Rocking the Vote: Did DOJ Try to Whitewash Black Panther Intimidation Case?
The trail is hard to trace, but here’s what appears to have happened:
After senior Bush administration Justice officials signed off on prosecuting the New Black Panther Party, a decision was made to file the case. It was assessed as a serious case of voter intimidation and an easy case to win.
After the Panthers were unable to mount a defense, the trial team was set to enter a default judgment, when acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Steven Rosenbaum sent a message to the trial team that he had doubts about the case.
Rosenbaum — an Obama appointee — argued that the case raised “serious First Amendment issues.”
Oh really?
The trial team fired back a response, which in essence pointed out that dressing in military garb did not raise First Amendment concerns when “used with the brandishing of a weapon to intimidate people going to the polling station.”
In other words, are you nuts?
After angry exchanges between Obama’s assistant attorney general and the trial team, the order finally came down to scuttle the case.
In an attempt to cover up what appears to be politically motivated intervention by officials at the highest level of Obama’s Justice Department, the Department denies that Obama appointees were involved in the decision to end the case.
This appears to be a flat-out lie.
Eric Holder, as well as Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, were briefed on the case, and the conclusion by insiders is that a decision as extraordinary as this — to dismiss a blatant case of voter intimidation — had to come from the highest ranks of government.
But more mischief has been uncovered.
It now turns out that the NAACP had vigorously lobbied the attorney general’s office to dismiss the case against the Panthers. Kristen Clarke, an NAACP attorney, admitted that she spoke with Justice Department lawyers about the case, as well as a voting section attorney, and even pressed them for a dismissal date for the case.
But still, why would the Obama Justice department dismiss such a clear violation of voting rights?
The answer appears to be that a belief exists among the liberal core of government civil rights attorneys that civil rights laws exist only to protect minorities from discrimination, and in the case of voting rights, from the intimidation of whites.
Those familiar with the inner workings of the Justice Department say this belief dominates the approach to civil rights cases, with liberal-oriented government attorneys objecting to cases filed against black defendants.
These taxpayer-supported lawyers point to the history of official discrimination against “people of color” that, in their view, trumps everything else. Meaning that they will often refuse to work on cases brought against blacks.
This sentiment is similar to the oddball view among liberals and leftists that only whites can actually be racists.
Now, I’m willing to bet that you’ve come to another conclusion: that bigots can come in all skin colors, and that civil rights laws exist for the protection of all Americans, regardless of their race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion.
But this is the era of Obama, which means that another form of logic — well, actually illogic — prevails.
Meanwhile, the thugs at the New Black Panther Party thumb their noses at us, having so far escaped punishment for doing precisely what white bigots used to do prior to the passing of civil rights laws and the enforcement of those laws.
How do we change this?
Come November, vote to change the balance of power in the Senate and perhaps even the House. Only this will allow the kind of oversight that might put the Panthers back where they belong — in the crosshairs of an aggressive government civil rights prosecution.
“Did DOJ Try to Whitewash Black Panther Intimidation Case?”
Of course it did, not surprisingly. Anything that or anyone who gets in the way of this administration’s agenda will be swept aside. The only thing we can hope is that b/c the federal govt. moves so slowly, that Obama will be able to do very little damage in the 2.5 years he has until he gets a pink slip.
I don’t want BO to last another 2.5 years. His implants to promo the Panthers are because he does not respect his own race. When has he deffended the fact he is half white?
He made a statement that he marched in the civil rights movement of the late 60′s. NOT! He was pushed in his stroller IF, his Mom and Dad marched in the Aloha state.
IMHO, BO or Oslumus, pick one, wants immigration reform as provided to our Island nation after WW2. But that is not the same. There were no borders to cross, with the intention of Criminal activites. Yet the Black Panthers, promoters of the Civil Rights marches, were simply the Black Hippies of the day.
The sad fact, the White race voted BO in. Elderly whom has watched our country slowly dissolve, where “The best LIE wins” across the board in our illeagle court systems.
I don’t want BO to go free and “IMPEACHED” for failure to his Oath of Office, to PROTECT our Constitution.
