http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/civilrights/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:32:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417702/posts Christopher Coates, the man who approved the civil rights complaint against New Black Panther Party for its behavior at a Philadelphia polling place in the November 2008 election, has been removed from his post as chief of the Voting Section of the Justice Department. Reportedly he is being transferred to the U.S. attorney's office in South Carolina. BillLawrenceOnline.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417702/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:32:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416027/posts Veteran Civil Rights Division attorney Christopher Coates is no longer chief of the Voting Section, according to the division’s Web site. There was no official announcement of the personnel change in the long-troubled section, which most recently has been embroiled in the controversy over the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. Main Justice noticed the change on the Voting Section Web site. Taking over for Coates in an acting role is Chris Herren, a deputy chief of the section, according to the Web site. Alejandro Miyar, a spokesman for the Civil Rights Division, wasn’t available for comment Sunday. Coates... MainJustice.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416027/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:42:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407143/posts The dispute between the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the Justice Department is starting to look like the legal equivalent of World War II's Anzio campaign, which represented a major escalation late in the war. The battleground is the controversy about the department's decision to drop voter-intimidation cases against members of the New Black Panther Party. The commission is mounting a massive legal assault; Justice is refusing to be budged; and the casualties could be high. The shame of it is that the department itself would be well-served if it would merely cooperate. That's what it would do if... WASHINGTON TIMES http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407143/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:43:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405237/posts Harry Reid is an obvious product of a government education that he and other Liberals are inflicting on the rest of America, and he should be the poster child for school choice. In his recent comment regarding Republicans' efforts to block "healthcare" legislation, Reid invoked the ghosts of Democrats past, claiming that Republicans tried to block emancipation and civil rights for blacks. I believe Reid gave America yet another teachable moment. As I point out in my book The BIG Black Lie, Reid, like most Liberals is trying to revise the racist history of the Democratic Party and better yet... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405237/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:48:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404868/posts “In a startling disclosure from an exchange at an East London mosque, Imam Abdul Makin and a leading Muslim lawyer have supported the killing and raping of non-Muslims, declaring all non-Muslims as guilty and subject to lethal abuse.” TownHall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404868/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:25:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403512/posts Senator Reid, If Republicans are as bigoted and obstructionist to the causes of ending racism as sexism as you implied this week, and if Democrats are so plainly the party of human mercy, then why at every turn are Republicans so eager to expound on their civil rights history, while Democrats must always obfuscate their historical role by deflection, propaganda, and outright lies? Example: Today’s Democrats claim Thomas Jefferson as their founder. He formed the Democratic-Republican Party based upon strong republican principles, namely opposition to large government and a national bank. That party no longer exists, but closely resembles the... Six Meat Buffet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403512/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 06:14:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399140/posts When the Bush administration ran the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, career lawyers wanted to look into accusations that officials in one state had illegally intimidated blacks during a voter-fraud investigation. But division supervisors refused to “approve further contact with state authorities on this matter,” according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office auditing the activities of the division from 2001 to 2007. Congress is set to release that report, which did not identify the state in question, on Thursday as the House of Representatives takes up its first oversight hearing of the Civil Rights Division... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399140/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:04:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2389005/posts When we hear Reverend Jeremiah Wright say “G-d damn American!” or listen to Van Jones demand we “give [Native Americans] the wealth,” we shake our heads and wonder how men could live in a free country and wish it less free. When I reflect on how my black father’s initiative, intelligence, and unflinching work ethic lifted our family out of a deteriorating Detroit suburb into a brighter future, I marvel at memories of him nevertheless lecturing me about “the white man” and my inherent racial disadvantage. When I speak to black friends or acquaintances, the vast majority are instinctively “progressive”... 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BOND Action, Inc. