J. Christian Adams is an American hero and his new book INJUSTICE: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department is an indispensable work for our time.
But be warned that I — as reviewers often are, even if they don’t say so — am biased, quite obviously so. From page 155 of Adams’ book: “The following week, I received an unexpected phone call from Roger Simon asking me to become a contributor to his media site Pajamas Media, one of the leading conservative news websites. I accepted his offer, and soon began writing about issues such as civil rights and the ongoing activities of the Obama DOJ.”
I make no claim of editorial brilliance for drafting Christian then. An attorney for the Voting Section of the United States Department of Justice, he had just resigned after the testimony of Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez in the now infamous New Black Panther case. He wanted to blow the whistle on what he came to call the racialist (inordinately tilted in favor of minorities, largely African-American) policies and actions of the DOJ. And I was the perfect audience — having been a voter registration worker myself during the Civil Rights Movement (South Carolina 1966). I was appalled by what he told me.
So I do take inordinate pride in the subsequent writings of Christian Adams on PJMedia. They have had a significant, and growing, impact on our country and justice system. They are arguably the most socially useful articles our company has published.
That out of the way, let me turn to why I believe Injustice may be the most important American publication this year. Simply, the book details quite specifically how the U.S. DOJ has been corrupted, hijacked might be a more appropriate term, by so-called “progressive” ideology to the extent that it no longer functions remotely as a genuine Department of Justice, but as something out of Orwell’s Animal Farm or Ugo Betti’s Corruption in the Palace of Justice. Just as in Orwell, justice is selectively and unequally applied and, as in Betti, the fish rots from the top.
Adams begins with the Ike Brown case (“Payback in Mississippi”), takes us through the astoundingly ideological hiring practices — approaching left-wing purity tests — of the Obama/Holder DOJ (“Personnel is Policy”) and on to his own involvement, and eventual whistle-blowing, as the DOJ declined to enforce its judgment on the execrable racists of the New Black Panther Party (“Anatomy of a Scandal”). To the Obama/Holder DOJ, only whites, never blacks, could be racists. Past grievances always outweighed present reality.
Unfortunately, the book was written too soon to include the latest DOJ debacle – the “Fast and Furious” scandal for which AG Holder is currently under House subpoena — but I am sure that murderous escapade will be close to the consciousness of all readers of the book.
Closer still is a great and, to me, even more important dilemma for our times.
It’s self destructive to the point where Holder and Obama, along with their ilk, have by their actions committed every man woman and child in this country to a choice. Either we, as a people, get busy being a Constitutional Republic and restore our values, moral compass and self determination, or we go down the road of perdition. A road of misery, hate and eventual collapse of the most beautiful thing to happen to the Human race.
Liberty.
I know what choice I’m going to make.
And it is over my dead body these tyrants and psychopaths doing everything they can to carpet bomb us into submission are going to win.
Over your dead body…and mine.
It is interesting to take note of how many office holders at the Federal, State, and local level actually stand up for or are guided by constitutional principles. Most often they are pushing the limits of their powers attempting to expand them. They get bigger, we get smaller.
See Reid’s recent changing of the rules of the senate, the House Judiciary Committee’s bill H.R. 313 which makes it illegal to discuss activities legal in other countries, but illegal here. See Pelosi’s ridiculing of a reporter who asked her how Obamacare was constitutional and Obama’s executive orders designed to get around congress. See almost everything Eric Holder has done and is doing……
When is the last time we saw a politician reduce the power of the government? When is the last time we heard one cite the constitution as justification for government restraint?
You are correct that Liberty is the most beautiful thing to happen to humanity. Our constitution, which enshrines that liberty, is the most enlightened political document in existence. It is very telling when someone critisizes or belittles it.
I don’t think that they are psychopaths, but left-liberals (progressives) doing their thing, which is co-opting movements from below, distorting them, containing them, and ultimately directing the protest into directions that betray the original goals. I recommend a series of blogs on just this point: http://clarespark.com/2010/07/15/index-to-black-power-blogs/. Especially see the one on white enabling of black power, and the offing of Ralph Bunche and MLK Jr.
Sadly I think you consider too many of our fellow citizens as selfless patriots. They are not and most will gladly trample on the Constitution if it means getting more pay or benefits. There is not a union in our nation that believes in the Constitution or that would not subvert it if it meant obtaining their goals. ALL progressives, (Liberals, leftists, Marxists, commies, atheists), look at the Constitution as does Obama that it is a negative document that tells us what we CANNOT do and not what we can do. They assume that any non-enumerated power goes to the federal gov. and the Constitution says that it goes to the states and the people. Look what these idiots have done with the 10th amendment! We will end up in a war with these zombies. It will be like all wars that our nation has fought with the participation of about 33% of its people for it and in it. With the rest in some other state of mind.