If the GOP wins back either house this Nov., this case needs to be front and center in a Congressional hearing.
Too bad the GOP is too wimpy to do the right thing.
I’m with you, Rick. Lets hope these prosecutors brought their work files with them when they left since the media show know signs of doing their job anytime soon. The irony of this whole case is that the people who look at minorities as inferior are the ones who turn the other way. It’s the naive few of us who hold minorities to the same standard as everyone else (otherwise known as treating them equally) that want something done about this. If it were a bunch of KKK goons out there doing this I would be equally as outraged. This unequal treatment under the law cannot stand.
Nothing new here. In my town WASPs have been in the minority for over ten years, but the new majority still have superior legal rights to those of us who pay taxes. And before retiring from civil service this writer interviewed 16 times for various key promotions, becoming the choice of the appointing power 10 times. Upon further review, however, each of those positions “required” a minority selectee, invalidating a “best candidate” promotion. The 19th interview, oddly, was in a large public office serving a metropolitan minority customer base where the otherwise minority management team felt they needed an old white guy to demonstrably make the “unpopular” decisions. Talk about reverse discrimination.
So there’s nothing new here. Discrimination laws are only for “selected” minorities, and do not apply to Caucasians or Asians.
Martin Luther King’s dream is being killed and it is being killed by the Democrats and the NAACP. What a strange turn of events.
(For those of the Democrats and the NAACP who apparently don’t know of this dream it rests on the hope that people would be judged on the basis of their character and not on the basis of their skin color. Obviously skin color is far more important to these people.)
The Black Panthers are a racist/marxist group of thugs that ought to be on the terror watch list. Obama and Holder love these jerks. What a frightful disgrace.
I’m assuming that was a rhetorical question. Ya know, by definition *only* white people can be racist. /sarc
Black hate against whitey isn’t prejudice or racist, it’s moral reparations writ large.
Moral reparations?
For what ? Moral reparations???
There are no moral reparations needed for absolutely anything! In fact, reparations for any previous “wrongs” suffered by blacks in America have been made for far too long through what some call “reverse discrimination” which is actually just discrimination. For too many decades the blacks have had it far too easy with preferences over all others regarding employment, college entrance exams, scholarships, promotions even when they are not better or equal to others’ experience/education, welfare, etc. And the unfortunate backlash is that blacks have come to EXPECT everything be practically handed to them on a silver platter, without justly earning those rights/privileges/positions! WE ARE WELL PAST THE TIME TO STOP GIVING THEM A FREE RIDE! People need to be taught “how to fish” not just have the fish handed to them! This case is a prime example of the ultimate outcome to receiving unearned privileges and reparations being given to continued generations who do not deserve them!
Yup, an writ on a blank check too.
These reparations are made to people who did not experience injustice by people who did not perpetrate injustice. So now we have a whole new class of people discriminated against and the cycle continues.
Exactly, Shaloma. It’s frickin’ tiresome and gets us nowhere with the black on white hate. When does it stop?
In November, like Nixon said in ’68: “Vote like your whole world depended on it.”
I will vote in November as our country survival will be dependent on it. Those of you who voted for the idiot obama are still waiting for your free gas, houses and insurance aren’t you? You are getting just what you deserve, nothing. How in the world could anyone believe the trash obama was spewing? Must be a racist thing I guess. Let’s see if your president can work with the new group after the November elections.
It was one polling station in a predominantly Black neighborhood. BTW, I live in Philadelphia. Nothing lie spending valuable federal resources on a minor incident. I bet you were just as upset about voter irregularities in the 2000 election. Nothing lie applying trying to apply justice to your own agenda at the cost of taxpayer money
Actually the party itself bragged of a nationwide effort. Regardless, one case of violence and intimidation is one case too many.
Nothing like comparing an actual case to the made up fantasies of some hard core liberals.
The thugs in question shouldn’t be prosecuted because they only blocked one precinct?
Oh? You mean the way that Al Gore’s toadies tried to cheat their way to power in Florida by sending William Daley of Chicago down to “recount” in such a way as to throw out legitimate votes in favor of President Bush and manufacture new ones? Those of us in Chicago watched with amusement because we knew what such “recounts” meant from the getgo (& Al Frank’s little minions demonstrated that quite nicely later when they used a similar technique to allow him to cheat his way into the Senate!).
