J. Christian Adams: DOJ Opponents of Race-Neutral Law Should Explain Themselves
Today I testified to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights pursuant to a subpoena investigating the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation dismissal. I would rather no such obligation had arisen.
My previous PJ Media article comprised much of what I was willing to testify about. In that article, I detailed specific instances of hostility being expressed towards a race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws, and in particular laws regarding voting and elections.
To the many that have experienced the hostility firsthand, denials of its existence seem preposterous.
To the many who expressed such hostility, often thoughtful but wrong, it would be a help to all of us if they might engage the debate with the respectable tenor which they sometimes did when I was in the Department of Justice. After all, such opponents of race-neutral law enforcement surely weren’t “cowards” about discussing race in those instances, and we might all benefit from a full understanding of their views. So let’s have the opponents of race-neutral enforcement of voting cases come out in the open and tell the American public why they oppose it.
But I’ll start the discussion for now.
I am reminded of a visit to the Voting Section by newly confirmed Attorney General Eric Holder in March of 2009. Attorney General Holder came to the conference room to meet the assembled Voting Section. He was introduced by a political appointee, then-acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King. It was quite exciting. In every federal building, a photograph of the president is displayed with the agency head. So in the Justice Department, President Obama is displayed with General Holder at the entrances.
Loretta King had the honor of introducing Attorney General Holder. She would subsequently participate in the dismissal of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case. And she said something astonishing in her introduction of the attorney general.
She exclaimed to the crowd:
I can’t tell you how exciting it is to go to work every day, and look up at the photos, and see that we now have two black men running the country.
Cheers followed, but not from everyone.
Obviously, I recognize the joy that naturally surrounds the election of the first black president. In 1860, a system of bondage debased the humanity of nearly four million souls in America. Even after hundreds of thousands gave their lives in places like Gettysburg, Stones River, and Battery Wagner, new but still evil ways were devised to oppress a race.
I’ve stood alone in the driveway where Medgar Evers fell in Jackson, Mississippi, and considered the sad heroism that characterizes some of the last martyrs to a cause. How close he came to seeing a sort of Promised Land on Earth, where Mississippi now boasts more minority elected officials per capita than any other state.
I’ve scoured the back streets of Philadelphia, Mississippi, hunting down the half-hidden memorial to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three champions of the right to vote. They were slaughtered after being pulled over by Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price. I wondered why the memorial was not at the jail where they were detained with sinister intent. It would make a more noble witness to what an unrestrained government is capable of doing to humans.
These places moved me to my core. I cannot even imagine how profound the election of Barack Obama would be to me if I experienced the evil injustice of segregation as a target. I deeply respect the overwhelming joy following the election, even if I cannot understand it in the same way.
But foul history does not excuse foul impropriety.
Electoral euphoria does not justify a racially tinged announcement by a superior, in the presence of the United States attorney general, to her subordinates.
Imagine if in March 2013, the new political leadership of the Civil Rights Division were to introduce Attorney General Jeff Sessions, refer to the portrait of President Mitch Daniels, and say: “What a relief it is to come to work every day and see we once again have two white men running the country.” Not only would the story be blasted on the front pages of the Washington Post, and rightfully so, but the person who made the statement would probably lose their job. At the very least, the attorney general would be sure to take the underling aside afterwards and make it unequivocally clear that such racially tinged comments are completely unacceptable.
Had this occurred at private business, the same Civil Rights Division would probably open an employment discrimination investigation into the conduct.
What are the chances that Attorney General Holder had that discussion with Loretta King?
I’ll bet next to none. But it is certainly something that now-Senator Sessions might ask Attorney General Holder next time an oversight hearing occurs. One thing is for sure — King’s power in the Civil Rights Division did not diminish after her comment. She was held out as the fair, unbiased, and competent civil servant who gave careful consideration to the New Black Panther case.
Despite the defendants waving a baton and yelling “you are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker,” Loretta King decided that a dismissal of nearly all of the case was the only available course of action. Alas, the worm has turned.
I stated on Fox News that it was clear to me that no cases against national racial minorities would issue from the Voting Section during this administration. Let’s hope they change their mind. I testified under oath today, because I had no choice, that those instructions were given by Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG) Julie Fernandes.
My understanding of her instructions were that no cases would be brought against national racial minorities by the Voting Section, and if a U.S. Attorney wanted to bring one, it was up to them to do so. Of course, no U.S. attorney will wade into that sort of mess without the help of the experts in the Voting Section, and DAAG Fernandes would know that.
If the Department denies this occurred, then the public and the now-very-interested media should demand that the senior management of the Voting Section in 2009 be made to testify under oath to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Of course this will never happen, because they know by now what the testimony would be.
This was not the first reckless and lawless instruction Julie Fernandes had given to the Voting Section. I will be writing in the future here at PJ Media about other ones that could directly affect the outcome of elections.
