Posted on 04/30/2012 6:00:37 PM PDT by Kaslin
PJ Media has obtained Facebook postings from Department of Justice Voting Section employees demonstrating contempt for the states for which they have oversight authority under the Voting Rights Act, including for voter ID approval. One such posting demonstrates open contempt for Mississippi, a state which recently passed a photo voter identification law. The same Voting Section employees have the power to approve the law.
On her Facebook page, Voting Section supervisory civil rights analyst Stephanie Celandine Gyamfi says about the people of Mississippi:
“Disgusting and shameful. Hey, that should replace the state motto: ‘Mississippi: Disgusting and Shameful’. . . forget the Magnolia State motto.”
(Hans von Spakovsky also has this PJ Media story about Gyamfi: “The Justice Department Condones Perjury … Again“)
The DOJ inspector general is conducting a wide-ranging investigation of Civil Rights Division employee bias against conservatives and other misconduct, including the perjury matters in von Spakovsky’s article. Sources say no remedial action has yet been taken for any of the employee misconduct in the Civil Rights Division.
Shortly, Mississippi will have to decide whether to submit its photo voter identification law for approval to Eric Holder’s Department of Justice Voting Section where Gyamfi reviews such submissions. Employees of the Voting Section view southern states with, at best, skepticism and, at worst, as demonstrated in this Facebook posting, with contempt. As I write in my book Injustice:
Voting Section visits to the deep South are seen by some as expeditions to alien territory. Anyone who questions this simplistic worldview must be a racist, if not an outright Klansman.
When I worked at the Voting Section, other attorneys openly expressed the view that travels to the South made them uncomfortable, including the white attorneys. They viewed southerners as oppressive and bigoted.
Why do the personal biases or bigotry of DOJ lawyers matter? They matter because states such as Mississippi, Texas, and South Carolina are subject to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. This law requires covered states to submit all election changes to either the DOJ or to a federal court for approval.
The contempt that DOJ Civil Rights Division employees have for southerners manifests in public policy — whether skepticism toward legislative motives in enacting voter ID, or, as I experienced firsthand, unwillingness to protect whites in Mississippi who were the victims of racial discrimination by black officials.
If states make the mistake of submitting election changes opposed by the NAACP, such as voter ID, to Gyamfi, these DOJ employees will hunt for evidence that racial bias motivated the change. And they will see racial bias where few do. The biases of the DOJ employees toward southerners, like the one shown in the Facebook posting, will manifest in concrete DOJ decisions. The biases, for example, will view election integrity measures to instead be a sinister scheme to return to Jim Crow.
As former Democratic Congressman Artur Davis said this past weekend at the True the Vote summit, “a driver’s license is not a billy club. A photo ID is not a fire hose.”
Hopefully, this particular Facebook posting will give southern states like Mississippi and Alabama a taste of what they are up against if they submit voter ID to the DOJ. Even if Holder is run out of office in November, career staffers wielding enormous power will do the front-line factual investigations that even Romney political appointees will struggle to overcome.
Speaking of which, truth-challenged Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez is at it again. He recently gave a speech in which he said the Obama administration now allows Voting Section employees like Gyamfi to “express their opinion” about Section 5 submissions. This whopper was used to portray the Bush administration review of voting changes as heavy-handed. Perez refers to the 2005 fight over Georgia voter ID.
The Left has created the myth that fellow PJ Media columnist Hans von Spakovsky, in collusion with then-Voting Section Chief John Tanner, muzzled Voting Section employees, including Gyamfi, and approved Georgia voter ID over the reasoned objections of [leftist] career staff. What Perez fails to mention is that other career staff, including line attorney Joshua Rogers, also recommended preclearance along with Tanner.
Hence, when Perez says that career staff may “again voice their opinion,” he is not telling the truth. They could always voice their opinion. After the inauguration, the Holder Justice Department implemented a new rule on Section 5 submissions when Christopher Coates was the section chief. The new Obama rule permitted multiple written recommendations on any given Section 5 submission to reach the political appointees, instead of a unitary Voting Section recommendation. The new rule was designed in the short-run to circumvent Coates, and in the long run, to foil a future Republican appointed section chief in Voting.
In January, the Romney administration must revoke this policy so as to avoid a constant cackle of leftist obstructionism in the Voting Section, designed to blunt the results of the November election and provide fertile material to be leaked to the media as in the Georgia voter ID fight in 2005. And most of all, unlike the current occupant of the office, the Romney-appointed assistant attorney general for civil rights needs to tell the truth about the policy and why it matters.
Pic says all that needs to be said
Whats the pic say?
“Sources say no remedial action has yet been taken for any of the employee misconduct in the Civil Rights Division.”
Nor will there ever be, as long as Obama is President...
It amazes me that people (basically, election-stealers) even MAKE the “argument” that requiring an ID (which is needed to drive a car, get a WIC debit card, get a job, and must be presented at the demand of law enforcement) is somehow “taking voting away” from people.
I guess voters are too stupid to apply for a free ID card (available in all jurisdictions).
Just the way liberals need them to be.
