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Lawlessness at the DOJ: Voting Section Told Not To Enforce Purging the Dead or Ineligible from Voting Rolls

It's not just the New Black Panther case: in November 2009, political appointee Julie Fernandes told a packed room of Voting Section employees to simply ignore this provision of the "Motor Voter" law.

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J. Christian Adams

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July 8, 2010 - 11:58 am
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I was at the Voting Section of the Justice Department for over five years. This office is responsible for enforcing most federal election laws which do not involve criminal matters. My previous articles at Pajamas Media have spoken of the DOJ’s lawless abandonment of race-neutral enforcement of voting laws, and other outrageous conduct. I will continue to publish here at Pajamas Media more instances of failure to enforce the law equally by the Department.

One such instance relates to the Motor Voter law, and will shock Americans who care about integrity in the electoral process.

The “Motor Voter” law was passed in 1993 to promote greater voter registration in the United States. It did this — most Americans now know from visits to the DMV — by requiring states to offer voter registration materials whenever someone had contact with a variety of state offices. These included welfare offices, social service agencies, and motor vehicle departments.

A lesser-known provision also obliged the states to ensure that no ineligible voters were on the rolls — including dead people, felons, and people who had moved. Our current Department of Justice is anxious to encourage the obligations to get everyone registered, but explicitly unwilling to enforce federal law requiring states to remove the dead or ineligible from the rolls.

In November 2009, the entire Voting Section was invited to a meeting with Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes, a political employee serving at the pleasure of the attorney general. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss Motor Voter enforcement decisions.

The room was packed with dozens of Voting Section employees when she made her announcement regarding the provisions related to voter list integrity:

We have no interest in enforcing this provision of the law. It has nothing to do with increasing turnout, and we are just not going to do it.

Jaws dropped around the room.

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  1. 1. MarkTheGreat

    “Worse yet, it is a broken campaign promise by Barack Obama, and I’m sure he would not be happy to have heard the announcement.”

    You’re kidding. Right?

    • Oh, I’m sure Obama would’ve been unhappy: unhappy that the cat was let out of the bag.

    • Now the Democrats DID campaign on a promise of Transparency and this is as transparent as it gets

      • sharpshooter

        In the post-modern world of Orwellspeak, “transparent” means to be out in the open regarding political lawlessness.

        Time for some ZERO TOLERANCE for the Beltway crowd?

    • susanm

      now people you have this all wrong about the dead people voting, you must have not read the papers? obama rose them from the DEAD.

  2. 2. MarkD

    So, we’re going to lecture Afghaniztan about the same sort of abuse we practice at home? How much election fraud does it take to make our government illegitimate, that is not representative of the will of the people?

    Should I pay taxes to a criminal conspiracy that has defrauded me by diluting my ballot?

    I don’t think we need this. We need a way to ensure all eligible votes are counted, and only eligible votes are counted.

  3. 3. mjs

    I’ve read everything J Christian Adams has wrote about his time at Main Justice and I consider him to be a credible/unimpeachable source. How much more do we have to hear about the ham-handed, agenda-driven, Holder Justice department before calls for his resignation resonate?

    • Steve DeMarcus

      Being a member of the administration this man is also subject to impeachment, perhaps you should contact your representative in Congress and ask for this matter to be brought up to speed things along!

  4. Congratulations to Pajamas Media for covering this story; and to Mr Adams for coming forth and making public this lawlessness at the DOJ. This is going to the heart of America’s democracy. I know that it has been something of a joke that dead people vote in Chicago, etc., but that this corruption is now explicitly supported at the Federal Level is VERY serious for the republic’s future.

  5. 5. Will

    But who says Barako didn’t know about this ? Come on now,don’t be naive.

  6. 6. OsoPardo

    And so the coup continues. Will we be able to stop this come November?

  7. 7. econsf

    One of the most fundamental things that a government must do is have HONEST, TRUSTED elections. Besides Security of the nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic, the government insures that the elections are honest. To not do this is a monumental violation of the public trust.
    To not trust that an election is honest sets up a nation for open conflict and possible overthrow of the government by groups that want power. If the people cannot trust that they can have a peaceful revolution of officials and ideas each voting cycle, the question then becomes how do the people have their freedoms protected and support for the elected government that belongs to the people. How do you support a government that thinks it can dictate and play god over the most important highest ranking person in the country, the citizen voter! The government is lowest ranking as it works for, and belongs to the citizen and voter. How does citizen trust that the elected are working for them and not their own power?
    Governments have fallen, Kings and Queens have been beheaded because they forgot that they are to serve, not dictate over the public.

    • Steve DeMarcus

      Perhaps more use of the Second Amendment and less of the First Amendment would do the trick!

      • Vikki Larsen

        YOU are so RIGHT! Time to lock and load. Use the 2nd Ammendment to enforce The Constitution and The Declaration of Independance. Time to rumble people because if we don’t do it soon, it WILL be too late! They will have our mouths shut and our Right to Bear Arms removed, possibly literally.

  8. 8. Koop

    Rage.

    Corrupt cronies of such a “government” deserve more than contempt.

    Perhaps angry mobs with pitchforks, torches, and tar & feathers might suffice.

  9. 9. me

    It is the Chicago school of voting.
    Every vote is important.
    Vote early,vote often, and after you die, someone will vote on your behalf.

    • cactusbob

      Meant as a reply to 9.ME : The Chicago school of voting is also successfully practiced in King County, WA, and the Governess is the result – twice.

