Washington Post article about the New Black Panther Party

**SurferGirl** · 10-01-2009, 11:58 AM

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009...panther-probe/
U.S. panel chides Holder in Panther probeRate this story

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Wednesday to name a Justice Department official to oversee the production of what it called "our overdue information requests" for documents in the dismissal of a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party accused of disrupting a Philadelphia polling place in the November elections.

Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds said in a letter that the department has been "largely non-responsive" to requests for information since questions about the dismissal were first raised in June and had turned over "none of the documents" being sought.

Mr. Reynolds said that after seeking to work with department subordinates to get access to the documents, the commission turned directly to Mr. Holder in August but had still not received any of the requested information, including documents on previous voter intimidation investigations "so we could determine whether the department's action in the NBPP case constitutes a change in policy and, if so, what the implications of that change might be."

He said the commission knew the department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) had begun an inquiry into the case and that the department had asked to delay any response until that investigation was complete, but he said the commission would be "sensitive to OPR's internal ethics review as we move forward with our own inquiry."

"The commission will work to accommodate any legitimate concerns the department may have regarding specific requests for information once the department begins its production," he said.

The commission voted in early September to investigate the matter, saying it would make an "independent judgment regarding the merits of the NBPP enforcement actions (regardless of how the decisions were made) and the potential impact on future voter-intimidation enforcement by the department."

The commission wants to know why the Justice Department dismissed a civil complaint accusing members of the New Black Panther Party of disrupting a Philadelphia polling place during last year's election, saying the department had offered only "weak justifications."

Matthew A. Miller, Justice Department spokesman, said the department "vigorously enforces voting rights laws," noting that it had obtained an injunction against the defendant who held a nightstick in front of a polling place during voting hours.

"The department will fully enforce its terms," he said, noting that the commission previously requested the department examine the case and an inquiry is under way to determine whether further review is warranted.

"Career supervising attorneys who have over 60 years of experience at the Department of Justice ... made the decisions in this case after a thorough review of the facts and applicable legal precedent," he said.

But Mr. Reynolds, a former deputy associate attorney general under President George W. Bush, has voiced concerns that the legal precedent set by the department in its May decision to drop the case against three of four named defendants would encourage "other hate groups" to act similarly at polling locations in the future. He also has charged that other groups might not have been treated so leniently.

"If you swap out the New Black Panther Party in this case for neo-Nazi groups or the Ku Klux Klan, you likely would have had a different outcome," he said in an August interview. "A single law, a single rule should be applied across the board."

The commission is an independent, fact-finding body charged with investigating civil rights complaints and making recommendations to the federal government about how to fix problems it uncovers.

In January, the Justice Department filed a civil complaint in Philadelphia against the New Black Panther Party after two of its members in black berets, black combat boots, black shirts and black jackets purportedly intimidated voters with racial insults, slurs and a nightstick. A third party member was accused of managing, directing and endorsing their behavior. The incident was captured on videotape.

Four months later, the Justice Department dropped the charges against all but one of the defendants, saying "the facts and the law did not support pursuing" them. The department also said the New Black Panther Party had disavowed what happened in Philadelphia, had suspended that city's chapter and that one of the Panthers, Jerry Jackson, had been allowed by Philadelphia police to stay at the polling place as a certified Democratic poll watcher.

Before the charges were dropped, a federal judge in April had ordered default judgments against the Panthers after they refused to respond to the charges or appear in court. The Justice Department also was in the final stages of seeking sanctions when a delay in the proceedings was ordered by Loretta King, acting assistant attorney general.

The ruling was issued after she met with Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, the department's No. 3 political appointee, who approved the decision, according to interviews with department officials who sought anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case.

Mr. Reynolds said the "consequences for an act should not be withdrawn" and described as "poor judgment" the decision to allow Mr. Jackson to escape charges. He said he would "understand a judge imposing an even harsher sentence on a poll watcher - a person who holds a public trust, has gone through training and is sworn to protect the election process."

The New Black Panther Party has not been available for comment.

Named in the complaint were the New Black Panther Party; its chairman, Malik Zulu Shabazz, a lawyer and D.C. resident; minister King Samir Shabazz, a Philadelphia resident and head of the Philadelphia NBPP chapter; and Mr. Jackson, also a resident of Philadelphia. Mr. Shabazz was enjoined by the department from displaying a weapon at a polling place in the future.

