Posted on 05/18/2010 11:11:31 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is demanding to know why the Obama administration Justice Department dropped a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and threatening voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day.
The commission, an independent body charged with investigating civil-rights complaints and making recommendations to the federal government, held a hearing on the case May 14. Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, gave testimony, stating that "the facts did not constitute a prosecutable violation of the federal criminal civil rights statutes."
As WND reported, two men, Minister King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, wearing paramilitary uniforms and armed with a nightsticks, blocked a doorway to a polling location to intimidate voters. Shabazz is leader of the Philadelphia chapter of the New Black Panther Party.
The following is one video of the incident posted on YouTube:
After a poll watcher saw one of the men brandishing a nightstick to threaten voters, he called police.
"As I walked up, they closed ranks, next to each other," he told Fox News. "So I walked directly in between them, went inside and found the poll watchers. They said they'd been here for about an hour. And they told us not to come outside because a black man is going to win this election no matter what."
He said the man with a night stick told him, "'We're tired of white supremacy' and he starts tapping the nightstick in his hand. At which point I said, 'OK, we're not going to get in a fist fight right here,' and I called the police."
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Ping
Odinga’s fault!
Because they’re busy taking the program nationwide (see “Civilian National Defense Force”) perhaps?
Yeah, I've seen that guy interviewed by Hannity a few times. ...but not recently. Sean repeatedly asked the uppity Muzzie if he really believes in "the mothership," and he refused to answer. Shabazz is one of the angriest dudes around.
So does this mean I can go down to the local predominantly African-American precinct with a nightstick and tell people they can’t vote there?
Didn’t think so. We are moving toward a two-tiered legal system, as required by the “social justice” belief.
DOJ Voting Rights attorney resigns over Black Panthers stonewalling
Washington Examiner ^ | 5/18/10 | J.P. Freire
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2516429/posts
J. Christian Adams
Yep.
Fun stuff. Owning a gun on your own home = bad. Wielding a nightstick on a polling station = civil rights.
Muslims stick together through thick and thin. All are each others’ brothers whether in government or on the street.
I think that it would have been “prosecutable” if there were people in white hoods and sheets there.
“Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, gave testimony, stating that “the facts did not constitute a prosecutable violation of the federal criminal civil rights statutes.” “
Hadn’t the DOJ already win the case by default when Holder made the call to drop it? IIRC, the NBP never bothered to show up for the hearing, or something to that effect.
Also from his letter of resignation:
As you also know, the defendants in the New Black Panther lawsuit have become increasingly belligerent in their rhetoric toward the attomeys who brought the case.
(See eg., April 23, 2010 statement ofMalik Zulu Shabazz, http://www.newblackpanther.com/usccrphony case statement.pdf, describing the “phony case” brought by “the modern day racist lynch mob seeking to hang what [we] think .are [our] modern slaves.”)
Their grievances toward us generally echo the assertions that the facts and law did not support the lawsuit against them, ab initio. Knowing intimately the criminal character and violent tendencies of the members ofNew Black Panther Party, it is my profound hope that these assertions are tempered.
Can I bring that to my polling place in November?
[just askin']
No doubt about it. ...or folks in "ICE" or "INS" shirts. That'd probably be a "hate crime."
After all. There can be only one.
Yes...
From J Christian Adams’ letter of resignation:
On the other hand, the events surrounding the dismissal of United States v. New Black Panther Party, et al., after the trial team sought and obtained an entry of default, has subjected me, Mr. Christopher Coates, and potentially at some point, all members of the team, to a subpoena from the United States Commission on Civil Rights. The subpoena is based on an explicit federal statute and seeks answers about why the case was dismissed.
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