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388739/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:30:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383881/posts Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Va.), a Philadelphia native, and House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member, Lamar Smith (R-Texas) sent a letter, on November 10, to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting information ... Tremoglie's Tea Time Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383881/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:58:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383117/posts The FBI is investigating terrorism threats posted on a homosexual blog that appear to be aimed at Christians. Pro-family activists have drawn attention to a disturbing exchange on a homosexual blog run by Joe Jervis of New York. The exchange takes place between individuals named Fritz and Tex in the comment section of a blog discussing the Maine homosexual marriage defeat and pro-family activists Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel and Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality. LaBarbera says the two commentators discussed carrying out acts of terrorism against Christians. "One guy [Fritz] sort of raises [the concept] and... OneNewsNow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383117/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:50:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377620/posts Abstract: Supporters of Proposition 8 in California have been subjected to harassment, intimidation, vandalism, racial scapegoating, blacklisting, loss of employment, economic hardships, angry protests, violence, at least one death threat, and gross expressions of anti-religious bigotry. Arguments for same-sex marriage are based fundamentally on the idea that limiting marriage to the union of husband and wife is a form of bigotry, irrational prejudice, and even hatred against homosexual persons. As this ideology seeps into the culture more generally, individuals and institutions that support marriage as the union of husband and wife risk paying a price for that belief in many... The Heritage Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377620/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:46:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2374659/posts On MSNBC on October 27, Rachel Maddow interviewed Jane Hamsher, well-known Hollywood roustabout and left-wing blogger for FireDogLake.com. The subject was the progress of Obamacare in the Senate and Senator Joe Lieberman's warning that he might join a Republican filibuster of the Baucus bill if it contained the so-called public option. During the discussion, however, Hamsher went off on a tangent about the 1964 Civil Rights Act and made the allusion that the famed anti-civil rights Dixiecrats joined Republicans to stand in the way of civil rights during the 1964 debates. Maddow: Let me ask you about the statistic I... Publius Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2374659/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:50:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2372125/posts Mormon Apostle Dallin Oaks chose a friendly audience deep within the Book-of-Mormon-belt for his now controversial October 13 speech in defense of the Mormons’ ongoing fight against same-sex civil marriage. Speaking to students at Brigham Young University-Idaho, Oaks decried the continuing erosion of religious freedom and the declining influence of religion in the public sphere, before mounting a strongly-worded defense of “the ancient order” of marriage against the “alleged ‘civil right’ of same-gender couples to enjoy the privileges of marriage.” Elder Oaks recalled expressions of outrage directed at Mormons and acts of vandalism against Mormon temples and wardhouses committed after... ReligionDispatches.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2372125/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:42:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371340/posts MOBILE, Ala. — A former Alabama judge was cleared Monday of charges accusing him of paddling and sexually abusing male inmates. Former Mobile County Circuit Judge Herman Thomas was found not guilty on seven counts after more than a week of testimony. A judge threw out the remaining 14 charges. Defense attorneys had painted the 48-year-old as a prominent civic leader who became a victim of felons lying about him to manipulate the court system. Prosecutors said Thomas brought 11 young male inmates to a private courthouse office and severely paddled their bare bottoms for sexual gratification. Some of the... Assoc. Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371340/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:12:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2369601/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Eric Holder at the University of Maine's William S. Cohen Lecture Series Orono, Maine ~ Friday, October 23, 2009 Before I begin, I’d like to thank President Kennedy and Chancellor Pattenaude for welcoming me to this wonderful university. Chief Justice Saufley and First Lady Baldacci, thank you for being here as well. And I’d like to recognize the distinguished representative of the Justice Department in Maine, United States Attorney Paula Silsby. I especially want to thank our host and my friend, Secretary Bill Cohen, and... US DOJ.gov/ag - Speech http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2369601/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:08:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368279/posts The Supreme Court recently faced a challenge to the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A Texas municipality requested that it be allowed to be relieved from the onerous and expensive preclearance provisions of the Act. The Supreme Court avoided a ruling on the constitutional question but did allow the municipality to “bail out “ of the preclearance requirements. Under those requirements, a number of states and voting districts (mostly in the South, but also including parts of seven non-Southern states such as Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx in New York) must obtain preclearance from the Department of... