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MM's column today looks at the political corruption of the Obama Justice Department. With the crime-coddling crony Attorney General Eric Holder in charge, no one should be surprised, of course. Members of Congress who care about electoral integrity need to press the administration on who intervened in the New Black Panther Party case and why. Members of Congress who care about voter fraud need to press the administration on its decision to undermine Georgia voter verification rules. And members of Congress need to continue connecting the dots to ACORN and the larger plan to wield power to preserve and protect a permanent Democratic majority.

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The U.S. Department of Injustice
by Michelle Malkin
June 5, 2009

The seal of the U.S. Department of Justice bears a Latin phrase: “Qui Pro Domina Justitia Sequitur. The motto refers to the Attorney General “who prosecutes on behalf of Lady Justice.” But under Barack Obama’s politically corrupted DOJ, Lady Justice is getting the shaft.

To wit: Let’s examine the uproar over Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to protect hate-mongering thugs who harassed and bullied precinct workers and voters on Election Day in Philadelphia.

Oh, wait. There’s been no uproar. Let me tell you why.

Two weeks ago, in a highly unusual move, Holder dismissed default judgments his department had won against two of three defendants charged with violating the Voting Rights Act. On November 4, 2008, a billy club-wielding militant in military-style boots and beret stood outside a Philly polling location with a similarly-dressed partner. Citizen journalists from the Pennsylvania-based blog Election Journal captured the menacing duo on video. One of the watchdogs observed: “I think it might be a little intimidating that you have a stick in your hand.”

That was an understatement. Witness Bartle Bull, a Democratic lawyer who organized for Bobby Kennedy and worked for the civil rights movement in Mississippi, signed a sworn affidavit decrying the Election Day brutishness. Serving as a poll watcher that day, he called the behavior of Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson “the most blatant form of voter discrimination I have encountered in my life.”

One of them, Bull reported, taunted poll observers: “[Y]ou are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.”

If the pair had been dressed in white sheets, all hell would have broken loose. But the ebony-clad thugs were members of the New Black Panther Party who had been dispatched by Malcolm X wannabe Malik Shabazz to “guard” the polls. Translation: Protect them from scrutiny. Shield them from sunlight. Keep independent voters and observers out.

Who is Malik Shabazz? The bespectacled race hustler grabbed the spotlight in the weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks by defending Osama bin Laden, blaming President Bush for 9/11, bashing Israel, and blasting our founding fathers as “snakes.” His group also infamously rallied behind the Duke University lacrosse rape hoaxer. And on the day before the presidential election last fall, one of Shabazz’s “field marshals,” Minister Najee Muhammad, held a “black power” rally promising to send his forces to polls across the country “to ensure that the enemy does not sabotage the black vote.”

The Bush DOJ filed suit against Malik Shabazz, Samir Shabazz, and Jerry Jackson in early January 2009. None of the defendants filed an answer to the lawsuit, putting them all into default. Instead of taking the default judgment that DOJ is entitled to against all of the defendants, the Obama team fully dismissed the lawsuits against Malik Shabazz and Jerry Jackson. Jackson, you should know, is an elected member of the Philadelphia Democratic Committee and was a credentialed poll watcher. Witness Greg Lugones told me “Obama campaign operatives were on site throughout the entire episode.”

Former Justice Department official and voting rights scholar Hans Von Spakovsky added: “I have never heard of the Department dismissing a case it has already won by default. They have…sent the message that hurling racial epithets and slurs at voters and intimidating and threatening voters at the polls is fine with the Holder Justice Department – at least if you are African-American. I seriously doubt that would have happened if the races had been reversed in this case.”

Exactly. And to repeat: The harassment was aimed not just at voters, but at white poll workers trying to ensure a fair and lawful process in a city infamous for machine politics and street money pollution.

Who are the racial cowards, Attorney General Holder?

On the heels of this voter intimidation protection plan, the Obama Justice Department issued another decision that undermines electoral integrity – but bolsters Democratic voter drives. The department this week denied the state of Georgia the ability to enact strict citizenship voter verification rules previously approved by two federal courts. As the Georgia secretary of state Karen Handel explained: “DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia’s elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant’s citizenship status or whether the individual even exists.”

On top of all that, Holder recently politicized the legal review process involving the contentious issue of D.C. voting rights. After careful study, the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel had issued an opinion that a House bill on the matter was unconstitutional. Holder, who supports D.C. voting rights along with President Obama, overrode his staff lawyers’ ruling—and simply ordered up an alternative opinion that fit the White House agenda.

Lady Justice is now protected by a security force armed with billy clubs and lawyers who serve the cause of protecting the re-election of Barack Obama over the rule of law.

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/05...-of-injustice/



Remember in 2000 when Democrats were all upset about voting irregularities in Florida?

“People weren’t allowed to vote. … Police checkpoints were set up in and around polling places to intimidate black men. It was all part of some grand conspiracy that said we don’t care what you do, NAACP, we’re not going to get you to the polls!”

