Time for Heads to Roll Over New Black Panther Dismissal
Today the Washington Post graces its front page with a long overdue expose on the dismissal of the New Black Panther case. The story is extremely bad news for the Eric Holder Justice Department. Through multiple deep sourcing within the Voting Section and Civil Rights Division, it confirms everything that Christopher Coates and I testified about before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. But that isn’t the biggest shocker of the Post piece. It also has administration officials defending the dismissal by arguing that the civil rights laws weren’t intended to protect whites. Alas, they confess to their true beliefs after more than a year of lies and misdirection.
This is the worst possible news for the wrongdoers at DOJ, a week before the midterm elections. While purely anecdotal, I have received numerous emails from people around the country confessing their own mea culpa: that they once could not believe the DOJ could act in racially discriminatory fashion, but now they do. Mounting evidence moves minds.
The Post story is largely fair and factual. It does omit the fact that the New Black Panthers are a virulent anti-Semitic organization who routinely rage against “the Jews!” and who have called for the murder of “cracker babies in their cribs.” One can only presume that one of the two authors of the piece did not want to remind readers of the vilest views of this outfit.
It strangely renames King Samir Shabazz. Shabazz was born with a “slave name” of Maruse Heath. Shabazz calls it his slave name and thus he abandoned it at least a decade ago. Again, this editorial decision seems to insulate Shabazz. A friend commented to me that if the Post were covering a transvestite, say “Walter,” but who went by the phony name of “Wendy,” the Post would defer to Wendy’s wishes. This may be true or it may not. But as one commentator has pointed out, “even Heath does not call himself Heath.” Only the Post does.
Lastly, it also gives short shrift to the worsening predicament that various Justice Department officials are in regarding statements to Congress and the public, sometimes under oath. This is the real tragic part of the controversy. The cover-up is always worse. For example, administration officials told the Civil Rights Commission they were unaware of any hostile attitudes in the DOJ toward equal enforcement of the law. Others have run interference for them in communications to Congress and the Commission. In the old days, the Washington Post had a name for this behavior.
Then comes the bombshell. The Post article quotes an unnamed DOJ official defending the decision to dismiss the case because the civil rights laws don’t apply to whites. The Post reports:
“The Voting Rights Act was passed because people like Bull Connor were hitting people like John Lewis, not the other way around,” said one Justice Department official not authorized to speak publicly, referring to the white Alabama police commissioner who cracked down on civil rights protesters such as Lewis, now a Democratic congressman from Georgia.
This is an astonishing admission. It confirms what we have been saying all along. It is also the tip of the iceberg. The crooked defense of racially selective law enforcement has many more storylines, and I heard them all when I worked there.
I wrote at PJM last summer:
To the many who expressed such hostility, often thoughtful but wrong, it would be a help to all of us if they might engage the debate with the respectable tenor which they sometimes did when I was in the Department of Justice. After all, such opponents of race-neutral law enforcement surely weren’t “cowards” about discussing race in those instances, and we might all benefit from a full understanding of their views. So let’s have the opponents of race-neutral enforcement of voting cases come out in the open and tell the American public why they oppose it.
In that article, I wrote how Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King told a meeting of the entire Voting Section, including Attorney General Eric Holder who was standing next to King, how glad she was that “two black men are running the country.” The inappropriate stupidity of that remark sounds a bit like the quote in the Post from the unnamed administration official. Whoever said that to the Post simply doesn’t understand the rage the confession will unleash. Americans don’t want to hear the law doesn’t protect them.
The Elections in Texas are showing that unless something is done now, these DOJ officials will help the Dems steal the election.
Oh yeah!
There’s a planeload of lawyers in the air right now, just like for the BP spill.
You know it.
Of course the Civil Rights Act was only to protect minorities.
I remember how that lying gasbag, Hubert Humphrey, swore that if the Act was ever interpreted to mandate racial quotas, he’d eat the Act.
At the time, honorable conservatives such as at the National Review opposed the Act for giving the government power to forbid private discretion (not that the femme weasels there now would utter a peep about it), and second-guess your every move.
Now it has made whites de jure and de facto second-class citizens in our own country.
It’s still amazing that they can get away with this crap after FDR swore that your Social Security Account Number would never be used for any other purpose but administering the Act.
The secret is that, to get any of these usurpations passed into law, they only need to bamboozle a small percent of the voters to get a majority.
Starting off with almost everyone under 30 years old, single moms, the mentally ill (they load up busses and take ‘em to the polls), criminals (both union members and non-union), non-whites, and government workers, they’re always in the neighborhood of 50%.
if you ain’t black you have no relevance in this administration. I do not think there will be much done about this deal…no body in the DOJ/obama adm cares what whitey thinks, feels, knows to be right or wrong.. So, what happens now/
This is the “New America”that the governor of Maryland must be talking about.The “New America”is a lawless territory for Martin O’Malley’s “New Americans”.I call the new progressive America a country that’s lost it’s sovereignty & rule of law .Backlash is coming on November 2.
Maybe–unless they can defer cracking down on [white] voter intimidation and voter registration/voting fraud until after the votes are counted.
When it was found out that millions of dollars of cost-of-living-adjustment-replacement checks were sent to dead people and people in prison, I assumed it was merely because someone had accidentally included the Democrats’ voter rolls in the list of recipients. Is there someone who really believes those rolls will be purged of dead people, fake people, and felons? Suckas!!
Humorous cartoon on “If Mamma Grizzles acted like Black Panthers” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/voter-intimidation/
Department of Revenge.
Department of Jigaboo’s.
Icetrout: Why is it that libs feel so comfortable throwing around racial slurs. Troll warning, troll warning, Will Robinson. You people are pathetic!!
