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In Barack Obama's America, justice is not colorblind.

Jul 8, 2010 10:41AM PDT

It seems that voter intimidation is just fine - when blacks practice it:

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/539644/201007071848/Holders-Justice-Is-Not-Colorblind.aspx

In February, on the occasion of Black History Month, Attorney General Eric Holder called the United States a "nation of cowards" regarding discussions of race even as his department was failing to prosecute one of the clearest cases of voter intimidation in American history because the defendants were black militants, members of the New Black Panther Party.

Holder said that "we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial." Okay, let's talk, starting with Tuesday's testimony of J. Christian Adams, a former career DOJ attorney in the Voting Rights Section. Adams resigned over DOJ's handling of the Black Panther case and DOJ's refusal to honor Civil Rights Commission subpoenas, including ordering Adams not to comply.

On Election Day 2008, New Black Panther party members King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jerry Jackson engaged in activities that resulted in charges in a civil complaint of violating the Voting Rights Act through intimidation, threats and coercion, as they stood dressed in military garb outside a Philadelphia polling place.

The video of the event, photos and witness testimony presented an open-and-shut case ripe for DOJ prosecution. The Justice Department under President George W. Bush filed criminal charges against the three men. Holder's Justice Department would later drop the charges in a plea deal in which the baton-brandishing thugs promised not to do it again in Philadelphia until 2012. They walked, free to intimidate elsewhere.
(Emphasis mine)

Yes, these thugs can intimidate elsewhere, or they can just wait until 2012, when they'll be allowed to engage in thuggery in support of President Barry's reelection. Devil

The actual video of these fascists in training can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU

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And yet Holder can go after political ememies...
Jul 8, 2010 9:27PM PDT

without hesitation.

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I think eventually it will be fully prosecuted
Jul 8, 2010 11:29PM PDT

Especially if enough non Democrats are elected in November 2010. I don't care if Republicans, Independents, Tea Party or not, just not be Democrats.

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(NT) Don?t hold your breath!!!
Jul 9, 2010 12:04AM PDT
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If I may apply a Latin term....A fine example of the........
Jul 9, 2010 3:05AM PDT