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Call it Panthergate, call it what you will. The Department of Justice (or its minions) is already attempting to slime its whistleblower J. Christian Adams — the attorney who recently resigned from the Department over its abandonment of the New Black Panther case.

Now Adams has struck back, telling Pajamas Media that the DOJ’s smears were a “blatant lie.”

Adams appeared on Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show to tell his story Tuesday, following which a “source familiar with the case” came forward, trying to tarnish the lawyer’s reputation. Pajamas Media was informed by a Fox producer:

The person said that any story should include the fact that Adams only left DOJ after being put into a job he disliked, and that he has long been an advocate of conservative views. Source also says Adams’ claims are “willfully inaccurate.”

This battle had been brewing for several days since Adams — using the Panther case as an example — asserted in the Washington Times, and then in more detail in Pajamas Media, that institutionalized bias had infiltrated Eric Holder’s Justice Department. Civil rights complaints would only be pursued when initiated by people of color against white people.

When it was the other way around, the complaints, even when well-substantiated as with the New Black Panthers, would disappear in a bureaucratic morass.

The attacks on Adams — whether from the “anonymous source” or from DOJ spokesperson Tracy Schmaler — were of surprising ferocity, indicating nervousness on the part of the Department.

Adams told Pajamas Media:

I was appalled and disappointed by the DOJ yesterday. They included a blatant lie in their response to my interview.  They told Fox News I had been “unhappy with my position.” Not only would this be a personnel matter they aren’t supposed to discuss, it’s a fairy tale. In fact on April 28 I got a promotion, so maybe they can let me know what position I was unhappy with.

The problem with smearing me is that there are many others who know the truth inside the Department. Documents which they refuse to turn over pursuant to subpoenas from the Civil Rights Commission prove it. Testimony from other DOJ employees, which they refuse to allow, would also prove it.

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  1. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

    If there was nothing to the Panthergate story, the Administration would be happy to let him be exposed as a crank and a nutcase. That they instead turn to attacks is highly indicative that there’s something there that would be embarrassing to B-O.

    Of course, any seasoned political operative would know the dangers of this sort of over-the-top attack, but that’s more indicative of the general level of incompetence in the B-O Administration.

    • IndieWoman

      I saw the interview at Fox with the DOJ gentleman and it sent shivers went down my back.

      Again, we have been lied to by the “powers that be.”

      I will closely follow this story; thank goodness it isn’t over.

      Mr. Simon’s prose is a breath of mountain air in the stagnated and polluted media reporting, or non-reporting, from other networks and news sources.

      • My question is, where are the senators and congressmen at? I called my congressman, (Phil Roe,R), first district of Tennessee this morning 7/2/2010. He was on his way home for hot dogs corn on the cob maters, cold slaw and so on. These Republicans are Missing in action, while Obama, Reed and Polisie methodically tear our country apart. If this had been John Ashcroft The lame stream press and the Dems. would be screening their heads off for hearings, investigations and impeachment!! The din would echo across the country like a tornado across the Oklahoma prairie. Broadcast TV stations would be preempting prime time shows for special coverage. Wanting the blood and heads of those involved.

        Would a surgeon leave their patient in the O R and go out for lunch? Well, Roe used to be a doctor I hope he was a better doc than he is a congressman.

        This country is on life support and the three stooges are fighting over whom will be the first to pull the plug.

        And the congressman and senators? There home celebrating possibly the last Independence day we will ever see!!!
        Ray Stevens is right!! Throw the bums out! ALL of them!

    • anne

      Who else knew about this??

      One person without records is going to be attacked.
      Who told who to “drop it”.
      ..who made the decision????????? WHO

      Remember Holder said we are a nation of “cowards” on race….

      • Bill Adams

        All of you are missing the terrible dilemma that Christian Adams was in. I know it well. It happened to me as a State Deputy Attorney General. Choose to act ethically and lose your career. Doing what’s right, where you’ve won for your client, only to have a demand from a politician lawyer to reverse course is something I know well. I stood my ground, as Christian Adams has.After winning a case, my boss (the Attorney General) called and instructed that I should file a “Motion to Reconsider” with the presiding court and to file a brief arguing against the case we’d just won, purely for political reasons.I couldn’t ethically do that under Rule 11.The Supreme Court of Appeals in my state ruled 5-0 that the Attorney General violated the Code of Professional Responsibility in this matter. Bill Adams

  2. 2. oMan

    The smear is from fear. Which makes it more dangerous, not less. The adversary has enormous resources and can strike hard, often, openly or from ambush. Adams deserves big credit and will need support not only today but also and especially after the initial media buzz. That’s going to be his long, lonely time; and how he’s treated then will greatly influence others’ willingness to come forward. Because you know there are others.

  3. 3. Vinny B.

    It is so obvious that this guy doesn’t like working for a Black President and let his racism make up his mind against the Black Panthers. I have yet to see a shred of evidence that would prove anything. All I am hearing is “boo hoo, people are being mean to me.” I am sure this guy is a right-wing nut that loves Bush, Cheney, and Palin.

    • Just Passing Through

      The adults are trying to have a conversation. Here’s a push pop. Take it in the other room.

      • GDT

        I have been on PM and others for a while now. This is the best Troll response I have ever seen. I will steal it for future use!

      • Steve G.

        I echo GDT’s statement. Good one Just Passing Through!!

    • Tex Taylor

      Surely this is a parody and you left off the sarc tag?

      • Jusuchin

        I highly doubt it. Guy seemed to be serious.

      • Ed Wallis

        With a name like “Vinny B.” (as in Vinny Barbarino?!?)
        one certainly can assume so,
        or at least someone with that level of – ahem – “intelligence.”

        • GibsonicallyGuitarded

          Vinny Barbarino was considerably more intelligent than this drive-by racist.

    • Zwolf

      Go back to the Yahoo forums where your insane idiocy might be viewed as credible by those troglodytes.

    • Thanks so much for proving my point above.

    • TheLastBrainLeft

      Did you not see the myriad of Youtube videos showing the Black Panthers controlling the entrances to a Philly polling place?

      The BPP is a racist organization, the black equivalent of the KKK.

    • valerie

      I am a Liberal, a Bill Clinton fan to this day, who learned to love George Bush for his persistent, unsung, charitable service in crossing this country back and forth, calming it down and correctly identifying the enemy as those who are trying to hijack one of the world’s great religions. I learned to love Cheney for his formidable capability, and incisive, broad-based analyses. There were times when I wished I didn’t agree with him, but I always knew that his positions were well-founded. And Sarah, well Sarah is exactly what the wimmin’s libbers were hoping to see after they forced the graduate school doors open in 1973.

      I am a Liberal, and I know from experience that you cannot have justice founded on prejudice. There is no such thing as justice where any remedy is enforceable, not on the facts, but on the color of the plaintiff’s skin. And anybody who thinks, that only white people are harmed when black thugs rig elections, is delusional. The operative word is “thugs” and injection of the skin colors into the discussion is unacceptable.

      • Steve G.

        To Valerie:

        I hate to be the one to break this to you but…….you’re not a liberal anymore.

        I believe that you and I are, to a certain point, kindered spirits.

        I voted for Gore in 2000 and was appalled that someone who I percieved to be less intelligent than myself was elected president of the USA. After 9/11, my views changed. I recognized that if Al Gore had been president, we would not have had the response that we had. It was during this time that I recognized the appeasement policy of the left. We heard all kinds of statements like “we’ve got to find the root cause…” and “why do they want to hurt us?”, “What have we done to bring this upon us?”. I recognized that these people just hate our way of life. While I understand that we have made some tactical and strategic decisions that can be considered questionable, I know that the US’s intentions are always good. Who gives more aid (financial, military, humanitarian, etc…), to the ENTIRE WORLD, than us? Sorry, but my opinion reflects GWB’s quite unpopular view…..”Either you are with us, or you are against us”. My view is there is no grey area here. This is right against wrong. If you believe that we are wrong, that is your opinion and you are entitled to it. I believe that we are on the right (correct) side of this battle.

