Obama Justice Official Nixed Black Panther Prosecution
In a past national election, a uniformed hate group stood outside a polling place with a two-foot-long police nightstick in hand, screaming racial epithets and threats in a successful effort to prevent citizens from voting and poll watchers from doing their jobs. The Department of Justice investigated, the career counsel approved the institution of a civil complaint, and one was brought.
The defendants offered up no defense. They failed even to appear in court. The federal district court judge entered default judgments against the defendants. Later he ordered the Justice Department to file motions for the entry of default judgments, formally acknowledging they had won.
At this time, over the objections of career counsel, Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli ordered the case dropped.
Is this an historic case illustrating life under the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow?
No, it occurred in the 2008 election and the group involved was the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP).
Was there some dispute about the facts? No. Here’s a YouTube of the incident so you can see some of what occurred yourself.
The U.S. Civil Rights Commission, charged with overseeing such matters, examined the evidence. In a letter to the Justice Department, they said that this act caused “great confusion, since the NBPP members were caught on video blocking access to the polls, and physically threatening and verbally harassing voters during the Nov. 4, 2008, general election. ”
The attorney general who engaged in this inexplicable act was appointed by President Barack Obama, who was sold to the voters as a post-racial figure and a constitutional law scholar.
In 2004, the misnamed left-wing outfit People for the American Way (PFAW) put forth a report entitled “The Shadow of Jim Crow,” which risibly confused efforts to prevent obvious voter fraud with intimidation and suppression. It concluded on this pot-banging note:
Robbing voters of their right to vote and to have their vote counted undermines the very foundations of our democratic society. Politicians, political strategists, and party officials who may consider voter intimidation and suppression efforts as part of their tactical arsenal should prepare to be exposed and prosecuted. State and federal officials, including Justice Department and national political party officials, should publicly repudiate such tactics and make clear that those who engage in them will face severe punishment.
So when I read this story from the Washington Times yesterday, I checked to see if PFAW had anything about it at all. I could find not one word.
“Jim Crowley.” Sure does seem to fit. If Obama and Holder were movie moguls, a title they’d no doubt favor is, “And Justice for Some.”
DOJ’s behavior in the the NBPP matter, Obama’s stance in the arrest of Prof Gates by Sgt Crowley, and Holder’s sneaky attempt at the enactment of new hate-crime legislation (that only selectively applies) — all add up, I agree, to something decidedly less than a “post-racial” posture.
And now, following the public’s reaction to his ill-conceived “acted stupidly” remark, Obama tried to return to the classroom (having once been a law-school instructor). Hoping that we would accept him as dispassionate and scholarly, he planned to conduct his own little teach-in.
Didn’t work. At the much-ballyhooed Beer Summit, Gates didn’t apologize (no surprise there), but neither did Crowley. I thank him for that. It seems that, as many of us would, Crowley refused to take instruction from prof Gates and ex-prof Obama, both of whom seem more interested in justifying their own bigotry than in improving the state of race relations in America.
See: A “Teachable Moment” http://emmeffemm.com/id169.html
This incident serves as a warning concerning the dangerousness of the Barack Obama administration. It is also treated as a non-story by the legacy media. I cannot recall it getting even one sentence of coverage in my local newspaper, the Houston Chronicle. Mark Sanford’s exploits, however, made headlines. Obama is probably a marginalized president and will remain so until the end of his term. He may even resign due to “health reasons” before the end of another year. Nonetheless, we cannot become complacent. The stakes are simply too high.
One should not be surprised by the inaction of the PFAW, the ACLU, and the NAACP. They are all tacitly anti-white entities—even those who are also caucasian. In their heart of hearts, these groups consider whites to be fair game and deserving of abuse. In the long run whites are to be exterminated. They are a cancer on the Earth. The greatest threat to Western Civilization is white guilt and self hatred. David Duke and his vile allies are hoping to exploit the situation. We must make sure this does not occur.
Mike, A “Teachable Moment” is a fine piece!
This is a terrific report which gainsays Obama’s claim to be post racial. One of the main reasons for his election is now shown to be invalid. At this point the intelligent voter should ask what he brings to the job other than the ability to imitate the estimable MLK whie reading high sounding but vacuous speeches from TOTUS.
That, and of course, an historic ability to apologize to the wrong people. And what possible excuse could there be for the media’s failure to report this? It’s disgusting,
And this, boys and girls, is how you make race relations worse in the United States.
When the law begins to break down and is only applied to the enemies of the ruling political party, then the people will begin to take the law into their own hands. I completely agree that race relations have been set back a LONG way as a result of this black racist that sits in the office.
