Act of 1965.” If the Justice Department is failing to enforce voting laws for partisan reasons, the Commission has every reason to get to the bottom of it.
As noted in its letter to Holder, the Commission has the authority to subpoena documents and witnesses from private parties and local governments – a power which is enforceable by court order — and secure the cooperation of all federal agencies in conducting the Commission’s investigations. Unless Holder agrees to cooperate, the Justice Department will find itself explaining why the “most transparent administration in history” is stonewalling the Commission by refusing to produce witnesses and documents relevant to the Commission’s inquiry into whether the Justice Department is enforcing voting laws or, instead, caving into political pressure. Given the Commission’s legal authority to demand the full cooperation from the Justice Department, the only basis on which Holder could refuse to cooperate would be a claim, explicitly asserted by the president, of executive privilege.
Until now, the Obama administration has largely been able to keep the Black Panther case under the radar. However, with another round of news reports, an energized contingent of Republicans on the Hill insisting on proper oversight of the Justice Department, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights moving to investigate, that may no longer be possible.
It is time to answer a simple question: why did the Obama Justice Department dismiss an egregious case of voter intimidation that was already won?
We may in the ensuing weeks and months finally get an answer to that question.
Just imagine if you will the reverse scenario – a contingent of KKK haters intimidating voters-in broad daylight!- in the service of Bush or another non Dem candidate.They would be hauled off in paddy wagons so fast their heads would spin & their sheets would come off.
Surely, these Panthers- workers for the Dem Party!- are as dangerous as KKKer’s.
The fact that a racialist Obama selected a racialist AG should come as NO surprise. The fact that Republicans are NOT screaming from the rooftops, demonstrating that through Holder’s coddling of said Black supremacists he is igniting a race war is beyond dangerous, it is a powder keg-literally.
Holder must be forced to resign forthwith or be hauled out on his racist behind.
Why is it so hard for sane people to realize that racists come in ALL colors – Black too!
“Black Panther Case Draws Scrutiny”
That unfortunately is not accurate. The actual title of this piece should be “Black Panther Case Draws Ridiculously Little Scrutiny.” The story has been virtually ignored by the MSM
and the majority of Americans are on to other things. We are becoming overwhelmed by the never ending scandals of the Obama administration. The odds are extremely high the very left-wing U.S. Justice Department adheres to the politically correct doctrine that dark skinned people are powerless and therefore cannot be racists. They must always be perceived as victims of an unjust system. The accused Black Panthers supposedly don’t even deserve a slap on the wrist. Needless to add, if this case involved white vote intimidators—they would be going to prison.
Look at this logically please these guys the Black Panthers are Obambi’s Storm Troopers not the Brown Shirts they are the Community Organisers not the Obama Youth thats the Hitler Youth no they are the SS elite THUGS . So there is absolutely NO CHANCE they will be prosecuted EVER get used to it its the Obambi way empathy LOL.
The American people must demnand justice in this case because it is going to have huge ramifications in our decaying election process.
Racist blacks and union thugs control elections in Philadelphia as they do in many other places in America through fraud and intimidation.
Obama, a racist black himself, has refined this evil to an art. If he could disenfranchise all non left white voters he would.
Obama, a man of limited intelligence, follows Saul Alinsky’s book “Rules For Radicals”, a book that Alinsky dedicated to the first radical – Lucifer.
Uhm . . . let’s see now . . . why would a case of Black Panther thugs be dismissed when there is now a ‘snitch on your conservative neighbors’ e-mail system set up by the Chicago-style thug politicians currently installed in the White House? Gosh, that’s a mystery for sure. And are the Republican’s really ‘swinging into action’? Seems like they’re sitting idly by grooming their nails while Rome is burning all around them. Where are they exactly?
Justice is dead in this country. Eric Holder should be fired.
They dropped the case against the New Black Panthers for the same reason they came crashing down on Sgt. Crowley.
It’s called anti-white, pro-black racism.
Black Power. Brought to you by the accolytes of James Cone and Jeremiah Wright.