Or do you mean the way that Democrats cheated and stole the 2000 election in Pennsylvania? o_O
I guess it would make sense that a Philadelphia Democrat would have a guilty conscience on that score. ^^
Or do you refer to similar cheating on behalf of the Democrats that is said to have taken place in Wisconsin? O_o
Or is it that you feel the “Motor Voter Act”, by giving voting rights to illegal aliens was indeed an attempt to stuff the ballot box with illegitimate votes?
There were indeed a lot of ways the Democrats were cheaters in that election so feel free to let me know which misbehavior on the part of Democrats you feel we should be upset by.
*shrug*
For my own part, since cheating is clearly the only way the Democrats of Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Florida can ever win, I myself figure that to be mad at the libs for things like this is like being mad at a snake for being a snake. You can’t really be angry at either for it’s not as though either snakes or Democrats are really capable of ever being anything else. ^_~
I see that racists like you have worn out your “K” key from typing to your friends in the KKK.
What irregularities are you referencing? Fantasist. Let’s stick to the current issue, shall we? Or do two wrongs (one fanciful, google ‘florida long count’) now make a right in liberalland?
In the 1996 election, my mother, who was one of a half dozen whites who still lived in her 33 story building in Chicago, was turned away from the polling place in the building lobby by a black poll watcher. He challenged her registration and she was not given a provisional ballot. She had lived in that building 30 years and she was 99 years old.
This isn’t the first instance.
And I am sure you can attribute to race at a heart beat. Nice try
Wrong! The left and progressives (they are not liberals) are so firmly insinuated into all levels of government, MSM, and information processing that even a change in Congress and the POTUS will not stop them. We do not know how to lead; we’ve had both houses before and the left ran circles around us. Furthermore while we obey the Constitution, the left flaunts and obviates it.
The DOJ is the left’s legal muscle. As long as it exists and the Civil Rights Division and EEOC, white Americans and America will always be held in contempt. Do you think the left and MSM will allow us to completely gut the DOJ and end the EEOC? We’ve already seen the one man-six votes used against white Americans so you can expect more of the same. We’ve seen how the DOJ/FBI downplays black on white crime; think that will ever change?
No this nation is irreparablly torn apart. Self loathing, anti-American white progressives have joined with blacks and hispanics to form a wholly unAmerican block. Does anyone believe that the left will allow Americans to repeal or reject what Obama has done even if we take back both houses? Thought so. So then why are we pinning so much on the mid-term and 2012 elections? The last election had consequences that are far, far reaching.
There are only two ways this will work out.
I agree, for the most part. It seems that the only non-destabilizing approach to removing leftist strongholds will be slow and progressive (just as their strategy was, and is). Impeachment, which would be great, would forever be called a modern-day lynching, and no matter what the case may be minorities and leftist Democrats will defend their dear leader (to what end?).
Furthermore, as we watch more Conservatives become atheistic we watch the foundations of the Rights of Men, derived from a Creator (not from arbitrary and changing men), erode. Rights derived from a Creator, while not establishing a religion, is the only way to keep a nation’s laws in balance and maintain peace. The tide that changes this is impossible to prevent without a people who are spiritually discerning. People who WANT God. (It is not invalid logic for an atheistic nation to decide rights are manifested by the government. This is anathema to American liberty, but it is an inevitable element; and there are other elements to watch that are coming into a perfect storm for American liberty. The key to looking ahead is understanding how the elements will mix.)
The tide is based on a sense that empiricisms are all that matter, but to this end what is justice?, what is rightness?, or anything having to do with morals? Arbitrariness. And the inevitable conclusion is redefined form of eugenic ideology that stamps out forms of “unevolved” thinking i.e. religion (remember, empiricism, so all is biological). But, that will not happen to it’s full end. Instead religion will be used to mask this truth. Religion will be bought and morphed into practicing Brave New World theologies. It’s already happening.