Glenn Beck hit it right on the nose when he says that Obama hates white people (in general, but i hear that some of his best employees are white). Any moron with a room temperature IQ can see that Obama blames whites for all of the worlds problems.
Some quotes from Obama’s books:
From Dreams of My Father :’I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’
From Dreams of My Father:’There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’
From Dreams of My Father:’It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’
From Dreams of My Father:’I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself: the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.’
From Audacity of Hope:’I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
O-bum-a and crowd are the most blatant racist out there today.
who paid for the beer ? that should have been out of pocket bu I am thinking the american taxpayer gets the tab.
remember when Mcain said “I am the white candidate” ….oh right he didn’t.
remember when the “whte congressional caucus” was formed ….oh right it wasn’t.
remember when the “black congressional caucus” spoke for the white constituents in their districs ….oh right they didn’t.
remember New Orleans after Katrina ..all those able bodied people screaming …what are you doing for us ?
remember the floods in north central USA ….the people pulled together and helped each other.
if O-bum-a is half white …why does he claim to be black.
…..for the advantage.
I wonder if Mr. Jackson & his fellow new Black Panthers have health insurance. I’m guessing not since they’re probably unemployed and unemployable. These are the persons that Mr Obama’s healthcare plan is being set in place to take care of at taxpayer expense. ObamaCare is medical affirmative action: giving people who haven’t earned it and don’t deserve it first place at the head of the line into the doctor’s office, with someone else paying for it. When and if Mr. Jackson becomes perforated for being a nasty human being, I do *not* want to have to pay to make him all better.
I couldn’t agree more with David Thomson ‘s (2) comment. We Americans are about to lose our country to thug politicians!
Kind of like NOW’s support for Bill Clinton’s use of his position to conduct a workplace dalliance with an impressionable intern, isn’t it? Hmmm, PFAW, NAACP, ACLU… What do all of these non-profit groups have in common? Let me think.
Great piece, Ms. Feldman!
The White House Mafioso in action; More to come, Folks! Enjoy the ride!
These three groups have nothing to do with civil rights-never had, never will. They have everything to do with advancing a leftist agenda. Notice how lefty groups all have the words America(n) or Democracry in their titles… That is to make them look benign and sends a message that they are working for all Americans. Right out of Stalin’s playbook.
Look, of course the DOJ and Obama were going to overlook this NBP incident. Geez, it is Chicago Thugocracy that runs our nation today. We know if it had been white bullies, the MSM and the DOJ would have been all over this.
What we are all forgetting is that the left is now the party of color. It defines itself by the minorities it serves. The few white Americans who participate are self-loathing and hate America, and act as the parents for the minorities it oversees (hence the way Sen. Boxer acted with Mr. Alford). Haven’t you noticed that blacks and illegal immigrants do no wrong???
I disagree, respectfully, with DavidThomson regarding David Duke. He is over in Paris. But if white America and all American who believe this is the greatest nation on earth do not rise up, there will no longer be a United States after the mid-term elections and certainly after 2012.
President Obama, as a community organizer, is to demagogue, to divide people for power with ACORN & his helping them in the housing bubble; he is no different as POTUS, but has a bigger megaphone. However, eventually, Obama’s bigotry will come back to bite him as it did in the Gates-Crowley incident when Obama interjected himself in a local matter. President Obama revealed himself to be Archie Bunker as the mask slipped. The thug will reveal himself again & more often as the charade cannot go on for an extended kabuki theater. I believe Obama will reveal himself when may of his initiatives go down in flames in the Congress such as Obamacare, Card Check, along with Cap & Trade.
Shaw: I agree. But what will he do in retaliation? He will always have the MSM and blacks and self-loathing white progressives to cover his tracks. What will he do? How will America react? I can’t believe I am actually thinking and writing these questions about a president of our United States.
Hey, black racists take care of each other!! How is Holder going to make any money in this administration if he doesn’t market his willingness to make irrational decisions.
Assume you have some cash you want to invest in helping your business enterprise. Do you go to the traditional democrat members of Congress (including, their friends and relatives), people in the administration (buy a Presidential pardon, for example), or to the new players, the czars and all there hidden staffs? With all that competition, Justice has to do whatever it can to show that black racists (with cash) have a helful friend.