I’m not completely shocked to hear that the law doesn’t protect all Americans equally, this is a concept I’ve seen lurking in the shadows for years. For example, Affirmative Action rules made it quite clear in the employment sector that companies had to fill quotas of minorities rather than hire the most qualified applicant. Hint, hint,,, some applicants were more equal than others, especially if they were black or brown. How do you think that moron in the White House got a degree from Harvard?
That’s a great way to think about it, affirmative action applied to the overall concept of fair play wherein black folks are eternally given a wink and a nod until that far flung day when black Americans become immersed in Adobe Flash, forensics and fractal geometry to the same extent as white Americans. I guess that’ll be the day when we know racism is over. Lord knows, Adobe Flash is diabolical.
Re. The question: “How do you think that moron in the White House got a degree from Harvard?”
“Moron”? That may be a bit over the top. Then again how smart would our illustrious President need to have been if, as rumor has it, they let him use a TelePrompter for his orals?
Well geokster, I’ll put it to you like this, it surly wasn’t the content of his character that got him into Harvard. I guess its time to dig up the N word again and start throwing it around when talking about government officials and the hoods of the N.B.P and the NAACP. This will bring the trolls out.
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The person who said this either didn’t understand the oath he (or she) took, or has chosen to violate it. In either case, this person should not be allowed to remain on the roll of attorneys, lacking either the character or intelligence required.
There had better be some further investigations into the actions taken by some of these lawyers at the DOJ. There are clear violations of the canons of ethics and substantial evidence of criminal conduct.
I still find it hard to believe no matter how many times I read it that Loretta King made her statement about how nice it was to have the USA run by 2 black men and in front of a crowd no less. If a white person had said that about 2 white men they would have been summarily fired and so should Miss King.
This statement by her and so much else that comes out of the black community shows the depth of the desire for black folks to live 50 years and more in the past when it comes to where their heads are at. It’s 2010 and one would never know it listening to Holder and King. Since Holder called Americans cowards for refusing to discuss race you know he wasn’t talking about black Americans since they cannot shut up about race. The whole thing is disgusting as is the entire Obama administration.
When a white person makes a statement anywhere near Ms.King’s…it is smeared all over.
She should be called on this.
I don’t care who she thinks she is, or who the MSM thinks she is, she is a public figure that many misguided souls look up to.
I am not a troll, I am a big-donor conservative–but I don’t see racism in her comment, just shallowness. Would I be sexist if, as a woman, I were delighted to see Sarah Palin president, Michele Bachmann the House Speaker, and Liz Cheney the Attorney General? I could easily imagine joking around with my women friends, saying how great it is that “three women are running the country.” The difference, of course, is that I would only be rejoicing because they are the RIGHT women–i.e., conservative, fearless, and loaded with integrity and common sense. I would NOT be happy to see “three women running the country” if those three were a Pres. Hillary Clinton, Speaker Pelosi and Atty. General Janet Reno!!!!!
Similarly, while the “two black men running the country” AT THIS TIME are a total disaster–because they are socialist crooks–I would be ECSTATIC to see “two black men running the country” if those two were a Pres. Allen West and Atty. Gen. Michael Williams!
HOwever, if a white person had said something on that order, the MSN would have exploded.
Great call Kathy on Allen West, I hope that enough Americans realise that this African American can be a truly great President and help heal the country after the depredations of the current socialist moron.
Kathy the point is that had a white person said such an equivalent, they would have been hung out to dry so it’s comparing apples and oranges. It is not a racist analogue to cheer for women, but it is racist to cheer on by skin color. Note however that although one can cheer for women as women, one cannot make derogatory remarks about women as women.
The hypocrisy of black folks is going to come back and bite them in the ghetto onion.
Rolling heads amounts to firing. Merely a professional slap on the wrist. George Soros will put them on the payroll as he did Van Jones. At a better salary.
These people need to do jail time. As for Soros, if that filthy baggage doesn’t end his life wearing an orange jump-suit in a barred cell, there’s no justice in America.
We could probably eliminate our dependence on oil and coal for generating electricity by hooking up a generator’s shaft to Dr. ML King’s coffin as it spins ever faster and faster.
Where is our ‘post-racial’ president on this? Where is the great uniter, healer and bringer of peace and civility, King Barack Obama? The mere fact that you, Mr. Adams, and Christopher Coates, patriotic Americans both, are now at the top of the justice department’s enemy list, speaks volumes about the massive corruption that occurs routinely in the Holder Justice dept, and his cronies in the Obama admin. Keep up the good fight. these cretins should not be in the government, and I suspect that more than a few deserve jail terms for their contempt for the rule of law. Expect Obama to reward your patriotism with IRS audits and baseless lawsuits. But we the people have your back!
“Where is our ‘post-racial’ president on this? Where is the great uniter, healer and bringer of peace and civility, King Barack Obama?”
He’d like to help, but he’s busy suing Arizona.
The Post story is largely fair and factual. It does omit the fact that the New Black Panthers are a virulent anti-Semitic organization who routinely rage against “the Jews!” and who have called for the murder of “cracker babies in their cribs.” One can only presume that one of the two authors of the piece did not want to remind readers of the vilest views of this outfit.
Really, Christian? Have we lowered our expectations of fairness so low from the Pocket Water Carriers in the leftist media, that we believe the following is “largely fair and factual”?
I sure hope not.
