Protecting Black Panthers: The Obama administration ignores voter intimidation

Washington Times ^ | May 29, 2009 | Editorial

[JohnRLott]

Imagine if Ku Klux Klan members had stood menacingly in military uniforms, with nightsticks, in front of a polling place. Add to it that they had hurled racial threats and insults at voters who tried to enter.

Now suppose that the government, backed by a nationally televised video of the event, had won a court case against the Klansmen except for the perfunctory filing of a single, simple document - but that an incoming Republican administration had moved to voluntarily dismiss the already-won case.

Surely that would have been front-page news, with a number of firings at the Justice Department.

The flip side of this scenario is occurring right now. The culprits weren't Klansmen; they belonged to the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. One of the defendants, Jerry Jackson, is an elected member of Philadelphia's 14th Ward Democratic Committee and was a credentialed poll watcher for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party when the violations occurred. Rather conveniently, the Obama administration has asked that the cases against Mr. Jackson, two other defendants and the party be dropped.

The Voting Rights Act is very clear. It prohibits any "attempt to intimidate, threaten or coerce" any voter or those aiding voters. . . .

[antonia]

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, whose hand was caught in the gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama as our president. The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Obama is a 'Post Turtle''. Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post turtle' was. The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle'. The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. 'You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, and he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with'.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Stolen. Thank you.

[rmlew]

"Protecting Black Panthers: The Obama administration ignores voter intimidation"

More like Protecting Black Panthers and funding ACORN; how the Fascist left celebrates the end of honest American suffrage.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

But we’re not actually going to DO anything until they come for the guns.
They have already come for the votes...the income...the pension...the salary...the employer...the private property...the unborn...your child’s mind...
Now they have menacing figures at the polls, so what? We’ve still got our guns, just you wait ‘til they try to take those! Oooh, we’ll show them then!