The Department has come under widespread criticism for the dismissal of the New Black Panther case, and for the fact that many within the Civil Rights Division are openly hostile to a race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws. Notice that the Department has never once denied that widespread hostility exists throughout its ranks to bringing cases against national racial minorities. To do so would be futile, because so many people know it is true.
That doesn’t mean the Department of Justice can’t redeem itself.
The best thing that could happen from the ugly New Black Panthers dismissal and public revelation of the truth is for the Department to change course. The outrage I have heard in hundreds of emails and in calls from around the nation tell me Americans value equal enforcement of the law as much as they cherish the right to vote without men with weapons shouting racial slurs at them. Equality and the right to vote are sacred partners.
If these hearings prompt the Department to reconsider the institutional hostility to equal enforcement of voting laws, then it will be a great day for America. We will all be able to exhale and declare: “Thank goodness they finally followed the law.” If it took attention for them to change course, we can all agree the attention was good.
I actually believe Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez is the right man to do it. He inherited the mess of the New Black Panthers case from Steve Rosenbaum and Loretta King, two lifelong civil servants who should be forced by the attorney general to learn what it is like to find paying clients. Similarly, reckless instructions to the voting section by DAAG Julie Fernandes can still be reversed by Perez. Tom Perez, I believe, is a man who wants to do the right thing, even if we might disagree about particulars. And nothing could be more right and just than making it perfectly clear to everyone — through action, not a press release — that the Department is willing to enforce all the voting laws and protect all victims of racial discrimination.
I’ll be watching and reporting at PJ Media on a number of matters where perfect opportunities for redemption are within reach for Perez to undo the damage that Rosenbaum, King, and Fernandes have done to Obama’s vision of a Civil Rights Division committed to enforcing all of the laws with integrity.
So I started the conversation. It would be good if the Department of Justice did more than talk about a commitment to enforcing the Voting Rights Act in a race-neutral fashion. America would prefer some action.
Your turn, General Holder.
Hello Mr. Adams:
Today, I contacted the ACLU in DC to question why they haven’t supported you. Especially considering this is right in their neighborhood. They said you haven’t contacted them, but my question is why? Why don’t you contact them and have a powerful organization like themselves unite with you to tackle this governmental abuse of power? Conservatives and liberals united to make sure every individuals’ rights are protected!
You can’t be serious.
God bless J. Christian Adams for his unbiased honesty. I believe that the ACLU in DC will tell Mr. Adams to “Go To Hell”. The ACLU has an agenda and this article flies in its face.
No, I am not naive or lack the historical perspective of the ACLU It is true they are left leaning. However, they once represented the KKK when they were not allowed to march in a certain Jewish neighborhood. Thus, even though they are left leaning they tend to really be dedicated to impartial interpretations to the constitution.
They were nothing but polite when I called. They even sent me an email to follow up. Thus, as a conservative, who normally doesn’t agree with the ACLU, I have faith, because of my historical knowledge and interactions with them, that they’d support Mr. Adams.
I can appreciate your disagreements, but I simply object.
Of course the ACLU represented the KKK. The Klan was the militant wing of the Democrat party.
Since when has the ACLU waited for an invitation???
I would bet that if he did call them, their line would be busy….
Michael,
You’re either very naive or playing sarcastic. Mr. Adams has done a much better job than anyone at the ACLU could dream of on this baby. What are you smokin’???
No doubt the ACLU would have tried to help defend the New Black Panthers if it had come to that!
Kudos to you, Mr. Adams.
Fantastic! Thank you for standing up for equality under the law.
The ACLU doesn’t need an invitation to weigh in on constitutional matters. The fact it is sitting silently on the sidelines during this brouhaha speaks volumes.
Indeed, who wants to bet that, now that Heller and MacDonald cases clearly state the 2nd amendment is enforced under the 14th amendment, the ACLU will CONTINUE to refuse to represent 2nd amendment clients? The ACLU has asked me to join and donate a number of times over the years. My response every time is: you’ll get money and a member when you represent a 2nd amendment client.
For decades the ACLU has played the “We supported the KKK” card. Unfortunately, that event is, and was, a very rare occurrence. I have often said that I will be convinced that the ACLU is unbiased when they support a gun owner who has had his civil rights trampled upon by the BATF. Until then, I encourage all to visit their website and view what they feel are their greatest accomplishments. Then, you will understand what the ACLU really stands for and supports.
We simply do NOT have 2 black men running the country. Obama is a “mutt” he is not black. He raised by white radicals, he has no connection to the African American community, he hardly has a connection to the American community.
he (obama) is a muslim. and a narcissist. and Holder is a bigot.
a muslim president that has told NASA that “reaching out to the Muslim world” will be one of the space agency’s top priorities. OUR NSSA????? ….What the heck???
I have to wonder what the devil am I missing about this world…am I still in the USA????
Obama disrepects our nation in may ways!!!
Mr. Adams keep up the good fight!!!
okay…NASA,
not NSSA…
No that was about right. National Socialist Space Agency, National Shari’a Space Agency, either one.