    • cactusbob

      The Chicago school of voting is also successfully practiced in King County, WA, and the Governess is the result – twice.

  10. 10. MarkTheGreat

    If the polls still show massive support for Republicans, but the election results show the Democrats not losing large numbers, I am fully prepared to start declaring that the elections were fraudulent and the govt illegal.

    • Which is exactly what happened in Iran last year. Maybe that’s why Barry didn’t want to say anything.

    • Ohio

      I remember watching a Documentry on African American in Ohio, were left out of voting by being told, there were no more ballots, they were at the wrong voting station ect..ect.. I seemed to remember it to be about 2 million state wide in Ohio. Would it have helped McCain is not the point, their right to vote was forseen, 6-8 weeks out.

      The only way our votes will count, is putting Computer Scanners and Tabulation in DMV’s, Police, Fire, City, County buildings. You would scan your ID into a system, sit for ten minutes, and be called to a work station to vote if your legal. How about requiring Intstant Voter registration, at the Polls this same way? It is just to easy to prevent voter fraud. Standing for 2 hours in this day and age of Technology, well an Internet connection of a voting RIGHT, would protect us since the DOJ will not. Now that the DOJ will not Deffend our Safety, we will get illegals voting, as we know they did already. Ellection Judges are there for a reason, but without the ability to search a Name, DOB and SSN#, our system is flawed and the world now knows it.

      Like the Gulf spill, we are being attacked from within all parts of the U.S.A. We know we can’t control what others do or say about ones self, be we can be Civil in a non-violant way to stop this assault on our Constitution and its rules and laws. So some will say this is a Solution before a Problem, but we know a problem is really lawlessness, to protect our voting rights.

      Where did BO get $100+ million before Nov.08? Diverted funds of Fanny and Freddy? ACORN forclosures? They should look past you Mr.Adams, if they want to see REAL disgruntaled Americans.

      This Shister, pick one, proves the Neophite post the other day. DOJ is being driven off a cliff and the world is watching.

      There is just us, no DOJ. Federal Employees should have a HandBook for this Job Description violations. If not, there should not be a House or Senate Democrat or Repulican that is AMERICAN, who would walk away from Lady Justice and not Impeach this crew. I truely believe this would not be happening if Hillary were voted into office.

      Thanks again Mr.Adams, and please stay safe.

      • Tom

        No Hillary just “gets rid” of anyone who would be against her!

  11. 11. Wondering

    So where is Adams’ employment history, performance reviews, and other background that he mentioned was posted on Pajamas during a recent Fox News interview? I want to know just how unimpeachable he is.

  12. 12. buzzsawmonkey

    Holder—and his boss, Barack Obama—like the New Black Panther Party, are revanchists. They are motivated by a desire for revenge.

    In Leftist World, only “white people” can be racist; minorities cannot. Hence, when Obama promised a “post-racial” adminstration, though the people who heard him thought this meant moving past an obsession with race—and, indeed, voted for him in many cases for this reason—what he himself was promising was an administration that was no longer “racial” in the sense that those whom he saw as irretrievably racist despite their actions would no longer be in charge, and those whom he saw as definitionally incapable of being racist would be in charge.

    In other words, knowing full well that his words would be perceived differently from his own intended meaning by those whose votes he sought, he promised to impose a revanchist regime. And that is what he is doing; imposing what he perceives as payback.

  13. 14. ptbw

    Adams’s info is posted on this website. I read it this a.m. He was rated at the top of the top for evaluations and salary.

    We all need to start volunteering to check voter registration, check mail-in votes, and poll watch. (I might add, we need to always be ready to record any Bartle Bull-like intimidation as seen in the infamous Philly video). We all need to communicate like we are doing on these pages to share and spread facts, but it’s not enough. In the immortal words of the 60s, if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. The Nov. election will be fraught with fraud if we all assume a fair election. EVERYONE needs to become involved in “ACORN Watch”–no matter what ACORN calls itself now–or the 2nd 2 years of Obamanation will make the 1st 2 look mild.
    A
    Corrupt
    Organization
    Rigging elections
    November 2010 COMING TO A TOWN NEAR YOU THIS FALL

  14. 15. carla

    What is to be done??

    • ptbw

      I’m still working on that. I’m hoping to get some ideas from the very well-informed people who post here regularly. I’ve gotten a lead from a local TEA party group I contacted. We need to do this Saul Alinsky-like “community organizing” right back at them or the real America will be going out with a whimper and not a bang.

    • Bill Gannon

      When honest citizens are no longer able to rely on the integrity of their government there is only one recourse – full-fledged anarchy. If the problem ain’t fixed soon, unfortunately that will be the only thing left for us to do.

    • Odysseus

      Get involved. Run for office at the local and state levels or work hard for those who do. It’s a very large country. Corruption in large cities and whole regions of the country is hardly new, and yet, governing parties have come and gone many, many times for more than 200 years. I don’t believe, nor should you, that any current party is so well organized that they can hold power in the face of an electorate determined that they should not.

      All the tools are there: Local and state parties and offices are more important than they’ve been made out by a celebrity soaked media culture. States’ representatives in DC can not survive without the support of their local electorates. The more that like minded local electorates share and compare notes, the more easily their representative can brought to heel.

      The next time you see your local congresscritter ask them this: How many of the local electorate serve on their staff in DC? If it’s not a majority, with that majority holding the top positions, why not? If you don’t know the people that actually do the work in your congresscritter’s office, do you think they know you? Do you think they care about you or your concerns between elections?