Sorry amigo, but we are in a war with Leftists and have been for almost a century. It’s been a culture war by and large, but they are ready to escalate at any time. When they’ve neutered the police and military, you can expect open violence. Now, it seems to me that only one side is fighting in this war today, but it doesn’t take two to fight — one can surrender and the other wins.
Your theoretical musings are fine, but apply only to a time/place (such as America at the Founding) where one racial group (NW Europeans) was completely in charge. Now that we have competetive groups (Africans, Mexicans, Orientals) vying for dominance, political arrangements are secondary considerations. As of today, whites are second-class citizens in their own country. Holder’s DoJ is blatant about the status of whites in our current legal system. Human societies are dominance hierarchies. No ties; no power-sharing. One group wins; the other groups lose. That’s given. The only question remaining to be settled is which group will end up in charge.
Obama to the beHolden:
“You’re either with us or against us.”
Thankyou Mr Simon and Mr Adams. I too have taken to referencing the Obama/Holder abomination as a unity. It serves the purpose of liinking a diabolical duo of genuine anti-American, anti-White fervor. The evidence is overwhelming and well documented thanks to citizens Simon and Adams, and others. What seems now obvious is that Obama/Holder are powerful operatives struggling to deconstruct what they percieve to be an evil Anglosphere(to include Israel). What they hope to “replace” it with, God only knows. Whatever their utopian ideal, certainly those they claim to represent will in reality be the biggest loosers under their “regime”, or its like. Mt Top Patriot articulately describes the now starkly apparent CHOICE Americans and Europeans face. Either we CHOOSE to shamelessly and existentially support OUR cultural heritage based on Natural and Constitutional law OR we accept flawed and corruptable quislings a la Obama/Holder as our earthly masters. This is no “small beer” struggle, our adversaries have shown their hand, it’s a battle for the ages!
I agree that holder has corrupted the DOJ. But along with that, obama and his czars have corrupted the United States of America. They have corrupted our military and weakened it’s viability. While under this regime, we as a country, have become the laughing stock of the rest of the world. obama said he wanted to destroy (fundamentally transform) America. He is fullfilling his promise. How sad for a once great powerful nation!
I have read this book and agree that it is simply fantastic. I dare say that anyone who reads this blog will absolutely love this book. For that matter, anyone who believes in the rule of law will find the book to be a total page turner. Roger is correct: buy this book.
I have read this book and agree that it is simply fantastic.
Sorry, it’s not a fantasy. That’s reserved for the head of Eric Holder, who thinks he’s the chosen one to right the wrongs of racism back to Adam and Eve, and leave no constitutional principle standing if it gets in his way.
People ought to remember the murders committed by the Janet Reno/Clinton DOJ: especially the political assassinations at Ruby Ridge and the mass murders at Waco. In both cases, children were murdered as well as men and women.
These crimes led to the Oklahoma City bombing. What will the Holder/Obama crimes lead to?
RR and Waco and the two Janets won’t be forgotten. Action at OK was not focused on the problem, and many Americans wondered what was going on. Indeed, assuredly for Mr. O and the puppet masters, things they are a changin’.
Successful black people–Cain, Rice, Parsons, Chennault, O’Neill, Thomas, Sowell etc, etc.–don’t seem to obsess about their race. They just get on with it, and achieve spectacularly. It is interesting however that elementary school classrooms are filled with biographies of “black” people, including, you will be unsurprised to know, none of the above. However, the dogma that “progressive” policies are helpful to blacks is seriously and obviously fraying at the edges. What a sad irony that black unemployment should be in excess of 20% under a president of color. What a blessing for our country and for black people that Herman Cain stands up as a serious contender for the Republican presidential nominee and tell it like it truly is.
Heartfelt advice to my dark-skinned fellow American citizens:
Almost all past societies practiced forms of slavery; my ancestors called them thralls. Africans were the last victims, saved by British enlightenment and put paid by hundreds of thousands of lives wearing the Union uniform. Unfortunately, clinging to the slavery-victimhood of the past is an anchor that will continue to drag down millions.
You won’t be free, until you let it go.
Just let it go.
The reason there is “nostalgia for racism” is that racism provided a perennial excuse for failure and a shield from being judged on results. That is why the cries of “racism!” grow ever louder to shield Barack Obama from accountability; that is why there are constant efforts to safeguard the institutionalized racism of affirmative action—for if affirmative action remains preserved, racism must still exist, and if racism still exist then accountability and personal responsibility can be forestalled.
In the Torah, the newly-freed Israelites constantly grumbled with nostalgic longing for “the fleshpots of Egypt” from which they had just escaped. Then, once they became accustomed to divine welfare in the form of the manna, they balked at entering the Land when given the chance, and were condemned to wander in the desert for forty years; divine welfare was easier than being responsible for themselves.