Thank you Mr. Adams.
I appreciate your service, your courage and your commitment to to the truth and the values we hold dear. Please continue your work to hold the Obama administration to account.
It is heartbreaking to know that so many hard-working, honest, and good Americans have been fooled and taken advantage by this administration. Thank you sir for informing us of the tax-funded horrors at the DoJ. These people you describe are so biased and drunk on their own insane world views that they can not be trusted, thank god you are here to reveal their true nature.
Thanks for stepping forward, Mr. Adams. Every American is entitled to participate in American project, but part of that privilege means that when “minorities” (an increasingly meaningless term) attain high office, they must apply and enforce the law equally, especially when it comes to voters’ rights and MOST especially when it comes to such a clear cut case of voter intimidation. Any other formulation is a quick path to perdition.
thank you Mr. Adams.
Thanks, Mr. Adams. Your decision to come forward initially, and now to continue to fight for all Americans, calls to mind Hamlet’s words:
“What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals!”
Selective law enforcement avoidance from our borders to our Capitol is undermining our foundation.
Dear Mr. Adams,
America thanks you—for being an American, first and last.
Personally, my utmost respect for your back-bone, and the gumtion to come out in the open, expose the illegal activities of DoJ, and for staying in the kitchen, no matter how hot it must’ve gotten for you.
That said, you probably know it better than most of us citizens that nothing you say or do, or we say or do, by way of protesting this administrations hundreds of transgressions against the Republic and against the Constitution, is going to have ANY change of heart or change of the course they have taken.
I just hope that your principled speaking-out boils enough blood in enough americans so they would see the necessity of rising and demanding a redress against the runaway government, a right that has been given to us by our Constitution. If not, we will all need to found another america on Moon.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Mr. Holder and Loretta King need to hear that.
I was extremely surprised when I first heard of this story on Fox. (Thank Goodness for Fox News) I was equally surprised to hear the subsequent responses that followed and the negative responses to Mr. Adam’s extremely courageous action.
Well done Mr.Adams. You have placed yourself on the honor roll with Thomas Jefferson, and Martin Luther King. I only wish that American Citizens understood what being an American is really all about. We were given a Constitution and a set of rules to live by, and when the Constitution was written and enacted we as a people were given the task of evolving into the high ideals written down. Many of us have reached a level of competency while a small minority have not.
I congradulate you, Mr . Adams, for living as a true American Patriot.
Mr Adams:
Thank you for your service, your integrity and your guts!
Keep fighting. Millions of Americans stand with you.
Attorney Adams– You sir,are a true patriot! Americans, can never thank you enough for exposing the underbelly of the beast in our Government.I was losing hope for our Constitution, and the obvious attemts to shred that Great document, by those in power. Your statements and testimony proved that men of integrity still do exist. Thank you for your honesty and know that true Americans support you in every way.
MLK2 would be ashamed of the people running DC…
Count mine in with the voices thanking you today. You’ve got a tough fight on your hands…as you know, you are up against some extremely powerful people.
What is happening at the DOJ cannot stand. The American people are behind you with all we’ve got to give. I hope it’s enough. Keep talking and keep fighting. Call if you need us.
Mr. Adams, you refer to Ms. Loretta King as a political appointee; however, I beleive it is in fact correct that she and the other individuals who have determined to drop this case were career DoJ attorneys, with far more time in this department than you have. It is true that Ms. King was filling in as an appointee, a selection because she was senior career DoJ, while the nominees of President Obama were awaiting confirmation. In fact, it is you Mr. Adams who appears to be the political appointee, from the era of the George W. Bush attempt to politicize the DoJ, including failing to prosecute flagrant cases of voter intimidation by the GOP, in places like New Mexico. Or the case in 2006 in Arizona where individuals carrying a gun – not a stick – approached and harrassed hispanic voters, in a case which was nearly identical, except for being arguably more serious. In the New Mexico case, the attorney hoping to replace US Attorney Iglesias, a man who was the GOP attorney, arranged for a private investigator to go to the homes of new voters to threaten them if they voted, using illegally obtained private information to do so — another case which was dismissed.
Your outrage seems far too little too late, and given that the DoJ has asserted that you are misrepresenting the facts of the case, both your integrity and your sincerity are in doubt, sir.
I’d love to know how Bartle Bull, who is retired and from New York City, came to be in a small, poor, predominantly black neighborhood of Philly. Clearly he did not live there and was not there to vote. His affidavit said he was hired to represent a political party. Since he was there for a very brief time, I’d dearly love to know who it was that hired him, and why he was brought there for a very short time that just happened to coincide exactly with these events. I am very skeptical of coincidences like this Mr. Adams; this occurrence doesn’t pass the smell test.
Given that one of these men was an elected democratic member, known to the GoP, and openly organized in the community on behalf of the New Black Panthers, it suggests a set up to me, an occasion for the GoP to go after their opposition in the hopes of embarassing them.