Lincoln once said that, although at the time slavery and abolition co-existed, that eventually the US would end up “all one thing, or all the other.” An easy prediction since humans live in social groups, and every member of a social group (and every social group if there are more than one) will be dominant or subordinate to every other individual/group. Blacks are simply fighting to become the dominant race in the US. Mexicans are showing signs of making their play, also (uncontrolled eeemmigration been berry, berry gude to me). Whites have been bamboozled into thinking the game hasn’t started yet and are sitting on their thumbs. Cases like the NBPP voter-intimidation have to be suppressed, lest white people be forced to face the truth that their culture and race are under attack, and that Leftists are working overtime to eliminate any defences.
You’re a bonafide racist.
You say that as if it’s a bad thing. Sorry, name-calling is not a substitute for facts and logic.
Says the guy who doesn’t think that voter intimidation by blacks should be a crime. The only racist here is you. If it had been KKK members wearing their white robes and brandishing clubs at a polling place you’d be demanding that they be imprisoned for life and accusing the GOP of supporting the Klan.
Yep, Jacobite is a racist…since you have re-defined racism as “principled opposition to Dunham and his puppeteers”.
Of course, you’re now without a word to describe Klansmen and Nazis. I’ll be quite amused, watching you frantically thumb through your thesaurus whilst being beaten like a baby seal by brownshirts and kleagles.
Obama better grant Holder a pardon at the end of his term. This corruption needs to be investigated under the next president, and the criminals within the system held to account.
Well, you might suspect that I’ve come to that conclusion (Now, I’m willing to bet that you’ve come to another conclusion: that bigots can come in all skin colors, and that civil rights laws exist for the protection of all Americans, regardless of their race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion.)
But you’d be wrong. My conclusion is that racism, although now a very widely used term and system of denigration around the planet, is the invention of marxists in government for the sole purpose of advancing the totalitarian agenda.
There is no such thing as ‘rule of law’. First and foremost because “laws” apply to everyone equally. We have no such doctrine in these policies in the U.S. “Laws” are designed to advance political agenda. Not to protect individuals.
My son has an asian mother. I’m an off-shade of pink. My son’s girlfriend has a white mother and a black father. Who is he supposed to vote for? How about his children?
There are no moral reparations needed for absolutely anything! In fact, reparations for any previous “wrongs” suffered by blacks in America have been made for far too long through what some call “reverse discrimination” which is actually just discrimination. For too many decades the blacks have had it far too easy with preferences over all others regarding employment, college entrance exams, scholarships, promotions even when they are not better or equal to others’ experience/education, welfare, etc. And the unfortunate backlash is that blacks have come to EXPECT everything be practically handed to them on a silver platter, without justly earning those rights/privileges/positions! WE ARE WELL PAST THE TIME TO STOP GIVING THEM A FREE RIDE! People need to be taught “how to fish” not just have the fish handed to them! This case is a prime example of the ultimate outcome to receiving unearned privileges and reparations being given to continued generations who do not deserve them!
So all Blacks are lazy parasite? What is that called, an over generalization. When generalizations are applied to one particular group, that can be called bigotry. Funny thing is that as a Jew, I am acutely aware of what can result when generalizations are applied to us.
Funny thing, that if you are a Jew, then why in hell did you vote for a Muslim-loving Socialist? Is that just a generalization or the truth? Can you not bring yourself to see what is before you?
Do you remember when the Dems wanted to selectively re-count only a few of the counties in Florida in the 2000 election, i.e. Dade, Broward, and others with a high Dem voter registration. They also wanted to NOT count votes coming in from overseas (from the in-service military), as they knew it would go against them. The Supreme Court at the time knew that this was a gross violation of everyone’s civil rights in Florida.
Do you really believe that Al Franken won honestly in Minnesota — that ALL of the newly-found votes went to an former TV comedian?
Jews like you make me realize why the majority of the Jews went “sheepishly” to the gas chambers. Take off the blinders and see who are the true dictators in this country.
For Loretta
1. Obama is neither a Muslim nor a Socialist. There is nothing you can say that backs up that assertion. And even if he were a Muslim, I recall that in the US there is something we called freedom of religion. I can only guess that you fear the election of Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon.
2. The 2000 election was decided in the US supreme court. I should hope that it my life time that it will never happen again.
