Posted on 10/20/2010 5:38:45 PM PDT by jazusamo
Justice Department disenfranchises military, protects Black Panthers
The Obama Justice Department is doing everything it can to boost Democrats in the upcoming election. It's helping stifle military votes, facilitating criminal voting and encouraging intimidation at the polls by deep-sixing the New Black Panther voter-intimidation case.
In an Oct. 15 letter representing the views of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich tied together the department's mishandling of military voting rights and the Black Panther case. Mr. Weich wrote Rep. Frank Wolf, Virginia Republican, to give assurance that Justice would "not take any action that would be inconsistent with applicable whistleblower protections" against civil rights lawyer Christopher Coates for recent sworn testimony highlighting department abuses. The official also defended Justice's order to Mr. Coates - which Mr. Coates defied - not to testify about the Black Panther case or broader policy issues.
Mr. Weich then switched gears to put out some gratuitous disinformation about his department's record. "With respect to voting rights," he claimed, "the Department is actively working to ensure the successful enforcement of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment [MOVE] Act 2009 so that members of the Armed Forces and citizens living abroad receive their ballots in time to vote in the upcoming federal election." This bears no relation to reality.
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This is the biggest disgrace of all.
If I recall correctly, some of the Roman emperors tried to disenfranchise the Roman army and were later found floating down the Tiber.
AMEN!
Appropriate!
The rat party has either soiled or compromised significant American institutions such as, K-12 and post secondary education, the courts, media, popular culture, Congress, the Presidency.
If the time arrives when the entire electoral process becomes suspect, like that in a banana republic, what recourse do honest and Constitutional patriots have?
Yeah, I know.
Notice that this is always happening in Democratic strong holds, Bookmark.
It’s up to us to make this an issue. Our troops are fighting in a war zone defending us. The least we can do is defend their right to vote.
We should all contact Rush, Hannity, Levin, Malkin, Reagan, Hedgecock, Savage, Drudge.
I would think that felons are a much more likely vote for the Democrats.
The Democrats and their far leftish masters have dragged the public discourse and culture of this country into the gutter. The sound of our president talking is like the gurgling of a sewer.
The righteousness of our cause has never been more crystal clear than at this moment in history.
A warning to RINOS: NO compromise! NO collaboration!.
I recall late 1968 and my fanny was in RVN. We needed bombs in a country west of RVN. One man promised them. That was Wallace’s VP LeMay. Almost every SF man in my camp voted for George Wallace. Not for his great race relations, but; for the darn bombs his VP promised.
I have watched the left cut/snub the military’s vote, and; they do not care. They want the sure votes like from criminals,illegals, etc.
BUMP!
Sad state of affairs, but nothing new from the Democrats.
Since the Dems wanted to keep polling places open later in past elections, lets allow those military ballots to be counted up until say...Thanksgiving.
There were over 98,000 disenfranchised military ballots in the 2008 election... the electoral process is already suspect.
” It’s up to us to make this an issue. Our troops are fighting in a war zone defending us. The least we can do is defend their right to vote.
We should all contact Rush, Hannity, Levin, Malkin, Reagan, Hedgecock, Savage, Drudge.”
Amen!
Under Obama , felons vote while soldiers don’t, and armed Black Panthers can yell racial epithets at voters but whistleblowers are prohibited from responding to lawful subpoenas
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