Courtesy of National Geographic Channel King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, pictured last year for the National Geographic Channel's show "Inside," were accused of voter intimidation by the Justice Department. Posted on 05/29/2009 4:47:49 AM PDT by radar101
Courtesy of National Geographic Channel King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, pictured last year for the National Geographic Channel's show "Inside," were accused of voter intimidation by the Justice Department.
Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.
The incident - which gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube - had prompted the government to sue the men, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, racial slurs and military-style uniforms.
Career lawyers pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit from a prominent 1960s civil rights activist who witnessed the confrontation and described it as "the most blatant form of voter intimidation" that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.
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Welcome to Uganda.
Would they [the media] have let the Bush Justice system get away with saying that?
Send this info to Glenn Beck.
I propose that someone form a New White Tiger party and put their people at a number of polling places and do EXACTLY what these guys did. No more, no less. Study the videos and let that be their guide.
Let’s see what happens.
...and the band played on....
The Usurper’s effort to make us West Zimbabwe continues apace.
Did the guy from the University call the police to come to the polling place when he perceived intimidation? I don’t know all the specifics of the case, and I’m not a lawyer. But I believe that would have been the best thing to do. Don’t you?
The police could not be on the scene to investigate, they would have intimidated criminals from voting. (sarcasm)
“Yes we can”
We are Zimbabwe.
Kenya seems, somehow, to be appropriate.
RLT = Radical Left Terrorism
Apparently, violent voter intimidation is OPK in the B.H. Firefly regime if you’re on the “correct” side.
I watched this on tv and prayed for someone like the rolling thunder MC club to show up and provide security from these guys
Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews. The incident - which gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube - had prompted the government to sue the men, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, racial slurs and military-style uniforms. Career lawyers pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit from a prominent 1960s civil rights activist who witnessed the confrontation and described it as "the most blatant form of voter intimidation" that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.Never take a nightstick to a gunfight.
Never take a nightstick to a gunfight.
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Yep
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