Weather Underground? – Bill Ayers?
New Black Panther party?……?
Police officers being put on administrative leave for doing background checks into President Hope-AA-Dopes criminal history?
This is more fun than watching Saturday Night live or even checking his genealogy.
Pass the Popcorn!
Thanks, Jennifer, for keeping it on your radar. But it’s like asking Stalin to investigate the NKVD or the Waffen SS to grill Goebbels.
They haven’t gotten to you yet, but that doesn’t mean they don’t want to. Things have moved a lot farther a lot faster than we realize.
Its unreal that there is not more interest in getting to the bottom of this. Makes us look like Venezuela or Iran.
Great story, keep this issue front and center!
Stalling to confirm the new czar of civil rights will not change a thing.
Intimidation is the Chicago way, and more it is the Obama way.
Black Panthers see this as an opportunity to regain power and money as community thugs.
Obama has the cash, Black Panthers have the muscle, and no one can or will do anything. Perfect.
Oh, and our congress has no spine.
Recipe for human rights violations and denial of our rights.
Why? Easy! You can’t have one branch of the government suing another branch of the government. The black panthers are a core unit in Obama’s brown shirts.
Good. ‘Bout time. This is only the tip of the iceburg. They need to stick to their guns,with courage and vigilance.
I can tell you why-Seesm to me most in this chat have it. Its the fact that the black panthers are nothing more than a hate white, hate America, Hate freedom and capitalism, pro-communist, love Islam group that dominates both the demon rat party and the Obama administration. Progressive watch(#13) has it correct-we as Americans MUST learn to fight back any way possible.
IT WAS DROPPED BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK!
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to get the message!
Double standard administration hard at work for Obamadoc
I am ashamed for my country. That we could even entertain the IDEA of electing a phony poseur such as Barry Sotero cum ‘Barack Obama’ is cause enough for abject humiliation.
That this once great nation went ahead and put this human debris and his harpy wife in the White house still seems like a nightmare I can not wake up from.
Now after watching him prove his abject and utter lack of character, honor or even basic human decency for several months ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE, I have lost all hope. I shall freely and willingly offer up my life in these last days in the civil war that is surely to come. It is all I can do. May God somehow erase this stench, this stain we have managed to soil all human history with.
The decision to drop the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party obviously came right from the top, Racist-in-Chief Obama and his Deputy “Coward”, Eric Holder. Zeig Heil, “Justice” Department!
If 0bama is trying to paint black people in a very bad light, he’s doing a stellar job of it.
Makes me wonder what the sane, intelligent black people think of this sickening crap.
Unfortunately, this administration doesn’t see the double standard here because they base all decisions on what they deem historically fair and equal. If they feel that a particular group has been wronged at any time in history, they overcorrect by punishing another segment of America. Rather than implement laws and policy that treat all Americans fairly, liberals are too busy seeking revenge first.
This country is now reaping the fruits of the Obama cultists . We now have a black racist Attorney General and a half-black racist in the White House who appointed him. All I can say to those fools who voted for the clown residing on Pennsylvania Avenue is this: You acted “stupidly”. How about buying me a beer.
What an obvious answer: because they are BLACK and Obama is a closet racist. It has become sooooo obvious by now. Reverend Wright was no aberration. They also have a reputation for using violence and the terrifying President knows this and will count on it in the future. He is a thug and he has no problem with thugs who do his bidding. His is the profile of a Third World Leader/Banana Republic Despot and we are headed for oblivion if this continues.
The Precedent is set. When the KKK or other hate group show up at a polling place and do a carbon copy of Obama’s black panthers stunt, the libtards can STFU.
And I’m so tired of these spineless RINO’s we have in Congress. With over 200 Republicans in Congress, they should be keeping this issue red-hot. If this was the other way around, these same Republicans would waste no time in joining the democrat posse, to find all involved and send them away in orange jump suits
This is only one of many examples of the lies being perpetrated by the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracies’ Ministry of Propaganda. A murderer like Che is now a romantic revolutionary. Fidel Castro presides over an exemplary system of nationalized healthcare. Radical bomber Bill Ayers is now a college professor and trusted designer of K-12 school curricula.