I assure you I've never caught any of these people consuming human or dog flesh, but their too-close affiliation with that part of DOJ makes me question their good sense.
We watched as this ol'gal and her confederates at DOJ split the Northern Virginia Korean community in two so that none of them would ever have a chance at elected Democrat party positions in Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria, Manassas or Prince William county.
In general that crowd hates Asian-Americans.
Bump
I’ll judge her on her idiotic statements. Not based on racism.
I know its accepted around here but I find it boorish, besides its non biblical to judge someone based on the color of their skin.
Sorry Kaslin, don’t mean to detract from your thread, you post some really good ones.
Racist statements are quite common on FR lately and I find it offensive. Some, like the first gentleman I responded to don’t even have the guts to admit it.
Report: DOJ employee admits to perjuring herself 3 times, Holder keeps her employed
Published: 12:17 PM 12/22/2011
Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Voting Section career employee Stephanie Celandine Gyamfi perjured herself three times during an internal investigation, the Heritage Foundation’s Hans Von Spakovsky reports for Pajamas Media.
According to Spakovsky, the DOJ inspector general recently launched an investigation into several document leaks between 2005 and 2007. “The genesis of Ms. Gyamfi’s perjury is apparently rooted in political attacks on the [George W.] Bush Justice Department,” Spakovsky wrote. “Throughout 2005-2007, numerous attorney-client privileged documents, confidential personnel information, and other sensitive legal materials were leaked from inside the Voting Section to the Washington Post and various left-wing blogs.”
“In general that crowd hates Asian-Americans.”
Yes they do. Self discipline, determination, hard work, critical thinking and self sufficiency are anathema to ideologies that require powerless clients and supplicants.
It also proves that America is even now a place of opportunity and welcome, if a legal immigrant can go from refugee to business and property owner in a decade or two.
I found out quickly that Whitepages.com doesn't provide an address for her, but her hubbies name is pretty rare in North America.
The big deal that draws these folks to the Springfield/Fraconia area is access to Metro Rail. You can take the train to work from here if you work at a large number of the federal agencies located in DC.
So if you were looking for a house for your family or a school for your kid, would you ignore demographics?
(Dec 2011) A career employee in the Voting Section of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has confessed to committing perjury, sources say. The employee, Stephanie Celandine Gyamfi, reportedly told investigators from the Inspector General’s Office that she perjured herself during an inquiry into Justice Department leaks during the previous administration. Despite the admission, she has not been fired for criminal malfeasance. Indeed, it appears she has not been disciplined in any meaningful way at all.
The genesis of Ms. Gyamfi’s perjury is apparently rooted in political attacks on the Bush Justice Department. Throughout 2005-2007, numerous attorney-client privileged documents, confidential personnel information, and other sensitive legal materials were leaked from inside the Voting Section to the Washington Post and various left-wing blogs.
We’re used to it. It is nothing new from the apostate Puritan mind.
So you support racism as well. Good to know
She probably lives within 5 miles of the Springfield Washington Post printing plant, so she’d not have had to use the mail or electronic communications to pass on things she’d taken from work.
Which means I already know this ol'gal hates people in my community ~ which is probably why she lives on the fringe in a white community (except for the Africans).
So, do you mind if I judge her on HER racism (as imputed from the behavior of her workmates and her boss) ~
I don’t choose to let you dictate the agenda. Racism is contrary to Gods word. Deal with it.
So instead of condemning her outrageous comments, you play the race card to justify your racism. Sure sounds like a familiar tactic.
Tell me seriously, are you having a love affair with some of the gal lawyers in DOJ or what?
here’s a news flash for Northern Government types who visit the South.
Act like an a**, we treat you like an a**.
Act decent, we treat ya decent.
Period.
So once again the mailman resorts to personal attacks. big shocker there
Hopefully the Republican Party will emphasize the common values of self-discipline, hard work and self-sufficiency which Republicans share with Asians.
It is simply not possible for them to understand the impact of changes in voting laws unless they understand what's going on in the South, and if they are that anti-social they simply don't belong there.
Did you get the feeling, once you knew Perez the Clown was their big boss, that this is the shop where DOJ sends its losers?
(NOTE ON PEREZ ~ he's the guy who tried to prevent universities from using electronic books)
She apparently needs to do a vanJones.
That is intolerable ~ it is prohibited by the FR rules AND, it is untrue.
God will throw you into the Outer Darkness for that sort of thing.
Republicans. I remember them. A quarter century ago they were worthy of support.
I think you have the Mississippi ping list?
Anyway, ping.
Same old same old, and why I look forward to Soviet style dissolution. Soon or late, it will come.
No, racism is prohibited on FR, I was calling you on the racism you demonstrated and openly admitted too.
This could actually be a lucky break for those states, as they could approach a federal judge to ask that the DOJ supervision of their state over the Voting Rights Act be lifted.
The “preclearance” provision in the VRA is, in effect, the last remnant of post Civil War reconstruction, in which the federal government could treat states differently, based on events that had happened in the past, not what is happening in the present.