The “civil rights” establishment too has found wandering in the wilderness of welfare preferable to seeing the promise of the land fulfilled, with every man beneath his own vine and fig tree. These modern-day Korachs, Dathans, and Abirams know that if the people do come into their own there will be no place for them—and, deep down, they also (rightly) wonder whether they could make it on their own talents in a world where they do not have a grievance to work.
Damn. Well put. The lost WILL march toward oblivion. Our flesh may be taken down with them but it is our redemption drawing nigh. Don’t forget to look up.
Well said. Thank you.
The reason there is “nostalgia for racism” is that racism provided a perennial excuse for failure and a shield from being judged on results.
From the Johnson administration, the symbol of ‘racism’ has also provided vast cash jackpots to favored groups, and lavish funding to all sorts of NGOs and grievance-peddlers who work to undermine the Constitution and our elected governments. Until the payoffs dwindle, racism will remain an ever-expanding industry, providing the public with no goods and questionable services.
“If you want people out of poverty, make them uncomfortable in their poverty.” – Ben Franklin
I’m still not getting why Obama gets angry when people call him a socialist? Because, that’s what he is. He’s sounding more like one every day, with his class warfare nonsense, his desire to “spread the wealth,” and his constant demand for “social justice.” Enough is enough. This is socialism, pure and simple, and that’s being kind. Some would even call him a communist, although he has not called for the total destruction of both the upper and middle classes. Obama is the worst danger we have ever had in the White House, in many ways worse than Jimmy Carter. Carter never called for the destruction of the an entire class of people in this country. His lousy economic policies may have destroyed this country, but he never actively called for money to be taken away from people in such an astounding manner. But Carter DID add to the Federal bureaucracy big time, creating the Dept. of Education and the Dept. of Energy, two white elephants that still dog us to this day. But that is chump change if Obamacare goes through. Then the Federal Government will literally explode in size, and people like Obama and Pelosi and Reid just don’t seem to care about any of it.
Put an end to this nonsense. Vote this socialist out of office in 2012. After a few years of Obama, I really think it is the last best chance we have of saving this nation, or what’s left of it. I just hope that whoever the Republican is that gets elected in 2012 does something about the size of this government. Because, if we don’t reduce its size and spending, then everything else won’t really matter. We’ll be Greece in no time at all.
It’s simple. Liars don’t like to be called liars.
They want to steal from you. That must be justified. They have no real argument to make, so they must obfuscate. In the real world, that’s known as lying.
It is the way of communists. It is the way of unionists. It is the way of much of the legal community. And, it has become the way of the Black community.
Now, do you see what all liberals, regardless of stripe, have in common? Theft.
Thanks for the clear explanation.
And its sibling:
H Y P O C R I S Y.
We passed Greece a long time ago. If Greek politicians could print Euros they would. We control our money and can repudiate our debts through inflation. Greece lost that ability when it joined the Euro.
The American socialist movement has been about stealth and deception since at least the 1950s. Obama doesn’t get “angry” at being called a socialist because he doesn’t think he is one. He just knows the label means his cover is blown, along with the cover of the entire movement. It is a classic tactic of Alinsky and many other of the “great minds” of the socialist movement, that the language, terminolgy and narrative of traditional America must be used to mask the true nature and aims of socialism.
Obama mocks those who call him a socialist, invoking the cultural reflex that came out of the excesses of the McCarthy era. McCarthy exaggerated the extent of Communism in the U.S., therefore, the rationale goes, there never was any threat at all. It was all just made up fear of bogeymen. Therefore to call someone a communist or socialist is, in the minds of those who accept this meme, to align oneself with the clueless hysteria of the McCarthy era. This is what Obama draws upon when he invites his audiences to join with him in mocking those silly hysterics who call him a socialist. He’s not a socialist. He just favors government control of the entire private sector. He doesn’t hate America, either. He just hates Americans and all they do, say, think or stand for.
Victor, your wrote the post I was going to write, point by point, with a lot of the exact phrasing I was going to use.
Scary.
I’m not at all certain McCarthy overstated the influence of communists or the extent of communist organization in the US. He may well have overstated the influence and extent of true “card carrying” communists who were openly members of the CPUSA, but if anything the extent of communist fellow travellers has been greatly understated in this Country.
The open communists were run to ground in the late ’40s and early ’50s, but the “progressives,” by then just code for fellow traveller, we with us and everywhere in government, academia, media, and entertainment. Following the Italian communist thinker, Gramsci, they have taken over these institutions and that takeover bore fruit in November 2008 with the election of a Red Diaper Baby, groomed below the radar, financed by people who oppose the US, and now proped up by the fellow travellers in government, academia, media, and entertainment.
A dedicated racialist like Eric Holder will never be able to acknowledge his own limitations and stupidity.
