I despise racism from any sources. Including from this administration. I am getting really tired of the one sided nature of the justice being meted out by Barack Obama.
Fresh off the filing of a lawsuit against the state of Arizona Attorney General Eric Holder announced the possibility of suing Arizona again, this time for the contrived offense of “racial profiling.”
Attorney General Eric Holder, just days after filing a federal lawsuit against Arizona’s immigration law, on Sunday floated the possibility of filing another suit on racial profiling grounds.
No crime has been committed, but Holder is set to sue.
However, Holder said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the federal government was leading with its “strongest” argument in the suit filed Tuesday and would not rule out a second suit months down the road — if the law ends up going into effect.
The purpose of the first lawsuit is without merit:
The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Arizona claimed the state was infringing on federal immigration responsibilities and urged the judge to prevent the law from going into effect at the end of July. Despite some officials’ claims that the law could lead to racial profiling, that concern was not cited as grounds for the suit.
It’s idiotic to sue a state for infringing on federal responsibilities when the federal government is derelict in its responsibilities in securing the borders. It’s galactically stupid to join a foreign country in suing your own people on behalf of people who are here illegally.
Ironically, Rhode Island already allows what the new Arizona law plans.
But in Rhode Island, illegal immigrants face a far greater penalty: deportation.
From Woonsocket to Westerly, the troopers patrolling the nation’s smallest state are reporting all illegal immigrants they encounter, even on routine stops such as speeding, to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE.
And so does Prince William County, Virginia:
WOODBRIDGE, Va. (WUSA) — Prince William County already has the strictest immigration law in the region, and now Board of Supervisor Chairman Corey Stewart wants a stronger crackdown.
He’s proposing to bring the controversial Arizona immigration law to the entire Commonwealth of Virginia.
As Curt noted, the Obama administration is hard at work puffing up this issue but terminated a blatantly clear voter rights intimidation case.
In the first week of January, the Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring voters with the weapon, uniforms and racial slurs. In March, Mr. Bull submitted an affidavit at Justice’s request to support its lawsuit.
When none of the defendants filed any response to the complaint or appeared in federal district court in Philadelphia to answer the suit, it appeared almost certain Justice would have prevailed by default. Instead, the department in May suddenly allowed the party and two of the three defendants to walk away. Against the third defendant, Minister King Samir Shabazz, it sought only an injunction barring him from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of a Philadelphia polling place for the next three years—action that’s already illegal under existing law.
Some objected immediately:
Then the Washington Times reported on July 30 that six career lawyers at Justice who had recommended continuing to pursue the case were overruled by Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli—a top administration political appointee. One of the career attorneys, Appellate Chief Diana Flynn, had urged in an internal memo that a judgment be pressed against the defendants to “prevent the paramilitary style intimidation of voters” in the future.
Former Justice Attorney J Christian Adams disclosed how the case was dropped:
“I mean we were told, ‘Drop the charges against the New Black Panther Party,'” Adams told Fox News, adding that political appointees Loretta King, acting head of the civil rights division, and Steve Rosenbaum, an attorney with the division since 2003, ordered the dismissal.
Adams went on as to why:
“The [voting] section doesn’t want to protect white voters.” And he named names. He testified that Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes told Voting Section management that there would be no more cases brought against black defendants vindicating the rights of white victims. Adams personally heard Fernandes say that the division would only bring “traditional civil rights cases” (code words for suits against white racists). Adams also heard Fernandes say that she had no interest in the Voting Section enforcing Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (which requires purging rolls of ineligible voters to prevent voter fraud), because Section 8 does not increase voter turnout.
Was this a voter intimidation case? Why don’t we let King Samir Shabazz speak for himself:
This is one of the men for whom Barack Obama stopped justice.
The Obama administration won a default judgment in federal court in April 2009 when the Black Panthers didn’t appear in court to fight the charges. But the administration moved to dismiss the charges in May 2009. Justice attorneys said a criminal complaint, which resulted in the injunction, proceeded successfully.