There’s a new book out by Howard Bingham. Here’s the link to a review in the Contra Costa Times:
New Book on the Black Panthers Shows Revolutionaries’ Humanity
http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_12939939?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com&nclick_check=1
I grew up in the Oakland area during the 60s and 70s. I went to school with the younger siblings of the Panthers. I saw first hand the terror that they instilled in the community. But, now we are to believe that they are nothing more than romantic figures advocating noble causes.
“Many images collected in the book are striking not because they show a tremendous amount of weaponry the Panthers were famous for carrying but because they show a humanity underneath the black leather and black berets the Panthers often wore. For example, a head-shot portrait of Kathleen Neal Cleaver at her attorney’s office shows a young woman with sharp eyes, a soft smile and delicate Afro. She could be a teacher or a librarian, not the hard-scrabbled revolutionary activist shown several pages later climbing a protest bus in DeFremery Park.”
“And the same thing the Panthers wanted is being fought for now by other organizations. Maybe they aren’t as dramatic as the Panthers were, but they’re around.”
They’re around all right. Unfortunately, they’ve infiltrated the Justice Department and the White House.
Something fishy about this story. We need you to come down to the station – er – whitehouse for some questions – er – beer.
the new black panther party is a joke,they were even harshly rebuked by the founders of the original panthers.
go yuck it up on their website……and refrain from ingesting liquids when reading:
http://www.newblackpanther.com/
“The “Jews” were given reparations. The Japanese were given reparations. The Black, the Red and the Brown Nations must be given reparations. The American white man owes us reparations. England owes us reparations. France owes us reparations, Spain and all of Europe. Africa owes us reparations and repatriation. The Arabs owe us reparations. The “Jews” owe us reparations. All have taken part in the AFRICAN HOLOCAUST and the slaughter of 600 million of our people over the past 6,000 years in general and 400 year in particular. We know that this is a reasonable and just demand that we make at this time in history.”
and:
““History has proven that the white man is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No one has been able to get along with the white man. All the people of color have been subjected to the white man’s wrath. We believe that his very nature will not allow for true sharing, fairness, equity and justice.”
here they are trying to march into roy horn’s neighborhood(ahem,in TEXAS),with predictable results(a must see):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEZ9s0ZBAu8
any voter intimidated by these chumps needs to man up,i personaly would PAY to cast my ballot if these clowns would just show up.
Just musing …
OBAMA: Lotta people out there throwing the Kool-Aid back in our faces. We need more distractions. George?
SOROS: I pay couple Kos Kids to shave heads, tattoo American eagle und swastika on bodies, und go on Hardball, ver dey threaten right-wing uprising unless President impeached.
OBAMA: Nice. Eric, there’s your pretext to go after anyone to the right of Dick Lugar.
HOLDER: Right, sir. Oh, Justice will stage another Waco or Ruby Ridge to get the wingnuts to go bananas and appear a threat to civil order. Then, we’ll lump them in with the GOP, delegitimizing the party.
OBAMA: Good. Sic the FBI on card-carrying Republicans to show voters you’re serious about protecting the country. Gibbs, when the arrests begin, put word out that I’m deeply concerned the U. S. is becoming a one-party country.
BIDEN: You’re cookin’, Boss. Hey Eric, what did your investigators find out about those people at the presser yesterday who asked me unauthorized questions?
“Makes me wonder what the sane, intelligent black people think of this sickening crap.”
Well, one of Sgt Crowley’s colleagues in the Cambridge Police Dept is a black woman who said in front of TV camerias that she voted for Obama but now regretted it, and you could see she was burning with indignation. Another black colleague wrote Obams a stiff letter complaining about the race-baiting, saying that he was getting letters and phone calls calling him an “Uncle Tom.”
Then there are Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, Michael Steele, Thomas Sowell ….
This will come to a halt when the Black Panthers or other Obama brownshirts misstep and encroach on someone in the MSM.