Both he and his boss are physiologically incapable of moving past the fixed mindset they share, no matter how many public statements they make to the contrary or how hard they try to appear otherwise.
To the best of my recollection, J. Christian Adams describes racialism as corrupting a political outcome (like voting) to effect political ends. When an individual (of any race) tries to engineer a specific outcome favorable to his race, he is functioning as a racialist.
It seems accurate to describe the DOJ under Holder as racialist, given its decisions and hiring practices, in complete corruption of the ideal of a blind and impartial Lady Justice.
The Senate confirmed Holder despite a lot of known reservations, including but not limited to his role as Bill Clinton’s enabler in the scandalous pardon of Mark Rich. One of Holder’s ardent supporters in the Senate was the idiot from Vermont, Sen. Patrick Leahy, whose Judiciary Comm. has recently announced its own inquiry into Eric & Co.
Hopefully, Leahy isn’t trying to steal Issa’s thunder or worse.
tanstaafl, I was going to mention the pardoning of Marc Rich. Thanks for reminding us. That alone should disqualify from being attorney general.
Holder also has the FALN pardons on his resume. There should be a special place in hell for that miserable slug. And that goes for his co-conspirators, then and now, Bill & Hill and Obama. Amoral parasites all.
Tanstafl,
On Innauguration Day 2001 I stood frozen with hundreds of thousands along the Dubya Parade route. The Parade began nearly two hours late. When I returned home to California I surfed the web and learned why: Double-butt willie clinton and eric holder were holed up in the White House family residence signing not only the Marc Rich pardon but also the Puerto Rican terrorists (Hillary already planned to run for the senate from NY)as well as dozens of additional nefarious clinton-era campaign contributors who had been involved in Whitewater but who could not be pardoned publicly until willie left town. Holder was the only DOJ official willing to carry the pardons to DOJ for processing. Meanwhile Dubya, Laura and the Cheneys were left standing in the foyer of the White House first floor entrance for two hours while we plebians stood along the freezing (albeit sunny)parade route.
If only Republican leaders would fight the enemies of our country within our borders with the same ferocity they defend us outside our borders. Why was Holder confirmed? Start there.
The answer is simple: The Republicans were afraid of the Leftist media calling them racists if they refused to confirm Holder. Those soft, lazy, fat old men (mostly) just couldn’t see what they were seeing; an open, avowed communist, a man whose whole background though shrouded in mystery and deceit screamed Red Diaper Baby had just been elected President and he was embarked on a course of “fundamental transformation” of the US. The Clintons may well have been even more radical, but they had too much baggage, Obama didn’t even have a suitcase. The mutterings of those stupid old men about how he was certain to govern from the center were so delusion that it was laughable had it not been so tragic.
I spent the last decade or so of my time in government dealing with Alinskyite union organizers and representatives, some of whom even knew they were. I knew what Comrade Obama was the second I laid eyes on him and heard those meliforous but meaningless words; “so you’re the one they think they can dress up and pass.”
I hope it is going to be either Cain or Perry but it doesn’t matter so long as they restore balance. The Justice Dept. is supposed to be fair and balanced, not leaning one way or the other. If whoever gets elected can get people that will enforce laws as they are written and not try to write their own things would be a lot better. Congress and the new president can work on the laws, get rid of the unfair ones, and strengthen those that work.
This coming election looks like it’s going to be a conservative landslide. With both houses on his side the new president can do what’s needed to get us back on the right path. Get rid of as many of these sorry departments as he can and completely revamp the ones that are left. (No pun intended!) It should be interesting to watch the effect it has on the liberals as the empire they have built is torn down before their eyes.
perry1949:
About time to wake up and smell the coffee perry1949. Your liar can’t fool all of the people all of the time.
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“At one point, even Anita Perry broke her silence, reminding the audience that illegal immigrants who qualify for in-state tuition in Texas must be working toward citizenship….
Romney’s camp, wasting no chance to hit Perry on immigration ahead of Tuesday night’s Washington Post/Bloomberg debate in New Hampshire, released a statement on Saturday saying that Perry’s “liberal immigration policies are out of step with Iowa values and wrong for our country. ”
By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau
LA TIMES
October 8, 2011, 8:46 p.m.
“Reporting from Washington— High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF’s Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in the Mexican drug wars.
In all, 100 assault weapons acquired under Fast and Furious were transported 350 miles from Phoenix to El Paso, making that West Texas city a central hub for gun traffickers. Forty of the weapons made it across the border and into the arsenal of Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, a feared cartel leader in Ciudad Juarez, according to federal court records and trace documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.”
Holder’s IQ must be under the normal human body temperature. His eyes glaze when he is asked a question more difficult than his name. Yet he graduated with a law degree from Columbia. It’s beyond stunning.
How can a country survive when it unilaterally grants random people with approved genetics the riches and power that sane cultures reserve for the most intelligent, creative and productive .001%?