A more complete story can be found here
One could only imagine how quickly the full force law would rain down on Karl Rove were he to stand at a polling place in Washington DC brandishing a baton.
Christian Adams clues us into the next example of how the Obama administration will only selectively enforce the laws of the United States.
Right now, the Holder Justice Department has a submission from Ike Brown to allow him to do precisely the same thing he tried in 2003 — prevent people from voting based on their party loyalties.
In the bizarro world of Barack Obama, the Justice Department of the United States prosecutes those who try to enforce the laws and protects those who violate the law.
Justice is supposed to be blind. Not stupid. You decide who is right.
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DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
in the next election white men are expected to be 30% of the voters. As for the voter intimidation no voters at that polling place voiced any complaints, only the Republican poll watchers who were not even from that precinct. And that quote you use was not said at that poll. 2 black men with a wooden stick might be FRIGHTENING where you live, but it was not there. On the other hand maybe 3 men one with a gun might have a different reaction.DOJ did not pursue allegations that Minutemen intimidated Hispanic voters with a gun in 2006. Perez testified that in 2006, the Justice Department “declined to bring any action for alleged voter intimidation” “when three well-known anti-immigrant advocates affiliated with the Minutemen, one of whom was carrying a gun, allegedly intimidated Latino voters at a polling place by approaching several persons, filming them, and advocating and printing voting materials in Spanish.”The Republican vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which is currently investigating the Justice Department’s decision, has called that investigation “very small potatoes” full of “overheated rhetoric filled with insinuations and unsubstantiated charges,” and said it has not “served the interests of the commission”; she further said that DOJ has given a “plausible argument” for not pursuing additional charges in the case.
No voters have come forward to claim that they were intimidated from voting on account of the New Black Panthers standing outside the polling center in 2008;
The Bush administration’s Justice Department — not the Obama administration — made the decision not to pursue criminal charges against members of the New Black Panther Party for alleged voter intimidation at a polling center in Philadelphia in 2008;
As for the precinct tallies from there it was something like 568 votes for Obama and 12 for McCain
“No citizen has even alleged that he or she was intimidated from voting.” In an April 23 hearing on the DOJ’s decision in the case, Civil Rights Commissioner Arlan Melendez stated 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.”
The hard right gets hooked on every urban myth
THERE WERE 2 BLACK MEN WITH A WOODEN STICK !!!! so frightening
WOW John that was hilarious…How about mentioning that the area of which the “minutemen” were carrying a gun was an OPEN CARRY state, they were also over 100 ft away from the polling place which is LAW. They were not “intimidating” voters they were monitoring for ILLEGAL VOTERS since the feds weren’t doing it. I also don’t recall any verbal insults being yelled at the voters.
Liberpukes have a lot of fun making up facts but their facts are seriously lacking truth.
The real reason the Obama admin is courting the KKK…Oops Black Panthers…Oops NAACP is the hispanic voters are running away from Obama because Obama is removing JOBS from them faster than a fence on the border would. Hispanics realize they need employers and Obama is making the nation a welfare nation. Hispanics are a lot like white folks for the most part, they want to work hard and take care of their family…
The black vote is also failing for Obamacrats. WHY? Well for one they got out the vote in 2008, the first black president was the cry…Not a racist action at all huh? 95% of Blacks voted for Obama because of his “Change” mantra. Not at all because of his color 🙄
Now roughly 25% of the blacks in America are not happy with Obama’s economic policies, why? because like the hispanics they have no work and the lower end of the social structure is being hit hardest. Nobody is hiring because of Obama not because of the economy. Business leaders hate NOT KNOWING what’s going to happen with taxes and health care and a host of other factors.
Obama didn’t pay the rent or put gas in the car or pay the light bills of the voters that elected him and that’s going to cost him in 2010 and 2012.
@John Ryan
Everyone is entitled to protection of the law. Not just illegals and criminals.