        • Bear

          I think we’re in the same boat…I voted for Gore because I thought he was smart, and George was a blithering idiot. Now I know Gore is an idiot, and Bush isn’t as dumb as he looks and regardless of what liberals say, he was a lot more honest than what we have now, notwithstanding his miscalculations.

          • Me three. Same story.

            About this case – indisputable facts:

            - the original Black Panther video, showing the undeniable intimidation
            - the DOJ won the case
            - the BPs didn’t even fight it
            - the attorneys were told to drop a case they already won
            - by higher ups including Holder’s third-in-command
            - they were ordered to ignore Congressional seupenas – blatantly illegal

            That’s enough right there.

        • Supreme Allied Commander

          yes she is …Bush was too !!

          the conservatives have left the building.

        • Professor Guvinoff

          Looks to me that Valerie is well on her way to be an authentic liberal, that is a Thomas Jefferson liberal as opposed to a John Kerry so-called “liberal”. Our vocabulary started to lose its potency long before our dollar was at risk.

      • Taxpayer

        Valerie, Steve G., Bear, Yehudit–

        In 1980, I voted for John Anderson (lefty independent). In 1984, I voted for Reagan. Have been a conservative ever since.

        Welcome! Better late than never…!

        • Bear

          FYI…I voted for Reagan too. Dole also. Just thought Bush came off as ignorant. I rue the day I voted for Gore.

    • grichens

      Obama is not black.

      • Rob

        grichens, right, he’s a Statist who considers the judiciary his clearest path to amassing authority, for through it he can proclaim what the law is without effective challenge or concern with the fleeting outcome of an election cycle. Moreover, the federal judiciary is populated with about one thousand lawyers, and the Supreme Court a mere nine – making statist infiltration easy.

    • Hank

      Hey Vinny,
      Are you as bind as the rest of the folks trying to discredit this man. Why do you think the DOJ will not agree to discuss this issue on tv? You guessed it, they know this guy is telling the truth. I sincerely hope all of the folks trying to hide this will be brought to justice.

    • Thomas Sowell

      Your racism is showing Vinny B. We all SAW the video of Black Panthers with bully clubs intimidating people who were trying to ascertain if voters were legal or not .

      Hate to break it to you – but this kind of ILLEGAL behavior should land one in jail . The fact that it isn’t and that the DOJ is racially biased makes their actions disgraceful AND illegal .

    • Tsulaa

      Would you listen to what a staunch, life-long Democrat, honored Civil Rights Attorney/Activist, employee of Robert F. & Ted Kennedy, & Jimmy Carter, & active supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has to say about his personal experience that day in Philadelphia? If so, find & listen to recent interviews of Civil Rights Attorney Bartle Bull. I double-dog dare ya’.

      If not, that’s fine, too. You sound like you’re just another sheep in O-Baaa-ma’s herd anyway. What is it about the word “Republican” that has people like you ignore the facts &/or make incorrect assumptions…dare I say stereotype, even? It’s like how strobe lights trigger seizures in some epileptics; you just can’t seem to help yourselves.

    • Gladius

      Vinney
      Try looking at the vid. taken on election day. Malik Shabazz (he is the one with the night stick } was invited to the White House…well…it was a different Malik Shabazz according to WH spokesman…ya that name is common… Listen Vinney I hope you heard the POP…That’s the sound your head makes when you pull it out of your a**

    • You see no evidence that this intimidation happened? You must be blind and I do not mean to offend you or you are just plain mindless. Bet you would have seen what happened had the two men been wearing sheets. What a hypocrite.

    • To Vinny B., from Santa Bob The videos of the NBPP’s thugs in front of the Philly polling station are all over You tube and other Internet and cable sites. All you have to do is L@@K. This attorney has no bone to pick with anybody. The case was won by default and the judge had already signed an order. I was personal friends with Delmar Dennis,(deceased), the FBI informant that turned in the KKK down in Neshoba, County, Mississippi that resulted in the conviction of ALL those involved in the murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Let’s just suppose that someone in the DOJ back then, decided to dismiss all charges after the case had been won. There would have been riots in every major city in this country, And believe you me I know something about riots. Detroit, in 1967 was bloody, I know I was there! 53 dead thousands left homeless by the fires. Come out into the sunshine Vinny! After nearly 40 years in law enforcement I know a little about the justice system. And this stinks all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! When someone does or tries to impose their will on another by or through the threat of force/intimidation that is a violation of law. PERIOD!! I have a very good friend in West Virginia where I pick up my coal for all the naughty people on my list. So be good for goodness sake. Merry Christmas!! HO HO HO!!

    • In Cali

      Hey Vinny B, Keeping people from voting and using racial slurs is illegal and we as Americans should not let it happen, this wont go on for long and we will see ho Boo Hoo’s last.

  4. 4. Brenda G

    What will it take to remove Holder from office? Seriously!

    • MarkTheGreat

      Removal of Obama from office. Nothing less.

      • M. Report

        An eruption of voter disapproval in November _might_
        be enough to get Holder thrown to the Volcano Gods
        as a sacrifice; Better than enduring the Grand Inquest
        of the Nation: Congressional Committee investigation.

        • Beth

          DUI and a manslaughter charge? Wait…what am I saying? This administration would probably blame the victim for dying. Let me see. Murder one? No. They would cover it up and one of his lackeys would take the fall. Hmmmm. What is the worst crime imaginable? I’ve got it. Child diddling. That would get him out of office. Unless it was a white child. Right Eric? You racist freak.

        • MarkTheGreat

          I have a suspicion that Holder knows where too many of the bodies are buried to ever be thrown under the bus.

    • This story is spreading over the Conservative Net websites. It won’t take long before the so called mainstream cannot ignore this any longer

      polls show that the sa called “mainstream” has been losing readers. IMHO it’s because they have been losing credibility.

      Hopefully soon we won’t have to wait for the NYT to publish a story before it is Officially True

      Sadly, too many of us have been taught through school that sources like NYT are the “credible” sources that should be used as references. Other sources might be “tabloid journalism”

      This won’t change. But the attitude and values of the audience are changing.

      This story will do more damage to the mainstream than a broadsides across the main deck if they don’t come clean on it.

      So that kinda leaves them with a catch 22. quit spiking stories or lose whatever credibility they may have left

      Our great risk of course is that Football Season is fast approaching and sadly, Americans seem to have very short memories.

    • Eric Holder is dug in like a tick on an Alabama hound dog. The only way to get rid of it is pull out the head. In this case it’s like a serpent, and the only way to remove it is to cut off the head. and that means impeachment. And that just ain’t going to happen. There are just too many YELLOW COWARDS in congress. God bless J. Christian Adams, Attorney Bartle Bull and General Stanley McCrystol for having the balls enough to speak out. I stand up and salute these patriotic Americans!!

  5. 5. RockThisTown

    Ditto, Wanderer. Turmoil at the DOJ is never a good thing. DOJ is supposed consist of even-handed, non-partisan, career lawyers who care little about the politics of the cases they pursue. However, that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Adams’ attempt to pursue criminal wrongdoing was apparently quashed by the administration, in all likelihood, b/c of pressure from the WH.
    Justice isn’t color blind for this administration – it sees colors very well and acts accordingly.

  6. 6. Brian

    This isn’t just a “scandal” in the sense of a delicious opportunity to rake the administration over the coals. This is borderline terrifying in the sense of revealing the administration’s vision for the country. As such, coals need to be put away and tar and feathers prepared.

  7. 7. bubblehead

    Please ignore Vinny. His diaper’s been full all morning and he’s feeling a mite cranky!

  8. 8. YoMamma

    @Vinny B.:

    >I have yet to see a shred of evidence that would prove anything.

    - New Black Panthers on film, intimidating potential voters with weapons
    - DOJ ultimately *not* pursuing same.

    Now: what’s your complaint again? :^)

  9. 9. buzz

    “I have yet to see a shred of evidence that would prove anything.”
    “I am sure this guy is a right-wing nut that loves Bush, Cheney, and Palin.”
    Interesting. The self refuting comment.
    What is your explanation for the DOJ dropping the case they won?

  10. 10. GM Roper

    Bush’s DOJ = put up a screen to “hide” nudity! OMG, bring out the hired guns, storm the bastille.

