Voter intimidation? No problem for Obama
Still think his “election” was on the square?
Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.
Gee, what a shock.
The career Justice lawyers were on the verge of securing sanctions against the men earlier this month when their superiors ordered them to reverse course, according to interviews and documents. The court had already entered a default judgment against the men on April 20.
A Justice Department spokesman on Thursday confirmed that the agency had dropped the case, dismissing two of the men from the lawsuit with no penalty and winning an order against the third man that simply prohibits him from bringing a weapon to a polling place in future elections.
Somewhere, the shade of Bull Connor is plaintively asking, “what am I, chopped liver?”
Mr. Miyar declined to elaborate about any internal dispute between career and political officials, saying only that the department is “committed to the vigorous prosecution of those who intimidate, threaten or coerce anyone exercising his or her sacred right to vote.”
Except, y’know, when it isn’t.
People directly familiar with the case, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because of fear of retribution, said career lawyers in two separate Justice offices had recommended proceeding to default judgment before political superiors overruled them.
Obama’s Gangster Government in action. And then there’s this:
“In my opinion, the men created an intimidating presence at the entrance to a poll,” he (Bartle Bull, civil rights activist, RFK aide – M) declared. “In all my experience in politics, in civil rights litigation and in my efforts in the 1960s to secure the right to vote in Mississippi…I have never encountered or heard of another instance in the United States where armed and uniformed men blocked the entrance to a polling location.”
Mr. Bull said the “clear purpose” of what the Panthers were doing was to “intimidate voters with whom they did not agree.” He also said he overheard one of the men tell a white poll watcher: “You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.”
Actually, we were about to be ruled by one of the most disgracefully corrupt juntas in history, one which is well on its way to turning a once-great nation into a banana republic — in more ways than just economically.
Expect screaming condemnation of this disgusting outrage from the Left on, oh, around the 12th of never. More here and here.
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