“The actions of the black nationalist and the white lawyer have mushroomed into a fierce debate over the government’s enforcement of civil rights laws…”
What actions by the “white lawyer” are they talking about here. What kind of moral relativistic nonsense is being peddled here? Two thugs took up a clearly threatening posture at a polling place, made threatening gestures with a weapon and made threatening and racist comments. Are there voters of that district who witnessed this atrocious conduct and DID NOT WISH TO CROSS THE ENTRYWAY THAT WAS BLOCKED? This is de facto racial intimidation, toward ANYONE who might not wish to vote along the lines of the intimidating thugs. It does not matter that those threatened did not confront the armed thugs. The act speaks for itself…at a POLLING PLACE. The color, creed, race, nationality, religion, age of the attorney is not relevant to whether this was a despicable and intentionally criminal act. Period.
Two months after Election Day, Adams and his supervisors in the George W. Bush administration filed a voter-intimidation lawsuit against Heath and his colleagues, even though no voters had complained.
Again, more moral relativistic cover up and crapology. The gist of this sentence is loaded with leftist alibi and excuse-making. “Heath and his colleagues”? Were they serving crumpets and mocha latte frappucino’s…this “Heath and his colleagues”? The armed thugs were adopting a threatening posture…AT A POLLING PLACE.
And you know what threatened people do? They shrink and keep quiet. That’s the whole point of BEING threatening. “The shopkeepers in the mafia neighborhood didn’t complain, so therefore, this nonsense about demanding “protection” should not be believed”.
The dispute over the Panthers, and the Justice Department’s handling of it, was politicized from the start, documents and interviews show. On that Election Day, the issue was driven by Republican poll-watchers and officials and a conservative Web site.
So, THIS…is what we come to believe is fair and accurate? The suggestion that armed thugs at A POLLING PLACE, making threatening gestures, words, acts and deeds…is a REPUBLICAN AND CONSERVATIVE issue? No, this is an American freedom issue and if the Washington Post can’t do a better job of editing their clearly biased reporting than this….then they are traitors who can’t be trusted to bring us facts, truth and honest reporting.
The debate has thrust Eric H. Holder Jr., the nation’s first African American attorney general and long the target of Republican attacks, into an unwelcome spotlight.
My ass.
These despicable cretins who try to push this as a smear job against Holder ought to be fired. American elections are not the equivalent of those in a banana republic. Holder is in this up to his eyeballs, because the testimony that should have been allowed, the full investigation into how this was handled should have been held out in the open.
No, I don’t believe this was fair. It was a moral relativism hatchet job, suggesting that there was an OUNCE of credence that “whites, Republicans and conservatives” are on a witch hunt against poor “Heath and his latte sipping, crumpet baking, colleagues”.
Right is right, fair is fair, wrong is wrong. It doesn’t have a color code attached to it. No matter how the Washington Post tries to shade it.
The only thing this crapology has going for it…is that it isn’t as disgusting as it would have been had the NYTimes written it.
A magnificent defense of truth and justice.
Irony: “A statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, notably as a form of humor.”
Charlie, to which comment…is your comment directed?
“American elections are not the equivalent of those in a banana republic.”
Wrong! Of course they are. And have been for quite a while. Wait to see what goes on November 2nd.
A questions to ponder; If no-one complained how did they find out about the action of these thugs? Someone had to take the video. Is sending the video a form of complaint?
“Two months after Election Day, Adams and his supervisors in the George W. Bush administration filed a voter-intimidation lawsuit against Heath and his colleagues, even though no voters had complained”
Look in your archives WaPo & remind us again about snitchin’.
The verdict is in: Guilty!
You can’t convict them until we’ve had hearings.
I want to see the new Republican majority hold hearings on this after the election. I want to hear the explanation in public for the clear lies the DOJ told congress when they whitewashed the issue a few months ago.
I’m sure the press isn’t going to cover this like they did the US Attorney “scandal” a few years back. But they don’t cpntrol the narrative anymore. It doesn’t matter what they cover or don’t cover anymore.
Tje story said that no voters complained.
“…THey are scared to death to complIN…”!!
These guys are speaking of: “KILLING CRACKERS AND
KILLING THEIR BABIOES!”
With nutcases like this would you stand up and complain?
Eric Holder knows well what he is working with and even
he is afraid ot condemn their actions!
Even those that were afraid and left the polling place
without voting are afraid to say they were too scared.
Holder was always a whore, that’s why the Clintons, who knew whores when they saw them, especially Bill, picked him as Fed Attny for D.C. then employment in the so called Justice Dept. From there it was a logical step for O-trash to name the whore as A G.
Congrats to the Post for going with this. Now for the NY Times and the rest of the media slugs and frustrated revolutionaries.
It is disconcerting to read that the DOJ need not protect the rights of Whites, not a surprise though, & maybe an indicator of what we may yet have in store.
Perhaps this story will cause some of the zombies in Washington pause as they sip their martinis after a tough day at the Dept. of Agriculture
Some of the recent writings have implied that the decision to drop the New Black Panther case was made by one of Holder deputies. Given the potential reaction to the dropping of the case and considering Obama’s love of “social justice”, I would wager that he made the call.
if you think this started with obama think again. this has been going on since jimmy carter was president. the people in the civil rights agencies of the federal government believe its their job to discriminate againist white people not protect them from discrimination. for over thirty years they have sued towns, cities, states, and private businesses to force them to practice racial discrimination againist whites. they destroyed the civil service merit system(one of the greatest reforms in two thousand years of government history) because it was preventing local, county, and state officals from discriminating againist whites. how long are white people going to accept the selective oppression of white people(the democratic party’s number one political strategy) by their government officials.
Holder needs to be fired and congress needs to vet the next guy very close and at least get a middle of the roader, not the racist, socialist that Holder represents. There appears to be rampant voter fraud, that what the DOJ needs to concentrate on.