– KWEISI MFUME; Dec 15, 2000; NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

What happened to all that outrage about people being intimidated at polling places? You’d think Democrats would be on top of this after making such an issue about every vote counting. But, apparently, it’s not the intimidation that concerns them, it’s who is doing the intimidation that matters. It’s another example of identity politics at work.

Those claims tuned out to be false, fabricated, dishonest, race hustling, race mongering, vote tampering, distortion peddling, hate filled lies.

In other words, it wasn’t even true.

The New York Times - leftist rag that it is and was, and other leftist news outlets, actually researched such accusations and found them to be false.

Go figure, right?

Holder undermines Georgia’s voter verification rules; ACORN cheers
June 2, 2009

First, Attorney General Eric Holder and the DOJ protect the New Black Panther Party bullies who menaced a Philly voting station last fall.

Now, Holder and the DOJ are opening the voter fraud floodgates in Georgia. The Georgia secretary of state explains:
http://www.sos.ga.gov/pressrel/2009_...%20Georgia.htm


Obama Justice Department Decision Will Allow Non-Citizens to Register to Vote in Georgia
Decision Bars Georgia From Continuing Voter Verification Process

Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel issued the following statement following the U.S. Department of Justice’s denial of preclearance of Georgia’s voter verification process:

Atlanta - “The decision by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to deny preclearance of Georgia’s already implemented citizenship verification process shows a shocking disregard for the integrity of our elections. With this decision, DOJ has now barred Georgia from continuing the citizenship verification program that DOJ lawyers helped to craft. DOJ’s decision also nullifies the orders of two federal courts directing Georgia to implement the procedure for the 2008 general election. The decision comes seven months after Georgia requested an expedited review of the preclearance submission.

“DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia’s elections, and the state has no ability to verify an applicant’s citizenship status or whether the individual even exists. DOJ completely disregarded Georgia’s obvious and direct interest in preventing non-citizens from voting, instead siding with the ACLU and MALDEF. Clearly, politics took priority over common sense and good public policy.

“This process is critical to protecting the integrity of our elections. We have evidence that non-citizens have voted in past Georgia elections and that more than 2,100 individuals have attempted to register, yet still have questions regarding their citizenship. Further, the Inspector General’s office is investigating more than 30 cases of non-citizens casting ballots in Georgia elections, including the case of a Henry County non-citizen who registered to vote and cast ballots in 2004 and 2006.

“It is important to underscore that not a single person has come forward to say he or she could not vote because of the verification process. Further, while DOJ argues that the process is somehow discriminatory, the historic voter turnout among Hispanic and African-American voters in the 2008 general elections clearly says otherwise.

“This decision provides a specific example of the inherently illogical and unfair nature of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. It is a sad day for the rights of our state and for the integrity of our elections. I remain committed to continuing the fight for citizenship verification. In the coming days, I will consider every option available to the state, including the possibility of legal action.”

Background:

As required by law and ordered by federal courts in October 2008, the eligibility of new applicants to register and vote is checked against the Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) and Social Security Administration databases to ensure that individuals registering to vote report similar information. If information in these databases does not match information reported on the voter registration form, the applicant is asked to clarify the information. Additionally, if the applicant previously reported to DDS that he or she is not a U.S. citizen, that person is asked by a registrar to provide proof of citizenship.

Prior to the November 2008 General Election, Secretary Handel sent letters to 4,771 voter registration applicants whose records at DDS indicated they were not U.S. citizens, asking them to provide documentation of their citizenship. As of March 2009, 2,148 of these applicants still have chosen not to resolve the question about their U.S. citizenship.

In the November 2008 General Election, county election officials reported that 599 individuals cast a challenged ballot because the voter had previously indicated to DDS that he or she was not a United States citizen and had not resolved their status with county officials at the time of the election. Of those, 369 ballots were accepted because the voter provided documentation of their citizenship after the election; and 230 were rejected because the individual chose not to confirm his or her citizenship status.

On October 10, 2008, activist organizations including the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit to attempt to prevent Georgia from verifying the eligibility of applicants to register and vote in the November General Election, including whether those individuals were citizens of the United States.

On October 16, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Jack Camp denied the motion by MALDEF and ACLU; directed the State to continue the verification process; and acknowledged the State’s requirements to verify information under the Help America Vote Act. In his order, Judge Camp stated:

HAVA requires that Defendant Handel match information in the statewide voter registration database with information from the Georgia DDS and the SSA databases “to the extent necessary to enable each such official to verify the accuracy of the information provided on the applications for voter registration.”

Judge Camp also stated:

Since the possibility of fraudulent and inaccurate voting could significantly injure and diminish the public’s respect and confidence in the electoral process, the State’s ability to maintain reliable voter lists is paramount to a temporary and minor inconvenience to a few individuals.

On October 27, 2008, a U.S. District Court three-judge panel again directed the State to continue its voter registration verification process and challenge ballot procedures through the November General Election.