      You want change? Put a tight leash on all your representatives. But that will require a lot of effort. If your not up to it, then don’t complain.

    • mzzz

      When more and more injured parties (lost jobs/wages; healthcare rationing; financial institutions) come forth and use the Hawaii elections guy for witness to bring cases re: Obama’s ineligibility to be POTUS, with willing judges like the one who disallowed the moratorium on drilling, then all these illegal orders re: healthcare, finance, homeland security, immigration, etc. will be made null and void. His locked up records will have to be called out in discovery and they will more than likely show a background of all types of falsehoods – perhaps not even a citizen to this day! When it hits where it hurts, more and more just might get more interested in these facts.

      • KBB

        I agree. I wonder why people are willing to take the long way home. This would all end so quickly if we could get everyone to focus on his ineligibility. We would have him out of the WH immediately, and all of this could be reversed. Why do people want to continue doing it the hard way? And in the meantime, he makes things worse. Why not use the easy and certain way to get rid of him: demand his removal because his father was not a U.S. citizen. He was born to only 1 U.S. citizen – his mother – so that makes him ineligible. Why don’t we all march on DC, and demand his removal based on this fact alone?? A few million people would do the job. There’s strength only in numbers re: this issue.

    • Free Speech

      It is time (while we still have a conservative majority on SCOTUS) to form Citizen Grand Juries in our local counties and indict BHO & his co-conspirators in our State Courts for crimes committed by his campaign in 2007 & 2008.

      Newsmax.com recently reported:

      “One thing appears certain: Supreme Court Justice John Roberts isn’t likely to back down to Obama. Roberts reportedly still is angry over President Obama’s decision to use the State of the Union address to scold the justices for their Citizens United v. FEC ruling, which rejected limitations on corporate and nonprofit electioneering.

      When Obama said during the State of the Union address that the ruling would “open the floodgates” to donations by foreign companies and other special interests to influence U.S. elections, Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words “Not true.”

      The president’s decision to use his bully pulpit to frame the ruling’s political impact incorrectly may have caused lasting damage to his relationship with the judiciary. The Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday that “Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. is still angered by what he saw as a highly partisan insult to the independent judiciary.”

      The Los Angeles Times reported Monday that a number of legal scholars now consider a clash between the expansive pro-government plans of the Obama administration and the Roberts court to be inevitable.”

      For information on forming a Secret Grand Jury to investigate crimes go here:

      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 bo campaign:

      http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/category/nashville/

  15. 16. Help us Mr. Adams, you're our only hope!

    Thank you so much for bringing things slightly back out of the rabbit hole for us.

    Next, perhaps you can help someone clear up all the allegations of massive caucus fraud by Obama’s side over Clinton. Every time I read about people’s description of outright fraud in the caucuses, it makes me sick to my stomach to think that this happened in the US.

    If it happened as they describe, it needs to be investigated. If it didn’t happen as they describe, it needs to be explained.

  16. 17. kim

    ptbw,

    You are so right. I had already planned on helping here in our state at the election this year. We can’t assume naively anymore that things are on the up and up.

    Thank you Mr. Adams for your courage in coming out, and informing Americans of the deception going on. I live in Missouri,and as you mentioned, we are all too familiar with the garbage that has been going on during voting time. I hope with the info you are coming out with that things will get looked into, and justice served. Unfortunately, I’m a little skeptical, but I can always pray and hope.

  17. 18. Forgotten Man

    Short term write your Congressional Hack and demand an independent investigation and tell your Congressional political hack that you will remember in November.The New (gay) Black Panthers? Concealed carry??

  18. 19. Brian N

    I find this article silly for many reasons. First the “Motor Law” creates a floor for the states and not a ceiling. (

    B) may require only the minimum amount of information necessary to -

    (i) prevent duplicate voter registrations; and

    (ii) enable State election officials to assess the eligibility of the applicant and to administer voter registration and other parts of the election process;

    Perhaps you could give me the case names that you refereed to in your article. Second, you were hired by the man in the middle of all the partisan DoJ hiring. Who lied to congress. You do not seem unbiased in the least bit.

  19. 20. Brian N

    Obviously if what you say about the Black Panther prosecution is true, which I doubt, then it would be disturbing unequal enforcement. However, the executive is tasked with choosing which laws to enforce. The DOJ only has so many resources and has to decide where to put these resources. The states should be capable on their own, as many here like to point out, to make sure their DMV’s are checking peoples identification. One could see the law as infringing on states rights. Just because the DOJ is not looking into these claims does not prevent the states from checking peoples identification. The law only provides what state is allowed to do in order to check peoples identification. I do not think anyone that posted actually understands this, and I think the author is full of it.

    • ptbw

      Brian N, we’re talking about investigating well-documented, well-publicized voter intimidation. Seems a no brainer that the DOJ would WANT to enforce this particular, sacred law–sanctity of the voting booth, what separates a democratic society from a corrupt one. Is the DOJ investigating any Section 8 violations currently? Have they since Jan. 2009?

    • 2texans

      Brian N must be a friend of David Stein; he talks grandly about why a goverment organization “doesn’t” need to protect all equally under the law. Because he “doubts it” (regarding the voter intimidation/fraud), it must not be true.

      The facts bear out the case. When the only dissent you hear is from liberals/progressives/democrats – check the facts. The facts are the only important thing here (no matter what side of the topic is argued).