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**Jolie Rouge** · 10-11-2011, 10:01 AM

Reverse Racism
12 hours ago - Thomas Sowell

Among those who have been disappointed by President Barack Obama, none is likely to end up so painfully disappointed as those who saw his election as being, in itself and in its consequences, a movement toward a "post-racial society."

Like so many other expectations that so many people projected onto this little-known man who suddenly burst onto the political scene, the expectation of movement toward a post-racial society had no speck of hard evidence behind it -- and all too many ignored indications of the very opposite, including his two decades of association with the egregious Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

Those people of good will who want to replace the racism of the past with a post-racial society have too often overlooked the fact that there are others who instead want to put racism under new management, to have reverse discrimination as racial payback for past injustices.

Attorney General Eric Holder became a key figure epitomizing the view that government's role in racial matters was not to be an impartial dispenser of equal justice for all, but to be a racial partisan and an organ of racial payback. He has been too politically savvy to say that in so many words, but his actions have spoken far louder than any words.

The case that first gave the general public a glimpse of Attorney General Holder's views and values was one in which young black thugs outside a voting site in Philadelphia were televised intimidating white voters. When this episode was broadcast, it produced public outrage.

Although the Department of Justice's prosecution of these thugs began in the last days of the Bush administration, and the defendants had offered no legal defense, the case was dropped by the Justice Department after Eric Holder took over. One of the lawyers who were prosecuting that case resigned in protest.

That lawyer -- J. Christian Adams -- has now written a book, titled "Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department." It is a thought-provoking book and a shocking book in what it reveals about the inner workings of the Department of Justice's civil rights division.

Bad as the Justice Department's decision was to drop that particular case, which it had already won in court, this book makes painfully clear that this was just the proverbial tip of the iceberg.

Despite the efforts of some in the media and in politics to depict the voter intimidation in Philadelphia as just an isolated incident involving a few thugs at one voting place, former U.S. Attorney Adams shows that these thugs were in fact part of a nationwide organization doing similar things elsewhere.

Moreover, the civil rights division of the Justice Department has turned the same blind eye to similar voter intimidation and corruption of the voting process by other people and other organizations in other cities and states -- so long as those being victimized were white and the victimizers were black.

This is all spelled out in detail, naming names and naming places, not only among those in the country at large, but also among those officials of the Justice Department who turned its role of protecting the civil rights of all Americans into a policy of racial partisanship and racial payback.

The widespread, organized and systematic corruption of the voting process revealed by the author of "Injustice" is on a scale that can swing not only local but national elections, including the 2012 elections. The Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder has not only turned a blind eye to blatant evidence of voter fraud, it has actively suppressed those U.S. Attorneys in its own ranks who have tried to stop that fraud.

Even in counties where the number of votes cast exceeds the number of people legally entitled to vote, Eric Holder's Justice Department sees no evil, hears no evil and speaks no evil -- if the end result is the election of black Democrats. It has become the mirror image of the old Jim Crow South.

This is an enormously eye-opening book which makes painfully clear that, where racial issues are concerned, the Department of Justice has become the Department of Payback. A post-racial society is the last thing that Holder and Obama are pursuing.

http://townhall.com/columnists/thoma...reverse_racism

**Jolie Rouge** · 05-23-2012, 05:18 AM

Disappointed in Obama, New Black Panthers openly consider ‘the bullet’
By Caroline May - The Daily Caller | The Daily Caller – 19 hrs ago

The small but vocal New Black Panther Party is woefully disappointed in President Barack Obama, and is openly implying that the best way to reach its goals is no longer through “the ballot” but through “the bullet.”

In the Spring edition of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) newspaper — cover reading “The Ballot or The Bullet: which way for black people?” — NBPP Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz breaks down the presidential election, concluding the Democratic Party is the “institutional pimp of Black peoples and the Black Nation” and that Obama has “been a real disappointment.”

“Black peoples are the whores and prostitutes of the Democratic Party, and mistreated mistress that is courted in the late of night, but left hanging when it is time for real change in the light of the post election day,” Shabazz wrote, following a dissertation on the need to “Vote for Revolution.”

Shabazz detailed his past hopes for Obama as the first African-American president, noting that Obama has not lived up to them — specifically by continuing the policies of the Bush administration in the so-called war on terror and ignoring the economic plight of black Americans.

“The black community is at large no better off that (sic) before he was in office. We are curious as to what his agenda is for Black people in America and if he even has one,” Shabazz added.

The lead editorial in the 36-page publication is written by the paper’s editor, Chawn Kweli, entitled “4 years and a Bucket of Hope: The Change That Never Came,” which describes the group’s excitement, and subsequent disappointment, after Obama was elected.