@ John ryan
Please go back and read what you have written. Do you honestly think that this will persuade anybody at all, anybody with a brain? You don’t need to tell us, but do be honest with yourself. How can your write such nonsense? Is it not evident to you that what you say is foolishness? Do you not see how hard you are having to stretch your ideas to try to make them sound reasonable?
You have a reputation here at FA for writing foolishness, and it is easy to see why. The big question is to what end? Do you have nothing better to do with your time? What a pity!
And now the NAACP has officially declared the TEA Party to be a racist organization…
Maybe it’s because the North Iowa TEA Party put up a sign that pissed off the Obama lovers…
Iowa Tea Party group’s sign links Obama, Hitler
How DID I know that ‘lil LIAR johnnie ryan was all for racism…
@Dr.D:
Dr. D, John Ryan gets around, here he shows up in the comment section of Amy Proctor’s blog on July 3rd, she also responded to has asnine comment:
http://amyproctor.squarespace.com/blog/2010/7/3/civil-rights-attorney-on-black-panther-voter-intimidation-ca.html
Here we have Tom McGuire debunking left-wing blog commentary regarding this issue, the leftie blogs that JR appears to get his talking points from:
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2010/07/careful-reading-tuesday.html
And, here we have an editorial written by Bartle Bull, a life long civil rights worker who happened to be at that polling place to witness the NBPP’s in action:
http://lucianne.com/article/?pageid=bartledebut
It was his group that called the police and press to film the two idiots.
Anyway, as you can see, John Ryan was corrected by Amy Proctor way back on July 3rd. A portion of her response:
He mindlessly persists spinning misinformation as far and fast as he can.
You all need to get a grip.
It is impossible for blacks to be racist. It is impossible for blacks to intimidate whites.
The Obamanator’s Pastor, Reverend Wrong, has taught us that 400 years of oppression by whites must be responded to by 400 years of oppression by blacks of whites.
Zimbabwe, here we come.
The Department of Justice has its charge: reparations for slavery. This means no crime committed by blacks on whites will be prosecuted; crimes by whites on blacks will be invented and prosecuted vigorously.
The racist divide will be the core of the 2012 Presidential campaign.
No black will be permitted to vote Republican. No white will be permitted to vote Republican either.
We will have an election which is in the tradition of Saddam Hussein and Mahmoud Ahadminejad, which is to say that the filled-out ballot will be handed to us for us to use in voting.
Ah, sweet tyranny.
@John ryan:
Wrong, I will c&p because you are known to not visit source sites that refute your gibberish:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTA4M2NmNzY5N2FkZGEyMGI4ODkwNjYyNzgxYTAzMDQ=
Yes they have, and you already know that.
That’s also been blown out of the water, you also already know that. Your spin is also debunked by Spakovsky in the same reference posted above.
Voters were turned away, even if it were only 6, 12 or 1, the thugs illegally intimidated voters from their right to vote. The “civil” case could have led to a “criminal” case and that BTW is the way these cases are carried out at the DOJ. Filing a “civil” case firsts allows the department to stop the evil doers from same future behavior and go after the organization, then they file a “criminal” case.
We’ll have an empirical indication of how much all this matters in November. Is there going to be a lot more of this, or not?
The big story is not a few racist clowns in army pants. It is the culture of selective enforcement in the DOJ Civil Rights Division, and by extension an administration that cultivates that culture, and by further extension a liberal media establishment that makes excuses for it. We see the direction this is going and wonder, what else are they doing, and what’s next.
Remember that J. Christian Adams and other DOJ insiders have brough forth other instances of vote fraud and voter intimidation cases dropped due to melanin content of the perpetrators – and these were larger and more systematic cases.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/author/jchristianadams/
Shorter John Ryan: “Ignore the blood in your stool. Why are you so squeamish – it’s just a little blood.”
Is there anything in the 16 page Arizona law that is not part of accepted US law?!?!?!