      I left the democrat side when no one who wanted to debate an issue could give me any facts. All I ever got was extremely heated emotion – no more.

      The incredible arrogance of this administration may very well be it’s ultimate downfall. I think it is so insulated with it’s own self-importance and sense of complete prescience that it cannot see what is actually happening among the people of this nation. We will all do what we can to stop this however we can. Too many of us have awoken. And they are blind to this fact in their arrogance.

      Just keep putting one foot in front of the other… we must start somewhere.

    • Brian:

      Checked recently to see which party opposes efforts by states to require photo ID to vote?

      Hint: It ain’t the party of Booooooooooooooosh.

    • MarkTheGreat

      Like most liberals Brian N. is fully immunized against facts and logic.

    • geokstr

      Brian N, you conveniently fail to note that the case had already been won by default judgment, and the only thing left was sentencing. So “pursuing” this case wasn’t even necessary any more when Holder dropped it. This alone gives the lie to anything you have to say about this issue.

      • Brian N

        Because everyone here seems to be incapable of reading, let me point out that this article was not about the voter intimidation case involving the Black Panthers, but about what is required by State DMVs. My comments were directed at this article and not the articles involving the Black Panther Case. However, here is a fact for you which no seems to realize is that charges were brought against the guy with the baton. He was tried and convicted. They dropped the case against the organization head and the other Panther who did not have a baton. Eat that fact.

        • Really, Brian?

          What was the sentence of the Black Panther with the baton that was imposed in federal court? When did he start serving that sentence? When does it end?

          Please provide hard evidence for your answer. And by “hard,” I mean something along the lines of a .pdf file of the court paperwork imposing the sentence, not some lefty opinion site.

          Betcha can’t prove it. In fact, I will put my money where my mouth is… prove it, and I’ll email you a $5 Amazon gift card (but ya gotta give me your email to get it).

        • I’m still waiting, Brian… let’s see your evidence.

          Of course, you realize, a conviction without a sentence is a moot point. Due process (I thought you lefties loved due process) wasn’t completed. In essence, they got told “you’re a bad boy” but never got punished.

        • I guess Brian isn’t able to provide the evidence I asked for, thus proving my point and disproving his own.

          The offer of the reward for the evidence is hereby rescinded.

  20. Enough already. Obama and his administration belong behind bars. They are criminals and they are enemies of the Constitution and the American people.

  21. Dear J. Christian;

    So we’ll have more of the voting dead and more of the voting duplicates. Dems seem to have these methods all dialed!

    I live in Garden Grove, CA (CA47). Here, last congresscritter election cycle, Loretta Sanchez had ballot boxes stuffed by Illegal Aliens (another Dem voting trick) to roost out Rep. Bob Dornan. It was a sad day! And we seem to be missing an ID check when voting!!!

    BTW, you write quite well, and have a good knowledge base of a part of our federal government many of us don’t know much about, especially the inner functions! And of course New Black Panthers and broken voting procedures are very prominent news items right now. I’m sure many of us are quite pleased you joined up with PJM!

  22. 23. JCM

    Motor Voter was the brain child of Cloward & Piven, radical leftist professors at Columbia. Obama while at Columbia ran in the same circles. The are also authors of strategy of manufactured crisis to effect social change.

    WA State has plenty of experience with ACORN, Motor Voter and (D) control of the polling apparatus.

    Our Republic can endure many things, even economic turmoil, but a lose of confidence in THE VOTE, in elections, is a damage we cannot long endure.

    A crash program is needed.

    1) Expunge all existing voter rolls.
    2) Everyone re-registers, providing proof of citizenship and location of primary residence.
    3) This information will be verified.
    3) Since naturalized citizens are required to have proficiency in all voting materials are in English only.

    Only a start, how to fix polling is another issue.

  23. The other part of that is that the Dems (for example, In California) are always trying to get legislation passed that would enable illegal aliens to get drivers licenses. “One Bill” Gil Cedillo, a Dem , annualy tries to get this passed.Link that with voter registration at DMV, and you, well…… can connect the dots.

  24. 25. 2discern

    Finally we have a man of integrity to speak the truth. He (Mr. Adams)does it with no malice and yet stands on principle for the sake of righteousness. My guess is more will come out about the corrupt nature of the present administration. Including, but not limited to, the non-vetted barry soetero sitting as usurper. It is only a short time now that the liar-in-chief will be found out as more and more courageous citizens of these United States refuse to be affected by the Slapinskys (Saul Alinksy verbal slaps in the face for truth telling)and come forth with exposing truth. Patriots unite the time is getting close. The fraudulent impostor and all those complicit (remember the MISPRISON FELONY charges will be wide spread)players in the scheme are about to implode. That includes DoJ members.

  25. 26. pasofino

    Dear Mr. Adams,
    Thank you for your simple courage. Let the truth win the victory. You win, we all win! Justice remains when men fight for the truth. You are preserving freedom for us all. Thank you, sir! I will pray for you.