“Mr. Obama’s policies have not corrected the economic troubles of America, they have gotten worse,” Kweli wrote. “The debt continues to expand [into the trillions], and the administration’s handling of international relations has hardened dialogue with foreign nations. Mr. Obama’s policies have been especially harsh to us the Black community. He [Obama] bailed out Wall Street and the auto makers but kept us at the top of the unemployment ladder.”

Seasonally adjusted black unemployment in America currently stands at 13.0 percent, compared to the entire country’s 8.1 percent.

“With strategy, Obama will sing a little Al Green, do a little dance, and win black votes. Sadly like obedient sheep’s (sic), we go to the polls and vote for ‘Black skin,’ no matter how destructive the policies,” Kweli added.

Republicans, according to Shabazz, are undeserving of African-American votes. He wrote, “Only bootlicking Uncle Toms such as Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain pledge loyalty to this racist party that is overtly contemptuous and hostile to poor and working people, unions, and the like.”

“Black America, you must decide who will best represent you in 2012. You must decide if you will choose the ballot as a means to change, or the bullet,” Shabazz wrote, adding that “demanding change does come by any means necessary.”

According to Shabazz, dropping the 2008 voter intimidation charges against the NBPP was one instance in which Obama did the right thing.

Following Obama’s election the group was charged with voter intimidation when their members were seen standing outside a Philadelphia voting precinct dressed in paramilitary garb, one welding a nightstick in what a witness and former civil rights lawyer described as “the most blatant form of voter intimidation I’ve ever seen.”

The Justice Department dismissed the intimidation charges against the group in 2009, a decision which lead to a U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigation. Obama’s direct involvement in the case’s dismissal has been only been speculative.

The newspaper also contains articles about the Trayvon Martin case, blacks in science and updates on the group’s National Days of Action.

In late March the NBPP offered a $10,000 bounty for Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman. The group has been denounced by more mainstream civil rights groups and is often labeled a “fringe” organization.

The Southern Poverty Law Center considers the New Black Panther Party a “hate group.”

http://news.yahoo.com/disappointed-o...165110150.html

**Jolie Rouge** · 05-23-2012, 05:27 AM

Florida man to plead guilty to Obama threat
By CURT ANDERSON | Associated Press – 3 hrs ago

MIAMI (AP) — A Miami college student plans to plead guilty in federal court to threatening President Barack Obama on Facebook.

A plea hearing is set for Wednesday afternoon for 20-year-old Joaquin Amador Serrapio Jr. His attorney says he intends to plead guilty to one count of threatening to kill or harm the president. Federal prosecutors say Serrapio posted threats on Facebook in February when Obama was in Miami to give a speech. The posts threatened to put a bullet in the president's head and asked if anyone wanted to help in a presidential assassination.

There's no indication Serrapio intended to act on the threats. His lawyer says Serrapio never wanted to hurt the president. Serrapio faces a maximum five-year prison sentence. He attends Miami-Dade College and is also a rock musician.

http://news.yahoo.com/fla-student-pl...082431084.html

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stupid is, as stupid does. I am not a college grad, but even I know better then to make any threats against a president...

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Wasn't there a play or movie than portrayed the death of George W. Bush?

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The New Black Panther Party isn't being brought up on charges ??

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You don't threaten a president, no matter how much you dislike them. I would love to see Obama kicked out of office and forced to look for real work like the rest of us, actually that goes for all of our elected politicians, but you never threaten them with anything more than voting them out.
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Well, just 'threatening" the life of any politician will guarantee a possible life sentence.....

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Looks like the black panthers are going to beat everyone else at ending the POS in the white house. Since they are immuned to prosecustion sounds great to me.

**Jolie Rouge** · 07-30-2012, 09:34 PM

Justice ??

July 30, 2012

Federal Court Finds Obama Appointees Interfered With New Black Panther Prosecution

A federal court in Washington, DC, held today that political appointees appointed by President Obama did interfere with the Department of Justice’s prosecution of the New Black Panther Party.

The ruling came as part of a motion by the conservative legal watch dog group Judicial Watch, who had sued the DOJ in federal court to enforce a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents pertaining to the the New Black Panthers case. Judicial Watch had secured many previously unavailable documents through their suit against DOJ and were now suing for attorneys’ fees.