Does this represent a shadow apology from shadow liberal? “Middle of the road” was simply media created as a crack along with far right, right, left, and far left for future insects to hide from a patriot pursuer. Can’t you realize that the middle-of-the-road go along get along in congress have sold out your constitution to your common party philosophy for a hundred years while slowly bleeding the financial turnip and keeping the public in near total darkness by the silent media? Those that travel midstream for fear of being tagged deserve no support from patriots whereas traitors welcome the use of their flexibility to skirt the governmental controls of the constitution to their own liking. The judicial system has been party poisoned from the top down by uncommitted seed. What will be your “court of last resort”?
I just want to know…how come I’ve not read/heard this on abcbsnbc? although I’ll give the WP creds for trying….hmmmmmmmm no I won’t.
The slaughter in Rwanda was simply stage N in a war of racial retribution. Someone should point out that if we engage in the same thing by letting race-retributionists escape the law, a Rwanda-like slaughter is the natural outcome. Of course, we would get there by PROGRESSIVE increases in violence.
Reality Time: What constitutes GOP Success from 2011 and 2012?
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Cheers
Dear Mr.Adams,
While it is proper and commendable that the Washington Post has published an expose on the Department of Justice and the disregard for the rule of law that exists and is advocated within segments of it, the article in question waters down the gravity of these facts and goings on in the Justice Dept. The Rule of Law is everything in our Republic, respect for the Rule of Law by those entrusted with its instruments is equally so. If what has transpired is so, and it is reasonably clear it is so, The Washington Post has done a disservice to you and others who fulfill your oath’s of protecting all, and defending everyone, regardless of race or station in life. It may be me, but I sensed a serious lack of portraying the truth in an honest and unbiased format.
There where quite a few crickets chirping between the lines if you catch my drift. Too bad, it would have been quite refreshing if all the truth came out. But that is, while never justified in any shape or form, to be unfortunately expected of the self appointed social engineers of the enabling Media.
Mr. Adams, Keep up the great work. Your courage and fortitude, not to mention your principles and belief in the Rule of Law are to be provided the highest regard.
Thank you, from one American who believes as you do.
God Bless you and your Loved ones.
The Lame gang now includes Holder. 4 weenies burning our money.
“Tom Perez, Julie Fernandes, Loretta King, Steve Rosenbaum” – Minorities and Commies. What a beautiful thing. They are the nuclear core of our cultural corruption going back over eighty years.
“Tom Perez, Julie Fernandes, Loretta King, Steve Rosenbaum” – Minorities and Commies. What a beautiful thing.
And so perfectly representative of the US too (if ya leave out those pesky Caucasians, Asians & Native Americans)
I don’t know whether we read the same article. To me, it sounded rather dismissive of the charges brought by Mr. Coates and Mr. Adams, making the whole thing sound like a fracas cooked up by conservative (read “racist”) bloggers. The main thrust of the article seemed to be that a) none of the actual voters felt intimidated by the NBP presence, b) the only people who *were* intimidated were some white outside observers who went to the scene to…observe, and c) the “reasonable” people in the DoJ felt there wasn’t enough of a case to warrant further action. In other words, much ado about nothing.
The comments accompanying the article indicate that no minds had been changed by the information it presented. Liberals and blacks universally believe that the DoJ’s decision was correct and that the voting laws are designed to protect minorities, not white people. Conservatives still universally believe that the DoJ was wrong and that the voting laws are designed to protect everyone equally.
Overall, this is an interesting little disturbance, but I’m afraid it’s not the blockbuster that conservatives are hoping for. Attitudes will only begin to change when minorities themselves decide that they don’t need special treatment and can live without the Government nursemaiding them through life’s tougher patches. Many already feel this way, of course, but the cadres of civil rights workers are still living in the 50s and believe that any concessions on their part will lead immediately to disenfranchisement if not actual lynchings. This is a long, slow cultural change, not something that can be busted open by one controversial case.
You see very clearly.
I Know more of the truth than you or many are willing to believe..now I will tell you. Hopefully you will believe me and help spread the word. I posted my story below..pls read it..i resigned from a gov job recently…I was in an predominantly black office. It was designed that way over a year and a half period. I suffered a lot of discrimination, and heard some pretty wild things. I heard black people speak about how happy they were that things were gonna change, and they couldn’t wait. They…meaning people from black liberation theology churches, or poor ghetto neighborhoods do have a Rwanda like mission against whites. They are propping themselves up in gov jobs. They only hire more and more blacks among themselves. Same with the Philipinos. I worked in this gov job where i saw philipinos try and allow a phillipino an interview without the proper sealed and an actual seal on his transcripts. i blew the whistle and the analyst thanked me. Hispanics and Asians do it too.
I think the wisest thing that Caucasian Americans can do for the future wellfare of their children and grandchildren, is to implement laws that state that there must be “equal number, or at least a moducum of equal number – or a smorgasborg that includes CRACKERS AND WHITE CHEESE to melt in the POT…i was taught as a child that this country was a melting pot. It is more like a dumping pot. Crap on whitie who helped you get where you are!!!
“but the cadres of civil rights workers are still living in the 50s and believe that any concessions on their part will lead immediately to disenfranchisement if not actual lynchings”
If a public figure says this they should be sued for slander or tried on incitement. Hold their feet to the fire. Someone needs to fund an ACLU for conservatives and stop the race-bait racket or we’ll all go down. Expose them for the cheap race hustlers they are.