    Obama’s DOJ = Panthergate! Yawn.

    As Glenn Reynolds says: “We’re in the best of hands.”

  11. 11. jb

    I would never lend credence to a story attributed to an; ““anonymous source”, that generally means someone has an axe to grind. I believe Mr. Adams has told us the real truth of what is going on at DOJ’s civil rights division. If you are white, you have no civil rights.
    ‘Sway it shapes up in my opinion.

    Obama has saddled us with a bunch of corrupt black reverse racists with Loretta King leading the pack. I guess the Black Panther was right, we (crackers) are learning what it’s like to be ruled by a black man.

    • GibsonicallyGuitarded

      Not looking for an argument but, racism is racism. IMO, using the term ‘reverse racism’ is as much progressive BS as claiming to be a ‘hyphenated-American’. I won’t cede a single (in this case verbal) step to the regressive bastards. The new, new BPP and all the regressive scum can KMHairyOldA. I ain’t playing that game, homeys. Racism is racism, PERIOD.

      • SamAdams25

        I was born a free man, and I will not be “ruled” by ANY tyrant! I may choose, because of external forces, to choose an independent lifestyle, but I’ll remain free as long as I live.

        Hopefully, we can stop this perverse “fundamental transformation” of our great country, beginning this November, and change our course back toward what our founding fathers intended.

        That’s the hope and change that I can believe in!

        Oh yeah, I’m Federically Guitarded. (it’s a guitar player thing)

  12. 12. Jeffersonian

    Vinny’s post is just a continuation of the smear. Tell us, Vinny, what evidence you have the Mr. Adams “doesn’t like working for a Black President and let his racism make up his mind against the Black Panthers.” Adams’ complaints about the DOJ handling of this case have precisely zero to do with how he was treated and everything to do with the dropping of a case so airtight that the NBPP didn’t even try to defend it in court.

    This case is the Obama Administration in microcosm.

    • Michael Lonie

      I suspect the reason the defendent Black Panthers did not contest the case is that they had already been told, by the Obama Transition Team or by well-connected Obama supporters, that the fix was in, and that the case would be quashed by the incoming administration, no matter what the verdict was.

  13. The person said that any story should include the fact that Adams … has long been an advocate of conservative views.

    So, in the mind of thia DOJ employee “advocating conservative views” constitutes a negative trait that should be considered in appraising one’s honesty, integrity, and character. Sounds to me like instead of discrediting Adams this source is just helping to prove his point.

    • SamAdams25

      It’s funny how that works, isn’t it? Elana Kagan’s leftist political activism doesn’t seem to be any problem at all.

      Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y boys and girls?

  14. 14. ione

    I am going to attempt to explain one major reason why I think the media isn’t covering this. There are a few that are ardent partisans in favor of this administration. But,the vast majority of reporters are probably just like the vast majority of other people; they don’t want trouble or danger in their lives. They see what happens to people, like the gentleman who quit DOJ, and they don’t want that happening to them or their family. Throw in the New Black Panthers as an element and if you speak up you might just be exposing yourself and your family to real danger. Not everyone is brave. Covering a hurricane in 150MPH winds is much less dangerous than covering this administration.

    • MarkTheGreat

      The sad thing is that when a large percentage of a society starts to perceive that the govt has absolutely no interest in protecting them. At that point they start looking for alternative organizations who will.

      At this point civil society ends, and the law of the jungle begins.

      After many years, and many, many deaths, it may be possible to reconstitute civil society.

  15. 15. seven

    The DOJ is breaking the law again. It is illegal to smear an ex employee. Actually it is illegal to talk about them. Without written consent, we can’t even check references. I understand the Administration started smearing an inspector general the moment they fired him. This can be cvery expensive.

    Vinny is not very bright. The DOJ and others are talking up a big spy bust to distract folks from the Blogo trials which showed Obama lied and cheated. I also see the racist card is false vinny. Obama is a half white President. So it can’t be about color because he is bi colored. Bush Cheney and Obama are all no less than 50% white.

  16. 16. Dr. Deano

    Rockthistown: “DOJ is supposed consist of even-handed, non-partisan, career lawyers who care little about the politics of the cases they pursue.”

    You are right, but consider in this era of gross over-politicization and polarization, how many “even-handed, non-partisan” people, much less attorneys, are there in existence?

    Of those, then how many have “even-handed, non-partisan” managers who allow them to do the people’s work in the way it should be done?

    The system is now heavily stacked against justice and toward fulfilling political agendas.

    • RockThisTown

      I’ll grant you this is an era of over-politicization & polarization, and a system of fulfilling political agendas, but note that I said “supposed to.” Things aren’t what they are supposed to be. The WH shouldn’t be sticking its’ nose into DOJ business. Holder must go.

  17. 17. Mike

    I’m with Vinny B. This is obviously a racially, racist, raceriffic attempt by racial racists to racially race the presidential race. So you see its all racist… you racists.

    • jb

      Mike,

      I agree, it’s all about everyone being racist,,, except those parts which are Bush’s fault. (sarc on)

    • Common Sense

      Nobody likes me
      Everybody hates me
      I’m going to eat some worms…..

    • “We’re sorry – your race card has been declined due to a lack of credibility in your ‘Race Advantage’ account. Please destroy all of the cards in your possession. New ones will not be re-issued on this account in your lifetime.”

      Watch ‘em go spiral-eyed crazy when you hit ‘em with that one…

      • SamAdams25

        Excellent, Ward! When all else fails, and you don’t have a valid argument, call your opponents racists. The trouble is, all of the racism seems to be coming from the Holder DOJ.

        The more that comes to light, the more this administration’s corruption is exposed. No wonder they want to control the media and the internet!

  18. 18. drjohn

    The bias is not too frickin’ obvious, is it?

  19. 19. mbabbitt

    Adams seems a decent fellow and anyone of us upon seeing the video and listening to eyewitness reports could only conclude that this is a lapse of commitment to fair and equal treatment in the eyes of the law. If the skin colors were reversed you know what would be happening at this moment. Reverse racism is racism and just as ugly.

    • MarkTheGreat

      I’ve never liked the use of the term reverse racism to describe black on white racism for two reasons.

      1) The revers of racism is equality.
      2) It accepts the notion that racism by definition is white on black.

    • anne

      Not in this country it’s not…where have you been????

  20. 20. Ren

    I am curious to know at what point does the MSM have to double-down (triple-down?) on its support of the Obama administration and executive decisions, not because they are afraid Obama will not win the next election, but because they are in so deep now that they cannot afford the huge black-eye their continued complicity will give them. For a time, I thought the MSM would turn on Obama as they did indeed discover they had made a huge mistake, but I am beginning to believe those very mistakes are hitting a collective point of no return. The idea of the MSM severing ties to save face, cutting their losses, will be over-ridden by simply having too much to lose personally and professionally. Perhaps this has all already happened and I was foolish to ever believe it wouldn’t.

  21. 21. Diggs

    The only person to mention Obama’s race as a factor in this whole discussion is a liberal.
    And a moron.
    ….
    Was that second sentence redundant?

    • Taxpayer

      Was your question rhetorical? (wink)

      Exposing the hypocrisy: Spot on!!

  22. This is beyond a mere “scandal.” If at all possible someone should contact the National Enquirer since that appears to be the only “newspaper” left that is willing to investigate actual criminal acts which the “mainstream media” prefer to have swept under the rug.

    There are some questions here that need to be answered.

    1. Why did the DoJ drop this case?
    2. Is this case indicative of a pattern of DoJ behavior?
    3. Who directed DoJ officials to drop this case?
    4. Are there other voices in the DoJ who can validate the claims of DoJ prejudice?
    5. What was Eric Holder’s involvement in the decision to drop the case?
    6. Did Eric Holder discuss this case directly with the POTUS?
    7. If the POTUS did discuss this case, what was said?

    A “scandal” is usually the revelation of some embarrassing fact or event. If what is being said about this case is true, and it certainly seems to square with the publicly available facts that are known, then what we have here is not a “scandal” it is a crime. This is textbook obstruction of justice. Obstruction of Justice is a federal criminal offense. It absolutely reaches the standard of “High crimes and misdemeanors.”

