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?