I beg to differ with you, Bugs. You say this is just an “insignificant little disturbance” that only Conservatives care about. Perforce, no Liberals, and thus no members of the Obama administration, care about “Equal justice under law,” which is inscribed above the entrance to the U.S. Supreme Court. You sound like a politically sophisticated (if a bit condescending) guy, Bugs, so maybe in your neck of the woods, that’s just a little thing, a slogan, that the Elites will ignore. But in my neck of the woods, people are willing to die for that principle. And most of them have an ancestor that did.
As noted supra, the WaPo’s liberal “spin” on the story is blatant, but nonetheless, it reported enough of the facts to bring it to the attention of a larger audience. Maybe AP will pick it up. Not unlike Watergate, it is the “back” story that will get legs, the dirty little secret that DOJ doesn’t believe in equal justice under the law. Those bitter clingers will have even more reason to do what it takes to get their country back. The know who to blame, and they will vote, and I daresay, the NBPP, or anybody in jackboots swinging clubs, better not show up at any of our polling places.
I said this disturbance was “interesting” not “insignificant.” But I take your point, and I didn’t mean to sound condescending. Could be you’re right – the conservative counter-arguments to the elite’s racialist narrative do appear to be gaining ground. Maybe I’m being cynical, but I still think this is just one incident among many that will have to occur before sanity is restored. Leftists are dense – reality will have to mug them a lot harder before they realize they’re being mugged. Until then, they’ll continue to obstruct justice in the name of justice and we’ll have to keep wearing them down.
The testimony of Christopher Coates is damning to the perjurers and liars at the Department of Justice. Not only should heads roll, but the perjurers should go to jail and lose their law licenses.
Bugs @23: That is very impressive parody of the liberal point of view and rationalization. Well done!
Stonewalling.
Better answer: obstruction of justice.
The story of Christopher Coates’ testimony before the Civil Rights Commission was not carried by the Wall Street Journal. I wrote them about it, asking why they had not carried the story, but received no reply. How many other newspapers did not carry the story?
POOR OB
WHY DOESN`T HE INVITE THE 2 BLACK THUGS THAT WERE INTIMIDATING THOSE 2 OLD LADIES THAT WERE ATTEMPTING TO VOTE.JUST THINK WHAT AN INTERESTING EVENT COULD OCCUR? ALONG WITH HIS AG,THEY COULD CONVINCE THE OLD FOLKS THAT THEY SHOULDN`T BE IN SUCH A TERRIBLE PLACE TO BEGIN WITH.OF COURSE HE COULD ALSO INVITE THE REV SMALL POX,NOTED DIFFENDER OF OF RIGHTEOSNESS AND MAYBE THE PRES. OF THE NAACP.WHAT A GREAT LUNCHEON THAT WOULD MAKE.
Not a thing will happen in DC. The “No Justict Dept.” will simply ignore this along with all the rest of O’s adminisration. As usual, they will just do what they want to since the law obviosly does not apply to them.
Is this article written by an adult and intended for adults ?
I read ir with diamay at the nursery school attitudes. For example: Justice Department officials, regarding statements to Congress and the public SOMETIMES (emphasis added)under oath. THIS is the TRAGIC part of the controversy. The COVER-UP is ALWAYS worse.
More evidence that lawyers do not speak or understand the national language as do non-lawyers not enthralled with legalese. This goes some way to explaining why so much fiddling with the Constitution by Congress, in the main lawyers, in this past half century.
A “cover-up” is ALWAYS WORSE than lying under oath ?
In a nation of law in which truth under oath is a fundamental? No wonder WJ Clinton, who lied under oath in a court of law, was not removed from the Presidency by Congress. But Richard Nixon, who was not impeached was with what inducements?”voluntarily” resigned the Presidency. To make way for James Earl Carter. Fraternal/professional courtesy?
To suggest penalty for law-breaking by personal interpretation / application of Law by officials in the “Justice” Department who,at least in honour (does that word have ANY currency in the political arena within this past half century ?) bound to apply law, unless specified otherwise, to ALL citizens evenhandedly, should be a “stain on their reputation”. Try that for ordinary citizens who break and are CAUGHT in breaking the law.
Yes. Apologize or say it was all a misunderstanding/ failure of communication. And all is forgiven. Redress for the citizens injured by these law officers decisions/actions who do not know the law ? Through more lawyers no doubt.
It is not so much that” the law is an ass”, but too many of those who practice and interpret tht Law are not only assinine, but unbelievably ignorant of their own discipline.
WHAT do they teach in law schools. The same garbage as taught in the liberal arts faculties of “elite” / prestige / exclusive universities.
No wonder this country is in this present morass. And elected this Pied Piper to get us out of this swamp. And look what that got us. Another lawyer who with his own personal interpretation of the Law,deemed the Constitution of the USA, the foundation Law, as defective, and flawed.
Didn’t stop HIM, THIS Pied Piper, however, taking THE OATH, to Uphold and Defend that flawed , that defective document.
If you keep in mind that for several years Obama taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School, you might begin to suspect what’s being taught in law schools today.
I wish I could have taken his Con Law class. It was such a bore taking the class from an ol’ guy who revered the Constitution and seemed not to regard it as “flawed.” Certainly not flawed “in that it failed to provide a means for redistributive justice,” one of Obama’s complaints!! Nor even because it failed to delineate “what the federal government MUST do for you”–leaving that task to the ever-increasingly-liberal judges who might deem the poor Constitution a “living” document, subject to change at the whim of a judge rather than by the tedious methods set out within the Constitution itself.
Coincidentally, I just heard a recording of Obama’s remark regarding the horror of the Constitution limiting what state and federal government can do TO you but failing to provide for what the federal government must do ON YOUR BEHALF, not FOR YOU, as I said above. I’m not sure what the difference is, but I’m sure there is one.