3. As for Al Franken winning. It is only sour grapes on your part Recount after recount after recount proved him to be the winner w whether you like it or not. In 2000 Gore knew when to back away, obviously Coleman did not. If we can elect a former B movie actor and former pro wrestler, we can also elect a comedian. This is America, where everyone has equal opportunity
4. Jews like me????? I have news for you. I proudly served in a paratrooper unit of the Israeli Defense Forces both as a conscript and reservist. I spent 9 months in Lebanon between 1982 and 1984 and served 3 separate times in Gaza during the 1st Intifada. I consider myself a moderate who hopes for an eventual 2 state solution, but Israel’s security always comes first. A solution will only come with the emergence of leaders committed to peace on both sides. If ever the was a time for a Begin/Rabin or Sadat/King Hussein, the time is now. So I DO NOT NEED an NON JEW like you to tell me how I should feel or think as a Jew. No thank you for your concern.
You obviously have no idea who is Jewish on this board or not…. go back to HuffPo or any other liberal rag, troll. I am in my 7th decade and was reading the Tanach before you were even thought of.
Oh, get over yourself! Generalizations can be valid, you know. Why is it permissible to say that “blacks are victims of racism”, but not that “blacks have had it far too easy”? Is it only bigotry if you don’t agree with it? And claiming some victim status for your Jewishness doesn’t magically endow you with any superior moral authority, either. Nobody here is trying to persecute you.
Sorry – this in reply to David Stein @ 14.
Generalizations are not valid and clearly expose your bigotry. There is no getting around it. And if you don’t think generalizations are being applied to Jews, you might want to check out the Arab media’s use of old European anti Semitic generalizations.
BTW, I saw the video of the so called incident at the polling station in the predominantly Black neighborhood and it was much ado about nothing.
‘Generalizations are not valid’ – really? including this one? you are fatuous.
I only call it as i see it
If that’s how you see it, take off the rose-colored glasses and smell the coffee: Fundamental change to the greatest beacon of freedom in the history of the world should send up red flags to anyone who values freedom.
Much ado about nothing? Here’s a little thought experiment for you. Suppose this was a predominantly white polling place, patrolled by a couple of white guys in paramilitary style dress wielding a baton, uttering similar sayings. Would you still be of the opinion that it was much ado about nothing?
Why is nobody taking action against the DOJ on behalf of the intimidated voters, for not performing their duties to protect the people and uphold the laws which they all have sworn an oath to uphold?
What intimidated voters? Were there any voters who filed a compaint that day? Can you show me who they are? Can you show me if any complaints were filed. Trust me on this one, in Philadelphia residents, Black and White, are quick to file complaints
Since the liberal media covered this story as little as possible, no one in the general public knows how many voters reported the intimidation, but, if you care to actually learn some facts, there are several video’ed confrontations on YouTube.
“These taxpayer-supported lawyers point to the history of official discrimination against “people of color” that, in their view, trumps everything else. Meaning that they will often refuse to work on cases brought against blacks.”
In other words, what happened decades ago to other people is more relevant to a current case than the facts of the case itself.
one distinction woth noting…
These clowns were from the “New Black Panther Party”. the wh and the ag stuck their necks out for what can easily be called a “militia”.
If someone is trying to find older black panthers providing the motivation for their disparate tx, they are wasting their time. This group doesn’t wield the legitimacy that older dems might offer the black panthers, but by the fact that this new militant verision of black panthers got the special tx would suggest that the current admin DOES have a connection that hasn’t surfaced, yet.
3 losers for the complete defenestration of holder? no one is that stupid.
If a tree falls in the forest… The MSM has not and will not cover this story, so it will not get traction.
If a tree does not fall in a forest, FOX News will chop it down and report on it
Has anyone noticed how David Stein’s posts either tell us “what” we saw/know, and/or end up being emotional swipes at those of us who don’t agree with him?
I’ve found that every single time I want to debate with the issues with a Liberal or Democrat or Progressive, it turns into a temper tantrum on the part of the Liberal/Democrat/Progressive, and they always end up stomping away in a huff.