    If Barack Obama ordered that this case be dropped, that is textbook grounds for impeachment. If Eric Holder did so, that is grounds for indictment and prosecution.

    The same press that spent years hounding the Bush White House over a mostly fabricated “scandal” involving Valerie Plame is completely unwilling to pursue these allegations.

    The most frightening thing about this current administration is not its own obvious corruption and malfeasance. The most frightening thing is that our supposed “watchdogs” in the press are lapdogs to this administration because the vast majority of the mainstream media supports the ideological agenda of this President.

    When the press becomes a willing accomplice in covering up criminal wrongdoing, that’s when you should be getting ready for some serious trouble ahead.

    • Cyn

      Contact the National Enquirer!!!!!

      Yeah, last night I said to my husband… who would ever have thought that the words “National Enquirer” and “serious investigative reporting” would be words one used in the same sentence???

      But, I totally agree with you.

    • moron

      Barry would also be subject to criminal felony prosecution!!! Does anyone remember the only specific charge against George W?? He lied about WMDs. Even though every intelligence agency in the world and every liberal US senator stated Iraq had WMDs that is George W’s Big Lie!!

    • Ret. Marine

      then we should get ready for some serious trouble ahead, yah think there Instein. There already is trouble, the DOJ just committed a federal crime om two levels here, they Forced a case already won through political means and two, they as much as admitted it while not complying with the Commitee oversights request for the Document involved in the decission. Bot Holder and obama are as much as guilty and should be removed from their positions ASAP.

  23. 23. Richard

    Excuse me, but what is the point of mentioning he’s “long been an advocate of conservative views”? Is this some kind of code indicating he has some desire to persecute minorities because he’s a conservative? Great DOJ, we’ve got there.

  24. 24. Free Speech

    These are the smear tactics that BHO cohorts do to anyone who tries to expose their crimes. Hopefully they won’t arrest Mr. Adams on false charges as they did to Nashville Attorney Leo Haffey after he exposed voter intimidation and fraud by the BHO Campaign in Nashville.

    http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/splc-enemy-list-leo-haffey-first-they-came-for-me-southern-poverty-law-center-enemy-list-nashville-attorney-haffey/

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

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

    http://grandjury.blogtownhall.com

    http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-start-and-lead-citizens-grand.html

  25. I think that we should also take into consideration what we have to do in the future:
    in case of any intimidation attempt at the NEXT ELECTIONS in November

    - we must be ready to fully document the case (video-cameras)

    - we must be ready to call the cops and release a detailed statement to the reporting Officer, with a precise description of the facts and the persons involved

    - we must be ready to PRESS CHARGES (for assault, or aggravated assault if there are weapons, like in the case of the black panthers)

    And we must be sure that this mobilization is nation-wide.

    The thugs need to know that they will have to face THE LAW.

    • Johnny_Bluejeans

      Not to put down your post but that is exactly what happened in the current Black Panther case. There is video and witnesses. The police were called. THE LAW is clear but THE DOJ is corrupt all the way to the top. You should definitely bring your camera but I’ll bring something else.

      • Not exactly: charges have not been pressed by private citizens, so the DoJ could CHOOSE not to prosecute the thugs.

        And I absolutely disagree with the implications of your last sentence and I invite everybody to dismiss that suggestion: WE must choose the terrain of the fight and the terrain of the fight is THE LAW. If you need help, the Police will be happy to help you, and any Citizen in distress.
        A voting poll is not your home or place of habitual business, if you fight there you end up HELPING the propaganda machine of the subversives.

        We need an “army” of reporters, of bloggers, of concerned citizens to overwhelm the mass media controlled by the subversives. Information and legal action are the most powerful weapons today.
        I have learned it from the subversives, that have perverted information and legal action for decades.
        Let’s set the game straight, let’s steal their terrain.

  26. 26. toad

    This is just another example of Obama appointees stepping over the line with the compliance of the MSM. Don’t expect anything to happen as long as the the control of the legislature, executive, executive departments, and a big portion of the courts are under the control of the far left. This is why getting out the vote in November is so important. The most rabid fox will still be there, but house majority and a big enough loss in the Senate so they can’t overide a filibuster, will slow things down and with House investigation even roll back some of it. The way things are going they may even lose the Senate.

  27. 27. oldguy

    Here’s what has to happen if repubs. recapture the House: bureaucracies such as DOJ,EPA, and many more must be defunded. If newly elected Repubs. drag their feet on this in 2010, replace them in the primaries in 2012.

  28. 28. Vito

    This case should not have needed Chris Adams to come forward in order to shed some daylight on a truly shameful and disgusting spectacle. We knew, before the publication of Chris Adams’s article, that:

    1. At least two members of the New Black Panther Party had violated the civil rights of voters outside a polling place in Philadelphia by uttering threats while one brandished a nightstick. The videos were widespread, and these facts of the case are not in dispute. No one claims otherwise.

    2. The DOJ had already won the case by a default judgment, when the New Black Panthers refused to show up in court.

    3. The DOJ dismissed the case, and offered no real explanation why. When members of the DOJ were subpoenaed, they were ordered by their superiors in DOJ to ignore the subpoenas.

    No one disputes any of 1 to 3 above, and no serious person doubts the veracity of Mr. Adams.

    On the other hand, we have Eric Holder, whose history includes:

    Playing a major role in obtaining pardons for convicted members of the FALN terrorist movement, who claimed credit for a bombing in NY’s Fraunces Tavern that killed four people and injured 50 others;

    Playing a major role in obtaining a pardon for convicted felon Marc Rich;

    This debacle of dismissing a case that the DOJ had ALREADY WON.

    Who is the real coward when it comes to race, Mr. Holder? I will never forgive the Senate for confirming Holder as AG. If he were merely incompetent that would be one thing, but he is a dangerous man. If Holder were trying to destroy the U.S. and its ideals of equal justice before the law, he would do nothing differently.

  29. 29. chambers

    Anyone remember those halcyon days of the Bush administration when a government “whistle-blower” was hailed by the press and embraced by “informed opinion?” Mr. Adams certainly seems to be in that category yet he has been given the big go-by by our arthritic media watchdogs. Valerie (above) makes the tremendously reasonable point that…”The operative word is “thugs” and injection of the skin colors into the discussion is unacceptable.” She is right. Intimidation of voters of any color by persons of any color cannot be tolerated in a free society and should be vigorously prosecuted.

    I carry around a copy of the U.S. Constituton much of the time (much like the late, great Sen Robert Byrd) and, try as I might, I can’t find any reference to skin color in the 5th, 14th and 15th Amendments. Perhaps Sen. Byrd should have left his copy to Mr. Holder.

  30. 30. Insufficiently Sensitive

    Belmont Club nails it this morning, poetically. From Richard Fernandez: “The most concentrated expression of tyranny is malice in the service of caprice“.

    The tyrannical DOJ rejects the concept of universal justice, and sits its fat bottom on the scales in favor of color B over color un-B, simply for the joy of exercising power. This is the reverse of a government of laws. In fact, the first word of “social justice” acts as a meaning-reverser, and it’s about time the world cracked that code.

    But where is the press conference by prominent Americans, denouncing this travesty of justice? It won’t do us much good to rip and snort on the Internet – the complaint against the travesty needs to come from high enough up that the MSM will be dragged kicking and screaming into covering it.

    Otherwise, ‘liberty and justice for all’ has just been erased.

  31. 31. cfbleachers

    If this were another administration — no doubt if this were the Bush administration — a veritable army of reporters would be assigned to this story with visions of Pulitzers dancing in their heads.

    But given our current media environment, this is the kind of potential scandal that could easily be swept under the rug.

    Going for understatement here, Roger? LOL.

    The entrenched media wouldn’t touch this with a ten foot pole, (or a six foot Czech, or a five foot nine Italian.)

    They will shut their eyes very tightly and hope for a hurricane to hit an oil spill.

  32. 32. MarkTheGreat

    Another funny thing is that a few years ago, there was a court case to try and limit the scope of the civil rights laws to blacks only. Deliberately excluding hispanics.

