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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>>suggested that the charges being made by right-wing figures are politically motivated.
Dear MSNBC,
They.Were.Intimidating.Voters!
Of course, its political. They weren’t stealing hubcaps. It’s a political crime, you idiots!
then they would have become targets of their own neighbors.
The New Panthers would be happy to tell Ms. Thernstrom they’re proud of their comrades struggle against The Man. However, the NBPP law team, though down with the struggle (fist in the air), strongly caution the NBPP to remain silent. We clear, ayeet.
Then so be it. If we’re afraid, then we’re lost.
Can this ditzy lady explain why the DOJ even got a temporary court injunction against them doing the same thing? If there’s nothing wrong with it at all?
Am I missing something? Isn’t the article saying that there’s no evidence that the Obama administration tried to stop an investigation? Everyone here seems to think that the article says there’s no evidence that the New Black Panthers tried to intimidate voters.
Joseph McCarthy was a hero. Had enough listened to him, the country would be far freer today.
Thernstrom is arguing that the "small potatoes" case was dropped NOT because of any formal Justice Dept. policy protecting blacks over whites but because there was "no direct evidence that they (the uniformed, weapon wielding black panthers) actually intimidated anyone."
Some of us here believe the video and the words of eye-witness Bartle Bull and others indicate obvious and egregious intimidation and would like to know exactly why the case was dropped.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian-American_Civil_Rights_League
It was a movement there for a while, until Joseph Colombo, its founder, was assassinated.
They need to fire this white cracker and install Saint Sherrod into this important racialist position!!
So, I guess the KKK will now be able to stand at voting sites with clubs and it will be OK with Hussein Obama and his racist attorney general.
Remember these folks are desperate, they know that November 2, 2010 will be a MAJOR political tsunmmi.
Maybe I should have read further. I only read what was posted on FR, so my bad, I guess. Thanks! I agree with you that there is plenty of evidence that there was voter intimidation going on, by the way.
This story by CBS is the opposite of helping.
Also this reminder..
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Never mind what you saw on the damned TAPE! You’re supposed to believe what I SAY!!!!
Thank God, Media Matters, and cBS, for that matter, don’t have a dog in this hunt! /heavy, heavy sarcasm
“No evidence....” OK we will believe you and not our own eyes. Sorry, but we have SEEN the tape.
Deflect, project, and blame. Lather, rinse, repeat....
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