I saw the video. You may be stupid enough to believe what the government tells you, however who are you going to believe? The liars at DOJ or your lying eyes? This is one you cannot win. Adams has a strong history of unbias application of voting law. I have a suggestion. How about a independent investigation?
Um, watch the video? If that’s not voter intimidation, nothing is. You are suggesting known Democratic operatives cooperated with the GOP to make themselves look bad… ?!? Um, yeah, ok.
Let’s just assume that you are right… and it’s STILL voter intimidation. None of that prevents it from being a crime.
I wonder if the outcome would be different,if the men blocking the Philadelphia polls were skinheads. What do you think Holder would do then?
So you are ok if whites wear sheets and burn crosses at election polling places.
Ok, got it.
I, too saw the video. I, too, believe it was voter intimidation. Obama, is your code name Dog Gone? If there is ANYTHING that was voter intimidation it was this. Mr Adams, THANK YOU for what you’re trying to do for this country. As a retired civil service employee, I can tell you that racism runs rampant. Blacks and Hispanics receive jobs they are not qualified for because of the QUOTA placed on federal agencies. I’m sorry you resigned your position, but I give you the utmost respect for holding to your beliefs. I’m so glad somebody started exposing this Black administration for what it is–a bunch of racist bigots. And Dog Gone, you, ARE AN IDIOT.
I’m a 61 year old white man who grew up in a small southern town in the deep south and have personally witnessed discrimination and injustice toward blacks. Integration of our high school occurred in 1967 and through education, association,time and rational thinking, discrimination has diminished to the point that our last two long term mayors were black and very well respected in the community. What we have now is a problem of mostly black thugs perpetuating crime on blacks and whites alike. After 43 years, it seems that the thugs have achieved positions of power at the highest level in our government and that now it’s “pay back” time. What a shame after all the progress we’ve made regarding race relations in this country. Voter intimidation regardless of race cannot be tolerated in our society.
It’s depressing to note that if the president were still Bush, J. Christian Adams be on every single mainstream media outlet, every news show, invited to all the Hollywood and Manhattan parties, and be hailed as whistleblower of the year.
But Bush is not president, The One is. Therefore, he’s just a disgruntled white guy who is relegated to conveying his story to the public via right-leaning blogs like this one.
Who needs principles, justice, and adherence to the rule of law, when you can have hope&change!
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I was born & raised in Jackson, Mississippi. I suspect that my father was murdered by racists. My family members were liberal Democrats. Consequently, we suffered many other indignities due to racism. President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy were childhood heroes of mine. While still in high school, I championed racial accord.
The racism that I witnessed in my Mississippi youth still sickens me; but I am no less sickened by the racism that I have seen from Obama and Odinga and Holder and Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson.
Video of Obama & Odinga in Kenya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6eVVVKFHu0&feature=player_embedded
Video of Odinga incited Riots in Kenya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8ZCFn8V1_U&feature=player_embedded
Video of Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson inciting Racism throughout Philadelphia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x0dM7fR1WQ&feature=player_embedded
It’s called plantation politics and it is repulsive as heck.
Save time. Look at 3min 5sec into the tape.
Now, what ‘context’ could justify tat?
Truth will out, but truth and law seldom intersect. The Law is what can be made of it. For generations, Americans have been slaves to what lawyers have made of laws. About 40% of members of the House of Representatives, (D) & (R), are lawyers, and 55% of the Senate. President “I-don’t-need-no-stinkin’-Constitution” Obama is a lawyer. Is is what is is to who is in power. The Law has created extra-legal organizations with extra-legal powers over the citizen, the land, and the nation’s treasure. Entities like EPA, IRS, DoEn, DoEd, ad nauseum have perpetrated tyranny against the citizens of The Republic, reducing It to a base oligarchy controlled by the privileged and the connected. This DoJ episode is a feature, not a bug. Democrats and Obama’s Organized & Unionized Thuggery Collective have sorely abused their power by ignoring law and by their new laws. God won’t restore The Republic. We, The People, will have to do it.
I believe that you are right. The curse of lawyers and the ‘justice’ they wreak, the creation of endless laws and agencies that provide them and theirs employment, wealth and power is quite amazing. There is apparently no cure to it.
How much deeper is this crew going to dig Obama before he yells stop?
Mr. Adams,
I watched part of your powerful testimony today, I say only part of it because not even Fox News would show it in its entirely (any chance you can ask Pajamas to put it on YouTube?), and I would like to thank you very much for what you are doing to bring justice and our country’s motto back to its place: “Truth, Justice and The American Way”.
Mr. Adams please be strong and pray everyday for our country. You are against a powerful evil for the next couple of years, until 2012; if you ever feel afraid please remember George W. Bush on 9/11: “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”
Once again, Thank you and GOD Bless You, Your Family and Our Country.
We echo Chris L’s. comments.
You and family are in our thoughts. We need you , please stay strong.