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368279/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:41:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2364230/posts As much as I hate to take issue with my colleagues here, it is hyperbolic to call Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a “conservative.” It is true King was no New Left radical. He had little use for Malcolm X and in his “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” he famously denounced “the hatred and despair of the black nationalist.” But King’s views before his antiwar speech were left-of-center, for his day or ours. King believed in a guaranteed annual income, opposed Vietnam well before 1967, and, “content of their character” notwithstanding, voiced support for some form of racial preferences.... NewsRealBlog.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2364230/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:39:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2363106/posts LDS apostle Dallin H. Oaks on Tuesday likened the post-Proposition 8 backlash against Mormons to the persecution blacks endured during the civil-rights struggle. Now Oaks faces a backlash himself. "Were four little Mormon girls blown up in the church at Sunday school? Were there burning crosses planted on local bishops' lawns? Were people lynched and their genitals stuffed in their mouths?" asked University of Utah historian Colleen McDannell. "By comparing these two things, it diminishes the real violence that African-Americans experienced in the '60s, when they were struggling for equal rights. There is no equivalence between the two." Oaks, in... Salt Lake Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2363106/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:58:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361657/posts A Florida judge has ruled a teenager from Ohio must return after running away to Florida in fear that her parents would harm her for converting from Islam to Christianity. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361657/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:52:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2361359/posts Islamic Groups Shut Down Worship of Church in Indonesia The Rev. Bedali Hulu (photo: Compass) Under pressure from Islamists, local officials order halt to services in home. JAKARTA, Indonesia, October 5 (CDN) — Several Islamic organizations have pressed officials in a sub-district near Indonesia’s capital city to forbid Jakarta Christian Baptist Church to worship in a house, resulting in an order to cease services. The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), the Betawi Forum Group, and political party Hizbut Tahrir have told officials in Sepatan sub-district, Tangerang district, near Jakarta that worship activities cannot be conducted in a residence. The house belongs... Compass Direct http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2361359/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:09:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2361345/posts Christian Arrested for Distributing Tracts in Egypt Protestant Copt, 61, illegally detained then released without charges after four days. ISTANBUL, October 6 (CDN) — An Egyptian Christian arrested in Cairo for handing out gospel leaflets and held in prison illegally for four days has been released, the freed Protestant Copt told Compass. Abdel Kamel, 61, was arrested on Sept. 23 in downtown Cairo for handing out copies of a Christian leaflet. As they arrested him, police told Kamel it was “unlawful” to hand out religious information on public roads. When Kamel countered that Muslims commonly hand out Islamic literature, police... Compass Direct http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2361345/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:59:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359450/posts [There are no graphic images in the article proper. They are accessed through a slide show only.]The photographs are graphic and detailed, showing the fingers or toes of aborted fetuses whose entire frames are no bigger than a cellphone. Since the mid-1990s, they have appeared all over the country — carried as posters by protesters, handed out with pamphlets or, in some cases, mounted like billboards on the sides of trucks. Like many others, I often wondered about the source of these images. Who took the pictures? Where did the fetuses come from? I had a chance to find some... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359450/posts#comment Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:57:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2357021/posts Jamie Foxx signs on for ‘Zebra Murders’November 14th, 2007 - 2:48 am ICT by admin The pic is based on Prentice Earl Sanders and Bennett Cohen’s 2006 book by the same name. Matt Carnahan writing the screenplay for the bigscreen. The plot revolves around a series of racially motivated serial killings — black on white — that took place in San Francisco in 1973 and 1974. Foxx will be playing the role of real-life cop Sanders, who was one of two black police detectives who led the team that cracked the case, reports Variety. The movie will also tell how... thaindian.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2357021/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:37:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349848/posts There is the ongoing review of the death of a man beaten by four white teenagers in a park in Shenandoah, Pa. The youths, all high school football players, shouted “Go back to Mexico” before one punched the man repeatedly with a metal shank in his fist, according to witnesses. Another kicked him on the left side of his head so hard that the Mexican man’s brain began to swell. He died two days later. There is the continuing inaction three years after hundreds took to the streets of Tallahassee, Fla., protesting the acquittal of seven guards in the death... Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349848/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:59:29 GMT