  26. 27. alceste

    I voted last month downtown LA, Bunker Hills Towers -
    While the procedures went on in an acceptable manner (actually not so, since the centralizing/ matching address/ identity roster wasn’t there – but they went on with two complementary rosters untill someone brought from Norwalk the unifying book), I was appalled by the quality of the supervising poll workers –
    And here I am not mentioning the volunteers – but those who clearly are county workers and who were simply a collection of loud, incompetent dolts, confused, without any sense of priorities, the form of English used by them (ebonics) being largely incomprehensible to the voters coming there -

    Again, the Bunker Hills Towers is not a place catering to South Central voters, but to Downtown denizens (motley crew indeed), yet 50% percent of the voters there are people who work downtown LA, and are generally better educated than the ACORN crew – and the situation I described shows that the comtempt for voters, and the willful disregard for cotrolling the voting process is a government (read Democrat Party) deliberate atittude -

  27. 28. Camo in Turkey

    Registering to vote in the USA is the easiest that I have seen in most countries that I have visited or lived in. Mexico, for instance, actually has a fairly stringent voter registration program, where birth certificates, ID, a fee, and proof of residence are required to get a voter registration card. This card, by the way, has a photo and is REQUIRED for the vote, which can only be cast at a specific voter site in person (and all of this is in their native language). Now, contrast this with “immigrants” who feel “intimidated” “too poor” or too misinformed to fill out one small, free card and mail in a ballot. The irony is too much to fathom.

  28. 29. Phoenix48

    I applaud Mr Adams for his willingness to endure the heat for comming forward. Unfortunately his revelations about such an apparatchik as Ms Fernandez doesn’t come as much of a shock.

    One of Gov Jan Brewer’s finest hours as former Secretary of State was her steadfast resistance – against heavy political pressure from then Gov Janet Napolitano – to allow such loosening of voter ID requirments – all part of Nappy’s sanctuary movement. Today Arizona has arguably the toughest and hense most secure voter integrity of any state.

    Obama’s run when securing the nomination over Hillary was an achievement that depended heavily on the loose federation of tens of thousands of tiny ‘associations’ long umbrelled under the likes of ACORN, and facilitated by his campaigns ability to harness excited young people willing to join and work for free. It was quite an achievement – and – the biggest shock was how much money he raised, since, when it comes to voter fraud, it’s all about payoffs rather than excited campaign workers willing to work for nothing, young or not.

    I think that it was the writer John Fund who did an excellent job of drawing attention to voter fraud back around the congressional cycle of ’06 – when the republicans were about to get their head handed to them. In turn he was reacting in part to the lefts stepped up accusations which exploded after Florida in 2000, and was later exaserbated by the Diebolt companies bumbling of electronic voter machines.

    Undoubtedly, if it wasn’t for Fund we would have been hearing a lot more about the homeless willing to vote early and often for a pack of winstons and a big mack in places like VA, North Carolina, and Indiana. And they didn’t vote for Father Time John McCain either.

    I’m 51 and grew up in Cleveland, so voter fraud as a democrat party honored legacy (as it is in the capital of such – Chicago) is hardly a shocker. In Cuyahoga county it has long a tradition.

    Andrew Breitbart’s underwriting of exposing the ACORN scandal, and the smack job done journalistically chronicalling how ACORN represents a long 40 plus year generational feeding off of big government dating to the civil right era and Johnsons Great Society, along with whistle-blowers like Mr Adams, has served to alert the country at large to what used to low hanging fruit senario for the left.

    A reliable source – given a distracted & frightened electoriate – of skewing election results – most importantly well funded – has been largely shut down -and it will be extremely hard to crank it up again with so many alerted and watching for it.

    Likewise, in Obama’s first year his attempt to command and control the Census was thwarted – a huge victory considering how much of the federal bureaucracy relies on the Census to appropriate funds. It was primarily because of efforts just like Mr Adams.

    Thank you sir, and God Bless you.

  29. 30. Anneke9

    I was not surprised to see this headline in the Oakland press this morning:

    DOJ To Conduct Independent Review Of Mehserle Case, May Prosecute

    White cop kills black man… now THAT they’re interested in investigating!

  30. 31. bojo

    the holder justice dept has lost all semblance of respectibility. it is now held in contempt by the citizenry.this is unsustainable. everything they do from here forward will carry the taint of illigitimacy. obama must change coarse now.we have the lessons of history and the warning of this nations founders that we would face this crisis… courage…conviction

  31. 32. bojo

    i meant course of course

    • Bellerophon

      Had to respond to your correction of your spelling of “coarse/course”. Suggestion: leave the spelling as it was. The original spelling was Freudian, no doubt, but highly applicable to the subject matter at hand.

  32. 33. hungry4food

    All Obama and Co. needs is an Amnasty Bill and they will have their connection complete to this Motor Voter law

  33. Thank you Mr. Adams for your courage and your dedication to Freedom.

    The shocking silence from the MSM about your revelations is much more than political partisanship, it is already the deadly silence of totalitarianism falling on America like a funereal blanket.

    The MSM “journalists” and the university dimwits are an appalling example of the HOMO SOVIETICUS, that we had hoped extinct.

  34. 35. Robb

    What must be done is to keep a list… the firing of Adams, the orders to not purge the dead, etc, etc. But not just the offenses in DOJ, but all others under Obama. For instance, Interior Secretary Salazar’s intent to ignore a judge’s order. Etc., etc., ad infinitum. This administration is racking up a long list of offenses in open defiance of the rule of law. If control can be taken from them, then down the road there should be criminal prosecutions en masse to deter anyone in the future from ever attempting it again. If Obama can be impeached, he should himself then be immediately tried, convicted and sentenced for treason. But of course, if he were the Russians would probably arrest a bunch of our spies and want to do a swap, so they could keep him from revealing anymore of their spies, just as Obama did a swap to keep the Russian moles from revealing anything too important.