Thank you for your testimony, Mr. Adams. Thank you for not staying silent. Thank you for resigning your job so you could make this matter public. You are a true patriot. Be safe and be strong.
Thanks, Mr. Adams.
I am an engineer, not an attorney, so I will translate my reaction in engineering terms: We are going to find out whether the DOJ’s blowout preventer works any better than BP’s.
A nation of cowards? please, reconsider, General.
Dear Professor Guvinoff perhaps you should consider what you wrote in the light of TRUTH as you are congratulating Mr Adams for telling. The BLOW OUT protector was NOT BRITISH Petroleum’s it belong to and was supplied by and operated by AMERICAN Company Halliburton and was being used on an AMERICAN Drilling Rig supplied and manned by AMERICAN company TRANSOCEAN.
How pathetically STUPID and typical it is of AMERICANS to try to blame EVERYONE and ANYONE but themselves.
‘Pragmatist’; I respectfully wish to point out to you that you could not possibly have missed Professor Guvinoff’s point more completely if English were your second language. Perhaps your confusion was due to the 3 am hour that you replied. For you sake, I do hope so.
Mr. Adams – you are a patriot for what you’ve done. To take a stand and quit a great job like you had is admirable to say the least.
If we truly want equality for everyone, there can’t be a double standard like this. This is a very dangerous path the DOJ is headed down. Intimidation is intimidation no matter what color your skin is, and racism is racism in the same manner.
I find it amazing this story isn’t out in the main stream media but that’s the sign of the times when it comes to how intrenched media is in our political system. We’ve got to get this out there and let it be known what happened. These men flat out broke the law and are the same as any klansman who uses intminidation. Fight this unjustice!
Mr. Wee Wee lOves being Barack’s lOving cOmmand!
The only thing standing between American liberty and the totalitarian Obama regime currently gobbling it up like Pac Man is the Constitution and the rule of law. Thank you to courageous patriots like J. Christian Adams and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer who are willing to face the wrath of the billionaire Soros-funded gang of Marxists now illegitimately ruling over this once free nation. It will take an army of fearless patriots to push us back from the threshold of the new Dark Age of a lawless socialist “utopia.”
I am glad you spoke out, Mr. Adams. It is useful.
It reminds me of my old dad, an attorney and sometime appeal arguer for ACLU. Prisoner’s rights, free speech and others. In one case, he got admitted to the Supreme Court bar, ready to argue, but when D.C. Circuit accepted his appeal, the gov’t let it end there. Nice.
My dad used to be very intellectually honest about this kind of thing, one of the things I admired about him. When I got in trouble for pro-life activity he was right there to make sure the abortionist got the fear of God… and of my old dad! All this even though he was very liberal.
So, the way I look at it, when guys like you testify, I have one less worry for the country. Stay with it.
I agree. There are men of substance and character out there—and today, it’s Mr. Adams. I echo this comment—stick with it, sir, by all means, stick with it. You are gaining traction.
Mr. Adams,
Thank you for your courage! I am appalled by this! I wonder what country I am living in… It does not seem like America anymore. Our Founders must be rolling over in their graves! I cannot understand how more media groups are squashing this story. What if it were the KKK or skinheads? I am sickened more every day with this administration and how it is destroying the country.
Your sincerity is apparent!
Good luck to you!
Hmmm….is this the passive-aggressive form of Reperations???
Just askin’…
Thank you, Mr. Adams, you can count me among the many who praise your brave actions here today on behalf of all Americans.
“She exclaimed to the crowd:”
“I can’t tell you how exciting it is to go to work every day, and look up at the photos, and see that we now have two black men running the country.”
The above quote has me quite puzzled, I can’t believe she still has a job at DoJ. Does anyone think there might be repercussions? As soon as I hit the post button here I’ll be composing a letter to both my Senators and to my House Representative demanding that they have a look at your sworn testimony. I will barrow heavily from your report here if you don’t mind, I plan to rub their noses in this pretty good. The fishy smell is making my eyes water in disgust.
We need more people like you Mr. Adams to have the nerve to stand up for their beliefs. I wish you well, I wish you peace, I know you sleep well at night, thank you for being a Good American, for standing up to the political CRAP and smelling like a rose. Thank You
People here are skirting the issue that permits unequal enforcement of the law. What allows them to take such actions? It is NOT old-fashioned prejudice of one group against another. Most of these people are way beyond such primitive feelings. These sophisticates at heart see the law as just a tool for their agendas. The law is to be used in like manner to money, political influence, military force, police powers, and marketing techniques. Truth and equity are naive bourgeois concepts. The idea that the end justifies the means and that the law need only be enforced when it serves political goals is the core of Marxist thinking. These people serve other gods. Some of limited insight are useful tools; others are ideologues who would kill either literally or figuratively for the cause.
You are a true hero. Of all the politicians, so called leaders in the last 15 years you are the only one who has had the balls to take them on.
We the people who work and raise our kids know what’s going on in these crazy times yet not one,not one person has been able to muster up the grit to show the blatant racism towards white people in this county.