    Yet the hispanics continue to support the black messiah by fairly large numbers.

  33. 33. stu

    If the Republicans take over the House, then they will have the subpoena power and hopefully will get to the bottom of this.

  34. 34. Victor Erimita

    If there is racial discrimination in the Department of Justice, that is something we should all know about, so that it can be corrected as quickly as possible.

    By whom? This reveals the corruption of DOJ under Holder and the Obama administration. It’s hard to see how any “correction” would be forthcoming from these people.

  35. 35. MarkD

    So, we’ve affirmed that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Then we’ve decided to ignore interference with the right to vote. What could possibly go wrong?

  36. The Department of Justice (or its minions) is already attempting to slime its whistleblower J. Christian Adams…

    Well, of course! They can’t allow his allegations to be taken seriously. Imagine the damage to The Won’s brilliantly successful administration!

    The person said that any story should include the fact that Adams…has long been an advocate of conservative views.

    Which should cause us to discount anything he has to say. After all, if you espouse a standard, there’s something wrong with you. People with standards are all conservatives hypocrites and secret degenerates.

    Bear in mind that the Left — and the current Administration is as Left as it gets, short of actual Fascism or Communism — sincerely believes that its adherents should be immune to criticism. In that light, their responses to allegations such as J. Christian Adams has made aren’t just understandable; they’re utterly predictable as well.

    • Yes, you are correct: the logic of the present administration is the logic of all the stalinists: if you are against the “REASON OF HISTORY” (i.e., “what the stalinists say and do in that moment”) you MUST be an “enemy of the people” or a psychopath.
      The “enemies of the people” will be eliminated, and the psychopaths will be taken care of in mental hospitals.

      The Left never understood the concept of a Free Republic.
      This makes them so dangerous, and so similar to the islamists.

    • Mr. Porretto, I believe that most of us do not understand what this case portends. Consider the following:

      Do you recall the town hall meetings? Weren’t you struck by the dismissive and sometimes combative attitude of the elected reps, many of whom will be facing re-election efforts in the fall? Why treat these constituents with such disdain and contempt?

      Weren’t you just a little puzzled at the limp-wristed Republican response to this phenomenon? Why would any savvy pol fail to capitalize on such arrogance and contumely?

      Weren’t you the least bit taken aback at the President’s unprecedented assault on the Supreme Court in the most public of venues, the State of the Union address?

      No, something very bad is afoot. Reps on both sides of the aisle show absolutely neither concern nor fear regarding what all polls show should be an electoral disaster of historic proportions. It’s almost like they have already been…guaranteed their jobs! Or fear something of more consequence than their jobs.

      They know something we don’t. They engage in outrageous and arrogant behavior with neither fear of consequence nor remorse. It’s as if they not only see the nation is dying, but some are actually cheering on it’s demise – and yours and mine along with it.

      Quite simply, they disdain our heritage, insult our intelligence, openly mock us, and then profess faux distress, crying the victim when we confront them on those insults.

      Again, something very bad is afoot.
      People don’t want to see it, don’t want to believe it, don’t want to even acknowledge that it exists. What exactly is it that we’re talking about? It’s the rise of those who crave absolute power for no other reason save that of wielding it. It is a drug, an addiction, a geas, an appetite that we can scarcely comprehend. They are monsters, all of them. And virtually no one wants to even admit the possibility their existence, their intentions and the horror that they will without a doubt perpetrate once they fel lthay can d oso with impunity.

      They will be quite content to live in a world lit only by fire, ruling from atop a pile rubble and corpses as long as they think that THEY will be the ones doing so. Millions of us dead. The rest of us in chains. That’s their goal, their vision, their unholy cause.
      There will be only one way to stop them.

  37. 37. Air Boss

    I want some butts!!

  38. 38. Shar

    Thank you, Mr. Adams. Thank you, Mr. Adams. Thank you, Mr. Adams.
    I will pray for you and yours. You have told the truth and it sets you free.
    When these people get up to the “big guy” and he asks the questions!! Heaven help them.

    B.O. and his Chicago Thuggery are at the bottom of this.
    B.O. is not enforcing the voter’s rights.
    B.O. should be impeached.
    B.O. is the worst!!!!!!

  39. 39. Michael

    O’bama is moving us towards communism via socialism. Eric Holder is a liar. People we are in SEVERE trouble unless we throw the Democratic Congress OUT in November. Our FREEDOM IS in jeopardy. Thank GOD for J. Christian Adams and his honesty and dedication to country. He is a hero!! Thank you. STOP OBAMA!

  40. Megan Kellys followup interview with Bartle Bull was absolutely wonderful. He was very forthcoming and angered by the DOJ.

  41. 41. Menachem Ben Yakov

    Not one damn Senator has had the integrity to asked Elana Kagan a single question regarding this matter. A bigger bunch of overpaid dimwits would be hard to find. This case is about the right to vote. Fascism and dictatorships don’t always come with one big bang. More often then not a free society gives up its freedom inch by inch. In a world where black is white, lies pass for truth and evil is celebrated should we be surprised when words mean the opposite?

    Do Americans really want to live under this new department of ” justice “?

    Ask Kagan her opinion. Let’s hear what she has to say.

    • Supreme Allied Commander

      the democrat party is a criminal organization.

  42. 42. Hank

    Michael,
    I completely agree with your statements. I cannot believe the country has not pushed for the idiot we call president, be impeached. Not only should he be impeached, he should be put on trial for his illegal actions since becoming president. He thinks he can do anything he wants to do because he is “president”. The drilling ban this idiot put in place would have ruined the gulf coast but he could care less. He is a socialist and wants all to be dependent on the government. November elections will put an end to his sick plans. I cannot wait. I hope all the idiots who voted for this person like what they are getting. If not corrected soon, we will all pay for this socialists’ actions. Please get out and get people ready to vote in November. We all need to make sure those voting are not the ACORN registered voters. After all, Mickey Mouse should not be allowed to vote. Neither should dead people be allowed to vote. Get ready Obama, your reign over majority party will be over come election time. You cannot govern properly even when your party is the majority so I cannot wait to see how you try to govern when you have to deal with a group (Republicans), that will listen to the majority of americans.

  43. 43. Bill M

    This practice is nothing new for DOJ no matter the administration. In 2002 and ’03 there was a similar blackball operation of Office of Ethics Attorney Jesselyn Raddick, You can read about her experience in the Memoir The Canary in the Coalmine. an interesting and enlightening read into the inner workings of the Ashcroft/Chertoff Justice Dept. Holder is no better and in fact may be more corrupt than his predecessors. His Boss certainly is. As told our beloved BHO in a recent letter concerning the Arizona Situation, that I.C.E and Homeland Security don’t get paid to act on his instructions or beliefs, they get paid to abide by and enforce the law.

  44. 44. elnor stickney

    The Black Panthers at the voting site remind me of the Olympic games held in Mexico a number of years ago when several black winners gave the Black Power fist raised salute while standing on the awards platform. I was shocked then and now that this sort of activity is being ignored by American officials, I am angry and disgusted now.

  45. 45. T-Bone

    As a PANTHER I take great umberage to the assertion that Eric Holder is a racist. Caucasians, especially males are responsible for all of the evils we suffer in the modern world. Simply stated whites are not a protected race.

    • Bear

      Did you mean underage? I’ve been mugged by AA’s, run over by an AA’s car, not to mention other incidents and never took umberage with it (whatever that is) but now I take umbrage with your statement, and with you. Does that make me a racist? You are most definitely (evil) racist.

    • jb

      “Simply stated whites are not a protected race.”

      Neither should blacks be a more protected, or in this case, privileged race, as someone up thread stated so nicely, it’s supposed to be: “Liberty and Justice for all”. When you folks can get that hard idea through your thick heads we may begin to make some progress in this country.

      Violation of voters rights is a very serious crime in this country. Be very glad your Black Panthers didn’t try this $hit in Texas.

    • MarkTheGreat

      Whites are no longer protected by the law?

      That’s obvious.