Obama’s DOJ had claimed Judicial Watch was not entitled to attorney’s fees since “none of the records produced in this litigation evidenced any political interference whatsoever in” how the DOJ handled the New Black Panther Party case. But United States District Court Judge Reggie Walton disagreed. Citing a “series of emails” between Obama political appointees and career Justice lawyers, Walton writes:

The documents reveal that political appointees within DOJ were conferring about the status and resolution of the New Black Panther Party case in the days preceding the DOJ’s dismissal of claims in that case, which would appear to contradict Assistant Attorney General Perez’s testimony that political leadership was not involved in that decision. Surely the public has an interest in documents that cast doubt on the accuracy of government officials’ representations regarding the possible politicization of agency decision-making.

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In sum, the Court concludes that three of the four fee entitlement factors weigh in favor of awarding fees to Judicial Watch. Therefore, Judicial Watch is both eligible and entitled to fees and costs, and the Court must now consider the reasonableness of Judicial Watch’s requested award.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=neGbKHyGuHU

http://nation.foxnews.com/new-black-...er-prosecution

**Jolie Rouge** · 08-15-2012, 08:10 AM

Black like us: The race clownery of Obama-Biden
By Michelle Malkin • August 15, 2012 09:53 AM

Is there anything more ridiculous than white Democrats talking down and talking black to voters — while whitewashing the devastating effects of their economic policies on those voters? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...S11T_blog.html Is there anything more poisonous than stoking racial grievances by shamelessly likening your political opponents to slavemasters http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...ugh-new-speech — while presiding over a culture of dependency than chains future generations to massive debt?

Joe Biden isn’t a BFD. He’s a BFE: Big F’n Embarassment. The result of Biden’s White House-approvied racial tension inflammation yesterday?

This: New Black Panther Party threatens Republican National Convention…”Our feet will be on your necks.” http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-T...-On-Your-Necks

And for your listening pleasure via Fingers Malloy: It’s the “Back in Chains Blues.” http://www.fingersmalloy.com/2012/08...n-chains-blues

Looks like Vice President Joe Biden has been taking extracurricular Democratic jive-talking lessons. The results of condescending liberals’ cynical racial pandering attempts are, as always, seismically cringe-inducing.

At a campaign event in Danville, Va., the gaffetastic veep dropped his g’s and picked up a bizarre twang in front of an audience of black voters. Middle-Class Joe swapped his Home Depot apron for an A.M.E. preacher’s robe and sermonized about the big, bad GOP.

Romney’s “gonna let the big banks once again write their own rules,” Biden shouted. “Unnnn-chain Wall Street,” he exclaimed with pulpit bravado. “They’re gonna put y’all back in chains,” the pasty Delaware wheeler-dealer faux-drawled. Extra-emphasis on the “y’all.”

Yes, Biden is rattling chains like an extra in “Roots.” This is the same politician of pallor who cracked jokes about Indians who work in 7-Elevens and who referred to his now-boss as “clean” and “articulate.” Yet, Biden’s demagoguery was met with approving hoots and hollers. Or rather, hollas.

Naturally, the defiant Obama campaign backed up Biden and gave a shout-out of its own. Welcome to the new tone — and the same old slime. Prevaricating spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter (last seen defending the phony, indefensible Romney-killed-a-steelworker’s-wife ad run by Obama Super PAC Priorities USA) chimed in after Biden’s speech. “We have no problem with those comments,” she told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell. Biden “was using a metaphor” with which the president agrees.

Timing matters. Biden’s race-baiting came after a weekend clogged with divisive jabs at GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s announcement of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.

Democratic Rep. Donna Christensen, the non-voting delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands to the U.S. House of Representatives, tweeted: “Wait a minute! Are there black people in Va? Guess just not w Romney Ryan! At least not seeing us. We know who’s got our back & we have his.” Left-wing actress Mia Farrow watched the announcement and derided a “whole bunch of white people.” They were joined by countless “progressive” social media users who mocked the GOP’s “white guy, white guy 2012!!!” Sirius XM radio host Dave Rubin — himself the color of discount Charmin toilet paper — called Romney-Ryan “the whitest ticket since the KKK voted for their box social chairperson.”

Gotta love post-racial America!

The poisonous slavery allusion echoed the former pastor of Biden’s boss. Rev. Jeremiah Wright, you may recall, used the same “chains” imagery to justify his “God Damn America” diatribe. “America,” he inveighed in Obama’s old Chicago-based Trinity United Church, put blacks in “chains … and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America’? No, no, no. Not God bless America; God damn America!”