Our culture is committing suicide.
I offer a personal anecdote that MAY BE illustrative of Holder’s law school experience at Columbia; I reemphasize “MAY BE.” I have a JD from another school. Every faculty with which I’m familiar, however, and that includes several distinguished faculties, is dominated by Progressive/Marxist ideology. Law faculties love nothing more than promoting their open-mindedness through “diversity success stories.” Whether they’ll admit it or not, every colleague in my firm of 100+ believes this political correctness is why we will never see the academic credentials of a certain noteworthy law review editor. If they were summa cum credentials, as the LR editor’s should be, somehow I feel certain said credentials would be hanging behind the podium at every presidential press conference.
But to the personal anecdote I led with. I was 30 when I began law school, which I count as a blessing, having several years of reality-based business experience over the bulk of my classmates. In my first class, on the first day, my torts professor began by stating, “I guess I’m a reformed Marxist.” My criminal procedure class was taught by a distinguished professor who had argued several subject relevant cases to the U.S. Supreme Court, each as advocate for the miscreant. I early on sensed a pattern which was to prove pervasive.
Business had taught me that you were successful when you provided a quality product that the public both needed and wanted. That was the key to my academic success. My professors told me who they were, and my exams were carefully crafted to give them what they wanted, to make clear that I was a put-upon member of one of the favored classes. I was even so bold as to throw in an occasional “he be,” “we be,” or other Ebonic offense now and then to “discretely” drive the point home on anonymous exams. Couple that ethnic pandering strategy with always siding against the police in any fourth amendment “search and seizure” question, for example, and earth shatteringly wonderful grades followed. Who could have known? I often believed very little of what I wrote, but I wasn’t playing under just rules, I wasn’t to be judged under just rules.
I was privileged at graduation to provide a final kick in the crotch to those few members of the faculty who had earned my disrespect. It seems the unusual grading scheme I played into rewarded me with a place on the stage at graduation and the opportunity to very discretely let them know that their secret was not quite as secret at they may have thought.
This system gives us two things. It gives us brilliant jurists like Clarence Thomas, and I suspect it may have given us Eric Holder. (But in his defense, if AG Holder is indeed such a beneficiary, he likely doesn’t know it.)
great story.
The ideology of black racism is rampant in the DOJ but is not the only fanatic ideology in this administration. Rampant environmental fanatics are also alive and well in The Department of Interior/ Bureau of Land Management.
The following is occurring at the present time.
An individual bought a piece of property completely surrounded by federal land in California. The property was originally homesteaded around 1920. Because of the land’s location within an isolated canyon surrounded by huge boulders an official survey was never done at any level due to cost factors.
At the time surveys were done using optical transits and metal chains and would have been extremely difficult to perform. The original owners placed fences as close to what they believed to be the true boundaries as possible and subsequent owners respected these “property lines” for over 90 years.
In one corner of the property a previous owner planted an orchard and installed an irrigation system. Subsequent owners maintained this orchard for over 50 years respecting the fence line they believed to be a true boundary. In 2005 the new owner removed the old orchard when he discovered the orchard trees had become beetle infested and replaced the orchard with a grape vineyard. The age of one almond tree was determined to be over 50 years when the tree rings were counted. The original iron pipe irrigation system was also replaced as it had deteriorated to the point of being mostly leaks.
It should be noted at this point that the federally controlled land outside the historic fence is thick scrub brush comprised of mostly sage. There is no cry for public access to the area as thousands of similar acres are accessible without scaling ridges of boulders. The canyon in which the property is located is also isolated and access is difficult due to the ridges of boulders surrounding the area. A single unpaved road built and maintained by previous owners is the sole access to the canyon. In some cases this construction required blasting of rocks and the construction of retaining walls.
In 2010 a proposal was made to have a “federal scenic” designation assigned to the land surrounding the private land under discussion.
Any time the federal government is involved every “t” must be crossed and every “i” dotted so an official survey was performed.
Another fact should be mentioned at this time; in all the years since the land was originally homesteaded (about 1920), the boundaries set up by and respected by the original owner and all the subsequent owners had never been challenged.
Using modern GPS technology and costing the federal government, tens of thousands of dollars the survey was completed. It was discovered that the historic fence and a portion of the vineyard was actually on federal land. The historic fence was determined to range from 60 feet at one end to 103 feet on the other end, inside the now “GPS proven” federal land boundaries. Bureau of Land Management officials Lawrence Primosch and Bernadette Lovato have told the present owner that all improvements on the disputed land must be removed and the land must be allowed to return to its natural state.
One of the surveyors did explain that in some cases the exact corners could not be located due to impossible terrain. In those cases “witness corners” were placed and would be explained in a copy of the survey. The present owner has not been able to even observe some of the corners due to the difficulty in accessing the boulder covered terrain.