It would be so great if Liberals/Democrats/Progressives could conduct a real debate instead of a mudslinging rant. (That goes for any Conservatives who play badly with others too.)
Hell hath no fury like a liberal confronted with a fact.
I worked election security for the McCain campaign in Philadelphia on election day, 2008. I was called to the polling place at 1212 Fairmont Avenue in North Philadelphia, and witnessed part of this incident. (A Fox News camera crew already was on site when I arrived). I later gave a statement to two Justice Department attorneys about what I observed.
Readers should understand that the polling place in question is in a predominantly black neighborhood, and most voters going to the polls there were black. The means that the NBPP perpetrators were intimidating black voters. The offense was black-on-black, not black-on-white. Why would the Obama Administration and the NAACP would be protecting the NBPP as opposed to protecting their black victims? THe answer suggests something very disturbing about how the Holder Justice Department views its responsibilities under the voting rights act.
In essence, the Holder Justice Department is arguing that it’s impossible for racism to be involved if a black perpetrator is attacking a black victim. Yet in voter intimidation cases, the motive for the intimidation is NBPP control over the black community at a vulnerable point: the place where they vote. I’m certain that the black community voted for Barack Obama in overwhelming numbers at that polling place, but the presence of the NBPP paramilitary (and the absence of the police, who are forbidden to be in polling places in Pennsylvania on election day for fear that they, the police, will intimidate voters!) raises a real question about how much of that support was coerced.
Worse, the Obama Administration and NAACP aren’t advocating for, or protecting, the black community that they claim is their core constituency. That raises troubling questions about their real motives in protecting the NBPP. Could it be that Obama and NAACP are allied with the NBPP in establishing illicit political control over black polling places?
It doesn’t mean that the NBPP was intimidating black voters. It means that the NBPP felt comfortable having such obvious intimidators at the polls because it was a predominantly black neighborhood. They knew that they could intimidate whatever white voters showed up with impunity.
And lo and behold, how many ‘intimidated’ black voters complained? How many came forward to speak against this?
Voter intimidation is supposed to be illegal. It doesn’t matter what color the perpetrators or the victims are. It’s supposed to be ILLEGAL. That the DoJ chose not to prosecute is a travesty of law, and a disservice to the American people. Abrams and Coates are right to speak out, and both the DoJ and the Obama administration need to answer for it. End of story.
Woops. That should have been “Adams and Coates”.
So this November, if a bunch of black Republicans don military garb, arm themselves with nightsticks, and intimidate voters at a polling place in Speaker Pelosi’s district (42% white, 28% asian, so they ought to be able to find a lily-white precinct in there somewhere), that will be all right. It will be only one district, and it will be a bunch of historically oppressed blacks against oppressor whites, so it’s all OK. Right?
Have any of you considered how this could tie into ACORN and their registration of phony registrants? These thugs could easily dissuade honest poll watchers from challenging those they felt were not eligible voters. By doing that a precinct could end up with a lot of votes for their guy even though they were not legal but would still count for their candidate.
Why is this a surprise? We have a black Bull Conner running the Justice Department, and a black George Wallace in the White House. The Democrat’s tactics, goals and actions haven’t changed since the Klu Klux Klan ran the Party. Or Tammny Hall. Or Woodrow Wilson’s ‘progressives’. Or FDR’s ‘liberals’. Only the race and sophistication of the special interest groups controlling their Party has changed.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
For those who care, here’s what Dave Weigel thinks about the case:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/will_darrell_issa_wreck_the_go.html
“Fishing Expedition”. So WaPo puts this clown out there as a “conservative”, he maligns those with obvious and legitimate concerns about the case, and the few people still reading this tabloid are to believe that only a small, whacked-out fringe on the right believe there is anything wrong or racist about what these thugs did.
If you type “new black panther intimidation case” in google, there is virtually no coverage at all by any msm outlets. I guess the message from the DoJ and MSM to white people and other perceived enemies of the New Black Panthers is “Don’t let the sun set on you at the polling station whitey”.
Looks like I picked the wrong time in our nation’s history to be a business owner with white skin pigmentation.
Regarding your last statement, it’s time for Atlas to Shrug, Jason. If you haven’t read the book, do it. It will inspire you.