Now that the President’s popularity has declined we may see more action on this and other examples of groos abuse of power that he may be guilty of. Let the truth come out.
Obama is no longer a closet racist. He is open about it and unabashed. He demonstrated this when he said the police acted stupidly because his friend had been arrested. He has also demonstrated it by the character of his political appointees including the person who dismissed the charges against the New Black Panthers. We will see this for another 3 1/3 years unless the American Public get fed up with his naivety and tepid approach to the real problems of the world, and decide to impeach him and his cronies, and send them back to the shadows they came from.
There’s no mystery as to why this prosecution was stopped.
The answer is that there has been an obstruction of justice committed by political appointees of Barack Obama.
A crime has been committed. One far worse than the original one.
I don’t see why an investigation is necessary. It’s pretty straightforward.
Obama is black, Holder is black, and the Black Panthers are black.
Everyone should read John Fund’s great book Stealing Elections. There is organized vote fraud and theft in this country and it isn’t anything to do with the Left’s fevered diebold conspiracy theories. This is an issue that needs much more attention.
…at present the whole administration looks like a criminal enterprise. …but unlike republicans their lot doesn’t turn on themselves. (Rezco took it for obama, hubbert took it for the clintons …the list is incedibly long and I don’t need to bore you with it or drepress you)
justice is 4 to 8 years out. and even then it will be hollow since much of the damage will not be reverseable.
still keep up the opposition. the weekends are nicer since the loony left doesn’t pay overtime to the trolls
Once again we are all outraged by the actions of the DOJ(?). And we can say we are extremely disappointed in the Repub. response. But when it comes down to the bottom line it is we the people who must step up and protest. Lets all write, call or e-mail our sens/rep and let them know how pissed we are. This is an outrage and we are the ones who must lift the load. Get going.
Go to http://www.votesmart.org and get your Congressional address.
“still keep up the opposition. the weekends are nicer since the loony left doesn’t pay overtime to the trolls”
This is very true. People need to realize that Soros and his ilk has an army of pay per post trolls cloggin up our threads and websites. If you want to know how this is done, do a google search on “amazon mechanical turk”
Its quite simple, really. If you ain’t white you cain’t be “racist”. Look it up. That shoe only fits Caucasian feet. Move on. Holder will evade the commission. Sure bet.
“People need to realize that Soros and his ilk has an army of pay per post trolls cloggin up our threads and websites. If you want to know how this is done, do a google search on ‘amazon mechanical turk.’”
Exactly what I’ve been saying for a couple years now. After the 2004 election, Soros & Co. realized how crucial the conservative blogoshphere was in GW Bush’s reelection, and they’re determined never to let anything like that happen again. That’s why they’ve been pouring millions into a (mostly successful) effort to disrupt, demoralize and distract commenters at conservative blogs like this one.
The obvious solution is for conservative blogs to ban leftist trolls who repeatedly contribute nothing to the debate. At least if we ever want to win an election again.
Hey, great, and while you’re at it, have them look into this:
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/the_coming_elec_1.html
you know, as long as you’re going backwards and all.
One wonders how dumby down that the Justice Myway Department must think of the American people to see the two guys with clubs and attitudes in their own uniforms standing in front of the polling place to protect voter rights.Right!
Hmmmmm . . . does this fall under the “high crimes and misdemeanors” category?
Just throwing it out there . . .
As the Tea Partiers prepared to peacefully assemble, J Napolitano released her veiled threats, then derided those who criticized. As the majority-opinion citizenry begin to question the dubious “health’ bill,we get veiled threats that they will “hit back twice as hard”, and union goons begin the physical assaults. Today, the US Army website begins advertising for trainee internment camp counselors/jailers. If you object to any of the above, you are derided–it’s evidence against you! Intimidation has become the NORM, but no thugs are going to intimidate us away from the polls in the next two elections!!
It’s likely that the Obama administration will use the machinery of law enforcement, including the US Justice Department, to come down hard on political opponents, especially when there is any breach of the peace. Meanwhile they will not touch violent left-wing thugs such as the New Black Panther Party or the Service Employees International Union “purple people”.