The natural state in this instance will be thick dry, flammable sage brush. By the way there is no shortage of this type of environment in the area. There are thousands of acres of the stuff. Nope, there are no endangered species, no water except artificial irrigation installed by the owner and the contended area is about .64 acres. The 1920 homestead is comprised of 28 acres.
The Bureau of Land Management controls hundreds of thousands of similar habitat throughout the state.
Here is where it really gets insane. The federal government spent tens of thousands of tax payer dollars and was forced to use modern GPS technology to identify a little over half an acre as “federal land”. The owner asked to trade some of his land or purchase the land in contention, land that had never been challenged before but had been a productive orchard and now vineyard for many decades in their combined use. The government told him their regulations would not allow either option. This is not true! Regulations would permit a trade but present BLM policy will not.
The present owner pointed out to BLM representative Lawrence Primosch that if the vineyard was removed and the brush grew back it would be within 25 feet of one structure and close enough to pose a fire danger to several other structures; this is a hazard that presently does not exist. The vineyard and other improvements in place for over at least 50 years and in some cases 80 years, provide a fire break that has been maintained for all this time by the various owners totally at their own cost.
You will not believe how Mr. Primosch responded.
Mr. Primosch stated that the federal government had brush clearance crews that could remove the regrown brush periodically to mitigate the fire danger from the very brush they would cause to regrow.
So let me get this right. The federal government will create a fire hazard by forcing the owner to remove productive improvements maintained at the owners cost. Then at tax payer expense periodically remove the fire hazard they are responsible for creating. Their reasoning escapes me because if they remove the regrown brush there is not even an increase of habitat for critters. Besides, it is an extremely plentiful type of habitat that is spread over hundreds of thousands of other acres of land in the area. The California Department of Forestry recommends a 100 foot clearance of brush around structures in fire prone brush areas.
I guess these brush removal crews fall under the designation of “jobs created or saved” by our present administration.
If there was any common sense involved I would think the little over half an acre should be allowed to be purchased or traded for by the land owner. The Feds would get some badly needed revenue and would not have to spend any tax payer funds for brush removal forever.
I can see no common sense reason for BLM to take the stance they have taken. The only reason I can imagine is that they are enforcing the idea that “they are in control” and will not allow any reasonable solution that would solve the issue. How can the BLM even attempt to enforce the new GPS determined boundaries when their own surveyor, using the latest technology, admits that some corners could not even be marked? “Witness corners” had to be placed.
The present owner has appealed to his congressman, The Honorable Howard “Buck” McKeon, for some solution but at the time of this writing nothing has been done. In fact BLM officials have responded that the area is rich in “riparian assets” and needs to be returned to its natural state. This is another falsehood. It is dry as a bone without the artificial irrigation installed by the owner.
Everything made sense in your post until you began to question the lack of reason and common sense.
Rules is rules and the government is here to enforce them, because that is what government officials are paid a fortune to do.
It was discovered that the historic fence and a portion of the vineyard was actually on federal land. The historic fence was determined to range from 60 feet at one end to 103 feet on the other end, inside the now “GPS proven” federal land boundaries.
And that’s it. Private owners don’t gain title to land by adverse possession against the public.
Were BLM reasonable, they could (as they have in the past) let the owner trade an area of his undeveloped land equal to the encroachment defined by fence and vineyard to the Feds, and close the case. But under statist regimes like Obama’s and some predecessors, ‘reasonable’ is shunworthy as the race-neutral election laws are for Eric Holder.
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http://www.commieblaster.com/obamacrimes/index.html
I am looking forward to the day when an aura of respect is returned to the oval office. Just because one has lesser intellectual ability does not justify crime, and vice versa. I am sure this book will keep me captive.
It was when Lewinskigate came along that I first realized that feminists really had no interest in the rights of women. As if any further proof was needed witness the utter silence of feminist groups regarding the treatment of women in Islamic countries. Likewise, why is it that so-called environmentalists who incessantly complain about the plight of smelts in the Sacramento River or burrowing owls on the prairies or a species of toad in Texas have no interest in the deaths of golden eagles caused by the rotors on wind farms? Why do pressure groups dedicated to the improvement of life in Africa ignore the spread of malaria since the banning of DDT? I’ve always been perplexed by these questions, but I think I have figured it out. In all these instances people with sentiments favouring environmentalism, feminism, or raising indigenous people out of poverty were seen as constituents by what I think of- for lack of a better name- as neocommunists.
Racial politics in the US has been one of the more spectacular successes of of the neocoms, by completely rewriting history and convincing black Americans that the party of the KKK, the Democrats were their champions when it was actually the Republicans, beginning with Abraham Lincoln who did the most to free them from oppression. So now this is the constituency that Eric Holder and his boss represent.