Unfortunately the only way to force out Holder is thru public pressure or impeachment. Both are unlikely.
BTW I am unable to load the 2nd page of the article on my blackberry for some reason.
Sure wish you would stop breaking up virtually all your articles into multiple pages!
What exactly do YOU expect “Law Enforcement” to do about it? Enforce the law? Why would they do that? In spite of their oath of office to “…preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution…”, on a daily basis they spit on it, bow and scrape before their Masters, and then do whatever they’re told. Why would you think THIS would be any different? This Administration is STILL in violation of THREE federal court orders on the Obamatorium, but NOT ONE “Law Enforcement” officer has bothered to do ANYTHING to those responsible. There IS NO “Rule of Law” in this country. There are only Thugs with Guns.
Civil war is coming, and soon. Are YOU ready? Or are you among those mocking Stephen Broden? The stench is overwhelming.
The POST is positioning itself for the inevitable GOP House investigation. The paper did its best for Holder on this one…but has now jumped ship. In Febuary/March this will be big news as the House calls witness after witness, Holder will resign by summer and the POST will editoralize about how they helped Obama get rid of this racist.
It’s pretty clear.
Anonymous post #11, the best rebuttal regarding the WaPo piece. Heck, the situation regarding the Black Panther case. Err, ‘dismissed case’?
As for someone saying ‘this has been going on for..’ – Well you know what? I and countless others want it to stop.
The longer we co-exist as a nation, co-habitating etc., the less we need Government DICTATING unneeded ‘equality’ issue after issue. What the h ell do these removed aristocrats know of the aforementioned. Jack & s hit. And Jack left town.
Me and my friends frmo all walks of life are in our mid 30′s and we laugh or shake our heads in disgust at the handling of nearly every issue the Gubmint gets their grubby hands on.
Oh, and I for the life of me can’t determine who’s a more despicable, identity politic ‘human’ being – Eleanor Holmes Norton or Loretta King.
Both women are an anchor on the necks of EVERY black person in the Capitol.
paul, that “anonymous” post was actually me…I usually sign in so as not to forget while I am typing a comment…and because I was simultaneously reading and pasting pieces of the quotes from the WaPo article, I must have indeed forgotten to sign in.
I did not intend for it be “anonymous”, but that’s how it shows up if one forgets to sign in.
Sorry for the confusion.
cfbleachers – again thank you.
Your posts are always concise in nature. As well as your personal laments -always appropriate in nature.
At least under contract law, if one party allows the other party to repeatedly violate the terms of the contract, eventually that party is estopped from suddenly demanding adherence to the contract terms that have been violated (think “Juan Williams, heh). I think that’s one reason corporations bring silly lawsuits against minor trademark infringements, even though they may seem inconsequential. Ya gotta protect your rights or you lose them (ain’t it the truth).
Don’t you think the guvment assumes we’re estopped from asking for adherence to our laws, having allowed their repeated violation for so many years? Yeaaah, that’s what I would argue if I were Holder.
that seems like a good position for illegal aliens, i have been a law breaker for some years now, can i be excused from this law? how about not paying taxes will the IRS buy this argument?
Blacks are 14% of the population. Blk Panthers thugs are a much smaller percentage. Whites have only themselves to blame for letting the minotity run their lives. If Whites would vote in blocks as the blacks do for Obama then change, “real change” would begin. Start with November and finish the job in 2012 ! END Affirmative Discrimination.
Whites can’t vote as a block. That would be raaaaacist.
we need to wake up and be raaaaacist!! immediately…
This is media-driven. In the last election they yapped constantly about the 95-96% black “voting block.” Yet in places where Obama got 68% of the white vote all you heard was: “Obviously, there’s still a lot of racism & whites just can’t accept a black president yet.” Oh, SHUT UP!
“With freedom and justice for all.” Isn’t that nice. I’m sick and tired of these ugly racists on the left, white as well as black, with their contempt for law and their smug assurance that people with white skin are too stupid and complacent not to let anyone who is black exploit and oppress them. Obama owes his election to exactly this kind of white stupidity. We now have a U.S. president who is utterly unqualified, totally fraudulent, dishonest, disloyal, ignorant, racist, anti-Semitic, and maliciously destructive of every single principle this country stands for. Of course his attorney general reflects his “views,” and of course Obama himself is personally directing this disgusting travesty.
If the law applies to us, but not to them, the law is not legitimate. Obama and his conspirators are the stupid ones. Civil society can’t exist if gov’mint officials have discretion to apply the law arbitrarily. “No civil society” means that blacks as well as whites are fair game, and whites outnumber blacks in this country by at least six-to-one. Obama and Holder are skating very close to a very dangerous edge. If the Black Power thugs who our elected officials are encouraging think they would win a race war, those officials and their gorillas had better think again.
They have NO WORRY WHATSOEVER about a “race war”. They recognize that a significant number of the whites in the US support this discrimination. Think New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Atlanta and others. Any attempted race war THERE will be with the whites as underdogs. Being killed by other whites. The ONLY worry they have is a civil war over the Constitution. And they’re reasonably sure they have THAT under control as well with the militarization of the local police and their “militia as terrorist” screeds. They spew the talking points from SPLC and the media and “fusion centers” eat it up. Note this fine gem:
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-offer-to-kansas-city-sneeze-kctew.html
and this follow-up by David Codrea:
http://www.examiner.com/gun-rights-in-national/will-fusion-center-accept-militia-enthusiast-s-challenge
as an example of what’s REALLY going on. The stench is overwhelming.