I don’t believe the major critical point has been mentioned. –
Each illegal alien under the protection of the Obama regime is a potential democratic voter. Arizona merely wants to take the state back from those destroying it! The current administration needs votes, therefore their platform is Down With Arizona Up With Illegals! Protect your voter base at all costs.
As to “Racial Profiling” Check out the statistics relative to illegal aliens in California. And this is spreading throughout the country!
I want my country back. Start with Arizona!
JOHN ryan: hi, YOU know if 2 of me hityou with 2 wooden stick, yes you will be dum frightning
JOHN ryan: hi, fritghtning yes if 2 of me hit you with wooden stick , you will be dum frighten.
Do not forget that Eric Holder is looking into filing Federal charges against the cop in Oakland who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
The verdict was only two hours old before he announced his intentions.
Hmmmmmm…A lot faster than most of his other decisions.
Responding to John Ryan is futile. The guy’s a dope. You can’t expect a dope to listen to reason. Just pretend he is the smelly old uncle that has boatloads of bad jokes and lead him to a corner and let him talk to the intersection of the two walls.
The administration won’t crack down on sanctuary cities but will sue Arizona:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/14/critics-question-obama-administration-doesnt-crack-sanctuary-cities/
Holder plans to kill the Arizona law no matter what the courts say.
The racial bias is breathtaking.
Holder should tread carefuly here with his arrogance of being, “correct.” Even if he, “wins” this legal situation he is positioned to lose on the cultural side of this battle on a National scale. Arizona’s ruling body is considering going rogue about enforcing their border with Mexico with various other state bodies including Utah’s backing Arizona’s actions. The only course for Holder to deny Arizona of enforcing 1070 will be to request Obama to declare martial law in any states like Arizona and detain legal citizens who try to protect their cities or homes as criminals while ignoring the true criminal cartels who smuggle in various tonage of drugs and disturbingly higher numbers of human hostages/slaves. The Nation is already a powder keg of anger and frustration at the Federal Government for many various reasons connected to incompetence, what happens in Arizona from the Federal’s side of actions could spark out right defiance by the Legal Citizens of the United States, or at the least the ruling State bodies of various States being treated as hostile enities instead of members of the Republic. Corrupt federal law making and enforcement be damned.
The New Black Panther situation will only further destablize all that has been done to mend wounds that were slowly healing. Idiots like these have no idea that their own actions reopens the nearly 300 some year old wounds, but makes it almost sickly justified by radical white groups to, “defend themselves against black aggression” after the disturbing, ““You want freedom? You’re gonna have to kill some crackers. You going to have to kill some of their babies” statement from Samir Shabazz. Such words is enough to cause some fool seeking membership of the Ayran Brotherhood (just typing that makes me ill to my stomach) to attempt to kill him, which will only fan the fires of support for Shabazz’s message and could lead to civil unrest up to full fledge riots into various communities to seek the death of whites.
These path of action by the Department of Justice makes not for a stable and long standing Republic.
@John ryan: Did any other network report this and show the video besides Fox? The one King Obama told me not to listen to. The videos I have seen it on were of Fox News.
When asked who they are, one of the Black Panthers answered, “We’re security.”
John Ryan,
You said nobody reported the incident. Liberal lies again. Why do you think the police came? I can see why nobody came forward and made formal charges against the two. Philadelphia has one of the highest, if not the highest, murder rate in the country.
The “actual” intimidation isn’t on video, but one person said he had to walk between the two to go in and vote.
Watch the video yourself and decide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzBVxP5wzCY&feature=related
John Ryan is like the truck driver joke.
QUESTION
Why is arguing with a truck drive like arguing with a pig?
ANSWER
After a while you finally figure out that the pig likes it.
The more you argue with him, the more he likes it, and the more he brings you down to his level.
Christian Adams’ comments are verified:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/affidavit-of-former-fec-commissioner-hans-von-spakovsky/