    • orthodoc

      What evils are you referring to? The evils of good health and that of your children, more material wealth than in the wildest dreams of bygone kings, the freedom to speak your mind? Or is it the evil that you have to work to get those things, and they aren’t just handed to you because you’re a whiny parasite?

    • Dave Surls

      “Caucasians, especially males are responsible for all of the evils we suffer in the modern world.”–T-Bone, the Panther

      Crackers invented polkas, and I’ll grant you, that’s a stench in the nostrils of decent men (more like a poke in the ear with a sharp stick, actually).

      But, hip-hop…that ain’t our fault.

    • Johnson

      well you know where you can stuff the umbrage you are taking.

      Holder and his buddy obuma are both racists and I have no doubt you are too.

      you exemplify what is wrong with society that most people want to live in. Shouldn’t you be helping Mugabe or something? why is it that you feel discrimination is ok ?

      • Dave Surls

        “Shouldn’t you be helping Mugabe or something?”

        On the first of the month???

        No way. That’s the day welfare checks come out.

  46. 46. karlinsync

    Let us try this case in a court of law by a jury of peers. The corruption, lies, bias in the Obama admin. is just plain astounding! What in the hell is happening to this country with the leadership that is outright pathic.

  47. 47. Cyn

    ‘The person said that any story should include the fact that Adams only left DOJ after being put into a job he disliked, and that he has long been an advocate of conservative views.’

    Really… I mean, come on! What a specific and stinging allegation! Everyone holds some type of political view. Liberal, Conservative, Libertarian, etc. It doesn’t matter. The man was doing his job, had received a promotion a few months ago. Obviously, he was more than adequately performing his duties. Holding conservative views does not have the slam that this administration wants it to have. And if that is their biggest complaint then they don’t have much to say in their defense, do they?

    Let’s face it. Eric Holder is going to have to go. Quite possibly, several of his immediate reports will have go as well. But this is just indicative of how lopsided race issues have become. We have a generation of people who, by and large, ignore someone’s skin color as a matter of course. Unfortunately the very party that championed that behavior is unable to see the result of their labor. They continue to perpetrate racial division even to the point of condoning the very behavior that they claim to oppose.

    Good for Mr. Adams for speaking up. I hope before he left he forwarded his entire email In-box and Sent folders to his home computer, copied every possible paper memo that might be used to support his position, and someday can be put under oath so he can name names. Corruption is not acceptable, in ANY administration.

  48. 48. Duke

    DOJ has just castrated themselves. Whether Adams can identify the anonymous source or has to lay into only DOJ’s media mouthpiece, he has a great libel case despite the actual malice standard.
    #1, he’s an experienced attorney and leftists are not used to fighting litigators directly, and their mis-steps here show it.
    #2, once Mr. Adams files the complaint discovery is his for the asking, including all internal DOJ emails and correspondence as to how DOJ is to respond to Mr Adams’ charges. Surely it will cost Holder his job and possibly his law license if some of what we all suspect of him becomes public, regardless of the MSM averting their eyes further.
    #3, the discovery documents related to DOJ’s response to Mr. Adams’ charges will necessarily open up the door to further discovery concerning the underlying matter, dismissal of the black panther suit. We can only guess how high that goes, seeing as how Mr. Malik Zulu Shabbaz is listed in a vistors log to the WH residence.
    Mr. Adams potentially has some big political fish by the short hairs if he chooses.

  49. 49. bearbud

    I have renewed faith in my Country. The myth of Obama is finally imploding….

  50. 50. Angie in Tn

    Thank You Mr. Adams for telling America the TRUTH. He is a hero & i thank him for risking so much to come forward. The right thing to do is rarely the easy thing to do & i applaud him for exposing how & why the case was dismissed.

    THANK YOU MR. Adams.

  51. 51. tanstaafl

    Something I haven’t seen pointed out in too many places, the attitude of the (New) Black Panther party guys that was apparent in the aftermath of their voter intimidation activities in November 2008.

    Especially the more aggressive and belligerent of the 2 guys, I paraphrase the attitude thusly:

    “Hey white crackers, we’re the enforcers now, we’re the new power in town, and you people can get used to being intimidated.”

    It was shocking to hear him so confident in his assessment of how the US of A was going to, henceforth, work.

    It fits right in with Andy Stern and sundry union goons:

    “If we can’t use the power of persuasion, we’ll use the persuasion of power.”

    Or Obama’s guy over at the FCC, Mark Lloyd, the guy who reveres Oogoe Chavez:

    “Some folks are gonna have to step aside so some other folks can have the power.”

    Owning power seems to be about the extent of how this crowd envisions governance.

    Eric Holder apparently thinks civil rights legislation & laws against voter intimidation should be enforced only against People of PalloUr.

    Shocking place, this America this DOJ & friends are attempting to craft.

    Barack Obama’s “Dependence Day” is right around the corner & somebody there in DC needs to use what’s left of the rule of law to rein in these people.

  52. 52. Jason

    “Call it Panthergate, call it what you will.”

    Pantherquiddick

  53. 53. Free Speech

    I don’t think Americans understand how ominous the dismissal of the Black Panther Case really is. If Patriots don’t form Grand Juries en masse, we will lose our Liberty completely in Nov. 2010. Make no mistake about it, there will be thugs at conservative polling places across America forcing conservative voters from the polls and they will be protected by BHO’s US Attorneys, US Marshalls & the National Guard.

    This may be our last 4th of July as a Free Nation.

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

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

    http://grandjury.blogtownhall.com

    http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-start-and-lead-citizens-grand.html

  54. Cross posted from another thread:

    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.

    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?

    • tanstaafl

      “…the motive for the intimidation is NBPP control over the black community at a vulnerable point: the place where they vote…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.”

      Coercion and intimidation at the voting place, shades of how HAMAS guaranteed itself a “win” in the Gaza elections.

      From billy clubs to AK-47′s.

  55. 55. Gagblue

    There will be two items of poetic justice to come from what BHO is doing:
    1. Although he has stated he would rather be a “great one-term President” than a “mediocre two-term President”, he will end up neither and be a terrible one-term President; and,
    2. The next President will play the blame game, just as BHO has done, blaming everything that goes wrong on BHO. I can just hear it now, “We inherited this mess from the Obama adminstration; we can’t fix the problems caused by the previous administration overnight.” This will all be true.

    And the band played on.

  56. 56. Suzanne

    Hey, Valerie and Steve G.–I’m with you! Except I got there a little earlier: I’m happy to say that I voted for Bush in 2000, the first time I voted for a Republican president (and I started those votes way back in 1976). An ‘old-fashioned liberal’, as in believer in the individual worth of each person, and the individual (not group-conferred) rights of same, is a modern ‘conservative.’
    Hey, T-bone–we are Americans, we are not likely to be impressed by thugs and their thuggish rationales. From whom did you learn the doctrine that minorities can’t exercise racism? That crap is what trickles down these past few decades from the elite universities, sad to say. But it’s got nothing to do with reason, and there’s no argument you can offer to back it up, beyond “That’s what Cornel West” or some such “says.”

  57. 57. believeit

    I was a victim of black on white racism when I worked for the census bureau in Oklahoma City. It was awful. I had never experienced it before. It does exist. The ones in charge felt they could do whatever they wanted. They felt they had some kind of special power.

  58. 58. Van Grungy

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU
    Beware the racially based supremacist political parties taking an interest in polling locations.
    ========
    http://vimeo.com/12623919
    Beware the security who are part of the operation.
    ========
    http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2010/06/david-wood-and-robert-muise-on-fox-news.html
    Beware the police who will confiscate footage.
    ========

    More Cowbell?

  59. 59. Mark

    To those advocating resorting to other levers of the law concerning this case, you are missing the larger implications. The results of this case are due to DOJ officials deliberately ignoring the law, and doing what they want anyway.
    Do you understand what this means?
    At the Federal level, the main Federal Agency responsible for investigating prosecuting cases of voter intimidation just demonstrated that they are not interested in doing such thing in any kind of fair and impartial way.
    There will be no legal redress for this, for the system one would use for such redress is now corrupted by those we seek redress from!

