Is the Obama Administration Shielding The Black Panthers?

I am inclined to think it is and here is why. During the elections, men were filmed standing in front of the doors of a polling location; wearing jackboots and uniforms and both men held batons...and from time to time were seen slapping them menancingly into the palms of their hands. The police were called and arrests were made. The case made its way through the courts and here is what has happened since.




From the WSJ:

1. The episode—which Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, calls "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen"—began on Election Day 2008. Mr. Bull and others witnessed two Black Panthers in paramilitary garb at a polling place near downtown Philadelphia. (Some of this behavior is on YouTube.)

One of them, they say, brandished a nightstick at the entrance and pointed it at voters and both made racial threats. Mr. Bull says he heard one yell "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!"

2. In the first week of January, the Justice Department(still under Bush's watch)filed a civil lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring voters with the weapon, uniforms and racial slurs. In March, Mr. Bull submitted an affidavit at Justice's request to support its lawsuit.

3. When none of the defendants filed any response to the complaint or appeared in federal district court in Philadelphia to answer the suit, it appeared almost certain Justice would have prevailed by default.

4...the department in May suddenly allowed the party and two of the three defendants to walk away. Against the third defendant, Minister King Samir Shabazz, it sought only an injunction barring him from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of a Philadelphia polling place for the next three years—action that's already illegal under existing law.

5. one of the defendants who walked was Jerry Jackson, a member of Philadelphia's 14th Ward Democratic Committee and a credentialed poll watcher for the Democratic Party last Election Day.

6. on July 30 six career lawyers at Justice who had recommended continuing to pursue the case were overruled by Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli—a top administration political appointee

7. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted on Aug.7 to send a letter to Justice expanding its own investigation and demanding more complete answers. "We believe the Department's defense of its actions thus far undermines respect for rule of law," its letter stated. It noted "the peculiar logic" of one Justice argument, that defendants' failure to show up in court was a reason for dismissing the case: "Such an argument sends a perverse message to wrongdoers—that attempts at voter suppression will be tolerated so long as the persons who engage in them are careful not to appear in court to answer the government's complaint."

8. Black Panther Party Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz, said on Fox News just after the election that his activities at the polling station were part of a nationwide effort. Mr. Shabazz added that the Black Panther activities in Philadelphia were justified due to "an emergency situation."

You can read the rest of the article at WSJ, but those are the main points.

Why is Eric(Americans are cowards) Holder protecting the Black Panthers? Why were these thugs allowed to intimidate American citizens at polling places? Finally, a question that has been gnawing at me for some time---are we, the average American citizen on our own now when not even the Department of Justice will prosecute blatant thuggery?

Uncle Sam's Plantation

When I was much younger, I used to read those historical romance novels. I loved them. I had an interest in history and of course I thought the descriptions of the gowns and the women who wore them was amazing. I remember the story line from one novel of a young English woman who was sold into indentured servitude to pay off her father's debt. My heroine wound up in the Carolinas on a fledgling tobacco plantation and by the end of the story, she had fallen in love with the handsome but troubled plantation owner and managed to marry him and bought herself her freedom in the process.

That was my first exposure to the concept of indentured servants. Seemingly ordinary people who had to place themselves at the mercy of a debt holder for a period of time, because either they or someone else in their family owed more money than they could repay. I feel that mentality creeping up on this nation's people. Do you feel it? As a nation, we owe much more money than we are going to be able to repay in our life times and our elected officials are working overtime to add 1 or 2 or maybe even 3 TRILLION dollars to that debt.

So will our children be sold into indentured servitude to pay for the socialization of our nation? There won't be any handsome plantation owner to come and save them from the fate we are assigning to them. We have raised a nation of Americans who believe the only way they can live their lives is through the beneficence of the government. Now we reap what we sow. Even though I didn't sow those particular seeds, the seeds of apathy, ignorance,laziness,amorality, dependency I have to pay for the consequences. My sons will pay the consequences and so will my grandchildren. That fills me with such sadness.

Star Parker writes "A benevolent Uncle Sam welcomed mostly poor black Americans onto the government plantation. Those who accepted the invitation switched mindsets from "How do I take care of myself?" to "What do I have to do to stay on the plantation?" in her article this week. That statement came to mind this week when I saw Ms Hughes begging the president for a new house or a new kitchen. I saw it again in that young man, Julio who wanted the president to hand him better healthcare. I saw it all throughout the elections, a woman claiming that BO was going to fill up her gas tank, and all sorts of miraculous feats.

"Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems. The kind of problems that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their lives over to others.
The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional inner city schools, and broken black families. "

I know Star Parker was speaking as a black woman about other blacks, but I see this not in a black or white context, but a context of those who were raised to believe the government is the font of all that is free and those of us who know the government is going to take from us to give to them, just to maintain the plantation. That really bothers me.

http://townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2009/02/09/back_on_uncle_sams_plantation?page=1

"I escaped the plantation"

Wow, amazing and well done young man!

OH.MY.GOD

http://hillbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/howard-stern-exposes-black-racists-in-harlem/

Ok, file this one under the "see I told you so" category. It seems that blacks are voting for Obama because he is black! ssshhhh....
I found this article on Hillbuzz. It seems Howard Stern sent a reporter out to question voters. Pay attention to the questions. It's astounding. God, please bless America.