Why is it, whenever a marxist liberal news organization,Finally addresses the truth concerning one of their own.We celebrate them as if suddenly they found their way?Liberals never do any thing based on the best interest of the truth,or facts.Beware,and be leary of their true motives.My question is when are americans going to demand that those who claim they are a legitimate fact finding,A-political news organization.Conduct themselves as such.And who is going to suffer repercussions,for the distortions,and outright lies perpertrated by these news organizations,that have wrongly accused,condemned,and destroyed the reputations,and lives of innocent people,like our military,and their families.Personally these phony news organizations,are not worthy of a response.If we legitimize them when they are right,Then we legitimize them when they are wrong.I suspect this article was only a teaser to increase poor reader subscriptions.Jimmy Joe,”The Liarfryer”
oMan @ 25. Funny!
While I respect Mr. Coates courage a great deal I wonder how things will change. There may be too many people who have learned that they can vote themselves entitlements and privileges without paying. Right now there are federal directives concerning the hiring of employees and contractors, grants, hate crimes, cultural community orgs, etc. enforcing unequal treatment of whites, and white males in particular, in favor of “disadvantaged groups”. I see no great movement to change this but rather more doubling down by beneficiaries; and PC blinders prevent breaking taboo from those too afraid to take a stand.
And, as Bugs so brilliantly formulates, you simply need to slander any person who objects as a racist. If that doesn’t work, threaten violence. That worked wonders in the 60s.
Its all fine and dandy to stir the troops here and at other conservative websites. But, Big Government is like heroin and there are way too many users that are going to have to go on forced withdrawal; that’s not something junkies do voluntarily. Look at what’s happening in France right now.
It is always valuable, in any expose, to listen to the dog which did not bark. The Post article, though important in that major media is now covering a block buster: The Voting Section and Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has been shot through, for a long time, by racists. But what was purposefully, or though ignorance, omitted? While it is true that perjury has almost certainly be committed, there is an immediate problem which is sliding under the radar.
Mr. Christopher Coates, is his historic,lengthy and agonizingly rigorous testimony to the Civil Rights Commission, stated that DOJ, institutionally, is, and has been ignoring the law which requires them to regularly police voter lists. The states establish the lists, but there are uneven, and politically motivated, “look the other way” processes, which permit illegal votes, e.g. dead people and felons votes. DOJ uses a blind eye to look at this problem, in silent cahoots with local election officials. Hence, it is reasonable to conjecture that there are members of both federal houses who hold their power today, due to fraudulent vote tallies. It will occur again in the next few days.
Honest voting, and even handed justice, are the bed rock of our society. When this trust is broken, we are in very dangerous waters. And, once again, no watch dog barked.
Except two patriots, Messr. Adams and Coates, who have put their careers on the line for me. Thank you gentlemen.
How come Holder & Obama aren’t called racist because they hate whites? The only reason he criticizes Bush is because he is white! Remember, though, Obama isn’t for equal rights! Obama has all the answers, only the answers are about how to control America the way he wants–not as the Constitution demands it. People, all your rights are slowly being taken away, and we’ll end up just like Germany when the Nazis took control, and no one paid any attention until it was too late!
White people ARE a minority WORLDWIDE.
Our blue/green/gray eyes are RARE. Our [REAL] blonde/red/auburn hair is REAL.
Our pale skin is RARE.
If we happen to be a white majority in a few select countries that makes us no worse than Black, Hispanic or Asian or Indian countries who have the same ethnic majority.
I’ve finally come to the conclusion that there are a lot of folks who are just plain jealous of white folks (I’m half white).
Racism can be instigated and even institutionalized by people other than white too.
MORE racism can’t trump racism.
It’s time to grow up, America.
Racism can be instigated and even institutionalized by people other than white too. yes even half white ones. what a bunch of BS. everyone is jealous, pleez people are racist,tribal,and clannish, just change the color, tribal affiliations and clan designation. from Northern Ireland all the way to Rwanda
YES you are correct…clannish..and tribal and etc..amongst all races. But when a mixed society allows one clan to get all the gov jobs…imagine what can happen? History has proven over and over…how the fall of certain civilizations occur..or change..take England…how they brought in the huns or whoever to help them fight the celts…and eventually this clan took over.
So, eventually the black race will take over…even if they are a minority by numbers…their hostile tone of voice always makes others act submisssive…
obama thinks his dogmatic tone of his culture makes him charasmatic..not to me…just another angry black if you ask me.
“Racism can be instigated and even institutionalized by people other than white too.”
Do you mean racism is NOT a “white on black” one-way street? Could it be an 8 lane super highway w/all kinds of prejudice going in different directions? Try convincing a liberal of that one.
Malik “every last iota of a cracker, I hate him” Shabazz can threaten white people at a polling place in a federal election and that’s “free speech” apparently, but Juan Williams saying overt muslims on an airplane (after 9/11) make him nervous isn’t. (Yeah, NPR takes federal money, First Amendment applies to them, too, and they not only fired him but made defamatory insinuations about him.) Oh, but left/liberals like Malik Shabazz and not Juan Williams… that’s it.
I wouldn’t really consider this a conspiracy theory, but is it possible that this is just a DOJ baiting strategy???
Where the DOJ punted this out to an election in hopes that some frustrated white racist pulls a stunt like NBP. Then they bring the hammer an the a sympathetic media.
African-American political culture is a pox, basically. Obama represents its zenith, and hopefully his fall will trigger a change in that culture. And I do understand how blacks feel in being singled out by cops, etc. But A-A political culture is still a disaster.
