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| Quasimodo | Jul 25 2010, 02:15 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/25/ftn/main6711575.shtml No Proof in New Black Panther Case: Official Says No Evidence Supports Charges by Right-Wingers That Obama Admin. Refuses to Prosecute Blacks for Breaking Vote Laws (snip) Media Matters also found no evidence that any voters in the predominantly-black voting district had been prevented from voting. Appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday, the commission's vice chair, Abigail Thernstrom, said, "We have no direct evidence that [the NBP activists] actually intimidated anybody, stopped them from voting." (snip) "I think the evidence is extremely weak," Thernstrom told anchor Bob Schieffer. "If the Justice Department chooses - and I would be delighted if it did so - to send to us, for instance, somebody who is at that alleged brown bag meeting in which [Deputy Assistant Attorney General] Julie Fernandez said, 'We don't prosecute cases [against] blacks …' fine. I'm an evidence girl, really. I want evidence." Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund, also appearing on "Face the Nation," argued that not all the facts are known, "because the Justice Department is stonewalling subpoenas issued by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. "Two African-American poll watchers testified they were intimidated," said Fund. "We saw testimony that the voters said they turned around and said they would came back; we don't know if they ever came back." Fund said there was a pattern of "consistent politicization" in the Justice Department, listing examples of Voting Rights Act decisions in the South. "North Carolina is predominantly African-American," Fund said, "and voted to have non-partisan elections. The Justice Department said you can't do that. You have to continue to give black voters the cue of Democrat versus Republican so they'll know who to vote for. "Georgia wanted to take Social Security data and verify the U.S. citizenship of people who were registering to vote; the Justice Department said you couldn't do that. "I think the Justice Department is clearly stonewalling these subpoenas because they have something to hide. Do I know exactly what they're hiding? I don't." Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson said this and another racially tinged case, the media flap about Shirley Sherrod and Andrew Breitbart, are indicative of a deeper societal problem: "I think we're in a moment where you have people on the left and on the right that want to take political polarization and turn it into racial polarization for their own purposes, to get Internet hits or to get supporters or other things," Gerson said. "That's a very, very disturbing trend. So you have it with the New Black Panther case, in my view, where you take an incident and try to turn it into a narrative when it really doesn't justify that." [Whatever would the MSM know about "taking an incident and turning it into a narrative when it really doesn't justify that"?] (snip) |
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| Quasimodo | Jul 25 2010, 02:17 PM Post #2 |
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| retiredLEO | Jul 25 2010, 02:24 PM Post #3 |
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I saw her this morning, she to me is one arrogant SOB. There is no evidence, there is video tape evidence, plus there are witnesses to the event. One is a lawyer that worked for Bobby Kennedy, when he was AG. Now they are saying this is an isolated incident, so isn't a bank robbery, so I guess we shouldn't prosecute bank robbers, black or white, after all they are isolated incidents? |
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| Mason | Jul 25 2010, 02:36 PM Post #4 |
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. How much Proof would they need if Decorated KKK members were menacing with weapons in front of a polling place in a Presidential election? They'd still be finding and producing charges against the KKK losers. Everyone knows that is the Truth. Edited by Mason, Jul 25 2010, 02:36 PM.
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| retiredLEO | Jul 25 2010, 04:10 PM Post #5 |
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Unfortunately they were not KKK members they were the New Black Panther Party, headed by Louie, but I do agree that if they were KKK, they would have been locked up on the spot. |
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| Mason | Jul 26 2010, 02:13 AM Post #6 |
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. They can't tell the truth about the case, that is they aren't applying the law in a color blind way - and they believe their job is protect minorities. Take a night stick to your local polling place and stand out front and swing it around. You'll be tackled by police, your arms will be handcuffed behind your back while your face is pushed into the pavement - and you will be carried away. There's not even any mystery. . |
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| foxglove | Jul 26 2010, 04:10 AM Post #7 |
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This lack of interest in pursuing charges by the DOJ points to the disturbing trend of a double standard. The end result of the double standard is to allow the leftist point of view to succeed by intimidation of those who oppose that leftist view. The leader of the New Black Panthers has said his group will be present at Glenn Becks's "Restore Honor" event at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th. (It is billed as a non-political, family friendly gathering). If the DOJ looks the other way in voter intimidation, how safe do people feel about peaceful assembly on August 28th, especially if they are a "cracker"? So, IMO, this lack of fairness (lies about the Tea Party and an apparent double standard with the application of the law) is to intimidate and subdue conservatives. Subduing conservatives has been done in universities and many parts of the media, but it is now being done in regard to peaceful assembly (the ability to speak out in the public square) and voting. Another example of harassing and intimidating conservatives from peaceful assembly in the public square is this incident from July 18 at the state capitol building in Providence, RI. A group for traditional marriage had a permit to have a rally at the state capitol. A gay group also had a permit to counter-rally at another area of the state capitol. The gay group marched to where the traditional marriage group was assembled and proceeded to intimidate and disrupt the tradtional marriage rally. The police were criticized for not being too effective in controlling the confrontation. Linked below are first person accounts of the event and some video/photos. http://www.marriagetour2010.com/2010/07/gay-activists-embarrass-themselves-in-providence/ http://www.ctfamily.org/blog/2010/07/20/we-brought-children-they-brought-rocks/ Edited by foxglove, Jul 26 2010, 05:28 AM.
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