The Obama Administration, Democrats, Justice Department and the Black Panthers
The failure or refusal of the Justice Department and the Obama Administration to prosecute members of the Black Panther domestic terrorist group for voter intimidation in 2008 and 2009 indicates just how truly corrupt they are. The Justice Department made a conscious decision to drop voter intimidation charges against members of the New Black Panther Party. The Attorney General, rather than stand up and take the heat, blamed it on career employees in the department. Bureaucrats are guilty of many decisions that undercut policy and laws of the U.S. but this stinks to high heaven.
Two members of the New Black Panthers were videotaped with one carrying a weapon and both reportedly using racially explosive language outside a Philadelphia polling place on election day 2008. Prosecution of these two individuals would have led to almost certain conviction. There is enough talk about race throughout the country, especially by liberals calling people with whom they disagree racists, without letting obvious racial intimidation go unpunished. The Panthers actions had the same effect as a Klu Klux Klan rally outside a primarily black polling place would have had. The attorneys for the two members charged have refused to respond to requests to answer to the charges.
The Washington Times, in an editorial, suggests that the White House itself interfered in the case. The Justice Department has stonewalled all outside inquiries into the case. The top Justice Department political employee, Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, has been identified as the person who approved the decision not to prosecute. Coincidentally, Perrelli consulted with key White House lawyers in person at exactly the time the Black Panther decisions were being made, while he has had little contact with the White House any other time. The Justice Department refused to respond to inquiries by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights concerning Perrelli's involvement.
During the time of the decision-making period last spring, two Justice Department officials, Ms.King, acting assistant attorney general, and Mr. Rosenbaum, acting deputy, both opposed going forward with the case. Ms. King has been sanctioned by federal courts for misconduct twice and the two officials had not worked on voting cases since the mid-1990s. Ms. King is best known for her decission that refused to let the majority-black town of Kinston, N.C., hold nonpartisan municipal elections, ruling that the town's blacks were too ignorant to know how to cast their votes if the Democratic Party label was not on the ballot. Mr. Rosenbaum has a history of working closely with President Obama and he led the Justice Department in intervening on behalf of ACORN in a voting rights case in Illinois. Obama was one of the lead attorneys in that case. According to numerous Justice officials, Mr. Perrelli was consulted and ultimately approved the decision for leniency with regard to the Black Panthers. Perrelli raised more than $500,000 for Obama's presidential election. He also served as editor at the Harvard Law Review while Obama was the publication's president.
The Washington Times also reports that the Obama White House and the Democrats are tied politically to the New Black Panther Party, in spite of the fact that they have been identified as a hate group by several left-wing organizations and have been denounced by remnants of the original Black Panther Party. In 2008, the official Obama campaign website featured a page highlighting the endorsement by the New Black Panther Party. One of the members originally charged, Mr. Jackson, held credentials to be an official Democratic Party poll watcher and was an elected member of Philadelphia's 14th Ward Democratic Committee. The charges against him were dropped just in time for him to serve as an official Democratic poll watcher in Philadelphia's municipal elections.
In a farewell address to his Civil Rights Division colleagues before being exiled to a South Carolina office and ordered not to comply with a subpoena from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Mr. Coates was reported as saying that the division's focus under Obama is at risk of " enforcing the Voting Rights Act in a racially biased fashion and turning a blind eye whenever incidents arise that indicate that minority persons have acted improperly in voting matters." This should be obvious from the numerous problems well documented by the criminal enterprise Acorn.
It would appear that the New Black Panther Party has joined ACORN, SEIU, labor unions, and other radical, corrupt organizations with friends in the White House, including the President of the United States.
Rep. Frank R. Wolf of Virginia, a senior Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, asked the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General to investigate "potential improprieties" in the department's dismissal of a civil complaint brought against the New Black Panther Party after its members participated in the disruption at polling places described above.
Rep Wolf is quoted as saying he was "disappointed" in Mr. Fine's "reluctance to investigate the unfounded dismissal of an important voter intimidation case," adding that despite repeated requests for information by members of Congress, the press and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the Justice Department "continues to stonewall all efforts to obtain information regarding the cases abrupt dismissal." He continued, "This obstruction should be of great concern to you and merit an immediate investigation. Given that the neither the Congress nor the commission can obtain critical information from the department, your authority as inspector general is the only way to learn whether the department has engaged in improper conduct with regard to the dismissal of this case and its hostility to the commissions statutory authorities and responsibilities."
In response to Wolf's and Rep. Lamar Smith's,Texas Republican, inquiries into the dismissal, New Black Panther Party leader Malik Zulu Shabazz has been quoted as issuing the following threatening comment in a statement he issued that said: "These right-wing white, red-faced, red-neck Republicans are attacking the hell out of the New Black Panther Party, and were organizing now to fight back ... We gearing up for a showdown with this cracker ... He keep talking -- we going to Capitol Hill, were just gearing up right now, well go to Capitol Hill."
Seven months later, Mr Wolf still has not received a response from te Justice Department.Mr. Wolf said he believed Justice Department officials involved in the dismissal had engaged in "activities that are an abuse of power, a blatant violation of voting rights enforcement, and potentially even defrauding of members of Congress and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights by obstructing legitimate investigations of this matter.