  60. 60. Supreme Allied Commander

    welcome to africa …sort of like Zimbabwe

  61. 61. westerncanadian

    In the TV interview Mr Adams makes the most important point – this goes beyond racism – it is about thugs with guns “capturing” a voting station and intimidating voters to vote the way the thugs tell them. That is a brazen attack on democracy period, whatever race or planet or political party you identify with.

    When I was working in India armed thugs from different political parties would “capture” a voting station. They intimidated people but more often, simply and literally stuffed the ballot box with voting slips marked in favour of their candidate.

    Mr Adams is rightly alarmed that similar poll capturing by armed thugs not only happened in the USA, but was endorsed by the Federal Department of Justice. Democracy that ain’t and that’s what people should be angry about.

    • anne

      I think we can look forward to some sort of “ballot box stuffing” of our own here in the USA, come 2010 and 12….and Obama/Holder style democracy…

  62. 62. Marc Malone

    Everyone is missing the point. It is not about racism at all. It is about TRIBALISM. It is a primitive political and economic system used in many places throughout the world. Always it leads to poverty, violence, and injustice.

    Holder and Obama do not care about race. The care about the power tribalism brings. These guys willing to flout the law and exercise the law in capricious fashion are fellow travelers. They honestly believe, and they may be right, that they have won. There may be no turning it back, because the opposition is simply too decent to resort to the violence it would require to change it.

    It will simply require a revolution. Hopefully, the ballot box will be all we need. I suspect, though, it will require the ammo box, and I’m not sure there will be enough people willing to act.

  63. 63. Ruvy

    Let’s hope that Duke (comment #48) has it on the money with all this and this Adams fellow gets to put Holder’s head on a silver platter where it belongs, right next to his license to practice law. But, boys and girls, you can all see why Obama needs desperately to close down the internet. The internet is closing him down.

    By the way, has someone changed Vinny B.’s diaper yet? I have to use the bathroom….

  64. 64. john me

    Fox News airing the Adams/DOJ report and Adams interview ,and the PJM report plus readers reactions here tells me above all else;
    my nation is exceptional,The bill of rights is a noble gift, and a press that serves one and only one political master is a tragedy .Thanks to all who have made there views known here today.

  65. 65. KC

    Holder is marching to the orders of Obama. They and the Panthers would all feel right at home running the government in Zimbabwe, or the Congo. But they have the press helping them here.

  66. 66. Teacher in Tejas

    And Eric Holder just took the lead from stumbling Janet Napolitano in the “Who will be the first Obama cabinet member to ‘resign to spend more time with their family’” sweepstakes.

  67. 67. Larry in the Silicon

    First, the awareness and arousal of posters here is exceptional. It does indeed imply that most educated people these days are conservatives. I must take exception to categorical castigation of ‘liberals’ on the grounds that liberals used to be liberals, and some were quite well-educated and had moral anchors. Some of these people still exist. In America they are now called ‘Independents’ or ‘Republicans.’ In Israel they join the Likud or something; certainly they have abandoned the Labor Party.

    What we see is the conquest of the PC Left. It has invaded the shell of the Liberal and come up with all sorts of sacrosanct, ‘orthodox’ beliefs. These have all been catalogued. The PC Left certainly does outlaw free speech and discriminates. As one who has experienced this in the Bay Area, it’s pretty obvious.

    To the point, I listened to the interview with Lawyer Adams that Pamela Geller posted at her site. I found him totally credible. I find Holder’s actions – and Adams is swearing up, down and sideways that Holder was briefed about the evidence and must have signed off on the decisions – easily fireable. I know fireable is not a word, but nonetheless.

    The question is if Obama can be shown to have known, and that will depend if Holder is at least fired, and then ‘tells’ on the boss. I suppose that would take an indictment. Who would bring such an indictment?

    I can’t decide if these people are terrifying or merely ridiculous. I guess we will find out in November.

  68. 68. Free Speech

    The 4th of July has always been my favorite Holiday, next to Christmas, but this year I have an empty feeling about it. BHO has transformed the Independence Day into a meaningless celebration, a mockery of itself; just as BHO has made a mockery of our Judeo-Christian Faith, our White House, our DOJ and our congress.

    Hopefully, sufficient numbers of True Patriots will uphold our Constitution and form Citizen Grand Juries so that this is not our last 4th of July as a Free Nation.

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

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

    http://grandjury.blogtownhall.com

    http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-start-and-lead-citizens-grand.html

  69. 69. Free Speech

    The 4th of July has always been my favorite Holiday, next to Christmas, but this year I have an empty feeling about it. BHO has transformed the Independence Day into a meaningless celebration, a mockery of itself; just as BHO has made a mockery of our Judeo-Christian Faith, our White House and our congress.

    Hopefully, sufficient numbers of True Patriots will uphold our Constitution and form Citizen Grand Juries so that this is not our last 4th of July as a Free Nation.

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

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

    http://grandjury.blogtownhall.com

    http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-start-and-lead-citizens-grand.html

  70. 70. Menachem Ben Yakov

    Justice.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxmBp23W6nc

    Wise council.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJNRW3TKULA

    • Loretta in Indiana

      Menachem — just viewed the You-tube video concerning the Saudi Arabian executioner … what is chilling is that the executioner was so matter-of-fact…

      Life is cheap in Arab lands, whether against their own or against an enemy…. just like leading livestock into the slaughterhouse. There will NEVER be a time when Golde Meir’s remarks are true…. “when they love their children more than hating us” (paraphrasing here)

  71. 71. mojo

    I repeat my last: “What part of ‘Chicago Machine” was unclear, people?”

  72. 72. clear mind

    Reading these post adds much to the discussion missed by the MSM. Perhaps we should all ask for press credentials as we are so much better at their job than they are. Oh, no sarc meant, at all !

    • Menachem Ben Yakov

      There has never been as much opportunity to reach as many people in the history of the human race as there is today.

  73. 73. Free Speech

    More video on BHO Thugs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX4dcvIYk9A&feature=player_embedded

  74. 74. Sparrowhawk

    No one should be surprised that this kind of scandal is possible in the DOJ. Look who’s heading it up — Holder, a career socialist and leveler of poppy fields. Just as he can’t conceive of blacks committing crimes, he can’t bring himself to pronounce the term “Islamist,” or “jihad,” or “Muslim,” either. Why, to pronounce those terms, woudl be “racist” and “discriminatory”! What a joke Obama’s turn at the wheel has become. I wonder if Holder ever attended any of Reverend Wright’s sermons.

  75. 75. ssquared

    The civil rights division of the DOJ was run by the ultimate worthless peice of JUNK Deval Patrick. He is the source of the original CANCER in the DOJ.

    Simple solution. Throw Holder, Partick and Obama under the bus or more preferably a Terex Titan!

    Then we can get the United States running again.

  76. 76. Glock8651

    Like most of those on the hard left, “Vinnie” gets a jolt out of stirring up trouble. Vinnie could be a prankster or a paid Obama blogger.

    The best way to deal with nutcracks like Vinnie is to refuse to engage with them & thereafter completely ignore them. Responding to Vinnie’s idiotic, false statements only empowers or enables Vinnie – & other deficient morons just like him. Vinnie can spend the rest of his life agitating & fanning his private false flames, but nothing can or will change the videos that provide direct evidence of Panther willful involvement, harassment & voter intimidation. Nothing whatsoever. Vinnie knows this – and evidently feels threatened by it.

    We must remember that Vinnie’s “reaction” is merely a clone of the countless “reactions” we have seen spewing forth from the Obama regime each and every time the regime is challenged. Obama and his crony administration have repeatedly shown their paranoid, psychotic hostilities to any and all alternative viewpoints – or even to the mere hint of such. Their overblown reactions typically involve false attacks, followed by the mounting of vicious smear campaigns. The mounting of these abhorrent smear campaigns happen so frequently that they are not only predictable – but they are now expected.

    However, one does not expect such childish, brutish & gross behavior out of a so-called “leader,” – especially from a so-called “leader” that is also the President of the United States. In fact, this type of behavior is barbaric & inhuman.