The left-wing thugs will thus have a free hand to terrorize anti-Obama protestors.
As someone above wrote, these people are Obama’s brownshirts.
I hope Congress stays on point and gets to the bottom of why this happened. If not, this this says very little about the DOJ and their purpose to protect all Americans. With the President closing his eyes to this travesty of justice also shows his lack of concern for all. It stops at his desk!
You cannot question why this case was dropped.
It was “Black Black Panthers” intimidating voters that were voting for a “Black TOTUS”, who selected a “Black Attorney General” If you question it, you are all a bunch of RACISTS!!!!!
/sarc
I think what happened here is obvious…AG Holder would rather fellate ghetto thugs to please his boss than enforce the law.
Now and Then wants to look backward to the Bush Presidency. So do I.
Anyone else wax nostalgic about the good ole days when we had a President that stood for something instead of just himself (and his race). Remember the days when we had a President that put American interests first (instead of himself and his race)? Remember the days when Bush stared the MSM in their beady little eyes and said “History will judge me.” and basically told them to stick it (instead of doing anything to bask in their adoration)?
I’m with Now and Then on this one. It does feel good to look back on the Bush years when we knew America and her Constitution were safe and secure.
It’s been swept under the rug? Really? I never would have guessed it. :\
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Sad very Sad, Holder will never do a dam thing he will answer to no one other then what he is told to do by Obama. Obama called the shots. This came from the top. Our country is lost to this man that has not even proven he is an American. We are finished. We all sat back and did nothing. Everyone that was in a position of power to stop this and investigate this mans background before he took office refused to do so. Every person with little authority that tried to stop him and prove he was not eligible was shot down at every turn. There is nothing more we as citizens can do. Obama and his cronies have covered all bases, corrupted every avenue and now control all the masses. There is only one way out. The sad thing is i do not believe the American people will choose that way out,they are too civilized. Obama knows this and is counting on it. This is why he pulled off the biggest HOAX in our history, he knew he could and did. Knowing, no one would stop him and the country is too civilized to rebel in a civil unrest/ civil war or any way you want to label it. It was all planned out.
#47:
Amen, brother. Amen.
36.Aaron Byrnes.neat tip,thanks.
Uhm, How many of the posters on here have written or called their reps about this matter and complained? If the squeaky wheel gets the grease, it’s time we started shouting, loud and clear.
I got an idea: why don’t we get the KKK to fight the Black Panthers? At least they’d be willing to do it. Then, when there’s a street brawl, it’s a state beef, so Obama has no authority to interfere. This won’t stop him from interfering, but it puts someone who isn’t necessarily a crony between him and getting the thugs off.
People, you do realize we elected a Black Liberation Marxist. Black Panthers and Acorn Thugs have immunity with impunity, orders from the top. If you believe anything else, you are delusional.
The black Liberation Platform is racist, surprise! That means they take care of the Brothers that are working the party line, immunity with impunity, you better get used to those terms.
There is no reason for Obama to hold back, he has been exposed as a Black Racist Marxist and the gloves are off. Just like when the hockey players lose their cool and quit playing hockey and act like they are in the octagon, they drop their gloves and proceed to make fools of themselves. It is great sport, except for one little item. This is our country and our freedom that is at stake. Besides, obama is uncomfortable being called a racist and a Marxist: he also loses his cool like a hockey player and makes a bad situation worse, thank goodness for the incompetence of Chicago Thug Politicians, if they were statesmen with this Racial Marxism, we would be in deep manure.
Sit back, have a beer and watch the 21st Century version of the Keystone Cops make fools of themselves on a daily basis. They can’t write comedy this well in Hollywood: well actually, they can’t write anything well in Hollywood these days, must be the Progressive Marxism Influence complicated by the incompetence of State Directed Propaganda Media Outlets.
Actually, myth buster, the white supremacist racists and the black supremacist racists get along pretty well. They have enemies in common, the Jews for example.
