It isn’t an issue of punishment, Mr. “I know the facts of the case” (hilarious). It was a civil lawsuit, not a criminal prosecution, and no one was going to be punished. The result of the suit would have been that the members of the NBBP would have been enjoined to stay away from polling places, and perhaps be made to pay legal costs…no punishment.

Sure. Having your right to peaceably assemble curtailed, and having to pay for the privilege, can’t possibly be a punishment. You can’t be that dense.

“No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose…”

Exactly. And there is still nothing that indicates intimidation, threat or coercion was used, attempted or contemplated. I believe prosecution of this case would have been a much more problematic precedent than dismissal. I have watched the video and find no evidence to support prosecution therein.

86. AlanABQ:

I think David S. in only going to see what he wants to see, which requires him to block out the majority of information in this case.

If you want to cite the facts I have missed, by all means do so. What I see is some politically active citizens exercising their right to observe the polls, who were targeted for prosecution due to their political beliefs and physical appearance.

Man, you hate to see a presumably grown man struggling with cognitive dissonance, but as the saying goes, “There are none so blind as those who will not see”. I wonder how this would have gone over in David’s mind if it had been Klan members instead of their black counterparts…

Klan members have the same right to observe the polls as anyone else. If they want to peacefully observe a polling location, I have no objections. I support equal protection for all – much like the ACLU.

Peace.

DS

Man, you hate to see a presumably grown man struggling with cognitive dissonance, but as the saying goes, “There are none so blind as those who will not see”. I wonder how this would have gone over in David’s mind if it had been Klan members instead of their black counterparts…

Who cares what you think you see? You weren’t there. This civil rights attorney WAS there, one of several witnesses to voter intimidation by the NBBP.

‘President Obama’s Justice Department continues to stonewall inquiries about why it dropped a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party.’

‘The episode—which Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, calls “the most blatant form of voter intimidation I’ve ever seen”—began on Election Day 2008. Mr. Bull and others witnessed two Black Panthers in paramilitary garb at a polling place near downtown Philadelphia. (Some of this behavior is on YouTube.)’

‘One of them, they say, brandished a nightstick at the entrance and pointed it at voters and both made racial threats. Mr. Bull says he heard one yell “You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!”‘

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574361071968458430.html

“I am well aware of the facts of the case”

LOL.

“Again, there is no evidence that anyone was intimidated or threatened in any way.”

The DOJ had sworn affadavits saying otherwise, as well as a video showing an armed NBBP member at the polling place.

“Show me real harm, and I’ll support real punishment.”

It isn’t an issue of punishment, Mr. “I know the facts of the case” (hilarious). It was a civil lawsuit, not a criminal prosecution, and no one was going to be punished. The result of the suit would have been that the members of the NBBP would have been enjoined to stay away from polling places, and perhaps be made to pay legal costs…no punishment.

This is the law that was being violated.

“No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose…”

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/usc_sec_42_00001971—-000-.html

“Peace.”

Not with lefty liars.

Latest to jump into the act is the semi-senile former President James Earl Carter, the sludge-brained legacy-seeker who again contends that ”racism is an issue for President Obama in trying to lead the country.”

I don’t get Jimmah.

After heading the most ineffectual and bumbling government since Harding, you’d think he’d be itching to see Obama fail so that Obama would supplant him as the worst president in almost a century. With or without Carter’s help, I think Obama will capture that prize.

Or, is that racist to say?

I also don’t get Attorney General Eric Himpton Holder. At least I didn’t until I heard him speak and checked his record.

Barely wet behind the ears as the nation’s chief law enforcer, he tipped his racial hand when he said in February, “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards:” http://bit.ly/SBZ5T.

Ok, so we knew from the get-go that Holder had, let’s say, “racial issues,” as many such issues as Harvard’s Prof. Louis Henry Gates, Van Jones, and many others in Obama’s employ.

We also knew from Holder’s background that he had helped gain the pardon of Marc Rich, had negotiated protection money from Chiquita Brands to a terrorist organization, had opposed the Patriot Act, had endorsed gun bans in D.C., had supported clemency for members of the terrorist Boricua Popular Army, and wanted GITMO shuttered asap.. . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)

If you mean that the panthers had assembled peacefully in front of the polling booths, you are either woefully ignorant or viciously mendacious.

You can’t support that claim. I am well aware of the facts of the case, and I see no evidence of intimidation here. A single NBPP member holding a nightstick is not the equivalent of an 1870 Alabama lynch mob, and you know it.

Again, there is no evidence that anyone was intimidated or threatened in any way. Pursuing this case would have been a misuse of the resources of the Justice Department. There is no violation of law here.

Peace.

DS

We could also say it’s not his pigment–it’s his policies.