  35. 36. Andy McGill

    I voted for Obama and still like him. But this is deeply disturbing. I expect any President to enforce all the laws.

    I suppose other Presidents have used civil rights laws to advance their personal politics, but from this President it makes a mockery of the moral story of civil rights. This really bothers me, more than most other conservative criticisms.

    • Bellerophon

      Andy:

      You have just taken the first step toward redemption. In order to name the enemy you must first recognize the enemy as such. While you have not yet named the enemy, you have described him.

      Next step: look for a consistency of behavior in the pursuit of an agenda by this administration. Seek out those policies that he has advocated and pushed through against the will of the population. Notice his facile willingness to sidestep the nuisance of the Legislative Branch in naming his minions to advance policies. His approach is Orwellian. Someone stated above that he is perfectly willing to step outside the rule of law in order to pursue his Marxist agenda. He cannot do so without being in office. Notice the games that the Dems are willing to play in order to manipulate the November vote. You will not have long to wait. November is approaching like a freight train. Job #1 is to hold him accountable for his criminal hubris.

      Good luck in moving away from the dark side. You seem forthright and, like numerous others, were simply deluded by his velvet language.

    • AuntieMadder

      How can you see even the tiny bit of his corrupt ways as you posted here and still like him? Perhaps it would be more accurate for you to say that you voted for him and even though the truth about him has been hitting you like falling bricks since his coronation, you’re too proud (or too stubborn) to admit yet that you, along with millions of other voters, made a mistake, a mistake so huge that it’s bringing this country to its knees.

      If you can say today that you still like him, then you haven’t learned squat from your mistake and you’re apt to make the same poor choice again or another just like it.

  36. 37. Songdog

    More and more instances are turning up of non-enforcement of federal laws the administration dosen’t agree with. The most obvious example is immigration control. The amnesty advocates got what they wanted in Simpson-Mazzoli, legalization accomplished through the statute itself, while enforcement requires the continuing effort of the government. Under such circumstances, it’s easy to gut the compromise that allowed the law to be passed. There’s not much we can do now about motor-voter and other voter rights issues except change the administration, but we’d be fools to support another immigration compromise that is front-loaded with an immediate amnesty yet requires a long term, good faith effort at enforcement.

    • Joseph Somsel

      Songdog,

      Let me add a few more cases of illegal actions/iniatives by the Obama Administration:

      1) FCC – equal time on broadcasts, ie “Fairness Doctrine”
      2) EPA – carbon emissions regulation, ie “Cap ‘n Trade”
      3) DoE – abandoning Yucca Mountain Project for the disposal of nuclear waste.

      They are trying to avoid the political fallout from pushing unpopular policies through Congress via administrative actions.

  37. 38. Keith

    Regarding the Black-Panther case…

    I think we need to be extremely careful and mindful of the larger forces at play. Dismissing the charges had to be race-bating on Holder’s part. It clearly serves his purpose to have conservative bloggers and talk shows drawn into near-hysteria, flippantly throwing around racially charged terms that will only entrench and pseudo-validate each opposing position. Obviously most African-Americans don’t applaud what the Panthers were doing. Allowing the default conviction to stand would have been a non-event. Holder and maybe Obama himself wanted this to escalate. Cool heads must prevail. We can’t let this go unanswered, but we need to be generous with face-saving, benefit-of-the-doubt explanations. We need to avoid assigning motives to broad swaths of Americans and stick to the facts, ready to cite legitimate instances of whites having been prosecuted for similiar violations. More than ever, we need to be grown-ups here.

  38. 39. Milo

    purple ink…

  39. 40. Free Speech

    Megyn Kelly’s 7/9/10 interview with New Black Panther Leader

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXbtG32Jago&feature=player_embedded

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSl8FsNjvPg&feature=player_embedded

  40. 41. Free Speech

    It is noteworthy that it has been over a year and a half since I first began to write about the Citizens Grand Jury Process and Original Jurisdiction in the Supreme Court of cases against Barrack Hussein Obama and, to date, BHO’s lawyers have never been able to refute my Constitutional Theories.

    The precedent for getting standing and bringing a case directly to the United States Supreme Court upon Original Jurisdiction is the landmark case of Marbury v. Madison 5 U.S. (1 Crunch) 137, 2 L.Ed. 60 (1803). As succinctly stated by Chief Justice Marshall in Marbury, “If a persons duty is backed by law and not by political in nature, then he becomes subject of the law and is examinable by the court.”

    Article III, Section 2 of the United States Constitution states, “In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction.”

    Marbury was a case involving a minor public minister. The case against Barrack Hussein Obama involves all “Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls” of the United States and of all foreign nations with diplomatic status with the United States. Furthermore, the case against Barrack Hussein Obama involves all States of the United States as parties.

    As in Marbury, We the People shall prosecute our cases against Barrack Hussein Obama petitioning the United States Supreme Court for a Writ of Mandamus compelling Barrack Hussein Obama to abide by the Constitutional Contract that he entered into with We the People on January 20, 2009 and uphold his Oath to abide by the Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution of the United States of America.

    It is stated in United States v. Butterworth, 18 S. Ct. 441, 169 U.S. 600 at 602 (1898),
    “The office of a writ of mandamus is to compel the performance of a duty resting upon the person to whom the writ is sent. That duty may have originated in one way or in another. It may, as alleged in the present case, have arisen from the acceptance of an office which has imposed the duty upon its incumbent. But no matter out of what fact or relations the duty has grown, what the law requires, and what it seeks to enforce by a writ of mandamus, is the personal obligation of the individual to whom it addresses the writ.”