Oboma is a racist. He has (what he thinks) is a cleverly concealed animus towards white people but the mask is slipping. You can’t sit in Rev Wright’s “church” for twenty years and not be part of the group of believers. It isn’t even logical no mattter how much he tried to spin it. I knew what he was before the electiona and the wonder is that more Americans couldn’t suss out this phony. But then Americans are know for their goodness and openheartedness which is what the race hustlers have known all along. If America was so racist would Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson be sitting on the perches they have invented for themselves? In a truly racist America they would have been vanquished. I think having Pharoh in the White House has been a good thing for America as long as he and his Marxist policies are kept in check. Because he proves what we on the right have been saying for many years. There is a large swathe of the Black American public who screams racism but secretly hopes it still lingers because their identities and livlihoods depend upon it. And if traces of it have disappeared, they will invent something to keep it alive. Hence the Professor Gates stench. The elite blacks in America should be held accountable for what they have done to their lesser brethern on the social scale. They are the ones (along with their allies on the left) who don’t give a rat’s rearend about black conditions unless they are being used as cannon fodder for another revolutionary coup. Witness the spectacle of Pharoh enrolling his very priviledged daughters into an elite Academy and standing in the doorway to prevent the lower class black children whom I am sure he does not want HIS children associating with attending the same school through the extension of vouchers. If he were white there would have been hell to pay. He was shamed into allowing its continuance for a very finite period of time rather than on principle and in perpetuity. His skin color aside, he is no different that the rest of the left wing elite except he has another truncheon to wield in his arsenal. With his election the floodgates of honest discussion have been opened and that is a good thing. For too long many white people have bottled up their emotions and their honest observations for fear of being called racist. Well now we saw with the Boston Police that that happens regardless of the facts which is what PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR A LONG TIME. This might not be the Race Discussion that the One would like to conduct and control but it is the discussion that all Americans need to have and which has been pent up for decades. Perhaps we can now voice the most obvious of facts: that within the black culture and community they have been engaged on a path of self destruction for decades perhaps because they have become the unwitting tools of the left and they have swallowed the poison which has been fed to them. Many are useful idiots and it shows.
One other thing: Your last comment about “Jim Crowley” racism was absolutley brilliant. Jim Crow as shorthand for white racism. Jim Crowley for black racism. That will be enough to drive the race hustlers ’round the twist.
Thank you, sycthe. That’s very generous.
#9 Joe,
We’ll get it back. Like al Qaeda in Iraq, Obama & Co. will overplay their hand one too many times.
The credibility of the DOJ takes a hit. Can anyone explain the difference between the cowards the AG was talking about and the voters who complained about intimidation by the voting precinct?
How do you think the career lawyers at the DOJ feel about their chain of command? You don’t need to be a conservative to be outraged, but you definitely need to be a lefty-to-the-bone to feel good and tingle-legged-Matthiewsy about what’s going on.
This administration is systematically doing what is needed to alienate the electorate. It takes time, but 4 years is quite a long time, and the slickers are quite earnest…
Here’s some follow up:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/is_doj_complicit_in_election_c.html
I pray that people filled with racist, race baiting, America-hating DNA who are breaking the law with impunity; with absolutely no contrition and getting away with it; will someday pay for their sins and wanton transgressions.
All who need to pay the piper are coincidentally buds of Barack.
Like Bill Ayers and Bern Dorn who proudly proclaim they’re proud to have been domestic bomb throwing terrorists. Their only regret? Not throwing more bombs.
Where’s their much deserved comeuppance?
And then there’s the subjects of Mr. Feldman’s masterful article.
The Black Panther boys who pranced around a polling place in Philadelphia with Billy clubs
last election, mouthing off to decent people, “either vote for Barack or get a Black Panther skull crunching noogie.”
The Feds had an open and shut case of voter intimidation, were ready to throw the book at those bully boys. Then Barack’s crack attorney general, Eric, (all white people are racial cowards) Holder, incredibly decides not to prosecute. (”Heavens to Betsy, don’t want to do anything to rile up that black voter base”).
And, then there’s our dirt bag of the month.
Harvard Professor Henry Gates who has a PHD in racism and race baiting. Proud as a Gestapo prison guard for the poison that came out of his mouth like squeezed lung boils.
And who can forget another category of law breakingi scum. Big shot members of the Obama administration lke Tim Geithner jumps to mind;
“Taxes? I forgot.”
Among the things these miscreants all have in common is the ability to stay out of jail.
To carry out everything from heinous acts to racist acts to racist taunting of police officers, and get off scot-free.
In the case of Henry, (”do you know who I am, you pig?”, Gates, not only were charges dropped (maybe because he’s palsy walsy with Obama), but the master race baiter gets invited to have a Guinness at the white house. Kind of like a reward which in pre-Barack days was usually reserved for lawbreakers on the lam.