#53 So true. Weird how the first black President will go down in history as the biggest racist of all time.
I await his use of the term REPARATIONS. I know it’s on the tip of his forked tongue.
Guys, stop it! Forget the cries of racism. You just help the other side dismiss you. Don’t deflect and distract for the other side.
It’s about election-stealing, pure and simple. Who cares what color they were? They were Obama supporters. He won, thus they got a free pass. The lesson is that you can help steal an election, and as long as your guy wins, there are no consequences. These thugs were spewing racist bile, but it’s not about race. It’s about free elections.
The NBPP is apparently gearing up for the 2010/2012 elections.
The following “screen cap” is from a post by “King” Shabazz, at “the Obama Forum” directly from the guy with the Billy club in Philly dated 5-26-2009.
Here ➔ http://www.screencast.com/users/GooDDaDDy/folders/Jing/media/4edcea16-2d7f-4a5d-82a0-53f0cd1c8575
Please notice, that he claims to have support and funding from the WH for their activities.
Who knows for sure?
Maybe a “real” investigative journalist today can find out for sure…if one still exists out there that is.
Not Over.
Remember, Obama ran for state office as the candidate of the Chicago New Party- a joint venture of the Democratic Socialists of America and, yes, the New Black Panther Party.
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Fact check:
“But it’s like asking Stalin to investigate the NKVD or the Waffen SS to grill Goebbels.”
No, that would have been the Security Police (Sipo) or Secret State Police (Gestapo), which were offices of the Allgemeine-SS not the Waffen-SS.
57. Marc Malone:
“Guys, stop it! Forget the cries of racism. You just help the other side dismiss you. Don’t deflect and distract for the other side.”
Oh, no! No way! To hoist liberal Democrats on their own petard by pointing out their racist malfeasance in dismissing an already-won judicial sanction?
This tar-baby is too good to pass up, and those whites on the other side who try to dismiss it will only prove themselves to be Uncle Tims.
This is the kind of crap that people remember for a long, long time.
“It’s about election-stealing, pure and simple. Who cares what color they were? They were Obama supporters. He won, thus they got a free pass. The lesson is that you can help steal an election, and as long as your guy wins, there are no consequences. These thugs were spewing racist bile, but it’s not about race. It’s about free elections.”
The crime was voter intimidation, but don’t let yourself be fooled that the motivation for the crime was CLEARLY a racist power-grab…and this is from the lips of the humanoid piece of shit “New Black Panther” on the video.
Democrats moved heaven and earth and wailed to the skies to get the notion of “Hate Crime” included in our legal corpus….and now it’s time to duct tape their heads to a fence post, pants them, and shove their own precious “Hate Crime” up their wazoo and break it off sideways.
Karma runs on a circular track, don’t ya know?
Vote out any democrat that you can in 2010 and with success then perhaps impeachment but also investigations by a real congress and senate with possible legal action or even removal of those that are corrupt in this administration (just about all of them).
You know it was ironic that people compared Obama to Lincoln…
Lincoln opposed the Mexican American War yet had no qualms about the use of force to basically shred the Constitution. Obama opposed the Iraq war, we’ll see if history repeats itself.
Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus, declared martial law, and when the SCotUS told him couldn’t do that he basically told them to piss off because he controlled the Army. He arrested 18,000 political prisoners including the Mayor of Baltimore, MD and the son or grandson (can’t remember which) of Francis Scott Key. He also allowed and encouraged his generals and troops to engage in what would now be considered war crimes.
The secession was legal, and Lincoln used Ft. Sumter as a goad to provoke the people of SC to start a war he desired. Offers at a peaceful resolution of the Ft. Sumter crisis were rebuffed by Lincoln, the CSA offered to purchase the Federal lands and even to pay 50% of the US debt at the time of succession. Will Obama use a similar tactic? What will his goad be, violence at the Town Hall meetings, ramming through legislation without debate, more unconstitutional acts?
Those that do not learn from history are bound to repeat it.
Are you still proud that you voted for Obama? Really? Cross your heart …?
You’re all bat-shit crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!