    Following much good faith research regarding the issue of original jurisdiction in the Supreme Court of the United States, We the People have found no cases in the history of jurisprudence of the United States of America wherein a Defendant disputed the Constitutional fact that the Supreme Court of the United States has original jurisdiction over “all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls” as plainly stated in the Constitution of the United States, Article III, Section 2.

    That being the case, “We the People” respectfully request that the Barack Hussein Obama stipulate to the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States has original jurisdiction over all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls; or, in the alternative, that Barack Hussein Obama show good cause why the Supreme Court of the United States shall not have original jurisdiction

    http://grandjury.blogtownhall.com

  41. 42. SOS

    It certainly makes one wonder; is this the reason why oba-mao has no qualms about completely disregarding the will of the American people? You don’t have to worry about votes in a fixed election.

    This couples nicely with Soros’s plan to stock secretaries of state with progressives in case of electoral discrepancies.I think it was Stalin who said “it’s not the people who vote who decide elections it’s the people who count the votes!!?”

  42. 43. Free Speech

    Malik Shabazz incriminates himself in the King Samir voter intimidation case.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JunrpGf5QRc&feature=player_embedded#!

  43. 44. Mike

    We’re being governed by the most criminal politicians in living memory.

  44. 45. Chris

    If you look at the big picture, it is hard not to come to the conclusion that we are in the midst of some sort of coup. Federal law is being parsed to selectively enforce those provisions that result in the “correct” political outcome. The Constitution itself means nothing. The entire fabric of our social and political history is being twisted and stretched every day in ways that would make the Founders spin in their graves. No amount of discucssion or complaint in these forums moves the political class or the alleged media to action. If we do not prevail in November, will there be any courses of action left except acquiescence or armed resistance? I, for one, do not welcome our new overlords.

  45. 46. Bill Adams

    Why is there little attention being paid to the NBP’s refusal to respond in federal District Court? First, as any lawyer knows, that’s virtually unheard of–especially with a politically savvy organization. Could it be that those advising the group, or the “principals” shown on TV, let them know that the “Chicago fix” was in? Before anyone screams “conspiracy theory” at me, think about it. If the defendants had appeared, with or without defense counsel, and offerred some defense, it would publically have been much more difficult for the Obama/Holder admin. to pull the plug from the civil “prosecutorial discretion” angle that they’ve now used. However, if there’s no response, under the guise of civil “prosecutorial discretion” (which by the way is not an ethical standard like that in fed criminal cases), the bureaucrats, and not the line lawyers, can simply substitute they’re political opinion for the legal opinion of the judge, i.e., “not sufficient facts or law” in this case, now go on back to being good employees and keep ‘ya mouth shut.

  46. 47. lonestarlady47

    Ms. Fernandez should be taken out in the street, stripped of her citizenship and put on a plane and sent to wherever she came from as I know it counldn’t be from this country and in my opinion, people like Ms. Fernandez should not be allowed to live in a country as wonderful as America! She should be fired from her cushy government job, but the Muslim-in-Chief won’t do it.

  47. 48. Truthurts

    Well just because poeple died for the right to vote in fair elections,why would anyone except this immoral, inept adminstration honor the deaths of many blacks and whites who died for that freedom?If you are a citizen educate yourself on the real issues or vote for one party power and become a slave again. There are more than one way to inslave someone but a old Kenyian proverb surely is worth repeating “a good slave is unarmed and silent”.I for one will not give up my rights to any man!

  48. 49. don

    Obama is not a liberal.He is a student of Saul Alinsky. Refer to Rules For Radicals..

    • KBB

      So is Hillary. She is Obama-lite. Let us never forget that she is a devotee of Alinsky, same as BO. She wrote her college thesis on Alinsky’s rules for radicals. Lest Hillary plans on running in 2012 (instead of BO), let’s run a 24/7 loop of that video of her in the primary debates bragging that she considers herself a “modern progressive”. Well, now we damn well know what a progressive does to our beloved country. AND WE DON’T WANT NO STINKIN’ PROGRESSIVE!!

  49. 50. JD

    I don’t know if it can be done. But I’d LOVE to see a class action lawsuit with the entire population of the US as the class against Obama’s DOJ for this order to not prosecute cases of voter fraud.

    Sadly, I suspect it would setup am impossible chain of further such lawsuits that would tie up the government in gordian knots for all of eternity.

    {^_^}

  50. Attempts to purge ineligible voters from roles are inherently political. In almost all such cases, the programs have discouraged eligible and registered voters from voting, have discouraged voter registrations, and depressed actual voting numbers. There are more cases of these prosecutions being dismissed for targeting the wrong people than there are of successful prosecutions.

    Why should the government waste money acting like a Soviet-style government? Good call by the Justice Department.

    If you don’t like, move to someplace where the voter rolls are regularly purged. Where would that be? Uzbekistan? Iran? Russia? How’s that working for them?

    • Allowing dead and moved people to remain on the rolls allows other’s to vote in their place…as you well know.

      This has the effect of negating my vote. Or to put it your way to having been purged. HOW STUPID DO YOU THINK WE ALL ARE? Interference with elections including fraud needs to become a treasonous crime.

    • Hmmm… there are said to be some jurisdictions where the number of registered voters exceeds the number of voting-age adults. And you think that removing the dead and those who’ve moved away would lead to the Soviet States of America?