All of this inability to tell right from wrong and enforce the law has Rachel in a tither. Where’s my Ativan?
Note to self.
Rachel, don’t start ranting. Calm down. (But Rachel doesn’t listen.) The Ativan hasn’t kicked in.)
Rachel’s wound up like a spring loaded toy.
“Goodness gracious, something stinks in Washington and it ain’t week old balogna. It’s the BS that comes out of the mouths of the members of the Obama administration like a liquid pile of vile, lying through-their-teeth, ignoring-the-law, trying to-subvert-the-constitution mother lode of projectile vomit.
Is the rant over? No such luck.
“Holy mackerel, hear about the Iowa woman who sold all her TV’s so she doesn’t have to see Obama’s lies and distortions polluting the airwaves anymore?”
Thank you Ativan.
What Obama is really doing is making light of breaking the law, especially if it’s a professor friend of his. Or, on the other hand, does he just say to himself, “what would Sotomayor do in this case?”
All of which sparks my interest.
After all, I’ve never been invited to do any serious socializing at the brown eyed handsome man’s White House. Since I’m a girl, I might even get to meet the big boned, but undeniably comestible Michelle.
Let’s see, what could I do to get my President’s attention?
Burn a cross on Gate’s front lawn? Hey, not bad for a first thought. We’re just a stone’s throw apart (I’m staying with my Dad in Connecticut.)
By golly, the plan seems to fit the template; the kind of hate crime that Obama doesn’t investigate; that Holder doesn’t try to convict.
If I added a small bomb lobbed into Professor Gate’s Olympic size swimming pool (not intending to hurt anybody) my plan might be watertight. “El Perfecto” as Bill Clinton used to say.
The question is when. Well, how about, though it’s soon, early August before school starts. Before I put the wheels in motion, though, I’m going to get my appointment book.
Yes, I’m free Thursday night, August 6. No, a full moon. Instead I’ll do it a week later, August 13. Perfect. Yet, I still wonder. Shall I really go through with it?
Oh, why not, Rachel? What have you got to lose?
Afterward, it should take a couple of days for Obama to formally invite me. I bet he’ll select, Tuesday, August 18th. (My birthday. I’ll be 22).
Shall I? Yeah, I’m gonna go ahead and pencil it in. Now to decide what to wear.
That’s the great thing about racism, it does not discriminate.
If it hadn’t been for this, McCain would have won.
Oh wait – no he wouldn’t have.
Obama’s style of Chicago corruption has roared it’s ugly head on a national level. The DOJ outright failure to protect ALL Americans from any kind of injustice is a disgrace to our country. I am deeply upset that department appointments of people with shady backgrounds, hiring tax cheats, Congress members openly taking mortgage favors, and a President who closes his eyes to if not illegal but certainly ethical abuses go unchecked. Now we our going to have a Supreme Court judge that favors empathy in decision making. This is NO way to lead a country.
rachel…. will you marry me?
By dropping the charges against Black Panther intimidation of voters at the polls in the last election, Obama’s Justice Department has openly, brazenly announced to the entire country that during next year’s elections, the Panthers, ACORN, etc., will again be free to intimidate voters, and engage in election fraud, without fear of prosecution.
Not even a faint whimper or bleat of protest from the House or Senate.
Weird . . .
If nothing else, I would hope that the accumulation of manure that is piling up around normal Americans these days will help them get over any false guilt they may have accepted regarding the level of their income, the color of their skin or the blessing of their birth.
If you’re still hung up on the “white guilt” thing, check in at Walter E. Williams’ site. I suspect he still has his “free for all whites” declaration of release from guilt for those who need to be told by an accomplished black man that it’s ok for them to just go ahead and enjoy their life and stop flinching.
Any of you reading here who are millionaires: you’re some of my favorite people! “Your kind” has provided employment for me and my family my entire life! And I thank you. May your income increase and bless your entire family….let’s just get these thugs out of our White House and out of the Congress so that everything YOU have achieved over a lifetime isn’t taken away from you–like the auto dealers who lost it all last month–as the Thug-in-Chief redistributes YOUR wealth.
What the “teachable moment” turned out to be was a verification that Obama endorses the policies of the Black Liberation Movement. He lived under Jeremiah Wright for 20 years because he believes in what Wright teaches. Gates is also a follower of the BLM and with Obama, they are all peas in the same pod.