One constituency the neocoms have failed to subvert is the US military. And this is where the recent elimination of the don’t ask don’t tell policy comes in. Until now, the loyalty of the military has been to the constitution. I am Canadian, but I took that oath myself when I enlisted in your navy many years ago. The full acceptance of gays in the military means that it will be to Obama that this new constituency will give its loyalty, not the Republic. It is a fact and always will be a fact that heterosexual males as a rule despise homosexuals and this means that there will be many who decide to give up their military careers. And when that happens the neocons will have the military on their side in any future attempt by ordinary Americans who truly believe in American values (aka the Tea Party) to restore America to its rightful course.
I’m sure Injustice is a fine book, but if you want to get the backstory, I suggest Blacklisted by History.
while I hate to say I am waiting for price to drop more, as that usually follows decline in sales, I am waiting as I really want to read this.
just times are tough on VA check.
but I will be reading this as soon as I can and I thank you all for helping to advertise it.
You can get a free chapter at http://www.injusticeinthedoj.com.
thank you I am looking at this right now.
very good work sir.
Dear Roger Simon,
Black separatism has a long and storied history in the United States, which included crucial support for Jim Crow laws. Such prominent figures as Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey were separatists. The 1960s were a period when mainstream White America put aside bigoted White separatist laws and attitudes. Much of Black America, including its leadership, never followed suit. And why should it? Judging men by the color of their skin and not the content of their character became a boom industry. And you, Roger, help make it all possible with your work in South Carolina. In the absence of the balancing effect of White separatism, Black separatism grew in power and prestige.
This is no criticism of the Civil Rights Movement; I admire you for your work and the work of others like you. White separatism was a grossly immoral thing and your work in the trenches has helped to make America a better, stronger nation. Thank you, for that. However, the job will not be completed until the gross immorality of Black separatism is also cast aside.
I don’t believe that there will be any change in the status quo until White Americans are willing to hold Blacks accountable for the immorality of Black separatism. So thank you once again Roger, this time for your blog posts on the matter of Black bigotry, that move us closer to a color blind society and state.
Yours truly,
ThOR
Roger L. Simon: New Black Panther Party
You do realize you are quibbling over a civil matter, that the criminal matter had been dropped by the Bush Administration, and that local law enforcement didn’t find sufficient evidence of a threat to constitute a criminal violation.
You are wrong. Bush dropped nothing. The standard approach in voting is civil first because you want to stop the bad and illegal behavior which is faster under the civil laws. Sorry – can’t blame this on Bush. Maybe you’ll have better luck blaming him for Fast and Furious or Solyndra or the 9.1% unemployed or the rise in murder of christians in Egypt or the debt downgrade or gosh, that is already a pretty long list of DISASTERS that have taken place under this adminstration. Gosh Bush really was awful wasn’t he?
Obama supporters seem to be becoming increasingly delusional and hysterical, if I am reading my relatives and acquaintances properly. I’ve also noticed that the trolls really have nothing to say about Fast and Furious, or Solyndra, other than “Bush killed X number of innocent civilians in Iraq, so F & F is no big deal” and “Bush wasted X number of dollars on illegal wars, so Solyndra is no big deal”. Moral bankruptcy apparently is what you get when you refuse to admit intellectual bankruptcy – see also Krugman, Paul.
Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez: “After reviewing the matter, the Civil Rights Division determined that the facts did not constitute a prosecutable violation of the criminal statutes.”
http://www.usccr.gov/NBPH/05-14-2010_NBPPhearing.pdf#page=18
So, yes. You are quibbling over a civil matter.
Zachrial is wrong on a couple of levels.
The criminal matter was never brought by the Bush adminstration because the standard practice is to proceed in civil court first – with lower standards of proof and the availability of injunctive relief. Secondly, the actions of local law enforcement are both mischaracterized as well as wholly irrelevant to the analysis. First the mischaracterization. The local cop made no such finding, formal or otherwise. Second, and more importantly, the assessment of local law enforcement has no relevence in the enforcement of federal civil rights statutes about which they are wholly unfamiliar. Otherwise Bull Conner could have dicated what was and was not voter intimidation. Zachriel is parroting the familiar excuses for bad behvior, both by the panthers, and also by Eric Holder’s DOJ.
Christian Adams: The criminal matter was never brought by the Bush adminstration because the standard practice is to proceed in civil court first – with lower standards of proof and the availability of injunctive relief.
If there were sufficient evidence, then a criminal prosecution should and would have been brought forth by the Bush Administration. You are admitting that there was insufficient evidence for a criminal prosecution.
Christian Adams: Second, and more importantly, the assessment of local law enforcement has no relevence in the enforcement of federal civil rights statutes about which they are wholly unfamiliar.