      Get a grip.

  51. 52. Chakradog

    Old news! SO! what do we plan to do about it?

  52. 53. Joanne

    econsf said

    “To not trust that an election is honest sets up a nation for open conflict and possible overthrow of the government by groups that want power.”

    I have NO doubt that the last presidential election was full of ‘padded votes’ and received tons of ILLEGAL contributions. WHO here actually thinks or believes that our last election was HONEST? Come on people!

  53. 54. TexasCowgirl

    I am so grateful that these things are being exposed….God Bless America and her freedom. What are we going to do about it????

    The conservative party in power needs to do something about it. I’m sending this article to them and calling their office to see what they intend to do about it. They surely can call press conferences and shine more light on it and try to replace these people who have no respect for our laws.

  54. 55. Steverino

    Obviously,if something works against the assisting the current administration’s re-election,it won’t be enforced.Chaos is being fomented to create order.Fortunately,for the mainstream,this administration’s opposition invented and made electoral fraud an art form.Apparently,it’s time for Main Street to fight fire with fire.Then,the Obama administration will try to have the results nullified citing electoral fraud.Other democracies hold elections on Saturday or Sunday to facilitate turn-out.Absentee ballots don’t exist because of possible abuses.Maybe the U.S. should follow suit.

  55. 56. cmblake6

    And yet, when you see the numbers in the polls you still wonder why the left is in charge of politik.

  56. 57. KBB

    “…and indict BHO & his co-conspirators in our State Courts…” **** Obama and Co have been indicted by several Citizen Grand Juries. They ignore the indictments. What we need is for a military unit to go in and arrest him and his cohorts, because nothing else seems to be working. The problem is that so many entities – including the military, SCOTUS, federal and state judges, local law enforcement, CIA – have been infiltrated and corrupted by BO, they’ve been bribed / threatened / sanctioned / all of the above.

  57. 58. Gordon

    When you people (Americans) finally get tired of the bully you have in the White House, I hope you do something about it. You should do something soon, politically or otherwise (rebellion), because things are being set up to assist in your subjugation and the plowing-under of the rule of law and democracy:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-hvPJPTi4

    I would be VERY concerned. Do NOT listen to the mainstream media garbage about how this administration (Obummer’s) could not be corrupt. Obama has done far worse than Nixon ever thought of doing.

    A Concerned Canadian

  58. 59. Tony

    All I got to say is………………..LOCK-N-LOAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  59. 60. Ray

    Remove felons from the voter lists, OK I agree. Now what is going to be done to Frankin now that he supposedly won the election with more felons votes then he won the vote total by? Are they going to take those votes away from Frankin? If so then Coleman would have won the election. So if Coleman was really supposed to be the Senator does that mean they take all the votes Frankin made away? Just a question.

  60. 61. Greg

    We are no longer a nation of laws – but a nation of ruling elite ‘whims’.

    Homeland Security refusing to enforce immigration laws.
    DOJ refusing to enforce Voting Rights laws (New Black Panther Party)
    DOJ refusing to enforce the cleanup provisions of ‘Motor Voter’

    Me – I would do away with motor-voter – instead require everyone to get off their fat ass and go down to the registration office once every 4 year and register (unless they are physically unable). Along with positive photo id to both register and vote. If someone is too damn lazy to get off their fat ass and register – they don’t need to vote.

  61. 62. Laurie

    I’m not surprised by the FAILURE by gov’t. to police their own. I live in the Mid-west & have personally documented, witnessed & reported corruption to federal officials. They confirmed the violations were just that when presented to them. They also refused to hold those responsible accountable for their public policy violations and stated they too “were not interested in investigating” those responsible for public corruption, misuse of taxpayer money & the lies they told under oath, etc. After I got over the initial SHOCK, I then began to understand that the failure of independent oversight & accountability in gov’t. is what’s destroying our country & state, and robbing our children of a decent future. And, because I love my country, believe we all deserve much better than this and want a better & brighter future for all of our children, I will not sit idly by as this kind of corruption in gov’t. continues. Instead, I’ve vowed to responsibly and respectfully SPEAK UP and do all I can to help hold GOV’T. accountable and to work toward transparency & independent oversight by the citizens in order to achieve that. If every American citizen vowed to do the same, I believe we could protect & preserve the future for our children. Thanks.

  62. 63. Mary

    To all the smug complicit republicans: I know you have your retirement package and all your ill-gotten gains you have stolen from the American taxpayers, but your power base is gone, gone, gone! Without honest elections, in a few short years there will be no republican party. It is ‘gone with the wind.’ Cowards like you who have sworn to uphold the Constitution, yet hide in the dark rooms of congress rather than stand and fight deserve to go to your doom in infamy. WE THE PEOPLE deserve better. We know the democRATS are liars and betrayers. We trusted you and you do nothing but LIVE LARGE at taxpayer expense! I am ashamed of all republicans elected to public office, especially those in D.C.

  63. 64. Jaycen

    Guys,

    Violence is not the answer. George Soros has done this in other countries. The final step is to create a VOTING CRISIS. That’s what pushes everyone over the edge and instigates the violent revolution.

    You have to understand, they want it to happen. When it does, (the bottom rises up) it forces the government to violently clamp down (the top comes down), and the Socialists are standing in the wings, ready with “all the answers” (and turn the country inside-out).

    Bottom up, top down, and inside out. Google it.

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