While congress has consistently renewed the VRA without changes, retaining “preclearance”, it makes it none the less unconstitutional, especially given that perpetual “mass punishment” of a state based on what its representatives, none of which are still in office, did in the past, is just patently unfair.
A POS will do what a POS does.
Ooops! This’ll happen when one doesn’t read all prior postings
You're the one who cried 'racism', so you're the one who put it on the agenda.
Now, back to my question on whether you would ignore race in selecting a neighborhood or school. Is your answer 'YES' or 'NO'?
It’s on WKB’s home page. Go ahead and ping the list or wait for him.
If he doesn’t see this ping, I can come back in a little while.
I suspect you live in a community that has only a couple of shades ~ last time we looked they speak over 100 different languages around here. Everything else is as diverse.
Living in your traditional 'integrated' American neighborhood with just whites and blacks is considered rather 'segregated' from the general perspective of most everybody in my zip code.
BTW look the woman up on the net. The question was what did the picture show, and it showed the route to finding out who she was and where she lived, and it included identifying where her husband was from. I believe I know the man. We have mutual friends.
Let me add that your comment was not the first one you've belched up along that line ~ and you've been wrong every single time.
A DOJ employee? How many Mexicans did she kill today?
Why do we all have to endorse jungle fever?
ok I get it...let’s tolerate everybody..hugs
it’s your business ..and it is
but what’s wrong with preferring your own race or even ethnicity or religion or maybe even if you dig Orientals?...isn’t that my business too?
when did having to applaud white women sleeping with black me or not define “racism”...that is now the benchmark pretty much
btw is that girl a freeper?
she’d fit right in on the I Hate Dixie threads
I despise this new culture which anyone under 50 embraces...at least the racial narrative
we had some candor here after Trayvon...sorta like after Katrina
i see that window has closed again
*hat tip to a fellow Magnolia stater
Why do we all have to endorse jungle fever?
ok I get it...let’s tolerate everybody..hugs
it’s your business ..and it is
but what’s wrong with preferring your own race or even ethnicity or religion or maybe even if you dig Orientals?...isn’t that my business too?
when did having to applaud white women sleeping with black men or not define “racism”...that is now the benchmark pretty much
btw is that girl a freeper?
she’d fit right in on the I Hate Dixie threads
I despise this new culture which anyone under 50 embraces...at least the racial narrative
we had some candor here after Trayvon...sorta like after Katrina
i see that window has closed again
*hat tip to a fellow Magnolia stater
Mississippi ping. (Please ANYONE feel free to use this list anytime. I do not have a copy right on it)
I am the real racist here....lol
DD...I am pretty sure you have called me that before..lol
like I care...really
calling someone racist on a conservative forum should be as bannable an offense as actually being one
now both of you go to time out
* it should be noted that over the past 12 years I have been here...the most shrill race baiters...with a few notable exceptions...eventually get zotted...not for race baiting but for letting the cloak down and letting it slip they are really liberals or professional provokers here just for that...to shame the forum
Mississippi ping. (Please ANYONE feel free to use this list anytime. I do not have a copy right on it)
“Please ANYONE feel free to use this list anytime. I do not have a copy right on it”
Will do. I tend to err towards caution, believe it or not.
Who makes government IDs? Government employees, often SEIU members. If Government IDs are required, the SEIU will just make as many millions of extra people as they need, and have them issued absentee ballots. In some ways it will be easier this way to steal an election- previously when they wanted to get an extra vote in they would have to match it (normally after the polls close, and the poll watchers have gone home) with a voter who had not voted. With millions of extra people voting by absentee ballot, they have the entire campaign season to create extra absentee votes.
One prudent approach would be to require voters to thumbprint their ballot, and so mark their thumbs. That way any false ballot would provide legal evidence of their crime, if they voted twice. Most people would be a little shy about giving a prosecutor evidence of a felony, and such evidence could be checked for years afterwards.
Another would be to demand a non-government ID to an account with at least 500$ in it. That way people created out of nothing cost at least 500$, and welfare voters would at leaast get paid for committing a felony, and the crooks would have to pay that much for each false vote.
This is for both of you...and the rest of the forum.
Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud
http://news.yahoo.com/mississippi-naacp-leader-sent-prison-10-counts-voter-052222996.html
It’s less than a year old, but is pertinent to this thread.
There, actually, is voter fraud in Missippy, and ACORN types are involved.
Thank you so much for the ping, WKB. I’ve missed them. ;o)
“Mississippi ping. (Please ANYONE feel free to use this list anytime. I do not have a copy right on it)”
LOL! I would use it but I’m in a time zone where it’s hard to be able to use it...in a timely manner.
IOW...someone done beat me to it. ;o)
“* it should be noted that over the past 12 years I have been here...the most shrill race baiters...with a few notable exceptions...eventually get zotted...not for race baiting but for letting the cloak down and letting it slip they are really liberals or professional provokers here just for that...to shame the forum”
My goodness, wardaddy!
You are certainly the sophisticated fella, aren’t you?
Sophisticated, highly intelligent...can spot a lib from a mile away.
Good on ya’.
Their masks are slipping...
Pretty typical, when called on your racism you attack. No honor or integrity.
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