Holder Covers for New Black Panther Criminal Thugs

By Quin Hillyer on 4.10.12 @ 10:05AM

Family members of George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin, are demanding that Eric Holder's [In]Justice Department charge the New Black Panther Party with a hate crime for putting a "dead or alive" bounty on Zimmerman's head. The family is probably wrong in its specifics, but right in the overall principle. The problems with their specifics are A) that except in very narrow circumstances, the whole concept of "hate crimes" is seriously flawed because it penalizes the same action by different degrees depending on the "thoughts" of the perpetrator, and b) because even under an expansive reading of hate crimes, the bounty probably doesn't qualify because it is not aimed at Zimmerman because of his ethnicity but rather for revenge.

But that doesn't mean the Panthers should not be arrested, prosecuted, imprisoned -- and ostracized for life. Their bounty appears, almost certainly, to violate numerous state laws, as former Justice Department official and whistleblower J. Christian Adams explained in a great column a couple of weeks ago: http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2...inglepage=true

Let’s start with solicitation to kidnap. In announcing a reward for the seizure of Zimmerman, the New Black Panthers may have violated Florida Code 787.01. It makes it a felony to “by threat, confining or abducting, or imprisoning another person against his . . . will without lawful authority with intent to . . . terrorize.”

Merely soliciting someone else to do this is also a felony in Florida under Florida Code 777.04. “A person who solicits another to commit an offense prohibited by law and in the course of such solicitation commands, encourages, hires, or requests another person to engage in specific conduct which would constitute such offense or an attempt to commit such offense commits the offense of criminal solicitation.”

Meanwhile, this isn't just a state matter. Again, Adams explains, this time putting the onus directly on the Panther-enabling Attorney General and race hustler Eric Holder to enforce federal laws against clearcut violators: http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2...lack-panthers/ http://www.justice.gov/ag/speeches/2...ch-090218.html

Here we go again. Eric Holder’s Justice Department last month oversaw a guilty plea for solicitation of kidnapping, a federal offense. Jayen Patel entered a plea in New Jersey for soliciting a purported white supremacist (actually an FBI agent acting as a white supremacist) to conduct a kidnapping.... Will Eric Holder at last open an investigation into the criminal conduct of the New Black Panthers? Will there be arrests like in the Jayen Patel case? It sure would be a way to put an end to the New Black Panther albatross that hangs around Eric Holder’s neck, and will through November.

Of course, this is the same national Panther organization against whom (in a story I personally co-broke in print http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...lack-panthers/ ) the racialist Holder and his racialist minions dropped charges in an abundantly manifest voter-intimidation case in the 2008 elections. Holder won't prosecute them, perhaps because he thinks and has quoted and said that "No matter how affluent, educated and mobile (a black person) becomes, his race defines him more particularly than anything else. ... [T]here’s a common cause that bonds the black United States attorney with the black criminal...."

Maybe that explains why DoJ won't do anything to combat the bounty-offering Panthers, and won't even comment on the matter (as reported by Kerry Picket of The Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/...-bounty-no-co/ ). (With regard to issues related to the earlier Panther case, Holder also is unconcerned about flagrant vote fraud, calling it "manufactured" http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives...d-voter-fraud/ even though just in the last week new charges were filed in yet another of a nationally growing number of vote fraud cases, this time in Indiana. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner...-von-spakovsky )

In these and many other cases, amply documented by Adams, by me, and by others, Eric Holder's Justice Department aids and abets race-based thuggery, at the very least by deliberate and malign (not benign) neglect. When thuggery is encouraged, the encouragers themselves are morally no better than the thugs.

Therefore, Holder and his minions themselves are thugs.

http://spectator.org/blog/2012/04/10...r-new-black-pa


Holder is a Disgrace.... and a Very Bad Man

By Quin Hillyer on 4.11.12 @ 2:18PM

Even I, with my low opinion of Thug-in-General Eric Holder, can't believe he would lavish praise on scofflaw, tax evader, and murderous inciter to violence Al Sharpton in the way Holder did here. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/eric...-guide-trayvon

Amazingly, Holder " thanked CNN’s Rev. Sharpton 'for your partnership, your friendship, and your tireless efforts to speak out for the voiceless, to stand up for the powerless, and to shine a light on the problems we must solve, and the promises we must fulfill.'”

Presumably he wasn't talking about voiceless people like the late Anthony Graziosi, killed in Crown Heights after Sharpton's rabble rousing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Heights_riot Presumably he wasn't talking about the voiceless seven people who died at Freddie's Fashion Mart. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sharpton Presumably he wasn't talking about Steven Pagones, fraudulently accused by Tawana Brawley and Al Sharpton.

Then again, maybe Holder agrees with Sharpton's screeds against Jews and Mormons. Maybe Holder likes racial violence, which may be why he won't do anything to sanction the New Black Panthers. Maybe Holderlikes racial demagoguery if it comes from black radicals like Sharpton.

Maybe Holder holds all those views himself. Maybe he sees racial and religious payback against innocents as being among the "promises we must fulfill."

Maybe Holder is a moral degenerate.

http://spectator.org/blog/2012/04/11...race-and-a-ver