Get a donation web site going so you have the money and support when they come after you.
Dan
The treatment of this case by the department of justice leads to a racial spoils system. That will not work out well for African Americans in the end. Whites, hispanics, asians etc. will see that politics is a way for their particular group to gain an advantage over other groups, or more charitably, see politics as a way to prevent other groups from gaining an advantage over them.
For some reason the left seems intent on dividing us. Ireland, the Balkins, the Middle East, Africa etc. all have recent examples of why a mixed population that sees itself as divided into racial, ethnic or religious subsets rarely works out well. America avoided most of these problems by defining American as something that anyone could achieve. America’s downfall was that the definition for too many years excluded some, such as African Americans. But for the past 40 years or more America made an effort to include all. White guilt helped this process. White guilt will disappear as more active discrimination against whites occurs.
You MAY be right that, “White guilt will disappear as more active discrimination against whites occurs.” But that’s only if whites find out–and believe–what’s going on. For the most part, the MSM are too busy protecting this administration to correctly and completely cover the many ways the administration is violating the law and shafting the populace (not just whites, since in some cases a few blacks will be hurt too, but that’s just collateral damage).
Too often we who pay attention forget that most people do NOT. And the MSM busily and happily parrot the words of the Democrats as they demonize anyone who DOES tell the truth, so that even those who happen to hear it only think it’s the lying Other, the racists who want Obama to fail.
J. Christian Adams you are a true patriot. I will support you to the end. You are a victim of a corrupt administration. If more people had your integrity and honesty, this would be a much better country. Keep you chin up and keep up the great work.
It was good to see Mr. Ashley Taylor join Mr. Adams in speaking out against the injustice of BHO’s Dept. of “justice.” One of the greatest dangers of this injustice is a backlash of retaliation against all African-Americans setting the Civil Rights movement back 60 years or more. I shudder at the thought of America returning to the dark days.
If more men of integrity like Mr. Taylor and Mr. Adams speak out perhaps, we can undo the damage done by BHO’s Dept. of “justice.”
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http://grandjury.blogtownhall.com
http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-start-and-lead-citizens-grand.html
For information on Crimes committed by the BHO campaign:
http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/category/nashville/
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anything that is not published in the King’s Official Bulletin is just chitter-chatter, not Official Information
there is no need to act on anything which is not Official Information
From Joe Buzz (comment #10) – “Selective law enforcement avoidance from our borders to our Capitol is undermining our foundation.” This one sentence sums up what we are witnessing from this administration. Keep fighting the good fight for us, Mr. Adams!
Thank you Mr. Adams for exposing this monstrosity of injustice and corruption which I feel are the first of baby steps to steal the vote… inch by inch. If they can get away with doing this, what comes next? What better place to start to nullify votes?
Many talk of how they feel when Obama will be voted out in 2012, but I am worried that even the mid-terms of 2010 will be too late! I am deeply concerned about FRAUD in our voting system. How did Al Green in SC win with 60%? Was there a software glitch? Has anyone even audited these results?
Call me paranoid, but we truly need to focus on verification such as equal access to the polls, voter eligibility (ACORN tactics) and just as important how the votes are counted.
I can tell you how Al Green won in S.C.: too many voters are idiots.
One columnist in my hometown wrote a long column lamenting the fact that she had accidentally voted in the REPUBLICAN primary and didn’t notice it until she was driving home and saw yard signs that revealed that she had voted for Republicans, not Democrats. I would have noticed if none of the candidates for whom I had planned to vote were on my ballot, she did not.
Worse, idiot that she was, she wasn’t even too mortified by her ignorance to REVEAL IT IN THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER.
And “they” always urge EVERYONE to vote. Some people should absolutely NOT vote!
Obviously those who voted for Mr. Green knew nothing about any candidate. THAT is who votes. THAT is how we ended up with President Obama.
(I could be wrong. Given that it was the Democrat primary, the voters may merely have wanted someone who closely resembled themselves.)
Thank you, Mr. Adams, for your sacrifice for this country, however, I have to say that I wish you were still with the DOJ…we need someone with ethics in that job. I am really worried about the upcoming elections, because with that attitude in the DOJ, who knows what will happen next? And if we can’t vote them out…then what?
Well done Mr. Adams. It was riveting to watch your testimony yesterday. What a stud.
Major upset!
Holder loses case.
Animal responses from right, provoked this.
Farm out your complaints to ACLU & NAACP.
Buraq is more equal than US!
Do badly Or well, you decide.
Mr. Adams I can only imagine the political pressure you must be under at this point for openly bringing out this dirty truth. Naming names and holding people accountable.
You sir are doing a great service to our Country and should be heralded as a great American who truly wants Justice for all. I hope that your colleagues stand by your side at this time and show their support. But even if they don’t, I am sure that the vast majority of America does and WE will be vocal about it.