Some of that is due to cynicism about the process. They remember being disenfranchised for years, legally and extra-legally, – or at least they’ve heard stories about it. Even today, many black people believe that whites actively try to prevent them from voting. The comments to the WaPo story contain a number of “reports” of police and others recently intimidating black voters, physically blocking their access to polling places, etc. I’m skeptical about the truth of these stories. But the fact is a lot of blacks (and white liberals) are completely willing to believe them because they fit the narrative.
If they believe the system is broken, corrupt, and totally biased against them, then they may feel it’s no big deal if they engage in some corruption of their own to put the shoe on the other foot. It could be the DoJ people ignore such behavior for the same reasons.
The White House has no clue what Americans think or feel. Worst yet they don’t care.
This Administration is systymaticly destroying America and everything it used to stand for. I see a parallel to 1933 when Hitler took over in Germany. This administration has made my children and grand children “Financial “Slaves”.
American Christian Infidel
Michael Canzano
Do you think that maybe Barack Obama had the Black Panthers and other Black Muslims in mind when, during his campaign, that evil madman often spoke of his vision of having a “Civilian Defense Force” in place before the end of his first term in office, a hand-picked militia of creeps, losers, misfits, gangsters, degenerates and thugs that would be granted authorities and protections by that other evil madman, Eric Holder?
Don’t be afraid little girl. I don’t vant to hurt you. I just vant to bite your neck. 8)
My gosh, Harry Reid supporters are giving free food away to the homeless and the poor in Nevada for their vote for Reid. Please help stop this illegal inducement: if any of you see this happening at the polls, please report it to the voting authorities right away. There’s nothing wrong with giving free food to anyone who needs it, but not when the recipient is fooled or forced to voting for someone. That’s called buying someone’s vote; therefore, it’s not actually “free” food.
It’s interesting to note how different generations of black Americans react to the Black Panther controversy. Young blacks adopt a “What’s the big deal? Nobody got hurt” attitude. Middle-aged blacks are a little embarrassed by those guys, standing there for all the world to see in their theatrical-looking, 1960′s-era Che Guevara clown suits. And the old folks just chuckle, shake their heads, and say “payback’s a bitch,ain’t it?” And the old-school black radical thugs who outgrew that nonsense 30 years ago say: “You wanna pull that stunt this election day? You wanna go stand outside a poll somewhere
with a billy club and threaten white folks who come to vote? Go for it, fool. Them Tea Party rednecks will kick your a** from here to China. They ain’t buying that sh**. They’re already p*ssed off because Obama is trying to kick off a race war.”
Reid giving away free food for a vote. Sounds just like Boss Tweed who gave away food for votes during the depression (the one FDR kept alive longer than necessary.) Tweed was one of the most corrupt politicians in NY history. Guess change isn’t really change is it Barack?
Reids free food for a vote reminds me of Boss Tweed giving away food for votes during the 1930′s. He was one of the most corrupt politicians in NY history. Guess change isn’t really change is it barack?
Let me tell you a story about a woman named Jed…no this is no hillbilly movie.
This is a true story that happened to me, right after the publicity hit big and aired this moran saying, “kill cracker babies”. A week later, my black supervisor, a new supervisor given to me just a couple of wks. prior, b’cuz my Gov job project was canned due to the budget crisis..this new supervisor was hostile towards me to begin with, I being the only white skinned (actually very light skinned hispanic- no accent – so I fooled her) she was hostile towards me and in a staff meeting, when peering out the door to watch an employee handling a customer at the counter, said to another black employee (whom I heard call another supervisor a “cracker” behind her back once) so my super says to her, laughin..gly, “Did she cracker him”. Meaning;, “was she abusingly mistreating him, giving back customer service, rude in other words..like “cracking the whip, the way white slave owners did..and did with their words and actions. This happened this summer 2010 in my gov office. This same supervisor, became increasingly more hostile and intimidating towards me. I tape recorded her when she called me into a closed door meeting to rail on me for something very insignificant. I had asked the main boss for a furlough because this witch went home early…she was furious that i mentioned she left early. What transpired in this 40 min video was pure and simple “cracker the whitie” mentality. I say it is time to stand up and stop this ABUSE by certain white hating blacks. I have lovely black friends. It is not all blacks..anymore that the KKK did not represent lovely white folk that were against racism.
Spread the news that this country must prevent this – I AM CURRENTLY UNEMPLOYED BECAUSE OF THIS…THIS STORY CAUSED MY SUPERVISOR TO THINK IT WAS COOL TO USE THE WORK CRACKER IN FRONT OF ME..AND TO MISTREAT ME…THE DENEGRATING THINGS SHE DID AND SAID TO ME IN FRONT OF THE OTHER EMPLOYEES WERE HUMILIATING. I TOLD THE BOSSES AND THE ADMINISTRATION THAT I NEEDED TO BE TRANSFERRED BECAUSE SHE WAS ACCUSING ME OF BEING MALICIIOUS BECAUSE I MENTIONED SHE LEFT EARLY AND I WAS STRESSED BY HER TREATMENT OF ME. I WAS AFRAID TO TELL THEM SHE USED THE WORD “CRACKERING”, BECAUSE THE OTHER FIVE BLACK EMPLOYEES IN THE STAFF MEETING AND THE ONE ASIAN AND TWO HISPANICS CERTAINLY WOULD NOT FESS UP THE TRUTH..EVERYONE BEING AFRAID OF THEIR JOB. AMERICA YOU BETTER FIGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF YOUR CHILDREN..GOV JOBS WILL ONLY HIRE MORE AND MORE OF THESE TYPES..RWANDA HERE WE COME IF WE DON’T VOTE THESE IDIOTS OUT OF OFFICE.