    The good news is that Obama’s smear campaigns are clear indicators of specific weak points within the administration. Obama and his friends only react to perceived threats (take note of THAT, Vinnie!). For us, we should be able to identify & then pinpoint this administration’s fears & weaknesses by the ferociousness of their response (or lack thereof) to any particular subject. Conversely, this administration would not feel threatened by any subject on which they remained silent or to which they failed to mount a response.

    I contend that we must know where to punch in order to fight back (I mean this figuratively), and that knowing this administration’s weaknesses is therefore key to avoiding additional state-imposed, stealth tyranny. A savvy & therefore more sophisticated administration would understand that “silence is golden” and that their silly, violent reactions/smears only point directly to their own weaknesses!

    I would like to thank Vinnie (above) for acting and speaking stupidly! I would not have commented on this subject were it not for Vinnie’s careless, ignorant statements! Thanks, Vinnie!

    BTW – my comment also applies directly to Mr. Adams, the ex-DOJ prosecutor that is the subject of the above, excellent article. Mr. Adams is a hero! Note that there would be no smear campaign against Mr. Adams right now if Adams were NOT telling the truth. It is clear that those within this administration are threatened & particularly offended by honesty.

    After all, honesty leads directly to the highly-dreaded EXPOSURE. Thank YOU for speaking up, Mr. Adams.

    In my view, it is very important that we both keep current on Mr. Adams’ evolving situation and with the DOJ’s ongoing subversive activities. This is crucial because we will have lost it all if we give up on the Rule of Law.

  77. 77. Free Speech

    SCOTUS is not in session again until the First Monday in October. No cases will be heard until then, but We Patriots can still work to uphold our Constitution and form Citizen Grand Juries so that this is not our last 4th of July as a Free Nation. Time is running short, bo will make an all-out effort to shut down conservative internet sites before the Nov. 2010 elections.

    Even if you do not wish to form a Grand Jury yourself, you can serve your Country by posting the information about how to form a legitimate Grand Jury on Blogs & emailing it to all those on your email lists.

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

    http://grandjury.blogtownhall.com

    http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-start-and-lead-citizens-grand.html

    For information on Crimes committed by the bo campaign:

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

  78. 78. Free Speech

    “…Let your objective be victory, not lengthy campaigns” Sun Tzu circa 500 B.C.

    “To the soldier, overwhelming speed is of paramount importance…”

    Although our objective is to peacefully and legally remove Criminally Corrupt government officials from office by the Citizen Grand Jury process, the teachings of Sun Tzu are applicable here and now and we Patriots must not miss opportunities.

    It is time to prepare the Grand Jury indictments of BHO and his co-conspirators in all of the 3,191 jurisdictions. When the corrupt politicians who have ignored our Tea Parties and Townhalls get served with Grand Jury Indictments then they will pay attention to We the People.

    The United States is a nation governed by Law not by man, guided by principles not personalities. In the end, we will have learned a great, albeit hard, lesson from the unfortunate episode of BHO: Our Founding Fathers blessed We the People with the most profound privileges in the history of mankind made covenant by Our Constitution. It has served us well for over 200 years, but we almost lost it all in less than 2 years of Tyranny.

    So, let us now prepare to close the book on this tragic tale of BHO.

    Form your Grand Juries, render your Indictments. Be prepared to serve your Indictments this Summer. Victory is at hand.

    Sun Tzu said, “…supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” It is my firm belief that we Patriots can accomplish this Victory by utilizing the Citizen Grand Jury, the 4th Branch of Government.

    A GREAT SPEECH ON POWER OF CITIZENS GRAND JURY:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cE0RZo8DcU&feature=player_embedded

  79. 79. Hangtown Bob

    The thing that’s really scary about this is that the administration now must be thinking that they can get away with this in future elections. I wonder what we will see this Fall and am even more concerned about what the One might try in 2012 in order to stay in power.

  80. 80. ron nord

    If Obama gets the 20 million illegal Mexicans already here in this country citizenship for a quid pro quo perpetual Democrat vote, you as a citizen have just been marginalized forever. The Attorney General can just declare you racist’s or race hater’s or whatever and its a crime. 5 years in the Arizona desert lifting rocks will straighten your thinking up and you’ll shuffle right along with the rest of the folk. Already with the puppets in Congress who will vote what ever is put in front of them, yea or nay makes no difference, we have reached a tipping point already and have even funded the enemy of freedom within the perimeter of our country with billions of tax dollars. [the SEIU, Black Panthers and ACORN]. The only thing that might stop them is the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution, if they go for that it verifies everything above. [Already Justice Sotomayor has turned agains the 2nd Amendment after saying she would never do this at her confirmation hearing, Kagan is saying the same.]

  81. 81. Gould's Ghost

    I never cease to be amazed at your ability to ignore the sound of the country crashing around your ears. Nestling yourself in comfortable ideological masturbation and bigoted finger pointing. Its sad when someone so ugly is also so empty-headed.

  82. 82. tanarg

    Let those others still in the DOJ do a little creative leaking.

  83. 83. Frog8375

    How much more will a once free country take from “The Regime.”
    Holder and the Messiah are spoiling for something they obviously don’t know they don’t want. On and on it goes; this regime (and it’s leader) are like a Jack-in-the-Box; what’s going to happen tomorrow?

  84. 84. Roxiebell

    Did this incident really need a whistle blower? The video says it all doesn’t it?

  85. 85. Diane

    Thank you, Mr. Adams! We all know what is going on, and you gave us a voice. Let’s get this “chain of illegal command” linked directly to obama. We the people need leadership…..and we are getting closer with your help.

  86. 86. Hugh

    I was discussing this issue with a friend and came across this:

    http://mediamatters.org/research/201007070001

    “No voters have alleged intimidation stemming from incident

    Civil Rights Commissioner: “[N]o citizen has even alleged that he or she was intimidated from voting.” While O’Reilly, Wiehl, and Guilfoyle stated or suggested that the New Black Panthers had engaged in voter intimidation, in an April 23 hearing on the DOJ’s decision in the case, Civil Rights Commissioner Arlan Melendez noted that “no citizen has even alleged that he or she was intimidated from voting,” which “was clear to the Justice Department last spring, which is why they took the course of action that they did.” From the April 23 Civil Rights Commission hearing:

    MELENDEZ: My remarks are going to be brief because I think far too much of our time has been consumed on this seemingly unnecessary investigation. Citizens should be able to vote without intimidation, and it is our Commission’s duty to investigate complaints from citizens that their voting rights have been infringed.

    In this case, however, no citizen has even alleged that he or she was intimidated from voting at the Fairmount Avenue Polling Station in 2008. This absence of voter intimidation was clear to the Justice Department last spring, which is why they took the course of action that they did.

    This absence of voter intimidation was clear to the members of this Commission as well, or at least it should’ve been. Our investigation has been going on now for the better part of a year. We have wasted a good deal of our staff’s time, and the taxpayers’ money.
    Main Justice: “[N]o voters at all in the Philadelphia precinct have come forward to allege intimidation.” A July 2 article at the legal news website Main Justice reported that “no voters at all in the Philadelphia precinct have come forward to allege intimidation” adding, “The complaints have come from white Republican poll watchers, who have given no evidence they were registered to vote in the majority black precinct.”

    Interestingly, the Bush administration dropped the criminal charges.
    If no one felt intimidated enough to complain, what’s this all about?
    My suspicion is it’s about smearing the present administration, but that’s just me.

  87. 87. Nine-of-Diamonds

    The poll-watchers themselves were voters. They were intimidated (not that your kind care-violence & threats in the service of O’s administration are perfectly acceptable to you).

    According to this logic, voter intimidation is OK so long as it’s not directed at the voters in the immediate vicinity of where they will cast their votes. KKK members during Reconstruction shooting up Freedmen’s houses before an election? A-OK to Hugh & friends, because the ex-slaves’ houses aren’t polling places. Totally idiotic.

  88. It’s quite strange as nobody was expecting this. I am really amazed to hear about it.

  89. 89. Will Leighton

    Seems like there was considerable discussion about this in July and since that point the media has simply dropped the matter. Is there a cover-up going on?

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