More crimes by BHO supporters in Nashville:
http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/leo-haffey-update-october-15-2009-nashville-tn-al-farooq-computer-theft-nashville-election-commission-da-torry-johnson-obama-thugs-judge-dumas-brent-horst-voter-fraud/
http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/leo-haffey-update-october-14-2009-notes-from-leo-nashville-tn-davidson-county-obama-thugs-stolen-laptop-computer-with-the-names-social-security-numbers-dates-of-birth-and-addresses-of-every/
http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/leo-haffey-latest-news-october-15-2009-subornation-of-perjury-leo-haffey%e2%80%99s-wife-pressured-threatened-and-intimidated-by-a-lawyer-in-nashville-brent-horst-false-charges-nashville-da-t/
http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/leo-haffey-background-on-arrest-no-bond-legal-defense-fund-obama-thugs-nashville-corruption-leo-the-lawyer-and-patriot-nazi-germany-revisited/
Racism at the DOJ Part Three
Malik Zulu Shabazz may have been the New Black Panther thug who said to a white observer outside a Philadelphia polling place on November 4th, 2008, “Now you see what it’s like to be ruled by the black man, cracker!”
Shabazz could only hope but he hadn’t seen nothin’ yet, cracker!
His fondest wishes came true when, with his help, a fellow black man became president and named another black man, Eric Holder, to run America’s Justice Department.
Methinks yo’ ain’t seen nothin’ yet, Shabazz, to gladden the hearts of black racists everywhere.
Former election lawyer in the Civil Rights section of the DOJ, J. Christian Adams, a longtime employee of the Justice Department and a man with a conscience, testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that, in essence, Attorney General Holder’s department was a black racist entity that would only enforce civil rights laws against white people. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1776)
Is this for real stuff youse guys are on about here? Is there some real danger, for instance, that a loud black man in Philly is somehow gonna intimidate me out here in the Philly burbs from voting? Do y’all really think that “white” people are in very grave danger because for 219 years the USA had elected president after president and congress after congress that were either all-white or so overwhelmingly white as to make no difference? Now in 2008 electing a single black president is gonna mean that white folk are about to be led to camps and executions?
Goodness. Here I was sure all you wonderful righties had both my virginity and safety in your hands. Now I discover that due to a single case being dropped that my entire future and the future of my daughters and their children are in grave danger of being eliminated from the face of the planet and that that will be because we are white instead of because the earth is destroying us due to the way we’ve lived for the past 300 years dismantling her in this capitalist-speculative system we’ve perfected here in America!!
Live a day …
Well, well, well.
Sorry..I could not read this article without wincing. Just one long litany of every multiculturalist egalitarian cliche after another. Not a shred of
honesty. Its not that the Obama Administration hasnt been true to its
goals of MultiCulturalism thats to blame..its Multiculturalism itself that is
to blame. No thinking person is at all surprised that Obama and Holder and the
whole delusional crowd of HopeyChangers ended up in this place..advancing
a race based agenda that benefits a racial group. Its that anyone was naive
enough to believe otherwise. La Raza never believed otherwise, NAACP, Mecha,
have made explicit their racial agenda. The only ones who meekily surrender
their racial identity are the cowed, intimidated, servile whites who buy into
this lie and commit suicide for the cause. So Obama has ended up a Third World demagogue…incompetent, egotistic, delusional, surrounded by sycophants
and useful idiots. J Christians Adams real awakening begins when she can name ONE..just ONE
instance in any American City, or any African country where Black Rule hasnt ended like this. One. Just one.
um…..”she” is a he. Watching the news might help.
Mr. Adams – thank you for your integrity. I wish more people would do the right thing vs. the politically correct thing. You have my utmost respect and admiration.
Dear Mr. Adams,
God bless you! And, may God’s wisdom and grace sustain you in this noble and righteous battle which you have been called to fight. That you have answered this worthy calling with courage, is testimony to a strength of character far too rarely found in this world. I pray that your example inspires others to find their own courage to seek, find, and follow the righteous path of TRUTH. Our world sorely needs more of ‘you’.
As you obviously know; the finding ‘it’ may require some effort and fortitude; but, the following becomes easier than one initially expects.
AMEN
Mr. Adams, thanks for making the decision that our ethics profs in law school said we might have to make in our career: Choosing between what is ethically right or what is politically expedient (and may cost you your job). Sounds like a simple call, but in political organizations subservient to a political master who does not live by our lawyer’s Code of Professional Responsibility, its much more of a soul-searching matter, with much at risk beyond integrity.
I’m the former Deputy Attorney General (Envir. Protection) in my state, appointed directly by the elected Attorney General.From ’93-94, I was lead trial/appellate counsel and supervised 7 other attorneys (all older than I),plus staff/paralegals. Our client was the state Div. of Environmental Protection (DEP) and we defended its actions and prosecuted civil actions to enforce state and federal environmental laws. Environmental politics were big (still are) in WV in the early ’90′s. I won a highly publicized,hard fought landfill siting case in one of our counties close to DC. The state court rejected the challenges by enviro groups to my client’s decision to approve the siting of a “state of the art” landfill (approved by EPA) as the only responsible solid waste facility capable of serving the 5-county area. (all others were over 40yrs old, non-compliant, leaking, etc. and had to be closed).
