The Black Panther Party says it will deal with lacrosse players

[ECH1969]

The national chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense says his group intends to march at Duke University on Monday to "deal directly" with lacrosse players about charges of rape of an escort service dancer at a team party.

"We are conducting an independent investigation, and we intend to enter the campus and interview lacrosse players," Shabazz said Thursday. "We seek to ensure an adequate, strong and vigorous prosecution."

Asked whether his followers will be armed when they come to Duke, Shabazz chuckled and said, "I don't know if I can comment on that."

http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/433625.html

[JVS]

1. Oh, this is a healthy development in the case

:eyes:

[saltpoint]

2. Well, this issue just wasn't NEARLY touchy enough as it was, so thank

God the Panthers are lending some much-needed escalation of tension and vigilantism.

Nancy Grace needed an extra push for the May sweeps anyway.

[DS1]

3. And they'll likely, and correctly, be all arrested for trespassing

Vigilante justice, yeah, let's all go back to the middle ages.

[bluestateguy]

4. They are not the real Black Panther party

and they are not recognized as real Black Panthers by the old members from the 60's and 70's.

[JVS]

5. More on the New Black Panthers

From the article in the OP

"The New Black Panthers is listed as a racist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization more often cited for its efforts to monitor the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists. The Panthers is also disavowed by the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, named for the activist who helped found the original Black Panther Party in 1966."

[Solo_in_MD]

11. They are in many ways the KKK with more melanin

[MrSlayer]

6. Meaning what?

They are coming in to threaten and intimidate? Who the hell are they to interrogate anyone? By all means go and march and demonstrate but to imply they are coming armed to "deal" with people is total bullshit.

[NNN0LHI]

7. This should give the Mexicans a bit of a break

This is all my Fox News programmed racist mother wanted to talk about last night on the telephone. She completely forgot about wanting to deport all the Mexicans. She was back to her normal wanting to ship all the blacks back to Africa last night. What a world? So much hate, so little time.

Don

[eleny]

8. Lighting the fuse on a powder keg

[ECH1969]

10. yup

[leveymg]

9. "I don't know if I can comment on that."

Does everyone think they're Dick Cheney these days? This autocratic crap has poisoned all discourse in America.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

12. These clods aren't Panthers

I knew the Black Panthers in the days of COINTELPRO, and represented some of them.

These guys aren't Panthers.

Pussies, maybe.

Tops.

[BrotherBuzz]

13. The New Black Panther Party ain't the Black Panther Party

Bobby Seale says the Black Panther Party is dead, end of story. The "New" Black panther party is part of of The Nation of Islam outfit that is trying to cash in on the fine work the Panthers did almost forty years ago.