Why Didnt Obama’s DOJ Go After The New Black Panther Party For Voter Intimidation?Here's your answer

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Why Didn’t Obama’s DOJ Go After The New Black Panther Party For Voter Intimidation?



The case of the New Black Panther Party’s activities in Philadelphia during the 2008 election has been exploited by the conservative movement – including Fox News, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Instapundit – in order to make a false association between black supremacists and President Obama. In fact, the Obama administration followed the law and the Bush administration dismissed similar charges.

Department Of Justice closed The New Black Panther case because nobody came forward to indicate a pattern of intimidation. The law requires that witnesses come forth to indicate that there was a pattern of voter intimidation. No witnesses did so from this polling place. None. Nada. Zip. The Department of Justice can’t just go ahead with a prosecution because they feel like it if they lack the required evidence. It would in fact be an abuse of legal power to do so.

An injunction was filed against the New Black Panther Party member with a nightstick. The only weapon at the scene (conservative media has tried to claim there was a gun there, there wasn’t) was a nightstick wielded by a New Black Panther Party member. The DOJ did file an injunction against this man.

Bush administration didn’t prosecute an anti-immigration activist who went to the polls with a gun. The Bush administration in 2006 declined to file charges of voter intimidation against an anti-immigration activist who brought a gun to the polling place in Arizona and said he planned to photograph latino voters.

The “kill crackers” video is from before the election. The National Geographic Channel video of a New Black Panther Party member yelling about killing “crackers” and white babies was made before the 2008 election, not after as Fox and other outlets have falsely promoted.



J. Christian Adams is a GOP hack and his testimony is all hearsay. J. Christian Adams, the former DOJ lawyer who is the right’s star witness in this case, was part of the Department Of Justice’s attempt to stack the office with politically motivated lawyers during the Bush administration. Lawyers like Adams were hired by Bradley Schlozman not based on their legal abilities, but rather their loyalty to the Republican party and advocacy for conservative causes. In his testimony, Adams cites a lot of hearsay but nothing he directly observed. In other words, office gossip at best, possibly completely fabricated stories at worst.

Bartle Bull was a McCain poll-watcher and supports the GOP. Bartle Bull, an author cited by the right as a previous supporter of Democratic campaigns, was working as a poll watcher for John McCain on the day of the incident, and is currently in favor of Rudy Giuliani running for governor of New York.

The U.S. Civil Rights Commision is currently run by conservatives. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission, designed as a nonpartisan body, is currently dominated by conservatives after George W. Bush stacked the deck. Even so, one of the Republican commissioners is on the record as indicating that the New Black Panther Party inquiry is without actual merit.



There is no connection between President Obama and the New Black Panther Party. President Obama has no connection to the New Black Panther Party. He does not support their mission or their rhetoric. President Obama has repeatedly denounced racial hatred. The only (false) connection between Obama and the New Black Panther Party is that outlets like Fox News keep trying to connect the two in a cynical, dangerous attempt to play racial politics to aid the Republican party.

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2010/07/11/why-didnt-obamas-doj-go-after-the-new-black-panther-party-for-voter-intimidation/

[bluestateguy]

1. Call it payback for Florida in 2000

Black people standing up for themselves: that really makes a lot of people feel threatened.

[mahina]

2. Fox does this stuff because they know elections are won and lost by the narrowest of margins

and they are working 24-7 to shave off any number they can.

Why their lies aren't all over the headlines of what remains of the media is a mystery to me.

Oh, also, k and r.

[Clio the Leo]

3. so TWO black dudes are "news" while a whole klan of crazy teabaggers are...

... "patriots"

weird.

[KingFlorez]

4. When it doubt, fake it

"Democrats are sending black people to attack you!"

[spin]

5. There should be NO intimidation of any kind by any race ...

at any polling place.

That includes intimidating black voters by police.

Florida's black voters protest
Thursday, 11 January, 2001, 19:38 GMT

The US Civil Rights Commission has begun hearing complaints by black voters in Florida that thousands of them were wrongly disenfranchised in November's presidential election.

The federal hearing is investigating allegations of widespread voting irregularities.

Several witnesses described being intimidated by police roadblocks near polling stations and being asked to produce several identity documents before being allowed to vote. Others spoke of being wrongly listed as convicted criminals.

Civil rights activists say Vice-President Al Gore could have won Florida - and therefore the election - if black people had not been deterred from casting their ballots there.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1112505.stm

We seem to have a lot of election problems in our nation from ballots with hanging chads to possibly hacked electronic voting machines.

[Mimosa]

6. There should be NO intimidation of any kind by any race ...

Exactly so.

Why didn't the poll workers on the inside of the building call the police? Those guys -with batons- were illegally standing at the door to the voting are.

Any little old lady or man lady would have scared me to death. Nobody's supposed to be standing withing 50 yards of the polling area.

[Pirate Smile]

7. kick

[Jennicut]

8. Is it me or has the Black Panthers not been a real force in this country like since before I was

born? I was born in '75, by the way.

I don't like voter intimidation but in this case, there were no witnesses to come forward so the DOJ had no case. Simple as that.

[cags]

9. I thought that there were witnesses? Is this true or not?

[Pirate Smile]

10. Not true.

Department Of Justice closed The New Black Panther case because nobody came forward to indicate a pattern of intimidation. The law requires that witnesses come forth to indicate that there was a pattern of voter intimidation. No witnesses did so from this polling place. None. Nada. Zip. The Department of Justice can’t just go ahead with a prosecution because they feel like it if they lack the required evidence. It would in fact be an abuse of legal power to do so.

[woo me with science]

11. I heard that no voters came forward.

'm not sure of the accuracy of this, but the explanation I heard on C-SPAN was that a poll watcher expressed concern, but no actual voters at that precinct did. They needed complaints from people who were actually voting there in order for the case to fly.

[timo]

12. samir shabazz

or whatever his name is is a tool, he is just as bad as those wacked out loons that protest at soldiers funerals, anybody that stands around spouting filth like he does does his cause more harm than good!!

[4lbs]

13. The young white girl behind them, with her back to them, and talking on her cell phone looks real

intimated doesn't she?

:sarcasm:

[JoePhilly]

15. The GOP's "Southern Strategy" is alive and well.

White is the new black.

[robcon]

14. They had already got a judgment aginst the NBP.

They vacated that judgment. WTF????

[LatteLibertine]

16. They're desperate

They know they don't have the black vote, or the hispanic vote, so all they can do is try to scare white folks.