While local law enforcement can’t enforce federal civil rights law, they certainly can arrest someone for making threats and brandishing a weapon. There was insufficient evidence for local law enforcement to act.
Christian Adams: Zachriel is parroting the familiar excuses for bad behvior, both by the panthers, and also by Eric Holder’s DOJ.
In fact, an injunction against Shabazz was entirely appropriate.
Back at work in DC Zacharial?
“If there were sufficient evidence, then a criminal prosecution should and would have been brought forth by the Bush Administration. You are admitting that there was insufficient evidence for a criminal prosecution.”
You aren’t listening. As a matter of DOJ practice in these matters, civil cases are brought first to get a speedy injuction for future elections, and with the lower burdens of proof. You might not understand what that means, and if you did you might understand why it was the Holder DOJ that has not brought criminal charges. I will have more on this shortly in an article.
“There was insufficient evidence for local law enforcement to act.”
Even if there were insufficient evidence of brandishment, it would have no relevance for 42 USC 1973i, a entirely different federal law.
Here’s the most tragic part – Zachriel and his ilk are so busy defending the DOJ they fail to realize they have F-ed up voter intimidation enforcement in other areas. They hoist themselves on their own petard. Very short sighted. Very base.
Christian Adams: You aren’t listening.
We do listen. It was “determined that the facts did not constitute a prosecutable violation of the criminal statutes.”
This is Mr. Eric Holder’s new lawyer speaking to you. My honorable client is a totally innocent man who is being persecuted. The guns don’t fit, so you must acquit. Erik Holder saw nothing, he heard nothing, he knows nothing. He was not there. Because of a bad back he has not even gotten up any morning since January, 2009. He doesn’t even recall who the U.S. Attorney General is, nor does he even know where this Mexico continent or planet is either.
The extreme left wing National SOCIALIST German WORKERS Party (The NAZIs) were ELECTED to power in Germany then used their Political position to pervert the German constitution and turn it to their own ends. Obambi and his extreme left wing Democrats were ELECTED to power in the USA are now using their Political position to pervert the US Constitution to their own ends and turn the USA into……………….
Two things I’ve always admired about the communists who knew they were communists that I’ve dealt with: they are extremely pragmatic and methodical, taking whatever is on the table that leads towards their ultimate objective and if there’s nothing, walking away to live another day; and, they learn from their mistakes, their greatest being their dealings with the Nazis and they’ve learned their lesson well from their failure to adapt to and adopt the Nazis tactics in securing control of Germany. The program of coordination between the Obama Regime and big business in Amerikkka is well along, they have the economy hamstrung and the people looking for salvation from the federal government, and now all they need is a Reichstag Fire.
The Joy of Creeping Corruption
When the late economist-philosopher Friedrich Hayek coined the term “creeping socialism” in The Road to Serfdom, he couldn’t have envisioned the great socialist leap forward this America has witnessed under President Barack Hussein Obama. To complement the soaring socialism, Obama and his administration are now proving they are as guilty of creeping corruption as they are of perpetrating socialistic schemes.
It may all be a good thing.
In 2008, Obama was painted by his mainstream media as Mr. Clean, free of political contamination perhaps in part because he was so inexperienced in politics, and in everything else except community organizing. Perhaps, too, that cleanliness feature was on the mind of then-Senator Joe Biden when he described his future boss as “bright and clean.”
For the most part, the president somehow eluded significant scandal for two years but in the third year of his reign the dirt has hit the executive fan big time.
To be sure, there were relatively minor dings in Obama’s armor during his first two years. However, the out-of-control EPA and TSA, the WikiLeaks leaks, the black racism demonstrated at Eric Holder’s Justice Department, etc. and Obama’s scandalous mishandling of the economy weren’t comparable in gravity to the overt instances of corruption playing out now in both the White House and DoJ.
First came the “Fast and Furious” fiasco, the botched gun-running sting which resulted in the ATF furnishing some 1500 weapons to Mexican cartels which were then used to kill a U.S. border patrol agent and in countless crimes south of the border rather than achieving the planned aim of arresting Mexican criminals.
Close on the heels of Operation Fast and Furious came the Solyndra and LightSquared messes, the administration’s favoritism toward so-called “green” companies. Playing favorites is a time-honored if sleazy feature of politics but when the administration wasted hundreds of millions of dollars of scarce taxpayer money and the good buddies repaid that largesse by generously funneling millions back to Obama’s campaign war chest, favoritism entered the realm of impeachable corruption.
If anything, the corruptive nature of the LightSquared seamy involvement with the presidency actually eclipsed the Solyndra boondoggle.
What may turn out to be the ultimate irony in the deceit, misrepresentations, and outright lies of Eric Holder and Barack Obama relating to the administration’s growing record of corruption is the fact that most of it was avoidable had the president not adopted the Nixonian approach to being caught: deny, deny, and deny again. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5724.)