This is nothing new. When it comes to elections, Democrats and leftists have been committing acts of fraud and intimidation for decades (at least). They just feel like they can do it in the open now. To them, election laws are things to be manipulated and worked around to get an edge. They could care less if our elections are free and fair (see Blarty at #24).
Didn’t you get the memo? It is okay if the racism is directed against whites. Ask Assoicate Justice Sotomayor.
Sonny,
Most whites are clueless about how much racism there is among African-Americans. That’s why white people were so surprised by Obama’s listening to Wright for 20 years and having such a racist bless his campaign and baptize his lovely children. African-Americans couldn’t figure out what the fuss was about–Wright’s rhetoric is actually pretty ordinary in the African-American community.
There are virtally no whites alive today who had anything significant to do with creating the current problems of African-Americans, nor who had anything to do with the historical oppression of American blacks.
But the rhetoric that accompanies the cancer of affirmative action confers a huge advantage–psychological, economic, and political–on racism that is directed against whites. And so there is a large, now institutionalized interest in devaluing whites (especially white men).
The prospect that ‘reverse racism’ might rear its ugly head, is unfortunate. Lets face it, any progress made has been through the education of all, so that equality could be recognized. But if that educational opportunity is wasted by those who seek power & wealth (leftist thugs), by using race as their tool to gain that power, even those they use & abuse (minorities), to gain that power & wealth, will resent that they thought they were represented, but in the end used once again by carpetbagger types.
Meanwhile, those who are victims of attacks (whites & all others who do not subscribe to leftist ideology), will realize the real enemy is socialism, Marxism, & all those other thug-ism political actions interested only in themselves & their crazed ideologies of oppression!
Perhaps we need to try harder to educate & make sure all, including minorities, know that leftism is the real enemy, not the limited government conservative philosophy that would let them aspire at their own ability?
Obama screwed up on Prof. Gates. In the end, the good prof. was tired from a long trip, angry his door was jammed (probably by a previous burglary attempt that messed up the operation of the door), & he let his temper along with his victim identity overwhelm him.
The issue of police oppression is documented. But more than that, is the issue of a cop who must deal with threatening situations all the time. That cop risks his life each time he responds to a possible break-in call & that threat is bigger & significantly more real than any threats the prof. faces.
22 Rachel Peepers . . . another fine example of better living through chemistry. If only Michael Jackson had had your pharmaceutical tendencies he’d probably be alive today, and equally insane. Keep on hating hate, you hateful hater. Independents need only a few more examples of Glenn Beckian idiocy to put you permanently out to pasture, maybe somewhere down in The South, somewhere appropriately slow and gullible, a place where you can let your little light shine. Until then, pop another one, it’s waiting.
33:”The prospect that ‘reverse racism’ might rear its ugly head, is unfortunate. ”
Okay. STOP RIGHT THERE, do not go any farther.
reverse racism means NO RACISM.
I’ll say it again and maybe just oh sweet obammy mammy it will sink into your skull….. REVERSE DISCRIMINATION is NOT DISCRIMINATING. It is what we SHOULD ALL PRACTICE.
Use the proper ENGLISH and it will bring this horse shit to a screaching HALT. RACISM IS MAMMY FREAKING RACISM. NO ANDS IFS OR WHAT ABOUTS!!!! IT IS WHAT IT IS.
GET THAT AND YOU HAVE A CLUE AS TO HOW TO DEAL WITH IT. GET IT? YES IT IS THAT DAMN SIMPLE!!!!!
Obama Administration Pulls Strings for Black Militant Group, Very Post-Racial Huh!…
Just another example of Obama’s belief system on display. I’m sure Mr. Obama thought, after seeing this picture, who are the people going to believe, me or their own lying eyes. As with Gate’s gate Obama reflexively chose the incorrect side. The Black Panthers have little to fear from an Obama administration, in fact the only thing that could make their activities look questionable is if they changed their name to The White Panthers. If that were the case it would be Hates Crimes all around, for those involved. But the Justice Department under Obama’s leadership gives these thugs a walk. It was also reported on FOX that the gentleman with the baton, Jerry Jackson is a Certified Democrat Poll Watcher. This Guy will probably be told not to carry his weapon openly anymore, but to keep it hidden until he actually needs to hit someone. Hail the Black Panthers, hail ACORN, hail Obama and Chicago “politics as usual”. Even though it was in Philadelphia.
You think these nice guards were only present at this one voting precinct? Wait ’til next election; Obama’s Mafioso will be at every precinct in their full Black Panther regalia!
Like He says; “You aint seen noting yet”.
35. Dark Helmet:
reverse racism means NO RACISM.
I heard it means msicar.