Biden’s stunt also echoes Hillary Clinton’s infamous black church minstrel performances in which she unleashed a mortifying Southern-spiced-with-street accent to show her street solidarity: “For the last five years, we’ve had No. Power. At. All. And that makes a big difference, because when you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation. An’ yew know what ah’m talkin’ about.” At an event with race-hustler Al Sharpton, she poured it on thicker: “I’m afraid I’m gonna lift up the rug, and I’m goin’ to see so much stuff uh-nder thar. … You know, what is it about us always havin’ to clean up after people? … But this is not just goin’ to be pickin’ up socks off the floor. This is goin’ to be cleanin’ up the government.”

At least the only thing she manufactured was her patronizing dialect. Remember candidate Barack Obama’s 2007 Selma, Ala., speech? To court black voters, Obama claimed that President Kennedy had sponsored the airlift in Africa responsible for bringing his family to the U.S. and asserted that Selma’s 1965 Bloody Sunday demonstration brought his parents together and led to his birth. Of course, JFK didn’t take office until two years after Obama’s father arrived in the U.S., and the president was born four years before Bloody Sunday.

Obama-Biden 2012: Never let facts, civility or scruples get in the way of a racist racial pander.

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/08/15...f-obama-biden/

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From a commenter on The Hill re: the Ryan-Biden debate:

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani told CNBC’s Larry Kudlow tonight that Vice President Biden may be unfit for office. Here’s the transcript:

KUDLOW: You know, what did he say? ‘Y’all going to be put back in chains’? That almost has racial overtones, Rudy Giuliani. What’s your take on that?

GIULIANI: Well, I think if it came from somebody serious maybe we’d get all excited about it. But the — I think the vice president of the United States has become a laugh line on late night television. I mean, he — I’ve never seen a vice president that has made as many mistakes, said as many stupid things. I mean, there’s a real fear if, God forbid, he ever had to be entrusted with the presidency, whether he really has the mental capacity to handle it. I mean, this guy just isn’t bright. He’s never been bright. He isn’t bright. And people think, ‘Well, he just talks a little too much.’ Actually he’s not very smart.

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If only Slo-Joe had taken the refresher course before his commanding stage performance: ( HotAir classic! )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk7hFnB4JnA

Too funny not to share.

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Another recent one from the libs was the commercial that aired showing Rep Alan West punching white women http://www.theblaze.com/stories/naac...an-not-racist/ yet the NAACP said no, no racism there.

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The New Black Panther party clips are truly offensive. Comrade Obama and His Ilk use classic socialist / marxist / communist Alinsky class warfare and racial division inflaming rhetoric to put us at each other’s throats. Alinsky states that Satan was his model–a true statement. The Panthers seem to have missed out on the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.’s far better vision of what the future between all good Americans should be. I don’t hear anything good in their agendas.
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As far as the Black Panthers organizing their own inner city army to “enter White people’s homes and skin them alive”–they must be pretty sure that Eric (the Red) Holder and his Department of (Social) Justice will keep any law enforcement off their backs. After all–when seconds count–the police are only minutes (hours?) away!
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Might work out for the Panthers in Chicago, New York City, or New Jersey. Tampa, Florida is a different story. Just ask Travon Martin what might happen if you assault an armed person. And Texas is a whole new world of hurt.
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To paraphrase the Tweety Bird, “I tought I taw a puddy tat!” BOOM! Repeat as necessary. Check out Cheaper Than Dirt for some useful suggestions on Black Panther repellant.
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John Bibb

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Now if you want to read some comedy regarding Biden check out this article. http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign...-despite-gaffe Here is just one snipet:

The unscripted comments highlighted Biden’s propensity for off-the-cuff statements — which at times have caused the White House embarrassment. But Biden aides say the occasional slip-ups are far outweighed by the positives the vice president brings to the table.

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Many of us on this blog predicted this back in 2008 (to take effect in 2012, of course):

The LSM’s hyper-sensitivity about race will trigger a Leftist-manufactured “eruption” of “oppression by Whitey”.

Which, of course, will be swallowed whole as gospel truth by the Professional Victims Guild, all of whom worship at the feet of Obama.

Romney’s only remaining problem is that he is “twang-less”, which (per Andrea Mitchell & Chris Matthews narrative) means “he’s having trouble connecting with minority voters”, which means “Obama should be re-elected” (wink, wink).

**Jolie Rouge** · 08-15-2012, 08:13 AM

New Black Panther Party threatens Republican National Convention…”Our feet will be on your mutha----in' necks.”

http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/vi...e&VID=23776590

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