Sounds like it's past hip-wading time, and into the old timey diving suits to maneuver through this muck! Why believe the evidence of an actual video or witnesses, what kind of judge would ever allow that sort of thing in their courtroom?!?! /sarc
Posted on 07/25/2010 10:53:20 AM PDT by Libloather
No Proof in New Black Panther Case: Official
Says No Evidence Supports Charges by Right-Wingers That Obama Admin. Refuses to Prosecute Blacks for Breaking Vote Laws
By David S Morgan
WASHINGTON, July 25, 2010
(CBS) A Bush appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights denounced allegations by some pundits that the Justice Department is refusing to pursue a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because of race, and suggested that the charges being made by right-wing figures are politically motivated.
Conservative broadcasters and websites have claimed that the Obama administration is dropping prosecution of New Black Panther activists who were videotaped outside a Philadelphia polling station on Election Day 2008, making intimidating remarks; one man was carrying a nightstick.
Earlier this month former Justice Department lawyer and Republican activist J. Christian Adams testified to the commission that senior officials in the department are not applying voting rights laws in a race-neutral way, by refusing to press charges against African Americans on these issues.
A recent Media Matters investigation has debunked charges that the Obama administration withdrew criminal charges against the Panthers (in fact, the Bush administration decided not to pursue criminal charges, with Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez testifying that the Bush Justice Department "determined that the facts did not constitute a prosecutable violation of the criminal statutes"; a civil lawsuit was filed in the last days of the Bush administration, and a judgment won by the Obama Justice Department in May 2009).
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It was pursued as a civil case. It’s parallel to what happens when a police dept. really fargs up and shoots someone they oughtn’t to in the middle of some kind of frantic action. Though everyone is outraged, it usually ends up getting treated as a tort, not a crime.
If “those guys” show up at my voting place with their clubs and their attitude, they will be walking a lot differently after I leave, because they will be walking with their night stick shoved up their butt. Since the justice department doesn’t want to administer justice, street justice will have to be used instead.
If I had a snowball's chance in he## of not falling over during a slow turn, I'd become a biker myself. I'm much better on 4 wheels.
Nevertheless, I'll stand with the bikers any day against thugs that want to interfere with the right of individuals to vote.
Is it illegal to wear the Gadsden flag to the voting booth?
Can always bring a trike.
I don’t think in the end these chicken panthers would dare beat down anybody at the polls (too obvious), and if white people coming there were told that they were being filmed for their protection by friendlies, they would probably not turn away.
Actually, I can ride a shorter "city" bike (like a small crotch-rocket) just fine. It's those long road bikes that give me trouble. I suppose that with some practice, I'd get better at it.
In the meantime, I'll stay on 4 wheels.
Bring a Buell, the bros will be copacetic with that.
Heaven forbid no. The black pampers couldn't beat an egg white. They are bullies and cowards. I was counting on the police being ordered to beat down our previous poster FRiend. That way there will be a few bucks in it for a lawyer .
I really ought to take one for a spin. How upright is the rake of the forks? I seem to like them more upright rather than angled too far forward.
hope shes ok with white guys in hoods holding nooses outside polling places and shouting now that we know what its like to be ruled by the Black man lets make sure it never happens again....
Because the DOJ in its failure to act just set Precedent for equal protection....
Liberal idiots
Geez. Mary Frances Berry just about committed mayhem and had to be physically removed from office just to seat this woman. If anybody has been a victim of civil rights abuse, it’s she. What a fool she turned out to be.
They also verbally menaced Bartle Bull, a decades-long legal warrior for civil rights. He was there at the polls that day and was beyond appalled. He is enraged that Bobby Kennedy, a freind of his, and others fought for these people, only to be treated and threatened the way Bartle Bull was treated by the NBP in Philly and in court since then when he testified.
Seems to me that the msm is doing all in their power to ignore the horrific significance of that ugly act.
I notice too, listening to radio news on several stations that no one is reporting on O encouraging the ‘compassionate’ release of the Pan Am bomber.
All focus is on the doc drop from wiki-leaks. How convenient.
Trying to blame Bush for a post-Bush decision. Bush was irrelevant after BO was sworn in.
I don’t care if you are a Republican, Democrat, appointed by a Republican or a Democrat...
The Civil Rights Commission is leftist by its very nature, in my opinion.
Instead of enforcing laws in place to ensure people are treated fairly, this “commission” deals on the basis of race, ethnicity and gender by its very nature, and has slanted outcomes as a result.
Discrimination is discrimintation no matter how it is presented.
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