I would be very interested in knowing the thoughts of a slave who lived many years ago, who carried scars on his back, whose son was hung from a tree, who was not allowed to learn to read or write, who was sold from master to master, whose heart was broken many times yet his spirit never was because he was a strong man, a wise man,a good man who stood tall, who had compassion and integrity. I can imagine him learning about what has happened in this country since his time, standing at that polling booth, watching those two black panthers as the voters approached, observing all that was happening, listening to their words…. What would he think, how would he feel seeing that men of all races were allowed to have and do exactly the same things his master could do? They owned property, they could read, they could write….to him unimaginable freedoms and opportunities.. How would he comprehend assistance for schooling, free food, all the entitlements? Would his master have paid him money because he had a broken leg and couldn’t work? How long would it take for him to comprehend all these changes? And how would he feel once he realized that the President was a Black man…and most importantly, that if he lived today, he also could be President, or a Supreme Court Justice, Senator, Secretary of State, own his own business….
How would this man feel about the actions and words of the two panthers? Would he be proud or would he be sad and ashamed because he saw in those two and what they represent the same mindset of those who pushed him down? He didn’t like the names he was called, they stung like arrows that delivered hate,ridicule and disrespect. How would he feel when he discovered that His suffering had become the basis to justify the actions of the black panthers on that day, and that many used his story to instill resentment in their children generation after generation? Would he feel that it was time to make the descendants of those offenders and their descendants and even theirs pay for the sins of their fathers even though they many of them fought and even gave their lives to right those sins?
All you guys need to read Glen Beck’s “Overton Window”. It is “faction” but it will scare the hell out of you because it mirrors what is happening in our country/world today. There are powers at work higher than any of us, even higher than politicians…yes, even higher than Obama, who is simply their current PUPPET. The ultimate end-goal: one world government, socialist in nature, with one economy for all, etc. Wonder who will be it’s first PRESIDENT? As for the point of this story…exactly right! The blacks have been used as pawns for the white Dems (and half-whites) to further their own agenda. There is no plan to improve the black condition…and one should wonder why they continue to support the democrat party at all. My belief is it is because the Democrats are Socialist/Progressives and most blacks still prefer the way they were under slavery…”cared for in food, housing and health care”. Don’t know how many I heard say they voted for Obama “cause he gonna pay my mortgage, my ‘lectric bill, and give me free health care!”
History is God’s story. We have earned the government we have gotten. There are many changes we must make if it is ever to get better…are we up to making those changes?
Response to David Stein #9 above:
Saying that the BLATANT, video-documented voter intimidation in Philly in Nov. 2008 was at “only one polling station” and that it is a “minor incident” is like saying “it was only one armed robbery” or “only one rape” and was therefore only a minor incident and not worthy of spending federal dollars to investigate. Any criminal could use this laughable “logic” for a defense. When you are the victim of a crime–which video proves this was under the 1965 Voting Rights Act–that one crime is NOT a minor incident to you. Selective enforcement of our country’s laws is racism and discrimination in their worst form, no matter the color of the skin of the victim, and we should all be freaking out. We’re starting down that slippery slope.
Right on, Loretta in Indiana. You rock! As a Gentile who has tremendous respect for Israel, it is refreshing to hear words from a Jew who remembers and is true to her heritage.
you all still believe your vote will count? lol! sorry to tell you but most of the voter fraud cases that were found during the last presidential election were dropped. voter fraud ran like wild fire last election. even cnn caught a man saying he came back a few times and voted. the reporter said” well, i think that illegal but its alright” and quickly turned the camera off the guy. they are letting the illegal aliens in our country in record numbers, and fighting with all they have to keep them here for a reason. they need their votes. they need the votes of criminals who are not supposed to vote. they need all dead people to vote. this happened last election and it will continue. I’ll bet all i have that one day we will find out that minus the dead,convicted felons,and illegals we may have had a different outcome for the last presidential election.
did the doj whitewash the poll intimidation case?no,they blackwashed it and told all of you diversity white people to get bent!fifty years in the making,and now this generation will see what diversity means to white people in this diversed nation.god help america!