Pressured by the same enviro groups that had lost, the Attorney General (AG)demanded that my office file a “Motion to Reconsider” to reverse the court’s decision that we’d just briefed, argued and won. The elected AG had no trial experience and I advised him that I had a Rule 11 objection to sabotaging my client’s case by signing off on a brief that adopts arguments that I not only knew to to be legally and factually unfounded but I had just proven so before the trial judge! Not only do I have a Rule 11 problem with this but he’s demanding that I file a pleading detrimental to my client (DEP)in the case I’d just won.
I was then instructed to file a “Motion to Withdraw” from representing my client, the Div. of Environmental Protection. And in the motion, I was to state that my client was wrong on the law and the facts and also that no substitute counsel should be appointed to represent the client’s now divergent interests! I’ve handled many cases and rarely, very rarely, can you withdraw from representing a client. And when you can, you must preserve the client’s case and do your utmost to assist in obtaining substitute counsel–not leave them unrepresented like the AG argued I had to do.
I refused of course. I was told that I would be fired if I did not comply. I called my law school ethics prof and ran the scenario by him. He said: “I just got of the phone with the AG. He said he has some political disagreement with your client and wants you to file a motion to reconsider.” I said:”Did he tell you about demanding that I withdraw from the case and that no one should be appointed to represent my client’s interests?” “Oops, no, he left that out, of course you can’t do that.”
My client filed state bar ethics charges against the AG. I was subpeonaed as the lead attorney and Deputy Attorney General. I could not testify unless I resigned. I did. The State Bar Disciplinary Panel ruled unanimously that in attempting to have his subordinates file pleadings that violated their good faith believe under Rule 11 that he’d violated the Code of Professional Responsibility. The WV Supreme Court of Appeals, upon review, ratified the Bar decision 5-0.
This is where things change. After resigning, I was hired by my client, the Div. of Environmental Protection. I hired all lawyers, staff and paralegals away from the AG’s office to set up a new legal office. The AG sued arguing only he could provide legal services to state agencies. I argued the case and it didn’t look good for the AG to argue that only he could represent state agencies but if his political constituencies disagreed with that agency, he could refuse to represent it and then prohibit it from obtaining qualified counsel elsewhere. We won and later even changed the law to create a separate legal office in our Environmental Protection division.
But politicians do not forget ethical acts that embarass them. After serving as General Counsel for 7 Directors of DEP, through 3 Governors, an appointee who wanted to run for the House in Congress became the new DEP Director. He needed the labor union votes that the AG, who’d weathered his public reprimand for ethics violations, could deliver. But the AG had a price. Me, his former deputy. Ethics and doing the right thing are something we’re taught and are often told that we’ll be quite alone when the time comes. I know that to be true and an ethical stance may cost a career.
That’s why I admire what Mr. Adams has chosen to do. Bill Adams
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” (Attributed to Edmund Burke) God bless you, Mr. Adams, for being one of the good ones! We need to clone you!
“That doesn’t mean the Department of Justice can’t redeem itself.”
The department can redeem itself but the people need to be bared from public responsibility and service, maybe even prosecuted. But no doubt legislation exist to protect them. Even if it did exist they will skate.
I couldn’t disagree more with your analysis of the statement about black leadership in White House and DOJ. I think it was neutral to say how pleased she was that we have a black president and black AG. Every American felt relieved and proud at this achievement, finally. The statement itself was neutral in terms of prejudice. It was great that this finally happened. I think everybody felt that way, whether King felt it in some prejudiced way or not, the statement resonated positively with me for sure. The statement itself was fine.
However, and this is important, I couldn’t agree with you more that the DOJ appears to have embarked on a course of enforcement that is NOT race neutral and I do NOT approve of this. I think it is tearing us apart. I think this course of action is definitely happening, whether or not you think there was enough evidence to go forward with the NBP voting case or not.
I do not think we will see a watershed period for civil rights enforcement in this country at all. I do not think DOJ is going to shed its docility on civil rights. I think it will continue to magnificently achieve its rhetorical, propaganda goals, its civil rights enforcement message, the message that they are prioritizing civil rights as never before. I think DOJ will continue to fail miserably in actually achieving any turnaround of its historical docility in enforcing civil rights laws, especially in police or other official/government misconduct cases.
I think therefore, this DOJ will go down in history as the most manipulative ever, a DOJ that will build up faith and hope like never before and break the hearts of the victims of civil rights abuses, repaying their faith so poorly, cruelly and ruthlessly as to be unprecedented. It already is well on its way. Already it has broken lives irretrievably. It will conclude its reign with a country never before so disillusioned, broken and misused by it.
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